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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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एकस्यापि हि सत्त्वस्य हितं हत्वा हतो भवेत्। अशेषाकाशपर्यन्तवासिनां किमु देहिनाम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

10

For, someone who destroys the good of a single living being is himself destroyed; how much more serious would it be if he harmed all embodied beings inhabiting the confines of space?

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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སེམས་ཅན་གཅིག་གི་བདེ་བ་ཡང་། །

བཤིག་ན་བདག་ཉིད་ཉམས་འགྱུར་ན། ། ནམ་མཁའ་མ་ལུས་མཐའ་ཀླས་པའི། །

ལུས་ཅན་བདེ་བཤིག་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

10

Destroy a single being’s joy

And you will work the ruin of yourself. No need to speak of bringing low

The joy of beings infinite as space itself!

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

Celui qui détruit le bonheur d’un seul être

Détruit son propre bonheur : À plus forte raison celui qui détruit le bonheur

Des êtres sans nombre qui peuplent tout l’espace.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si se destruye la felicidad de un solo ser,

uno se dañará a sí mismo. ¿Qué decir, pues, si destruye la felicidad

de todos los seres, infinitos como el espacio?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If one degenerates just by harming the happiness

Of even one sentient being, What need is there to mention

Harming the happiness of beings infinite like space?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If I would decline due to destroying

The happiness of even a single person. Then what need to mention destroying the happiness

Of all embodied beings as infinite as space?

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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སེམས་ཅན་གཅིག་གི་བདེ་བ་ཡང༌། །

བཤིག་ན་བདག་ཉིད་ཉམས་གྱུར་ན། ། ནམ་མཁའ་མ་ལུས་མཐའ་ཀླས་པའི། །

ལུས་ཅན་བདེ་བཤིག་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །[p.67]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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If I destroy the happiness of even a single sentient being,

My own happiness will deteriorate. It is needless to say what will happen,

If I destroy the happiness of sentient beings as limitless as space.[p.68]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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.

སེམས་ཅན་གཅིག་གི་བདེ་བ་ཡང་། །

བཤིག་ན་བདག་ཉིད་ཉམས་འགྱུར་ན། ། ནམ་མཁའ་མ་ལུས་མཐའ་ཀླས་པའི། །

ལུས་ཅན་བདེ་བཤིག་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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