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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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जगदानन्दबीजस्य जगद्दुःखौषधस्य च। चित्तरत्नस्य यत्पुण्यं तत्कथं हि प्रमीयताम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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How is one to assess the merit of this jewel of the thought of awakening, which is the seed for all the world’s bliss, a balm for all its pains?

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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འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་དགའ་བའི་རྒྱུ། །

སེམས་ཅན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྩིར་གྱུར་པ། ། རིན་ཆེན་སེམས་ཀྱི་བསོད་ནམས་གང་། །

དེ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་གཞལ་གྱིས་ལང་། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

26

This pain-dispelling draft,

This cause of joy for those who wander through the world, 35‟Those who wander through the world” is a translation of the Tibetan ʼgro ba (lit. one who moves), a common epithet for sentient beings who migrate helplessly from one saṃsāric state to another. This precious attitude, this jewel of mind—

How shall we calculate its merit?

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

Source de joie pour tous les êtres,

Voici pour eux un breuvage contre la souffrance : Comment pourrait-on mesurer tous les mérites

Que recèle ce précieux état d’esprit ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

¿Cómo podrían medirse los méritos

de esa joya de la mente, esta preciosa intención, que es fuente de alegría para todos los seres

y constituye un elixir para su sufrimiento?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

The cause for the joy of all migrators,

The remedy for the suffering of sentient beings, The merits of the precious mind,

How can it be comprehended?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Is it possible to measure the depths

Of the merit of this precious thought, The panacea that relieves the sufferings of sentient beings

And is the cause of joy?[p.65]A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
Gyaltsen, Lama Kalsang, and Ani Kunga Chodron, trans. A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas Written by Sazang Mati Panchen: Known as An Extremely Clear Illumination of the Meaning of the Text. Walden, NY: Tsechen Kunchab Ling, 2019. First edition published by The Yeshe Dorje Foundation in 2006.

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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འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་དུ་དགའ་བའི་རྒྱུ། །

སེམས་ཅན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྩིར་འགྱུར་པ། ། རིན་ཆེན་སེམས་ཀྱི་བསོད་ནམས་གང༌། །

དེ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་གཞལ་གྱིས་ལང༌། །

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It is the cause of happiness for all sentient beings,

And the elixir [that dispels] their sufferings. How can the merit of this precious mind

Be measured?

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.

འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་11ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ‘ཀུན་དུ་’དགའ་བའི་རྒྱུ། །

སེམས་ཅན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྩིར་གྱུར་པ། ། རིན་ཆེན་སེམས་ཀྱི་བསོད་ནམས་གང་། །

དེ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་གཞལ་གྱིས་ལང་། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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