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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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जगदज्ञानतिमिरप्रोत्सारणमहारविः। सद्धर्मक्षीरमथनान्नवनीतं समुत्थितम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

31

It is an immense sun that dissipates the darkness of worldly ignorance. It is the fresh butter produced by the churning of the ocean of milk of the true dharma.

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་མི་ཤེས་རབ་རིབ་དག །

དཔྱིས་འབྱིན་ཉི་མ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན། ། དམ་ཆོས་འོ་མ་བསྲུབས་པ་ལས། །

མར་གྱི་ཉིང་ཁུ་ཕྱུང་བ་ཡིན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

32

It is the mighty sun that utterly dispels

The misty ignorance of wandering beings, The creamy butter, rich and full,

That’s churned from milk of holy teaching.

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

Le grand soleil qui chasse

Des mondes le brouillard de l’ignorance, La quintessence du beurre qui jaillit

Du barattement du lait des enseignements suprêmes.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Es un gran sol que erradica de los seres

por completo las tinieblas de la ignorancia. Es la cremosa mantequilla extraída

al batir la leche de las enseñanzas sagradas.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

It is the great sun that dispels The vitreous humor of not knowing.

It is the essence of butter That is derived from the milk of dharma.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

It is the great sun which eradicates Beings’ cataracts of ignorance.

It is the butter which is extracted From churning the milk of the holy Dharma.

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་མི་ཤེས་རབ་རིབ་དག །

དཔྱིས་འབྱིན་ཉི་མ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན། ། དམ་ཆོས་འོ་མ་བསྲུབས་པ་ལས། །

མར་གྱི་ཉིང་ཁུ་བྱུང་བ་ཡིན། །

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It is the great sun that completely removes

The darkness of ignorance of beings. It is the pure butter extracted

From churning the milk of the authentic dharma.

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་མི་ཤེས་རབ་རིབ་དག །

དཔྱིས་འབྱིན་ཉི་མ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན། ། དམ་ཆོས་འོ་མ་བསྲུབས་པ་ལས། །

མར་གྱི་ཉིང་ཁུ་བྱུང་བ་ཡིན། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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