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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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एवं सर्वमिदं कृत्वा यन्मयासादितं शुभम्। तेन स्यां सर्वसत्त्वानां सर्वदुःखप्रशान्तिकृत्॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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With the merit that I have achieved through these acts of devotion may I relieve all living beings from every form 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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དེ་ལྟར་འདི་དག་ཀུན་བྱས་ཏེ། །

དགེ་བ་བདག་གིས་བསགས་པ་གང་། ། དེས་ནི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཐམས་ཅད་བསལ་བར་ཤོག །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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Through these actions now performed48The reference here is to the seven traditional actions of accumulating merit, often expressed in a verse formula known as the ‟seven-branch prayer.” These actions are homage, offering, confession, rejoicing in all good actions, the request for teaching, the request that the teachers remain in the world and not pass into nirvāṇa, and dedication. The first three actions formed the content of the previous chapter; the remaining four are expressed here in the opening stanzas of chap. 3. See Crosby and Skilton, pp. 9–13, for a description of the ‟sevenfold supreme worship.”

And all the virtues I have gained, May all the pain of every living being

Be wholly scattered and destroyed!

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

Que par les mérites que je viens d’accumuler

En pratiquant de la sorte Se dissipent toutes les souffrances

De tous les êtres.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Por estas acciones que he llevado a cabo47Se refiere a las siete acciones tradicionales para acumular mérito, que frecuentemente son formuladas en unos versos conocidos como “oración de siete ramas”. Estas siete acciones son: el homenaje, la ofrenda, la confesión, el alegrarse de las buenas acciones, pedir que se den enseñanzas, rogar a los maestros que permanezcan en el mundo y no pasen al nirvana, y la dedicación. Las tres primeras acciones constituyen el capítulo precedente, las cuatro restantes se exponen aquí en las primeras estrofas del capítulo tercero.

y todos los méritos que he reunido, que se elimine todo el sufrimiento

de todos los seres y cada uno de ellos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Having thus done all of this,

Whatever virtue I have accumulated, May through it all sufferings

Of all sentient beings be cleared away.[p.5]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/.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Thus, by every virtue I have accumulated.

Through every possible means. May every form of suffering

Of every sentient being be dispelled.

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་ལྟར་འདི་དག་ཀུན་བྱས་ཏེ། །

དགེ་བ་བདག་གིས་བསགས་པ་གང༌། ། དེས་ནི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཆད་ཀྱི། །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཐམས་ཆད་བསལ་བར་ཤོག །

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In this way, through performing all of these,

May whatever virtue I have accumulated Serve to dispel all the suffering

Of all sentient 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.

དེ་ལྟར་འདི་དག་ཀུན་བྱས་ཏེ། །

དགེ་བ་བདག་གིས་བསགས་པ་གང་། ། དེས་ནི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཐམས་ཅད་བསལ་བར་ཤོག །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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