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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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तस्माच्छुभं दुर्बलमेव नित्यं

बलं तु पापस्य महत्सुघोरम्। तज्जीयतेऽन्येन शुभेन केन

संबोधिचित्तं यदि नाम न स्यात्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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Therefore, virtue is always the weaker, whereas the force of evil is powerful and terrifying. What other good could overcome this evil if the thought of awakening never arose?

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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དེ་ལྟས་དགེ་བ་ཉམ་ཆུང་ཉིད་ལ་རྟག །

སྡིག་པ་སྟོབས་ཆེན་ཤིན་ཏུ་མི་བཟད་པ། ། དེ་ནི་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་མིན་པ། །

དགེ་གཞན་གང་གིས་ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པར་འགྱུར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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Virtue, thus, is weak; and always

Evil is of great and overwhelming strength. Except for perfect bodhichitta,

What other virtue is there that can lay it low?

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 bien est donc fragile et le mal

Toujours si puissant que rien ne lui résiste. Quelle vertu, sinon l’esprit d’Éveil

Parfait, pourrait le terrasser ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Así el bien es tan frágil, mientras que siempre

la fuerza del mal es inmensa y arrolladora. Excepto la perfecta bodichita,

¿qué otra virtud podría aplastarlo?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Hence, virtue is always meek

And powerful negativity dreadful.

How can this be overcome by other virtue

That is not the mind of enlightenment?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Hence virtue is perpetually feeble;

The great strength of sin is extremely unbearable. Other than the mind of a fully enlightened one.

What other virtue can overpower it?

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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དེ་ལྟས་དགེ་བ་ཉམ་ཆུང་ཉིད་ལ་རྟག །

སྡིག་པ་སྟོབས་ཆེན་ཤིན་དུ་མི་བཟད་པ། ། དེ་ནི་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་མིན་བར། །

དགེ་གཞན་གང་གིས་ཟིལ་གྱིས་ནོན་པར་འགྱུར། །

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In this way, virtue is perpetually weak,

And powerful harmful actions are utterly overwhelming. If not perfect bodhichitta,

What other virtue will brilliantly subdue this situation?

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.

དེ་ལྟས་དགེ་བ་ཉམ་ཆུང་ཉིད་ལ་རྟག །

སྡིག་པ་སྟོབས་ཆེན་ཤིན་ཏུ་མི་བཟད་པ། ། དེ་ནི་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་མིན་པ། །

དགེ་གཞན་གང་གིས་ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པར་འགྱུར། །

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