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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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स्फीतस्फुरद्गन्धमनोरमैश्च

तान् धूपमेघैरुपधूपयामि। भोज्यैश्च खाद्यैर्विविधैश्च पेयै-

स्तेभ्यो निवेद्यं च निवेदयामि॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

16

I cense them with clouds of incense that charm the senses with thick, penetrating scent. And I offer them food—hard and soft—and the most varied drinks.

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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སྤོས་མཆོག་ཡིད་འཕྲོག་དྲི་ངད་ཁྱབ་པ་ཡི། །

བདུག་པའི་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དེ་ལ་དབུལ། ། ཞལ་ཟས་བཟའ་བཏུང་སྣ་ཚོགས་བཅས་པ་ཡི། །

ལྷ་བཤོས་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དེ་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

16

I will offer swelling clouds of frankincense,

Whose ambient perfume ravishes the mind, And various foods and every kind of drink,

All delicacies worthy of the gods.

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

Je leur offre des nuées d’encens

Dont le parfum diffus ravit l’esprit, Et je leur offre aussi des nourritures divines,

Les mets et les boissons les plus variés.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Les ofrezco nubes de aroma del mejor incienso

cuyo penetrante perfume embelesa la mente. Los manjares celestiales los ofrezco también,

a la vez que toda clase de bebidas y alimentos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

I also offer billowing clouds of smoke from supreme incense, Pervaded by a scent that robs one of one’s senses.

I also offer divine feasts made of Various foods and drink.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Clouds of excellent incense with Smoke of enticing pervasive scent,

A variety of divine food, drinks, and Sacred cakes I offer to them.

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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སྤོས་མཆོག་ཡིད་འཕྲོག་དྲི་ངད་ཁྱབ་པ་ཡི། །

བདུག་པའི་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དེ་ལ་འབུལ། ། ཞལ་ཟས་བཟའ་བཏུང་སྣ་ཚོགས་བཅས་པ་ཡི། །

ལྷ་བཤོས་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དེ་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། །

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I also offer to you clouds of supreme incense

Ravishing the mind with a fragrance pervading everywhere, And various kinds

Of divine food and drink.

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.

སྤོས་མཆོག་ཡིད་འཕྲོག་དྲི་ངད་ཁྱབ་པ་ཡི། །

བདུག་པའི་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དེ་ལ་དབུལ། ། ཞལ་ཟས་བཟའ་བཏུང་སྣ་ཚོགས་བཅས་པ་ཡི། །

ལྷ་བཤོས་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དེ་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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