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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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सर्वक्षेत्राणुसंख्यैश्च प्रणामैः प्रणमाम्यहम्। सर्वत्र्यध्वगतान् बुद्धान् सहधर्मगणोत्तमान्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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I bow before the awakened ones of the three times, the dharma and the sublime order, with as many prostrations as there are atoms in all the buddha-fields.9Particular buddhas’ spheres of influence and activity; in Buddhist cosmology, each buddha arises in a particular world system. “The three limes"; the past, the present, and the future.

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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དུས་གསུམ་གཤེགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀུན། །

ཆོས་དང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཆོག་བཅས་ལ། ། ཞིང་རྡུལ་ཀུན་གྱི་གྲངས་སྙེད་ཀྱི། །

ལུས་བཏུད་[p.13]Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)
Slob dpon zhi ba lha and Mkhan po kun dpal. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990.

པས་ནི་བདག་ཕྱག་འཚལ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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To Buddhas of the past, the present, and all future time,

And to the Dharma and Sublime Assembly, With bodies many as the grains of dust

Upon the earth, I will prostrate and bow.39In the traditional practice of prostration, it is normal to imagine that one possesses innumerable bodies, all prostrating at the same time.

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

À tous les bouddhas qui vont par les trois temps,

Aux enseignements et à l’assemblée suprême Je rends l’hommage de mes prosternations

Avec autant de corps qu’il y a d’atomes dans l’univers.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

A los budas del pasado, del presente y del futuro,

al darma y a la sublime asamblea, con tantos cuerpos como partículas hay en el universo

rindo homenaje postrándome ante ellos37En la práctica tradicional de hacer postraciones, uno imagina que tiene innumerables cuerpos y que todos ellos se postran al mismo tiempo..

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

I prostrate humbly with as many bodies

As there are atoms in all the realms To all the buddhas gone in the three times,

To the dharma and the supreme assembly.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

To all the Buddhas dwelling in the three times,

Together with the holy Dharma and Noble Assembly, I devotedly prostrate with as many bodies

As atoms in all the realms.

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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དུས་གསུམ་གཤེགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀུན། །

ཆོས་དང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཆོག་བཅས་ལ། ། བསྟོད་དབྱངས་སྙན་པའི་སྤྲིན་དག་ཀྱང་། །

ངེས་པར་ཀུན་དུ་འབྱུང་གྱུར་ཅིང་། །

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To the sugata buddhas of the three times,

The dharma, and the supreme assembly, May clouds of sweet melodies of praise

Surely arise at all times.

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.

དུས་གསུམ་གཤེགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀུན། །

ཆོས་དང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཆོག་བཅས་ལ། ། ཞིང་རྡུལ་ཀུན་གྱི་གྲངས་སྙེད་ཀྱི། །

ལུས་བཏུད་པ་ཡིས་བདག་ཕྱག་འཚལ། །20ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་པར་གོང་གི་ཤོ་ལོ་ཀ་གཉིས་འདི་ལྟར་ཡོད། ‘ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཅན་དག་ལ། །ཞིང་རྡུལ་ཀུན་གྱྀ་གྲངས་སྙེད་ཀྱིས། །ཕྱག་འཚལ་དབྱངས་ཀྱྀ་ཡན་ལག་ནི། །རྒྱ་མཚོ་སྙེད་ཀྱི་བསྟོད་པས་བསྟོད། །དུས་གསུམ་གཤེགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀུན། །ཆོས་དང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཆོག་བཅས་ལ། །བསྟོད་དབྱངས་སྙནད་པའི་སྤྲིན་དག་ཀྱང་། །ངེས་པར་ཀུན་དུ་འབྱུང་གྱུར་ཅིང་། །’

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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