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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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रत्नोज्ज्वलस्तम्भमनोरमेषु

मुक्तामयोद्भासिवितानकेषु। स्वच्छोज्ज्वलस्फाटिककुट्टिमेषु

सुगन्धिषु स्नानगृहेषु तेषु॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

10

In perfumed bathing halls, beautified by columns that shine with encrusted pearls, with awnings that shine with garlanded pearls, and with floors of shining pure crystal,

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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ཁྲུས་ཀྱི་ཁང་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་དྲི་ཞིམ་པ། །

ཤེལ་གྱི་ས་གཞི་གསལ་ཞིང་འཚེར་བ་བསྟར། ། རིན་ཆེན་འབར་བའི་ཀ་བ་ཡིད་འོང་ལྡན། །

མུ་ཏིག་འོད་ཆགས་བླ་རེ་བྲེས་པ་དེར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

10

A bathing chamber excellently fragrant,

With even floors of crystal, radiant and clear, And graceful pillars shimmering with gems,

All hung about with gleaming canopies of pearls—

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

Un pavillon de bains agréablement parfumé,

Pourvu d’un sol de cristal d’une éclatante propreté Et de gracieuses colonnes agrémentées de joyaux flamboyants :

Là, sous les dais étincelants de perles,

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

En salas de baño bien perfumadas,

con suelos de cristal claro y brillante, y bellas columnas que resplandecen con joyas;

en las que cuelgan doseles con perlas luminosas,

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

In a fragrantly smelling bathhouse

With crystal ground, bright and sparkling, With pleasant pillars ablaze with precious objects,

Decorated with canopies made from bright pearls,

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

In wonderfully fragrant bathing chambers,

Laid with brightly shining crystal floors, Beautiful pillars blazing with jewels,

Decorated with shining canopies of pearls,

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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ཁྲུས་ཀྱི་ཁང་པ་ཤིན་དུ་དྲི་ཞིམ་བ། །

ཤེལ་གྱི་ས་གཞི་གསལ་ཞིང་འཚེར་བ་བསྟར། ། རིན་ཆེན་འབར་བའི་ཀ་བ་ཡིད་འོང་ལྡན། །

མུ་ཏིག་འོད་ཆགས་བླ་རེ་བྲེས་པ་དེར། །[p.25]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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I offer pleasantly scented bath houses,

Having clear and sparkling crystal floors, With beautiful pillars blazing with precious gems,

And canopies beautified with radiant pearls.[p.26]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.

ཁྲུས་ཀྱི་ཁང་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་དྲི་ཞིམ་པ། །

ཤེལ་གྱི་ས་གཞི་གསལ་ཞིང་འཚེར་བ་བསྟར། ། རིན་ཆེན་འབར་བའི་ཀ་བ་ཡིད་འོང་ལྡན། །

མུ་ཏིག་འོད་ཆགས་བླ་རེ་བྲེས་པ་དེར། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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