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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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सत्त्वरत्नविशेषोऽयमपूर्वो जायते कथम्। यत्परार्थाशयोऽन्येषां न स्वार्थेऽप्युपजायते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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How is it that the bodhisattva, this sublime jewel among living beings, is born, without precedent—he whose disposition to do good to others is not found in anyone else, even as a wish for their own personal benefit?

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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གཞན་དག་རང་གི་དོན་དུ་ཡང་། །

མི་འབྱུང་སེམས་ཅན་དོན་སེམས་གང་། ། སེམས་ཀྱི་རིན་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་འདི། །

སྔ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྨད་ཅིག་འཁྲུངས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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This aim to bring the benefit of beings,

A benefit that others wish not even for themselves, This noble, jewellike state of mind

Arises truly wondrous, never seen before.[p.35]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

S’ils ne pensent pas même à faire leur propre bien,

Pourquoi se soucieraient-ils du bien des autres ? L’apparition de ce joyau de l’esprit aussi précieux

Qu’extraordinaire est une merveille inouïe.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Ese deseo de beneficiar a los seres,

un beneficio que otros no desean ni para sí, esa extraordinaria joya de la mente,

que nazca es una maravilla sin precedente.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Others do not generate this mind for the welfare of others,

Even for their own purpose. This distinguished precious mind,

Something special unprecedented was born.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

In those beings it does not occur even for their own sake.

How could they think of the sake of others? The genuine birth of this precious unique mind

Is unprecedented and extraordinary.

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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གཞན་དག་རང་གི་དོན་དུ་ཡང༌། །

མི་འབྱུང་སེམས་ཅན་དོན་སེམས་གང༌། ། སེམས་ཅན་རིན་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་འདི། །

སྔ་ན་མེད་པ་རྨད་ཅིག་འཁྲུངས། །

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Also, others, even for their own benefit,

Have not given rise to it. Thus, the birth of this special jewel of mind, The wish to benefit sentient beings,

Is an unprecedented, true marvel.

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.

གཞན་དག་རང་གི་དོན་དུ་ཡང་། །

མི་འབྱུང་སེམས་ཅན་དོན་སེམས་གང་། ། སེམས་ཀྱི་རིན་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་འདི། །

སྔ་ན་10སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་༴ ‘བླ་ན་’མེད་པའི་རྨད་ཅིག་འཁྲུངས། །

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