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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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इति सत्त्रपतौ जिनस्य पुत्रे

कलुषं स्वे हृदये करोति यश् च। कलुषोदयसंख्यया स कल्पान्

नरकेष्वावसतीति नाथ आह॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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This is why the Protector5That is, the Buddha. has said that whoever conceives a thought of ill will toward the bodhisattva—the host of this inexhaustible meal, the son of the victorious conquerors—will suffer in hell for as many cosmic ages as ill thoughts arise in his mind.

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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གང་ཞིག་དེ་འདྲའི་རྒྱལ་སྲས་སྦྱིན་བདག་ལ། །

གལ་ཏེ་ངན་སེམས་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད་པ་དེ། ། ངན་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པའི་གྲངས་བཞིན་བསྐལ་པར་ནི། །

དམྱལ་བར་གནས་པར་འགྱུར་ཞེས་ཐུབ་པས་གསུངས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

34

All those who harbor evil in their minds

Against such lords of generosity, the Buddha’s heirs, Will stay in hell, the mighty Sage has said,

For ages equal to the moments of their malice.

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

Celui qui, à l’endroit de ces bienfaiteurs

Héritiers des vainqueurs, nourrit de mauvaises pensées, Celui-là, dit le Sage, restera dans les enfers

Autant de kalpas qu’il aura eu de ces pensées.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Quienquiera que hacia estos benefactores,

herederos de los budas, malevolencia conciba, permanecerá en los infiernos, el Sabio así lo dijo30Tib. thub pa (poderoso, capaz), el término que se usa en tibetano para muni, sabio. V. nota 23.,

por tantas kalpas como los momentos de su malicia.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

In case one generates negative minds towards

One bodhisattva patron like this, one needs To remain in the hells for eons equalling

The number of negative minds, the Buddha taught.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

The Buddha taught that whoever bears an evil thought

Toward such benefactors as Bodhisattvas, Will remain in hell for as many eons

As there were evil thoughts.

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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གང་ཞིག་དེ་འདྲའི་རྒྱལ་སྲས་སྦྱིན་བདག་ལ། །

གལ་ཏེ་ངན་སེམས་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད་པ་དེ། ། ངན་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པའི་གྲངས་བཞིན་བསྐལ་པར་ནི། །

དམྱལ་བར་གནས་པར་འགྱུར་ཞེས་ཐུབ་པས་གསུངས། །

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Shakyamuni Buddha said, if someone gives rise to

Harmful intent toward the benefactor bodhisattva, Then for as many times as they give rise to harmful intent,

They will abide for kalpas in the hell realm.

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.

གང་ཞིག་དེ་འདྲའི་རྒྱལ་སྲས་སྦྱིན་བདག་ལ། །

གལ་ཏེ་ངན་སེམས་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད་ན་དེ། ། ངན་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པའི་གྲངས་བཞིན་བསྐལ་པར་ནི། །

དམྱལ་བར་གནས་པར་འགྱུར་ཞེས་ཐུབ་པས་གསུངས། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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