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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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जगन्मृत्युविनाशाय जातमेतद्रसायनम्। जगद्दारिद्र्यशमनं निधानमिदमक्षयम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

28

This elixir has arisen to vanquish death in the world. It is the inexhaustible treasure that will alleviate thirst in the world.

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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འགྲོ་བའི་འཆི་བདག་འཇོམས་བྱེད་པའི། །

བདུད་རྩིའི་མཆོག་ཀྱང་འདི་ཡིན་ནོ། ། འགྲོ་བའི་དབུལ་བ་སེལ་བ་ཡི། །

མི་ཟད་གཏེར་ཡང་འདི་ཡིན་ནོ། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

29

This is the supreme draft of immortality

That slays the Lord of Death, the slaughterer of beings, The rich unfailing treasure-mine

To heal the poverty of wanderers.

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

C’est même l’ambroisie suprême

Qui vainc la Mort des êtres, L’inépuisable trésor qui chasse

Des mondes la pauvreté,

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Ésta es, de hecho, el elixir supremo que vence

al Señor de la Muerte que asesina a los seres. Es, también, el tesoro inagotable que elimina

la miseria de los seres transmigrantes.[p.73]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

It is also the supreme nectar Destroying migrator’s lord of death.

It is also the inexhaustible treasure That eliminates sentient being’s poverty.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

It is the excellent elixir of immortality

That annihilates the lord of death. It is also the inexhaustible treasure

That dispels the poverty of the world.

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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འགྲོ་བའི་འཆི་བདག་འཇོམས་བྱེད་པའི། །

བདུད་རྩིའི་མཆོག་ཀྱང་འདི་ཡིན་ནོ། ། འགྲོ་བའི་དབུལ་བ་སེལ་བ་ཡི། །

མི་ཟད་གཏེར་ཡང་འདི་ཡིན་ནོ། །

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It is the supreme amrita

That subjugates the Lord of Death of beings. It is also the inexhaustible treasure

That dispels the poverty of beings.

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.

འགྲོ་བའི་འཆི་བདག་འཇོམས་བྱེད་པའི། །

བདུད་རྩི་མཆོག་ཀྱང་འདི་ཡིན་ནོ། ། འགྲོ་བའི་དབུལ་བ་སེལ་བ་ཡི། །

མི་ཟད་གཏེར་ཡང་འདི་ཡིན་ནོ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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