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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 गृहीत्वा सुदृढं बोधिचित्तं जिनात्मजः। शिक्षानतिक्रमे यत्नं कुर्यान्नित्यमतन्द्रितः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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After a son of the victorious conquerors takes a firm hold of the thought of enlightenment in the way explained above, he should exert himself constantly and tirelessly in avoiding any transgression of the precepts.

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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༈ རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་ཀྱིས་དེ་ལྟ་བུར། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་རབ་བརྟན་བཟུང་ནས། ། གཡེལ་བ་མེད་པར་རྟག་ཏུ་ཡང་། །

བསླབ་ལས་མི་འདའ་འབད་པར་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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The children of the Conqueror who thus

Have firmly grasped this bodhichitta, Should never turn aside from it,

Strive never to transgress its disciplines.

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 bodhisattvas qui ont ainsi adopté

L’esprit d’Éveil inébranlablement S’efforceront, sans jamais en dévier,

De ne pas en transgresser les préceptes.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Los hijos del Victorioso que firmemente

han abrazado así la bodichita, sin apartarse jamás de ella, deben esforzarse

para no transgredir nunca sus preceptos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

After the children of the conquerors,

Have very firmly accepted bodhicitta, They should unwaveringly strive always

To not transgress the trainings.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Thus Sons of Victors

Who firmly hold enlightenment thought Should constantly strive without wavering

Not to transgress the precepts.[p.129]A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
Gyaltsen, Lama Kalsang, and Ani Kunga Chodron, trans. A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas Written by Sazang Mati Panchen: Known as An Extremely Clear Illumination of the Meaning of the Text. Walden, NY: Tsechen Kunchab Ling, 2019. First edition published by The Yeshe Dorje Foundation in 2006.

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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རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་ཀྱིས་དེ་ལྟ་བུར། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་རབ་བརྟན་བཟུང་ནས། ། གཡེལ་བ་མེད་པར་རྟག་དུ་ཡང༌། །

བསླབ་ལས་མི་འདའ་འབད་པར་བྱ། །

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Bodhisattvas who have

Fully stabilized bodhichitta in that manner, Are at all times free from distraction

And exert themselves without deviating from the training.

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.

རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་ཀྱིས་དེ་ལྟ་བུར། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་རབ་བརྟན་བཟུང་ནས། ། གཡེལ་བ་མེད་པར་རྟག་ཏུ་ཡང་། །

བསླབ་ལས་མི་འདའ་འབད་པར་བྱ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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