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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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प्रियाप्रियनिमित्तेन पापं कृतमनेकधा। सर्वमुत्सृज्य गन्तव्यमिति न ज्ञातमीदृशम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

35

What I love and what I hate have been many times cause for my sins. I did not examine this: that one day I will have to depart and leave everything behind.

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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ཐམས་ཅད་བོར་ཏེ་ཆས་དགོས་པར། །

བདག་གིས་དེ་ལྟར་མ་ཤེས་པས། ། མཛའ་དང་མི་མཛའི་དོན་གྱི་ཕྱིར། །

སྡིག་པ་རྣམ་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་བྱས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

34

And we must pass away, forsaking all.

But I, devoid of understanding, Have, for sake of friend and foe alike,

Provoked and brought about so many wrongs.

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

Inconscient qu’il faut partir

En abandonnant tout, J’ai commis de multiples méfaits

Tant à cause de mes ennemis que de mes amis.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Tendremos que partir y dejarlo todo.

Pero por no haberlo comprendido, debido tanto a mis amigos como a enemigos

he cometido múltiples actos dañinos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Leaving all behind I have to depart.

Not understanding this I create manifold negativities

For the purpose of friends and non-friends.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Not realizing inevitable separation

Leaves everything behind, I performed a variety of sinful actions

For the purpose of those loved and unloved.[p.87]A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
Gyaltsen, Lama Kalsang, and Ani Kunga Chodron, trans. A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas Written by Sazang Mati Panchen: Known as An Extremely Clear Illumination of the Meaning of the Text. Walden, NY: Tsechen Kunchab Ling, 2019. First edition published by The Yeshe Dorje Foundation in 2006.

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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ཐམས་ཆད་བོར་ཏེ་ཆས་དགོས་པར། །

བདག་གིས་དེ་ལྟར་མ་ཤེས་ནས། ། མཛའ་དང་མི་མཛའི་དོན་གྱི་ཕྱིར། །

སྡིག་པ་རྣམ་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་བྱས། །

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Not knowing

That I have to leave and be separated from all, I perform a variety of unwholesome deeds

For friends and enemies.

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.

ཐམས་ཅད་བོར་ཏེ་ཆས་22ཏུན་ཧོང་ཁ་༴ ༢.༣༤ ‘་་་དགོས་པར། །’ ་་་༣.༡༠ ‘སེམས་ཅན་ཕོངས་ཤིང་་་’ བར་མི་ཚང་།དགོས་པར། །

བདག་གིས་དེ་ལྟར་མ་ཤེས་ནས། ། མཛའ་དང་མི་མཛའི་དོན་གྱི་ཕྱིར། །

སྡིག་པ་རྣམ་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་བྱས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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