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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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एवमाकाशनिष्ठस्य सत्त्वधातोरनेकधा। भवेयमुपजीव्योऽहं यावत्सर्वे न निर्वृताः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

21

may I in the same manner, in numberless ways, serve as sustenance for this universe of living beings filling the breadth of space, for as long as they have not reached satisfaction and peace.

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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དེ་བཞིན་ནམ་མཁའི་མཐས་གཏུགས་པའི། །

སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས་ལ་རྣམ་ཀུན་ཏུ། ། ཐམས་ཅད་[p.22]Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)
Slob dpon zhi ba lha and Mkhan po kun dpal. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990. མྱ་ངན་འདས་བར་དུ། །

བདག་ནི་ཉེར་འཚོའི་རྒྱུར་ཡང་ཤོག །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

22

Thus for everything that lives,

As far as are the limits of the sky, May I be constantly their source of livelihood

Until they pass beyond all sorrow.

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 ainsi pourvoir aux besoins des êtres

Jusqu’à la in de l’espace En tout lieu et de tout temps

Jusqu’à ce que tous atteignent le nirvâna !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Asimismo, hasta que todos los seres,

que pueblan el espacio hasta sus últimos confines, pasen más allá del sufrimiento

que los provea de todo lo necesario para la vida.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Likewise, may I be the cause for the livelihood

Of all the realms of sentient beings, That stretch until the edge of space,

Until they all go beyond misery.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Thus for all sentient beings,

Limitless as the boundaries of space. Until they reach nirvana,

May I be the direct source of their life.[p.106]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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དེ་བཞིན་ནམ་མཁའི་མཐས་གཏུགས་པའི། །

སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས་ལ་རྣམ་ཀུན་དུ། ། ཐམས་ཆད་མྱ་ངན་འདས་བར་དུ། །

བདག་ནི་ཉེར་འཚོའི་རྒྱུར་ཡང་ཤོག །

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Likewise, in the realms of sentient beings

Reaching the limits of space, May I, at all times, Become the cause that supports life’s necessities

Until all attain nirvana.

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.

དེ་བཞིན་ནམ་མཁའི་མཐས་གཏུགས་པའི། །

སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས་ལ་རྣམ་ཀུན་དུ། ། ཐམས་ཅད་མྱ་ངན་འདས་བར་དུ། །

བདག་ནི་ཉེར་འཚོའི་རྒྱུར་ཡང་ཤོག །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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