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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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यं दृष्ट्वैव च संत्रस्ताः पलायन्ते चतुर्दिशम्। यमदूतादयो दुष्टास्तं नमस्यामि वज्रिणम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

53

I pay homage to Vajrapani, the one who holds the vajra,3A kind of mythical thunderbolt, a weapon capable of cutting through anything. Vajrapani is the bodhisattva who embodies power. whose mere presence is enough to scatter away in terror Yama’s messengers and other beings of hell.

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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གང་ཞིག་མཐོང་ནས་གཤིན་རྗེ་ཡི། །

ཕོ་ཉ་ལ་སོགས་སྡང་བ་རྣམས། ། སྐྲག་ནས་ཕྱོགས་བཞིར་འབྱེར་བྱེད་པ། །

རྡོ་རྗེ་ཅན་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

52

To Vajrapaṇi I shall fly,

For at the sight of him All vengeful things like Yama’s host

Escape in terror to the four directions.

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

En vous, dont la vue terrorise

Les émissaires de la Mort et les porteurs de haine En les chassant aux quatre horizons,

Ô Vajrapâni, je prends refuge.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

En Vajrapani41Vajrapani es otro de los “Ocho Grandes Hijos Cercanos”. tomo refugio,

pues tan sólo con verlo todos los seres hostiles, tales como los mensajeros de la Muerte,

huyen asustados en las cuatro direcciones.[p.66]La Práctica del Bodisatva
Hervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

I take refuge into the Vajraholder

Whose mere sight causes the Angry minions of the lord of death

To flee into the four directions.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

I take refuge in Vajrapani

At the sight of whom, Hosts of hateful maras

Scatter in fear to the four directions.

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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གང་ཞིག་མཐོང་ནས་གཤིན་རྗེ་ཡི། །

ཕོ་ཉ་ལ་སོགས་སྡང་བ་རྣམས། ། སྐྲག་ནས་ཕྱོགས་བཞིར་འབྱེར་བྱེད་པ། །

རྡོ་རྗེ་ཅན་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །

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In you, Vajrapani, I take refuge.

On seeing you, the messengers of the Lord of Death, And other perpetrators of hatred,

Flee out of fear to the four directions.

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.

གང་ཞིག་མཐོང་ནས་གཤིན་རྗེ་ཡི། །

ཕོ་ཉ་ལ་སོགས་སྡང་བ་རྣམས། ། སྐྲག་ནས་ཕྱོགས་བཞིར་འབྱེར་བྱེད་25སྡེ་དགེ་དང་ཅོ་ནེ་དང་ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘བྱེད་’པ། །

རྡོ་རྗེ་ཅན་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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