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Dūnhuáng §This version is extracted from the book [[Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)]], a translation of an edition of the text created from three Dūnhuáng manuscripts. A description and sample pages of these can be found on the [https://earlytibet.com/2014/02/04/the-original-bodhicaryavatara/ Early Tibet Blog]. Scans of the actual manuscripts themselves can be found at http://idp.bl.uk

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Standard Tibetan §Padmakara used the 1990 edition printed by si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang: [[Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)]]. Also found in Derge Tengyur D3871, dbu ma, vol. 105, la 1b1–40a7.

Tsadra Critical Edition §This text was created by comparing four versions of the text from Derge, Cone, Narthang, and Peking Tengyurs from BDRC scans, along with Dunhuang manuscripts IOL Tib J 628, 629, and 630. When Tibetan readings were problematic, the Sanskrit texts from GRETIL and LTB (Oslo) were consulted.

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अशुचिप्रतिमामिमां गृहीत्वा

जिनरत्नप्रतिमां करोत्यनर्घाम्। रसजातमतीव वेधनीयं

सुदृढं गृह्णत बोधिचित्तसंज्ञम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

10

This impure image is transformed into the priceless image of the jewel of a victorious conqueror. Hold on firmly, therefore, to this powerful elixir called "thought of awakening"!

Gomez 2017

How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)

Standard Tibetan §Padmakara used the 1990 edition printed by si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang: Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990). Also found in Derge Tengyur D3871, dbu ma, vol. 105, la 1b1–40a7.

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གསེར་འགྱུར་རྩི་ཡི་རྣམ་པ་མཆོག་ལྟ་བུ། །

མི་གཙང་ལུས་འདི་བླངས་ནས་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ། ། རིན་ཆེན་རིན་ཐང་མེད་པར་[p.5]Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)
Slob dpon zhi ba lha and Mkhan po kun dpal. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990. སྒྱུར་བས་ན། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་རབ་བརྟན་གཟུང་། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

10

For like the supreme substance of the alchemists,

It takes our impure flesh and makes of it The body of a Buddha, jewel beyond all price.

Such is bodhichitta. Let us grasp it firmly!

Padmakara 2006

The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)

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Standard Tibetan §Padmakara used the 1990 edition printed by si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang: Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990). Also found in Derge Tengyur D3871, dbu ma, vol. 105, la 1b1–40a7. - Other translations

Tenez-le ferme, cet «esprit d’Éveil»,

Car, à l’image de l’élixir d’or, Il possède la qualité suprême de transformer ce corps impur

En corps de vainqueur, lequel est un joyau inestimable.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Como el elixir supremo de los alquimistas,

toma este cuerpo impuro y lo transforma en el cuerpo inestimable y valioso de un buda.

¡Asid, pues, firmemente la bodichita!

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Like the supreme elixir that makes gold,

Having taken this impure body, it transforms it Into the priceless precious body of a conqueror;

Hence, strongly hold that called 'mind of enlightenment.'

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Like the supreme gold-making elixir.

It transforms this impure body we have taken Into the priceless jewel of a Buddha's body.

So firmly hold this enlightenment thought.

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

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Dūnhuáng §This version is extracted from the book Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener), a translation of an edition of the text created from three Dūnhuáng manuscripts. A description and sample pages of these can be found on the Early Tibet Blog. Scans of the actual manuscripts themselves can be found at http://idp.bl.uk

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གསེར་སྒྱུར་རྩི་ཡི་རྣམ་པ་མཆོག་ལྟ་བུར། །

མི་གཙང་ལུས་འདི་བླངས་ནས་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ། ། རིན་ཆེན་རིང་ཐང་མེད་པར་སྒྱུར་བས་ན། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་རབ་བརྟན་ཟུང༌། །

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It is like a supreme elixir that turns [the ordinary] into gold.

It transforms our unclean body Into the priceless, precious form of the victorious one.

Therefore, that which is called bodhichitta, should be held firmly.

Gawang & Wiener 2022

Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)

Tsadra Critical Edition §This text was created by comparing four versions of the text from Derge, Cone, Narthang, and Peking Tengyurs from BDRC scans, along with Dunhuang manuscripts IOL Tib J 628, 629, and 630. When Tibetan readings were problematic, the Sanskrit texts from GRETIL and LTB (Oslo) were consulted.

གསེར་འགྱུར་རྩི་ཡི་རྣམ་པ་མཆོག་ལྟ་བུར། །

མི་གཙང་ལུས་འདི་བླངས་ནས་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ། ། རིན་ཆེན་རིན་ཐང་མེད་པར་སྒྱུར་བས་ན། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་རབ་བརྟན་གཟུང་། །

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