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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

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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दरिद्राणां च सत्त्वानां निधिः स्यामहमक्षयः। नानोपकरणाकारैरुपतिष्ठेयमग्रतः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

9

May I become inexhaustible wealth for the poor. May I remain at their side ready to satisfy each one of their needs.

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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སེམས་ཅན་ཕོངས་ཤིང་དབུལ་བ་ལ། །

བདག་ནི་མི་ཟད་གཏེར་གྱུར་ཏེ། ། ཡོ་བྱད་མཁོ་དགུ་སྣ་ཚོགས་སུ། །

མདུན་ན་ཉེ་བར་གནས་གྱུར་ཅིག །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

10

For sentient beings, poor and destitute,

May I become a treasure ever-plentiful, And lie before them closely in their reach,

A varied source of all that they might need.

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

Puissé-je être l’inépuisable trésor

Des pauvres et des démunis Pour que tout ce dont ils ont besoin

Se trouve juste devant eux !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Para los pobres e indigentes

que sea un tesoro inagotable, toda clase de cosas que necesiten

dispuestas a su alcance ante ellos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

May I become an inexhaustible treasure

For destitute and poor sentient beings, And abide as various requisites and necessities

In front of them.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

For the poor and destitute,

May I become an inexhaustible treasure And appear as wealth for every need

Right in front of them.

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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སེམས་ཅན་ཕོངས་ཤིང་དབུལ་བ་ལ། །

བདག་ནི་མི་ཟད་གཏེར་གྱུར་ཏེ། ། ཡོ་བྱད་མཁོ་དགུ་སྣ་ཚོགས་སུ། །

མདུན་དུ་ཉེ་བར་གནས་གྱུར་ཅིག །

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For sentient beings destitute and poor,

May I be an inexhaustible treasure and, A variety of necessities and implements,

That are close by and accessible.

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.

སེམས་ཅན་ཕོངས་ཤིང་དབུལ་བ་ལ། །

བདག་ནི་མི་ཟད་གཏེར་གྱུར་ཏེ། ། ཡོ་བྱད་མཁོ་དགུ་སྣ་ཚོགས་སུ། །

མདུན་དུ་ཉེ་བར་གནས་གྱུར་ཅིག །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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