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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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आदाय बुद्ध्या मुनिपुंगवेभ्यो

निर्यातयाम्येष सपुत्रकेभ्यः। गृह्णन्तु तन्मे वरदक्षिणीया

महाकृपा मामनुकम्पमानाः॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

6

I make my own in thought, and I offer them to the bulls among the sages, together with their sons. May they, who deserve the best offerings and are endowed with the greatest pity, accept this offering of mine, out of compassion for me.

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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བློ་ཡིས་བླངས་ནས་ཐུབ་པ་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་མཆོག །

སྲས་དང་[p.10]Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)
Slob dpon zhi ba lha and Mkhan po kun dpal. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990. བཅས་པ་རྣམས་ལ་ལེགས་འབུལ་ན། ། ཡོན་གནས་དམ་པ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས། །

བདག་ལ་བརྩེར་དགོངས་བདག་གི་འདི་དག་བཞེས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

6

I hold them all before my mind, and to the mighty Sage, the greatest of our kind,

And to his heirs, I make a perfect offering. Sublime recipients, compassionate lords,

O think of me with love; accept these gifts of mine!

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 les évoque mentalement pour en faire dûment l’offrande

Aux sages suprêmes entre les êtres et aux bodhisattvas. Ô saints destinataires, grande est votre compassion :

Soyez bienveillants avec moi et acceptez ces offrandes !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

todo ello lo recreo con la mente y lo ofrezco perfectamente

a los budas, supremos entre los seres, y a sus herederos. Sublimes destinatarios dotados de gran compasión,

pensad en mí con amor y aceptad estas ofrendas.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Having mentally created and offered them

To the Able One, the supreme of being, and his children, May those with holy qualities and great compassion

Consider me with affection and enjoy these offerings of mine.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

All of this I create in my mind and excellently offer

To the Buddhas, excellent among men, and to their Noble Sons. O Greatly Compassionate Ones, you noble field of offering.

Gaze kindly upon me and accept these, my offerings.

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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བློ་ཡིས་བླངས་ནས་ཐུབ་པ་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་མཆོག །

སྲས་དང་བཅས་པ་རྣམས་ལ་ལེགས་འབུལ་ན། ། ཡོན་གནས་དམ་པ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས། །

བདག་ལ་བརྩེར་དགོངས་བདག་གི་དེ་དག་བཞེས། །

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Having brought these to mind,

I make excellent offerings to the Muni, Supreme among human beings, Together with his sons and daughters. Authentic recipients of offerings, you of great compassion,

Please consider me with love and accept my offerings.

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.

བློ་ཡིས་བླངས་ནས་ཐུབ་པ་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་མཆོག །

སྲས་དང་བཅས་པ་རྣམས་ལ་ལེགས་འབུལ་ན། ། ཡོན་གནས་དམ་པ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས། །

བདག་ལ་བརྩེར་དགོངས་བདག་གི་འདི་དག་བཞེས། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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