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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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आत्मभावांस्तथा भोगान् सर्वत्र्यध्वगतं शुभम्। निरपेक्षस्त्यजाम्येष सर्वसत्त्वार्थसिद्धये॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

10

All bodies, property, and merit that I have acquired in the past, the ones I have now, and the ones that I may acquire in the future, I surrender them all with indifference for the benefit of all living beings.

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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ལུས་དང་དེ་བཞིན་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་དང་། །

དུས་གསུམ་དགེ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱང་། ། སེམས་ཅན་ཀུན་གྱི་དོན་སྒྲུབ་ཕྱིར། །

ཕངས་* ཕོངས in the source text. པ་མེད་པར་བཏང་བར་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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My body, thus, and all my goods besides,

And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all and do not count the cost,

To bring about the benefit of beings.

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 renonce à mon corps, de même qu’à mes biens

Et à tous mes mérites passés, présents et futurs, Sans me sentir dépossédé,

Pour accomplir le bien de tous les êtres.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Mi cuerpo así como mis bienes,

mis méritos pasados, presentes y futuros, los ofrezco sin escatimar nada

para beneficiar a todos los seres.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Also my body, possessions

And all virtues of the three times I will give away without regret

To achieve the purpose of all sentient beings.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

My body, likewise wealth,

And all virtues accumulated in the three times, I give without holding back,

To accomplish the welfare of sentient beings.[p.103]A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
Gyaltsen, Lama Kalsang, and Ani Kunga Chodron, trans. A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas Written by Sazang Mati Panchen: Known as An Extremely Clear Illumination of the Meaning of the Text. Walden, NY: Tsechen Kunchab Ling, 2019. First edition published by The Yeshe Dorje Foundation in 2006.

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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ལུས་དང་དེ་བཞིན་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་དང༌། །

དུས་གསུམ་དགེ་བ་ཐམས་ཆད་ཀྱང༌། ། སེམས་ཅན་ཀུན་ཀྱི་དོན་འགྲུབ་ཕྱིར། །

ཕངས་པ་མེད་པར་གཏང་བར་བྱ། །[p.51]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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In order to accomplish benefit for all sentient beings,

I should give without hesitation, My body, likewise my wealth,

And also all my virtues of the three times.[p.52]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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.

ལུས་དང་དེ་བཞིན་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་དང་། །

དུས་གསུམ་དགེ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱང་། ། སེམས་ཅན་ཀུན་གྱི་དོན་སྒྲུབ་ཕྱིར། །

ཕོངས་པ་མེད་པར་གཏང་བར་བྱ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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