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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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नाशयत्यपि संमोहं साधुस्तेन समः कुतः। कुतो वा तादृशं मित्रं पुण्यं वा तादृशं कुतः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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and heal their blindness. Where will one find someone with kindness equal to his? Where will one find such a friend, such merit?

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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གཏི་མུག་ཀྱང་ནི་སེལ་བྱེད་པ། །

དེ་དང་དགེ་མཚུངས་ག་ལ་ཡོད། ། དེ་འདྲའི་བཤེས་ཀྱང་ག་ལ་ཡོད། །

བསོད་ནམས་དེ་འདྲའང་ག་ལ་ཡོད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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Who drive away the darkness of their ignorance—

What virtue could be matched with theirs? What friend could be compared to them?

What merit is there similar to this?

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

Et il dissipe leur ignorance :

Quelle vertu vaut la sienne ? Où trouver pareil ami ?

Comment de tels mérites sont-ils possibles ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

e incluso disipan su ignorancia.

¿Qué virtud iguala a la de ellos? ¿Qué amigo es comparable con ellos?

¿Qué méritos son similares a ésos?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

I shall also eliminate their ignorance

Where else is something as virtuous? Where else is such a friend?

Where else is such merit?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Even dispels ignorance.

Where is there a comparable virtue? Where is there even such a friend?

Where is there merit similar to this?

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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གཏི་མུག་ཀྱང་ནི་སེལ་བྱེད་པ། །

དེ་དང་དགེ་མཚུངས་ག་ལ་ཡོད། ། དེ་འདྲའི་སེམས་ཀྱང་ག་ལ་ཡོད། །

བསོད་ནམས་དེ་འདྲའང་ག་ལ་ཡོད། །

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As bodhichitta also dispels ignorance,

How could there be virtue equal to that? How could there be a comparable mind?

And also, how could there be comparable merit?

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.

གཏི་མུག་ཀྱང་ནི་སེལ་བྱེད་པ། །

དེ་དང་དགེ་མཚུངས་ག་ལ་ཡོད། ། དེ་འདྲའི་བཤེས་ཀྱང་12ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ‘དེ་འདྲའི་སེམས་ཀྱང་’ག་ལ་ཡོད། །

བསོད་ནམས་དེ་འདྲའང་ག་ལ་ཡོད། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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