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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.

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कथं च निःसराम्यस्मान्नित्योद्वेगोऽस्मि नायकाः । मा भून्मे मृत्युरचिरादक्षीणे पापसंचये॥extra verseकथं च निःसराम्यस्मात् परित्रायत सत्वरम्। मा ममाक्षीणपापस्य मरणं शीघ्रमेष्यति॥

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How will I ever escape from this? I live in constant fear, O guides, that the hour of death might come soon, before I have erased this mass of sins.extra verseHow will I ever escape from this? Save me at once, that death may not reach me suddenly before I have erased this mass of sins.

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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བདག་ནི་སྡིག་པ་མ་བྱང་[p.14]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. བར། །

སྔོན་དུ་འགུམ་པར་འགྱུར་དུ་མཆི། ། ཇི་ལྟར་འདི་ལས་ངེས་ཐར་བར། །

མྱུར་བའི་ཚུལ་གྱིས་བསྐྱབ་ཏུ་གསོལ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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“It may be that my death will come to me

Before my evil has been cleansed. How then can I be freed from it?

I pray you, quickly grant me your protection!”[p.42]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

»Peut-être mourrai-je avant de m’être

Purifié de mes actes négatifs, Et pour m’en libérer pour de bon, je vous supplie

De m’offrir au plus vite votre protection ! »

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Puede que la muerte se presente ante mí

antes que todo este mal haya sido purificado; por eso os pido que con celeridad me protejáis

para que me libere con certeza.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Without having purified my negativity,

I will killed and die beforehand. Please rescue me from this with the method

That liberates quickly.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

As for me, with sins yet unpurified

I may depart before; May you swiftly protect me

To be certainly free from them.

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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བདག་ནི་སྡིག་པ་མ་བྱང་བར། །

སྔུན་དུ་འགུམ་བར་འགྱུར་དུ་མཆིས། ། ཇི་ལྟར་འདི་ལས་ངེས་ཐར་པར། །

མྱུར་བའི་ཚུལ་གྱིས་བསྐྱབ་དུ་གསོལ། །

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I may die

Without purifying these unwholesome deeds. Therefore, please quickly grant your protection,

So I can gain certain liberation from them.

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.

བདག་ནི་སྡིག་པ་མ་བྱང་བར། །

སྔོན་དུ་འགུམ་པར་འགྱུར་དུ་མཆི། ། ཇི་ལྟར་འདི་ལས་ངེས་ཐར་བར། །

མྱུར་བའི་ཚུལ་གྱིས་བསྐྱབ་ཏུ་གསོལ། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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