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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.

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ददामि चात्मानमहं जिनेभ्यः

सर्वेण सर्वं च तदात्मजेभ्यः। परिग्रहं मे कुरुताग्रसत्त्वा

युष्मासु दासत्वमुपैमि भक्त्या॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

8

I also offer myself without constraints to the victorious conquerors and their sons. "Take me as your property, o sublime beings. Devoutly, I[p.400]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. become your slave.

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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རྒྱལ་དང་དེ་སྲས་རྣམས་ལ་བདག་གིས་ནི། །

བདག་གི་ལུས་ཀུན་གཏན་དུ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། ། སེམས་དཔའ་མཆོག་རྣམས་བདག་ནི་ཡོངས་བཞེས་ཤིག །

གུས་པས་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་འབངས་སུ་མཆི་བར་བགྱི། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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Enlightened ones and all your Bodhisattva heirs,

I offer you my body throughout all my lives. Supreme courageous ones accept me totally.

For with devotion I will be your slave.

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

Ô vainqueurs et vous, bodhisattvas,

Je vous fais à jamais l’offrande de tous mes corps. Acceptez-moi complètement, suprêmes héros de l’esprit,

Et je serai votre respectueux serviteur.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

A los victoriosos33Victorioso, tib. rgya.bal, sánscr. jina, un sinónimo de buda. Ha vencido a las cuatro maras. y a sus herederos

me ofrezco ahora y en mis vidas futuras. Seres supremos, aceptadme por completo;

con devoción, estaré a vuestro servicio.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

To the conquerors and their children

I always offer my body completely, May the supreme brave ones enjoy me!

With respect I make myself your slave.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

To the Victors and their Noble Sons,

I forever offer my body. O Exalted Heroes, please completely accept me

As your devoted subject.

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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རྒྱལ་དང་དེ་ཡི་སྲས་རྣམས་བདག་གིས་ནི། །

ཉིད་ཀྱི་ལུས་ཀུན་གཏན་དུ་འབུལ་བར་བགྱིས། ། སེམས་དཔའ་མཆོག་རྣམས་བདག་གི་ཡོངས་བཞེས་ཤིག །

གུས་པས་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་འབངས་སུ་མཆི་བར་བགྱི། །

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Victorious ones and your sons and daughters,

I will continually offer you all the bodies I assume. Supreme bodhisattvas, please accept me fully.

With respect, I am your servant.

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.

རྒྱལ་དང་དེ་སྲས་རྣམས་ལ་བདག་གིས་ནི། །

བདག་གི་ལུས་ཀུན་གཏན་དུ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། ། སེམས་དཔའ་མཆོག་རྣམས་བདག་ནི་ཡོངས་བཞེས་ཤིག །

གུས་པས་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་འབངས་སུ་མཆི་བར་བགྱི། །

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