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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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तैश्चाप्यधिगतं धर्मं संसारभयनाशनम्। शरणं यामि भावेन बोधिसत्त्वगणं तथा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

49

I also take refuge in the dharma that they have[p.402]How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
Gómez, Luis O., trans. "How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)." In Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism, edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., 395–441. New York: Norton, 2017. understood, which destroys all danger in the sphere of transmigration. I likewise take refuge with sincere faith in the community of the bodhisattvas.

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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དེ་ཡིས་ཐུགས་སུ་ཆུད་པའི་ཆོས། །

འཁོར་བའི་འཇིགས་པ་སེལ་བ་དང་། ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཚོགས་ལ་ཡང་། །

དེ་བཞིན་ཡང་དག་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

48

And in the Dharma they have realized in their hearts,

Which drives away the terrors of saṃsāra, And in all the host of Bodhisattvas

Likewise I will perfectly take refuge.

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

Je prends authentiquement refuge, aussi,

Dans le Dharma que vous avez réalisé Et qui dissipe les frayeurs du samsâra,

Ainsi que dans la communauté des bodhisattvas.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

También sinceramente tomo refugio

en el darma que han realizado y elimina los miedos del samsara,

así como en la comunidad de los bodisatvas.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

I also take perfect refuge

Into the dharma that he understood, Which eliminates the horrors of cyclic existence,

And into the assembly of bodhisattvas.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

In the Dharma that is contained in their holy mind,

And dispels the fears of samsara. And also in the Assembly of Bodhisattvas,

I genuinely take refuge.

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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དེ་ཡིས་ཐུགས་སུ་ཆུད་པའི་ཆོས། །

འཁོར་བའི་འཇིགས་པ་སེལ་བ་དང༌། ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཚོགས་ལ་ཡང༌། །

དེ་བཞིན་ཡང་དག་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །

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The dharma mastered by them

Dispels the fears of samsara. In that, and in the hosts of bodhisattvas,

I also genuinely take refuge.

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.

དེ་ཡི་ཐུགས་སུ་ཆུད་པའི་ཆོས། །

འཁོར་བའི་འཇིགས་པ་སེལ་བ་དང་། ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཚོགས་ལ་ཡང་། །

དེ་བཞིན་ཡང་དག་སྐྱབས་[p.105-1-5b]སུ་མཆི། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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