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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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अभयं केन मे दत्तं निःसरिष्यामि वा कथम्। अवश्यं न भविष्यामि कस्मान्मे सुस्थितं मनः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

60

Who will give me shelter? How will I escape? Surely I will cease to be. How can my mind be at ease?

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་ལ་མི་འཇིགས་སུ་ཡིས་བྱིན། །

འདི་ལས་ཇི་ལྟར་ངེས་ཐར་འགྱུར། ། གདོན་མི་ཟ་བར་མེད་འགྱུར་ན། །

ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་བདག་ཡིད་བདེ་བར་འདུག །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

59

Who can give me fearlessness,

What sure escape is there from this? It’s certain that I’m going to die,

So how can I relax, my mind at ease?

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

Qui peut me donner de ne pas avoir peur ?

Comment échapper à la mort sans coup férir ? S’il ne fait aucun doute que je disparaîtrai,

Comment puis-je rester tranquille sans souci ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

¿Quién puede asegurarme que no he de tener miedo?

¿Es posible escapar definitivamente de eso? Moriré sin duda alguna,

¿cómo puedo permanecer tranquilo?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Who will offer me freedom from danger?

How can anybody say, “I shall liberate you.”? If I am definite to vanish

How can I remain with a happy mind?[p.26]The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
Stracke, Fedor, trans. The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors: A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. By Gyaltsab Rinpoche. N.p.: Happy Monks Publication, 2016. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Who can grant me fearlessness?

Since there is no confidence of Certain freedom from this,

How can my mind be relaxed?

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་ལ་མི་འཇིགས་སུ་ཡིས་བྱིན། །

འདི་ལས་ཇི་ལྟར་ངེས་ཐར་འགྱུར། ། གདོན་མི་ཟ་བར་མེད་འགྱུར་ན། །

ཅི་ཕྱིར་བདག་ཡིད་བདེ་བར་འདུག །

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Who grants me such fearlessness?

How can I be certain that I won’t die? When I am certain that [at some point] I will no longer be here,

How can I just feel comfortable?

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་ལ་མི་འཇིགས་སུ་ཡིས་བྱིན། །

འདི་ལས་ཇི་ལྟར་ངེས་ཐར་ཞེས། །26སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་དང་སྡེ་དགེ་དང་ཅོ་ནེ་༴ ‘ཞེས། །’ གདོན་མི་ཟ་བར་མེད་འགྱུར་ན། །

ཇི་ལྟར་བདག་ཡིད་བདེ་བར་འདུག །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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