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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

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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.

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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जीवलोकमिमं त्यक्त्वा बन्धून्परिचितांस्तथा। एकाकी क्वापि यास्यामि किं मे सर्वैः प्रियाप्रियैः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

62

When I will have left the world of the living, as well as friends and relatives, and when I depart alone to I know not where, what good will come from those things that I have loved and those that I have hated?

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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གསོན་ཚེ་འདི་དང་དེ་བཞིན་དུ། །

གཉེན་དང་བཤེས་པ་རྣམས་སྤངས་ནས། ། གཅིག་པུ་ག་ཤེད་འགྲོ་དགོས་ན། །

མཛའ་དང་མི་མཛའ་ཀུན་ཅི་རུང་། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

61

And when this life is left behind,

And with it all my kith and kin, I must set out on strange paths all alone:

Why make so much of all my friends and foes?43The happiness or suffering of postmortem states can arise only as the fruit of past actions. At the moment of death, we are helped or harmed only by the virtue or evil contained in our own mind-streams. We can be neither helped nor harmed through the actions of others. By what criterion, then, are we to distinguish, at the moment of death, between friend and foe?

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

S’il me faut quitter mes proches

Et mes amis, de même que la vie, Pour me rendre seul je ne sais où,

À quoi bon les amis, les ennemis ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Cuando abandone esta vida

y a todos los parientes y amigos, deberé partir solo hacia lo desconocido.

¿Qué importarán entonces los amigos o enemigos?42La felicidad o el sufrimiento de los estados posteriores a la muerte puede surgir únicamente como resultado de las acciones anteriores. En el momento de la muerte, nos ayudan o nos perjudican sólo los méritos o actos perjudiciales acumulados en nuestro continuo mental. Las acciones que otros hagan no nos pueden ayudar ni dañar. Por lo tanto, ¿por qué criterios podemos, en el momento de la muerte, diferenciar a un amigo de un enemigo?.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If, in a similar fashion to this life,

I have to give up friends and relatives, And I have to go alone,

How suitable are all friends and non-friends?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If one must depart elsewhere alone.

Abandoning all friends, relatives, and Even this life, then

What use are loved and unloved ones?

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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གསོན་ཚེ་འདི་དང་དེ་བཞིན་དུ། །

གཉེན་དང་བཤེས་པ་རྣམ་སྤངས་ནས། ། གཅིག་པུ་ག་ཤེད་འགྲོ་དགོས་ན། །

མཛའ་དང་མི་མཛའ་ཀུན་ཅི་རུང༌། །

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Having left behind this life,

And likewise my relatives and friends, I must go alone elsewhere.

What is the point of [holding onto] all my friends and foes?

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.

གསོན་ཚེ་འདི་དང་དེ་བཞིན་དུ། །

གཉེན་དང་བཤེས་པ་[p.105-1-6a]རྣམ་སྤངས་ནས། ། གཅིག་པུ་ག་ཤེད་འགྲོ་དགོས་ན། །

མཛའ་དང་མི་མཛའ་ཀུན་ཅི་རུང་། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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