真善知识者，
深通大乘教，
持菩萨胜律，
虽逢命难缘，
不舍菩萨戒。
– 寂天菩萨
《入菩萨行论》
Those [who are] true good-knowing [spiritual friends],
know profoundly well [the] Great Vehicle’s teachings,
uphold [the] Bodhisattva’s supreme discipline,
although encountering life-endangering difficult conditions,
[do] not renounce [the] Bodhisattva Precepts.
– Śāntideva Bodhisattva
(Treatise [On] Entering Bodhisattva Practice;
Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra)
