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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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स्वराङ्गसागरैः स्तोत्रैः स्तौमि चाहं गुणोदधीन्। स्तुतिसंगीतिमेघाश्च संभवन्त्वेष्वनन्यथा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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With hymns that are oceans of melody I praise these oceans of virtue. May these clouds of hymn and song reach them directly.

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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ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྣམས་ལ་བདག །

བསྟོད་དབྱངས་ཡན་ལག་རྒྱ་མཚོས་བསྟོད། ། བསྟོད་དབྱངས་སྙན་སྤྲིན་དེ་དག་ལ། །

ངེས་པར་ཀུན་ཏུ་འབྱུང་གྱུར་ཅིག །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

23

To these vast oceans of good qualities

I offer praise, a sea of airs and harmonies. May clouds of tuneful eulogy

Ascend unceasingly before them.

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

Comme ces océans de qualités, je les couvre

De louanges chantées sur un océan de modes : Que vers eux jaillissent continuellement

Ces nuées de louanges mélodieuses !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Alabo a esos océanos de buenas cualidades

con un mar de elogios dulces y armoniosos. Que estos cantos de alabanza se eleven

como nubes continuamente hacia ellos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

I eulogise an ocean of qualities

With an ocean of limbs and melodious hymns; These clouds of melodious praises to hear,

May they without fail arise everywhere.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

I praise the Oceans of Good Qualities

With oceans of branches of melodious praise. May clouds of pleasant melodious praise

Constantly and certainly occur.

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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ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཅན་དག་ལ། །

ཞིང་རྡུལ་ཀུན་ཀྱི་གྲངས་སྙེད་ཀྱིས། ། ཕྱག་འཚལ་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་ནི། །

རྒྱ་མཚོ་སྙེད་ཀྱི་བསྟོད་པས་བསྟོད། །

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To those who possess oceans of qualities

I make prostrations and sing melodies As numerous as all the atoms of the universe,

And offer praises as vast in number as the oceans.

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.

ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྣམས་ལ་བདག །

བསྟོད་དབྱངས་ཡན་ལག་རྒྱ་མཚོས་བསྟོད། ། བསྟོད་དབྱངས་སྙན་སྤྲིན་དེ་དག་ལ། །

ངེས་པར་ཀུན་དུ་འབྱུང་གྱུར་ཅིག །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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