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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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अन्धः संकारकूटेभ्यो यथा रत्नमवाप्नुयात्। तथा कथंचिदप्येतद् बोधिचित्तं ममोदितम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

27

It is as if a blind man were to find a jewel in a pile of dung. In the same way, I know not how, this thought of awakening has arisen in me.

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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ལོང་བས་ཕྱག་དར་ཕུང་པོ་ལས། །

ཇི་ལྟར་རིན་ཆེན་རྙེད་པ་ལྟར། ། དེ་བཞིན་ཇི་ཞིག་ལྟར་སྟེས་ནས། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་འདི་བདག་ལ་སྐྱེས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

28

For I am like a blind man who has found

A precious gem inside a heap of dust. For so it is, by some strange chance,

That bodhichitta has been born in me.

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

» Tel un aveugle qui trouve

Un joyau dans un tas d’ordures, J’ai, comme par un pur hasard,

Conçu l’esprit d’Éveil.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Como un ciego que encuentra una joya

entre un montón de basura, por alguna afortunada coincidencia,

se ha engendrado en mí la bodichita.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Just like a blind person finding a jewel

In a heap of rubbish,[p.13]The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
Stracke, Fedor, trans. The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors: A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. By Gyaltsab Rinpoche. N.p.: Happy Monks Publication, 2016. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/. I generated this mind of enlightenment

Just by coincidence.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Like a blind person finding a precious jewel

On a heap of rubbish. Likewise, by some coincidence,

This enlightenment thought was born within me.

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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ལོང་བས་ཕྱག་དར་ཕུང་པོ་ནས། །

ཇི་ལྟར་རིན་ཆེན་རྙེད་པ་ལྟར། ། དེ་བཞིན་ཅི་ཞིག་ལྟར་སྟེས་ནས། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་འདི་བདག་ལས་སྐྱེས། །

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Just like a blind person, who by chance,

Finds a precious jewel in a heap of garbage, This mind of enlightenment

Has arisen in me.

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.

ལོང་བས་ཕྱག་དར་ཕུང་པོ་ལས། །

ཇི་ལྟར་རིན་ཆེན་རྙེད་པ་ལྟར། ། དེ་བཞིན་ཇི་ཞིག་ལྟར་སྟེས་ནས། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་འདི་བདག་ལ་སྐྱེས། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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