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|quote-text=Whatever virtue there is from listening, contemplating and meditating, | |quote-text=Whatever virtue there is from listening, contemplating and meditating, | ||
Whether it is the mere virtue of prostration or offering, | |||
To make all virtues inexhaustible and to increase them, | To make all virtues inexhaustible | ||
I | and to increase them, I adorn them effortfully with dedication. | ||
Bodhisattvas. Chapter Ten: The Dedication: An Explanation of the Training in the Generosity of Giving Away Body, Possessions, and Roots of Virtue for the Purpose of Others ( | This is the condensed explanation.<ref>Fedor Stracke, trans., ''The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors - A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. Chapter Ten: The Dedication: An Explanation of the Training in the Generosity of Giving Away Body, Possessions, and Roots of Virtue for the Purpose of Others'' (N.p.: HappyMonksPublication, 2016), 22, https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.</ref> | ||
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The chapter concludes with a verse of dedication and thanks to Mañjuśrī, who was the empowering condition for Śāntideva to compose this text, and to his gurus, whose kindness inspired him to engage in the way of life of the bodhisattva. | The chapter concludes with a verse of dedication and thanks to Mañjuśrī, who was the empowering condition for Śāntideva to compose this text, and to his gurus, whose kindness inspired him to engage in the way of life of the bodhisattva. | ||
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