2.31

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 2.31

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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.

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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अनेकदोषदुष्टेन मया पापेन नायकाः। यत्कृतं दारुणं पापं तत्सर्वं देशयाम्यहम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

31

every grave sin that I, a sinner corrupted by various vices, have committed—all I confess now, O guides!

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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ཉེས་པ་དུ་མས་སྐྱོན་ཆགས་པའི། །

སྡིག་ཅན་བདག་གིས་སྡིག་པ་གང་། ། ཤིན་ཏུ་མི་བཟད་བགྱིས་པ་དེ། །

ཐམས་ཅད་འདྲེན་པ་རྣམས་ལ་བཤགས། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

31

“All the evil I, a sinner, have committed,

All the wicked deeds that cling to me, The frightful things that I contrived

I openly declare to you, the teachers of the world.

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

»Pécheur qu’entachent de nombreux vices,

J’ai commis de nombreux méfaits Proprement insupportables : de toutes ces choses,

Ô guides, je me confesse à vous.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

todo el mal tan atroz

que ha cometido este pecador, corrompido por innumerables faltas,

a vosotros, los guías, os lo confiesa.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

I, this sinner, afflicted with various faults

Of different negativities, whatever frightful Negativities I created,

I confess to those that guide all.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

I, the sinner, who am defective

With many faidts, Confess to all the Protectors

Whatever unbearable sins I committed.

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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ཉེས་པ་དུ་མའི་སྐྱོན་ཆགས་པའི། །

སྡིག་ཅན་བདག་གིས་སྡིག་པ་གང༌། ། ཤིན་དུ་མི་བཟད་བགྱིས་པ་དེ། །

ཐམས་ཆད་འདྲེན་པ་རྣམས་ལ་འཆགས། །

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I am a wrongdoer

Who possesses a problematic variety of unwholesome actions. Whatever unwholesome deeds I have performed, All those exceedingly intolerable actions —

I confess to those that guide.

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.

ཉེས་པ་དུ་མས་སྐྱོན་ཆགས་པའི། །

སྡིག་ཅན་བདག་གིས་སྡིག་པ་གང་། ། ཤིན་ཏུ་མི་བཟད་བགྱིས་པ་དེ། །

ཐམས་ཅད་འདྲེན་པ་རྣམས་ལ་བཤགས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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