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Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 1.22

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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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किमुताप्रतिमं शूलम् एकैकस्य जिहीर्षतः। अप्रमेयगुणं सत्त्वम् एकैकं च चिकीर्षतः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

22

How much more would he not gain if he sought to free them, one by one, from infinite pain, and endow each of them with immeasurable virtues?

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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སེམས་ཅན་རེ་རེའི་མི་བདེ་བ། །

དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་བསལ་འདོད་ཅིང་། ། རེ་རེའང་ཡོན་ཏན་དཔག་མེད་དུ། །

བསྒྲུབ་པར་འདོད་པ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

22

No need to speak, then, of the wish

To drive away the endless pain Of each and every living being,

Bringing them unbounded excellence.

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

Que dira-t-on de la volonté

De dissiper les insondables souffrances De chacun des êtres

En lui apportant d’insondables qualités ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

¿qué decir entonces del deseo

de disipar el sufrimiento interminable de todos y cada uno de los seres

y de dotarlos de cualidades ilimitadas?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

What need is there to mention the wish to alleviate

The boundless unhappiness of each sentient being And to establish each of them

In boundless qualities?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Then what need to mention the wish to dispel

The boundless unhappiness of each and every being And the desire to provide

Boundless good qualities to each and every one?

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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སེམས་ཅན་རེ་རེའི་མི་བདེ་བ། །

དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་བསལ་འདོད་ཅིང༌། ། རེ་རེའང་ཡོན་ཏན་དཔག་མེད་དུ། །

སྒྲུབ་པར་འདོད་པ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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It is needless to speak of the wishes to dispel

The immeasurable unhappiness Of each and every sentient being, As well as the wish to establish each of them in

Immeasurable excellent qualities.

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.

སེམས་ཅན་རེ་རེའི་མི་བདེ་བ། །

དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་བསལ་འདོད་ཅིང་། ། རེ་རེའང་ཡོན་ཏན་དཔག་མེད་དུ། །

བསྒྲུབ་པར་འདོད་པ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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