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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

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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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तच्चित्तरत्नग्रहणाय सम्यक्

पूजां करोम्येष तथागतानाम्। सद्धर्मरत्नस्य च निर्मलस्य

बुद्धात्मजानां च गुणोदधीनाम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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To acquire the jewel that is this thought, I worship duly the tathagatas, the pure gem of the true dharma, and those oceans of virtue, the legitimate sons of the Awakened One.

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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༈ རིན་ཆེན་སེམས་དེ་གཟུང་བར་བྱ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་རྣམས་དང་དམ་པའི་ཆོས། ། དཀོན་མཆོག་དྲི་མ་མེད་དང་སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས། །

ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྣམས་ལ་ལེགས་པར་མཆོད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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To the Buddhas, those thus gone,

And to the sacred Dharma, spotless and supremely rare, And to the Buddha’s offspring, oceans of good qualities,

That I might gain this precious attitude, I make a perfect offering.36The actual confession, from which this chapter takes its name, begins at stanza 27. It is preceded by the traditional formulas of homage and offering. See note 48

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

Pour cultiver ce précieux esprit,

Je fais dûment offrande aux ainsi-allés Et au saint Dharma, joyau immaculé,

De même qu’aux bodhisattvas, ces océans de qualités.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Para que pueda tener esta preciosa actitud,

hago una ofrenda perfecta a los que así han ido31Tib. de bzhin gshegs pa, sánscr. tathagata. V. nota 25., al sagrado darma, inmaculado, raro y supremo,

y a los bodisatvas, océanos de buenas cualidades32La confesión en sí no empieza hasta la estrofa número 27. Va precedida, como es tradicional, por el homenaje y la ofrenda. V. nota 47..

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

To take this precious mind,

I make wholesome offerings to an ocean of qualities: The tatagatas and the holy dharma,

The stainless Jewel, and the buddhas’ children.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

In order to hold that precious mind.

To the stainless jewels of the Tathagatas, and To their holy Dharma, as well as to the Noble Sons of the Buddhas,

To these Oceans of Good Qualities I offer:[p.72]A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
Gyaltsen, Lama Kalsang, and Ani Kunga Chodron, trans. A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas Written by Sazang Mati Panchen: Known as An Extremely Clear Illumination of the Meaning of the Text. Walden, NY: Tsechen Kunchab Ling, 2019. First edition published by The Yeshe Dorje Foundation in 2006.

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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རིན་ཆེན་སེམས་དེ་གཟུང་བར་བྱ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་རྣམས་དང་དམ་པའི་ཆོས། ། དཀོན་མཆོག་དྲི་མ་མེད་དང་སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས། །

ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྣམས་ལ་ལེགས་པར་མཆོད། །

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In order to gain hold of this precious mind,

I make excellent offerings to the tathagatas, To the authentic dharma, the precious jewel free of stains, And to the sons and daughters of the Buddha

Who possess an ocean of excellent qualities.

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.

རིན་ཆེན་སེམས་དེ་གཟུང་བར་བྱ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་རྣམས་དང་དམ་པའི་ཆོས། ། དཀོན་མཆོག་དྲི་མ་མེད་དང་སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས། །

ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྣམས་ལ་ལེགས་པར་མཆོད། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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