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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

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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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इदं सुबाहुपृच्छायां सोपपत्तिकम् उक्तवान्। हीनाधिमुक्तिसत्त्वार्थं स्वयमेव तथागतः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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For the benefit of beings of inferior aspiration, the Tathagata3A title of a buddha (literally, “one who has thus come/gone”); it is the one most often used by the historical Buddha to refer to himself. himself has explained this resolution with detailed reasons in the sutra The Questions of Subahu.

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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འདི་ནི་འཐད་པ་དང་བཅས་པར། །

ལག་བཟང་ཀྱིས་ནི་ཞུས་པ་ལས། ། དམན་མོས་སེམས་ཅན་དོན་གྱི་ཕྱིར། །

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་གསུངས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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This the Tathāgata,31Tathāgata (Tib. de bzhin gshegs pa): literally, ‟one thus gone”; a synonym for Buddha.

In the sūtra Subāhu requested,32A reference to the Subāhu-paripṛicchā-sūtra, the Sūtra of the Questions of Subāhu. Lost in the original Sanskrit, this sūtra is preserved in Chinese translation. Said with reasoned argument

For those inclined to lesser paths.

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

Cela, l’Ainsi-Allé lui-même l’a enseigné

Et démontré en toute logique Dans le «Soûtra Requis par Subâhu»

Pour ceux qui aspirent à une voie moins élevée.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Esto es algo que el Tatagata25Sánscr. tathagata (tib. de bzhin gshegs pa): “el que así ha ido” (“que ha procedido según la realidad última”), un sinónimo de buda. V. Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech.,

en el sutra que pidió Subahu26Una referencia al Sutra Subahu-paripriccha, “El Sutra de las preguntas de Subahu”. El original sánscrito de este sutra se ha perdido, pero se conserva una traducción china., lo explicó usando razones

para el beneficio de aquellos inclinados a vías inferiores.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

That this has validity

Was taught by the Tatagata In the Subahuprccha

For those aspiring to the lesser.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

This was taught with logical reasons

In the Request by Subahu By the Tathagata himself

For those inclined toward the lesser vehicle.

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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འདི་ནི་འཐད་པ་དང་བཅས་པར། །

ལག་བཟངས་ཀྱིས་ནི་ཞུས་པ་ལས། ། དམན་མོས་སེམས་ཅན་དོན་གྱི་ཕྱིར། །

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་གསུངས། །

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In the Sutra Requested by Subahu

The tathagata himself said that Bodhichitta is reasonable For the benefit sentient beings

Interested in the lower vehicles.

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.

འདི་ནི་འཐད་པ་དང་བཅས་(༣་ན)པར། །

ལག་བཟང་གིས་8སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་༴ ‘ལག་བཟངས་ཀྱིས་’ནི་ཞུས་པ་ལས། ། དམན་མོས་9ཏུན་ཧོང་ཁ་༴ ‘དམན་མོངས་’སེམས་ཅན་དོན་གྱི་ཕྱིར། །

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་གསུངས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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