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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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सर्वासु दिक्षु संबुद्धान् प्रार्थयामि कृताञ्जलिः। धर्मप्रदीपं कुर्वन्तु मोहाद्दुःखप्रपातिनाम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

4

Palms joined in prayer, I entreat all awakened ones in all the directions that they light the lamp of dharma for those who, in the darkness of their own delusion, fall into the abyss of suffering.

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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ཕྱོགས་རྣམས་ཀུན་གྱི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལ། །

ཐལ་མོ་སྦྱར་ཏེ་གསོལ་བ་ནི། ། སེམས་ཅན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མུན་འཐོམས་ལ། །

ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྒྲོན་མེ་སྦར་དུ་གསོལ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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And so I join my hands and pray

The Buddhas who reside in every quarter: Kindle now the Dharma’s light

For those who grope, bewildered, in the dark of pain![p.48]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.

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

Les mains jointes, j’implore

Les bouddhas de toutes les directions D’allumer le lambeau du Dharma pour les êtres

Qu’enveloppent les ténèbres de la souffrance !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

A los budas de todas las direcciones

con las manos unidas les ruego que alumbren con la luz del darma a los seres

que vagan a tientas en las tinieblas del sufrimiento.[p.70]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

To the buddhas of all directions

I request with my palms folded: Please light the lamp of dharma

For sentient beings confused in the darkness of suffering.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

To all the Buddhas in every direction,

I beseech you with folded hands To light the lamp of Dharma

For miserable beings confused in the darkness of suffering.

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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ཕྱོགས་རྣམས་ཀུན་གྱི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལ། །

ཐལ་མོ་སྦྱར་ཏེ་གསོལ་བ་ནི། ། སེམས་ཅན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མུན་འཐོམ་ལ། །

ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྒྲོན་མ་སྤར་དུ་གསོལ། །

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With palms joined, I supplicate

The buddhas of all directions, To light the torch of dharma For sentient beings who are suffering

And bewildered by the darkness of ignorance.

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.

ཕྱོགས་རྣམས་ཀུན་གྱི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལ། །

ཐལ་མོ་སྦྱར་ཏེ་གསོལ་བ་ནི། ། སེམས་ཅན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མུན་འཐོམས་ལ། །

ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྒྲོན་མ་སྦར་དུ་གསོལ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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