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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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इह शय्यागतेनापि बन्धुमध्येऽपि तिष्ठता। मयैवेकेन सोढव्या मर्मच्छेदादिवेदना॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

41

Right here in this bed, surrounded by my friends and relatives, I will have to suffer the pain of agony by myself.

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་མལ་ན་འདུག་བཞིན་དུ། །

གཉེན་བཤེས་ཀུན་གྱིས་མཐའ་བསྐོར་ཀྱང་། ། སྲོག་འཆད་པ་ཡི་ཚོར་བ་དག །

བདག་ཉིད་གཅིག་པུས་མྱོང་བར་འགྱུར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

40

There I’ll be, prostrate upon my bed,

And all around, my family and friends. But I alone shall be the one to feel

The cutting of the thread of life.

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

Quand sur mon lit de mort je serai

Entouré de mes amis et de mes proches, C’est moi seul qui ressentirai

Les affres de la vie qui s’éteint.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Yaceré postrado en la cama

rodeado de amigos y seres queridos, pero sentir como la vida se acaba

eso es algo que afrontaré yo solo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

While I am lying on my bed,

Although I am surrounded by all my relatives and friends The feeling of being separated from life

Is experienced by myself alone.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Even while I am lying in bed.

Friends and relatives all around. The feeling of life being cut

Will be experienced by me alone.

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་གི་མལ་ན་འདུག་བཞིན་དུ། །

གཉེན་བཤེས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་མཐའ་བསྐོར་ཀྱང༌། ། སྲོག་ཆད་པ་ཡི་ཚོར་བ་དག །

བདག་ཉིད་གཅིག་པུས་མྱོང་བར་འགྱུར། །[p.37]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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While lying in my bed,

Even though surrounded by all my relatives and friends, I will experience alone

The feelings associated with the severance of my life force.[p.38]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.

བདག་ནི་མལ་ན་འདུག་བཞིན་དུ། །

གཉེན་བཤེས་ཀུན་གྱིས་23སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘རྣམས་ཀྱིས་’མཐའ་བསྐོར་ཀྱང་། ། སྲོག་འཆད་པ་ཡི་ཚོར་བ་དག །

བདག་ཉིད་གཅིག་པུས་མྱོང་བར་འགྱུར། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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