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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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भवदुःखशतानि तर्तुकामै-

रपि सत्त्वव्यसनानि हर्तुकामैः। बहुसौख्यशतानि भोक्तुकामै-

र्न विमोच्यं हि सदैव बोधिचित्तम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

8

Whether you seek to cross beyond the hundreds of pains of existence, or to free living beings from their torments, or to enjoy superabundant happiness in heaven, you should never abandon this thought of awakening.

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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སྲིད་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་གཞོམ་འདོད་ཅིང་། །

སེམས་ཅན་མི་བདེ་བསལ་བར་འདོད་པ་དང་། ། བདེ་མང་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་སྤྱོད་པར་འདོད་པས་ཀྱང་། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཉིད་རྟག་ཏུ་གཏང་མི་བྱ། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

8

Those who wish to crush the many sorrows of existence,

Who wish to quell the pain of living beings, Who wish to have experience of a myriad joys

Should never turn away from bodhichitta.

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

Ceux qui veulent en finir avec les souffrances de l’existence,

Ceux qui veulent dissiper le malheur des êtres, Ceux qui veulent jouir de multiples bonheurs

Ne devraient jamais renoncer à l’esprit d’Éveil.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Los que desean superar las innumerables aflicciones de la existencia,

los que aspiran a eliminar el sufrimiento de los seres y los que quieren disfrutar de inmensa dicha

no deben jamás abandonar la bodichita.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Those wishing to eliminate the hundredfold sufferings of existence,

Wishing to clear the unhappiness of sentient beings and Wanting to enjoy many a hundredfold happinesses

Should never give up the mind of enlightenment.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Those wishing to conquer the hundreds of sufferings of existence,

Those wishing to dispel the unhappiness of sentient beings. And those wishing to experience hundreds of joys.

Should never forsake this enlightenment thought.

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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འཇིགས་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་གཞོམ་འདོད་ཅིང༌། །

སེམས་ཅན་མི་བདེ་བསལ་བར་འདོད་པ་དང༌། ། བདེ་མང་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་སྤྱོད་པར་འདོད་པས་ཀྱང༌། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཉིད་རྟག་ཏུ་གཏང་མི་བྱ། །[p.7]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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Those who desire to eradicate all the hundreds

Of fears and sufferings, Those who desire to remove the unhappiness of sentient beings, And also those who desire to enjoy the many hundreds Of types of happiness

Should never relinquish bodhichitta.[p.8]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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.

སྲིད་པའི་4ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘འཇིགས་དང་’སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་གཞོམ་འདོད་ཅིང་། །

སེམས་ཅན་མི་བདེ་བསལ་བར་འདོད་པ་དང་། ། བདེ་མང་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་སྤྱོད་པར་འདོད་པས་ཀྱང་། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཉིད་རྟག་ཏུ་གཏང་མི་བྱ། །

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