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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

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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.

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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यच्चानुमोदितं किंचिदात्मघाताय मोहतः। तदत्ययं देशयामि पश्चात्तापेन तापितः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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and the evil that I have approved of, all this that I have done out of delusion for my own harm, all this evil, I now confess burning with remorse.

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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གཏི་མུག་འཁྲུལ་པས་བདག་ནོན་ཏེ། །

རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་གང་བགྱིས་པ། ། ནོངས་པ་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་བགྱིས་ནས། །

བསམ་པ་ཐག་པས་མགོན་ལ་བཤགས། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

29

“Deceived and overmastered by my ignorance,

I have taken pleasure in such sin,40Western readers sometimes object to the use of the word sin in translations of Buddhist texts, on the grounds that it carries too many Judeo-Christian associations. They apparently fail to realize that the same principle might equally apply to a host of other terms, such as love, compassion, vow, monk, cause, meditation, etc., whose meanings, in the cultural, philosophical, and religious setting in which they evolved, are notably different from the ideas that they are expected to convey in a Buddhist context. When used to express Buddhist ideas, many common English words require careful redefinition in order to remove exclusively Jewish or Christian connotations. In the case of the word sin, once the associations connected with the doctrine of the Fall, divine punishment, etc., are discounted, its standard meaning (an evil act, whether by nature or by virtue of being a transgression of a vow or precept, that will provoke deadly consequences if not purified by confession) corresponds closely with the sense of sdig pa (Skt. pāpa) as used by Shāntideva. See V. and A. Wallace, p. 24. And seeing now the blame of it,

O great protectors, I confess it earnestly!

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

»Écrasé par les illusions de mon ignorance,

J’ai pris plaisir au mal commis par les autres : À présent que je vois mes crimes,

Je vous les confesse sincèrement, ô protecteurs.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Y me he alegrado de que se hicieran,

engañado y presionado por la ignorancia. Pero ahora puedo ver esos errores

y a vosotros protectores sinceramente los confieso.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Which I hid due to being confused by ignorance,

That I rejoiced in, Seeing these faults

I confess them to the protector from the depth of my heart.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Or, confused by delusion and ignorance,

I rejoiced in the performance of, Realizing I committed those wrongs.

To the Protectors, I confess them from my heart.

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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གཏི་མུག་འཁྲུལ་པས་བདག་ནོན་ཏེ། །

རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་གང་བགྱིས་པ། ། ནོངས་པ་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་བགྱིས་ནས། །

བསམ་བ་ཐག་པས་མགོན་ལ་བཤགས། །

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I have been overwhelmed by ignorance and confusion

And have rejoiced in unwholesome activities. Having seen these faults,

I confess to the protectors from the bottom of my heart.

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.

གཏི་མུག་འཁྲུལ་པས་བདག་ནོན་ཏེ། །

རྗེས་སུ་ཡིད་རངས་གང་བགྱིས་པ། ། ནོངས་པ་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་བགྱིས་ནས། །

བསམ་པ་ཐག་པས་མགོན་ལ་བཤགས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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