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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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हिताशंसनमात्रेण बुद्धपूजा विशिष्यते। किं पुनः सर्वसत्त्वानां सर्वसौख्यार्थमुद्यमात्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

27

By simply desiring to benefit others one goes beyond the merit that can be derived from worshipping the Awakened ones; how much more will arise then from the actual effort to bring all happiness to all 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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ཕན་པར་བསམས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཀྱང་། །

སངས་རྒྱས་མཆོད་ལས་ཁྱད་འཕགས་ན། ། སེམས་ཅན་མ་ལུས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །

བདེ་དོན་བརྩོན་པ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

27

If the simple thought to be of help to others

Exceeds in worth the worship of the Buddhas, What need is there to speak of actual deeds

That bring about the weal and benefit of beings?

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

Car si la seule pensée d’aider un être

Est bien plus sublime que d’honorer les bouddhas, Que dire alors de l’effort que l’on fait

Pour apporter le bonheur à tous sans exception ?[p.42]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si el mero deseo de ayudar a otros

es más sublime que venerar a los budas, ¿qué decir entonces de esforzarse para aportar

el bien y la felicidad a todos los seres sin excepción?[p.57]La Práctica del Bodisatva
Hervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If even the mere intent to benefit

Is far superior to offerings to the buddhas, What need is there to mention the striving

For the happiness of all sentient beings?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If merely a beneficial thought

Exceeds veneration of the Buddhas, Then what need to mention striving for the welfare

Of every sentient being without exception?

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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ཕན་པར་བསམས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཀྱང༌། །

སངས་རྒྱས་མཆོད་པ་ཁྱད་འཕགས་ན། ། སེམས་ཅན་མ་ལུས་ཐམས་ཆད་ཀྱི། །

བདེ་དོན་བརྩོམ་བ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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If even the mere thought of providing benefit,

Is more sublime than making offerings to the buddhas, What need is there to speak of the effort To cultivate the happiness

Of all sentient beings without exception.

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.

ཕན་པར་བསམས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཀྱང་། །

སངས་རྒྱས་མཆོད་ལས་ཁྱད་འཕགས་ན། ། སེམས་ཅན་མ་ལུས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །

བདེ་དོན་བརྩོན་པ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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