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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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पृथिव्यादीनि भूतानि निःशेषाकाशवासिनाम्। सत्त्वानामप्रमेयाणां यथाभोगान्यनेकधा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

20

Just as earth and the other elements render service, in multiple ways, conforming to their desires, to the numberless living beings that inhabit infinite space,

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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ས་སོགས་འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། །

ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན་དུ་རྟག་པར་ཡང་། ། སེམས་ཅན་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་ཡི། །

རྣམ་མང་ཉེར་འཚོའི་གཞིར་ཡང་ཤོག །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

21

Just like the earth and space itself

And all the other mighty elements, For boundless multitudes of beings May I always be the ground of life, the source of varied

sustenance.

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

Comme la terre et les autres éléments,

Puissé-je toujours, à l’échelle de l’espace, Être la source qui pourvoit aux multiples besoins

De la foule insondable des êtres ![p.61]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Como el espacio, la tierra

y los otros grandes elementos, que de múltiples formas sustente siempre

las vidas de los seres infinitos.[p.72]La Práctica del Bodisatva
Hervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Like the elements of earth and so forth,

And like space as well, May I always be the basis for the many necessities

Of the boundless sentient beings.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

May I always become the direct cause of life

Of infinite sentient beings, Like the great earth and the other elements

Such as space.

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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ས་སོགས་འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་དང༌། །

ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན་དུ་རྟག་པར་ཡང༌། ། སེམས་ཅན་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་ཡི། །

རྣམ་མང་ཉེར་འཚོའི་གཞིར་ཡང་ཤོག །[p.55]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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May I be the basis of life’s necessities

That benefits immeasurable sentient beings at all times Just like the great elements of earth,

Space, and so forth.[p.56]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.

ས་སོགས་འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། །

ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན་དུ་རྟག་པར་ཡང་། ། སེམས་ཅན་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་ཡི། །

རྣམ་མང་ཉེར་འཚོའི་གཞིར་ཡང་ཤོག །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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