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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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यतः प्रभृत्यपर्यन्तसत्त्वधातुप्रमोक्षणे। समाददाति तच्चित्तम् अनिवर्त्येन चेतसा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

18

From the moment in which you take possession with unwavering mind of this determination to free the whole unlimited sphere of living beings,

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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གང་ནས་བཟུང་སྟེ་སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས། །

མཐའ་ཡས་རབ་ཏུ་སྒྲོལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། ། མི་ལྡོག་པ་ཡི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་སུ། །

སེམས་དེ་ཡང་དག་བླངས་གྱུར་པ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

18

For when, with irreversible intent,

The mind embraces bodhichitta, Willing to set free the endless multitudes of beings,

In that instant, from that moment on,[p.34]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.

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

Dès que l’on adopte l’esprit d’Éveil comme il se doit,

Avec une intention irréversible, Pour sauver l’infinité des êtres

Sous toutes leurs espèces,

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Pues, desde el mismo momento

en que alguien asume la bodichita, con una determinación irreversible

de liberar completamente a los seres infinitos,

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Whoever, from the time they perfectly generate

With an irreversible attitude, This mind to liberate the infinite

Realms of sentient beings,

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

When the thought is held

With an irreversible mind To thoroughly liberate limitless sentient beings;

From the moment this perfect mind is adopted,

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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གང་ནས་བཟུང་སྟེ་སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས། །

མཐའ་ཡས་རབ་དུ་དགྲོལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། ། མི་ལྡོག་པ་ཡི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་སུ། །

སེམས་དེ་ཡང་དག་བླངས་འགྱུར་པ། །[p.11]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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Whenever one engages in bodhichitta

In order to fully liberate limitless realms of sentient beings, One adopts a genuine mind of engagement Having an irreversible resolve.

[p.12]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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.

གང་ནས་བཟུང་སྟེ་སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས། །

མཐའ་ཡས་རབ་ཏུ་དགྲོལ་6སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་༴ ‘བསྒྲལ་’བའི་ཕྱིར། ། མི་ལྡོག་པ་ཡི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་སུ། །

སེམས་དེ་ཡང་དག་བླངས་གྱུར་པ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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