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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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त्राणशून्या दिशो दृष्ट्वा पुनः संमोहमागतः। तदाहं किं करिष्यामि तस्मिन् स्थाने महाभये॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

47

I will see no salvation anywhere and I will sink deeper in confusion. What will I do then before this terrifying danger?

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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ཕྱོགས་བཞིར་སྐྱབས་མེད་མཐོང་ནས་ནི། །

དེ་ནས་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཡི་མུག་འགྱུར། ། གནས་དེར་སྐྱབས་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན་ན། །

དེ་ཚེ་བདག་གིས་ཇི་ལྟར་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

46

But in those four directions no protection shall I find.

And I shall sink into despairing woe. No refuge will there be for me;

At such a time, what shall I do?[p.44]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

Mais nulle part je ne trouverai de secours

Et mon désespoir atteindra son comble. Que ferai-je alors

S’il n’est pas de salut en ces lieux ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Pero en ninguna parte encontraré refugio

y me sentiré completamente abatido. No teniendo ninguna protección

¿qué haré entonces en esos momentos?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Seeing that there is no refuge in the four directions

My mind becomes completely dark. If there is no refuge in that place,

Then what shall one do at that time?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Seeing all four directions are without a protector,

I am completely disappointed again. If there is no protector in those places,

Then what can I do?

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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ཕྱོགས་བཞི་སྐྱབས་མེད་མཐོང་ནས་ནི། །

དེ་ནས་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཡི་མུག་འགྱུར། ། གནས་དེར་སྐྱབས་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན་ན། །

དེ་ཚེ་བདག་གིས་ཇི་ལྟར་བྱ། །

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Having found no refuge in the four directions,

I will become utterly despondent. At that time, in the place Where there is no refuge,

What is there for me to do?

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.

ཕྱོགས་བཞིར་སྐྱབས་མེད་མཐོང་ནས་ནི། །

དེ་ནས་ཀུན་དུ་ཡི་མུག་འགྱུར། ། གནས་དེར་སྐྱབས་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན་ན། །

དེ་ཚེ་བདག་གིས་ཇི་ལྟར་བྱ། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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