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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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सर्वचैत्यानि वन्देऽहं बोधिसत्त्वाश्रयांस्तथा। नमः करोम्युपाध्यायानभिवन्द्यान् यतींस्तथा॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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I pay homage to all the shrines and sacred sites associated with the lives of the bodhisattvas. I bow before all teachers, and before all venerable ascetics as well.

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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བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་གཞི་རྣམས་དང་། །

མཆོད་རྟེན་རྣམས་ལ་བདག་ཕྱག་འཚལ། ། མཁན་པོ་དེ་བཞིན་སློབ་དཔོན་དང་། །

བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་མཆོག་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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To shrines and all supports

Of bodhichitta I bow down; To abbots who transmit the vows, to every learned master,

And to all sublime practitioners of Dharma.[p.41]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.

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

Aux supports de l’esprit d’Éveil et aux stoûpas

Je rends l’hommage de mes prosternations, De même qu’aux abbés et à ceux qui enseignent,

Ainsi qu’aux adeptes de l’ascèse suprême.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

A los soportes de la bodichita

y los lugares para las ofrendas38Los soportes de la bodichita (tib. byang chub sems kyi gzhi rnams) se refiere a las imágenes de Buda, los textos mahayana, los lugares relacionados con la vida del Buda (Lumbini, Sarnath, Bodhgaya, Kushinagar...), los lugares donde el darma se expone y se puede oír, lugares donde se ha generado bodichita... Los lugares para las ofrendas (tib. mchod rten) se refiere a las estupas, los altares y cualquier representación del Cuerpo, la Palabra y la Mente iluminada. V. el comentario de Kempo Kunpel: The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech o Perles d’ambroisie, Vol. I. rindo homenaje. A los abades, así como a los maestros

y a los practicantes supremos rindo homenaje.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

To the bases of the awakened mind And to stupas I prostrate.

I prostrate to abbots and likewise to preceptors And to the supreme adepts.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

I prostrate to the bases of enlightenment thought,

And to the holy stupas. I prostrate to the abbots, and likewise

To the masters, and also excellent practitioners.

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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བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་གཞི་རྣམས་དང་། །

མཆོད་རྟེན་ཀུན་ལ་བདག་ཕྱག་འཚལ། ། མཁན་པོ་དེ་བཞིན་སློབས་དཔོན་དང༌། །

བརྟུལ་བཞུགས་མཆོག་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །[p.31]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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To the foundations of bodhichitta,

And to all stupas, I prostrate. To the preceptors and likewise to the acharyas,

And to those of supreme yogic discipline, I prostrate.[p.32]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.

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་གཞི་རྣམས་[p.105-1-4b]དང་། །

མཆོད་རྟེན་རྣམས་ལ་21སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་༴ ‘ཀུན་ལའང་’ ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘ཀུན་ལ་’བདག་ཕྱག་འཚལ། ། མཁན་པོ་དེ་བཞིན་སློབ་དཔོན་དང་། །

བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་མཆོག་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །

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