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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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मम तावदनेन याति वृद्धिं

कुशलं भावयितुं प्रसादवेगः। अथ मत्समधातुरेव पश्ये-

दपरोऽप्येनमतोऽपि सार्थकोऽयम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

3

By writing this work at the very least faith and the impulse to cultivate the good will grow in me. But if someone else, with a disposition similar to mine, should read it, it might then be of use to others.

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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དགེ་བ་བསྒོམ་ཕྱིར་བདག་གི་དད་པའི་ཤུགས། །

འདི་དག་གིས་ཀྱང་རེ་ཞིག་འཕེལ་འགྱུར་ལ། ། བདག་དང་སྐལ་བ་མཉམ་པ་གཞན་གྱིས་ཀྱང་། །

ཅི་སྟེ་འདི་དག་མཐོང་ན་དོན་ཡོད་འགྱུར། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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My faith will thus be strengthened for a little while,

That I might grow accustomed to this virtuous way. But others who now chance upon my words

May profit also, equal to myself in fortune.

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

Le courant de ma foi s’en trouvera quelque temps grossi,

Au point que je m’habituerai à cette pratique vertueuse, Et ceux qui tomberont sur ces mots pourront

En tirer profit, eux aussi, qui ont la même fortune que moi.[p.38]La Marche vers l’Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Así mi fe se fortalecerá durante algún tiempo

para que pueda habituarme a lo virtuoso. Pero si otros con mi misma fortuna

viesen estas palabras, podrían también beneficiarse.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Familiarisation with virtue and the strength of my faith, This will increase them adventitiously.

In case others of equal fortune to myself See this, it will be meaningful for them.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

For the contemplation of virtue Will for a time, increase the strength of my faith.

If others as fortunate as myself See this, it will be of benefit.

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

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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.

དགེ་བ་བསྒོམ་ཕྱིར་བདག་གི་དད་པའི་ཤུགས། །

འདི་དག་གིས་ཀྱང་རེ་ཞིག་འཕེལ་འགྱུར་ལ། ། བདག་དང་སྐལ་བ་མཉམ་པ་གཞན་གྱིས་ཀྱང་། །

ཅི་སྟེ་འདི་དག་མཐོང་ན་དོན་ཡོད་འགྱུར། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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