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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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एवमापत्तिबलतो बोधिचित्तबलेन च। दोलायमानः संसारे भूमिप्राप्तौ चिरायते॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

11

If one is moved to and fro, now by the ebb of his faults, now by the flow of the thought of enlightenment, a long time will have to pass before he reaches firm ground.

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་ལྟུང་བ་སྟོབས་ལྡན་དང་། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སྟོབས་ལྡན་པ་དག ། འཁོར་བར་རེས་ཀྱིས་འདྲེ་བྱེད་ན། །

ས་ཐོབ་པ་ལ་ཡུན་རིང་ཐོགས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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And those who circle in saṃsāra,

Mixing powerful downfalls With the power of bodhichitta back and forth,

Will long be hindered from the Bodhisattva grounds.[p.55]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

Lorsqu’alternent de la sorte

La force des chutes Et la force de l’esprit d’Éveil,

Long est l’accès aux terres des bodhisattvas.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si estando en el samsara se alternan

inmensas faltas con poderosa bodichita, se retrasará en gran medida

la obtención de los niveles de los bodisatvas.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Thus, those with the heavy downfall

And with strong bodhicitta, Should they further circle in cyclic existence

Shall be far from attaining a ground.[p.7]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, if powerful downfalls and

Powerful enlightenment thoughts Are mixed alternately in samsara,

A long time is needed to attain the stages.

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་ལྟུང་བ་སྟོབས་ལྡན་དང༌། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སྟོབས་ལྡན་བ་དག ། འཁོར་བ་རེས་ཀྱིས་འདྲེ་བྱེད་ན། །

ས་འཐོབ་པ་ལ་ཡུན་རིང་ཐོགས། །

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Similarly, if in samsara one alternates between

Being under the power of downfalls And being under the power of bodhichitta,

It will take a long time to attain the bhumis.

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་ལྟུང་བ་སྟོབས་ལྡན་དང་། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སྟོབས་ལྡན་པ་དག ། འཁོར་བར་རེས་ཀྱིས་འདྲེ་བྱེད་ན། །

ས་ཐོབ་པ་ལ་ཡུན་རིང་ཐོགས། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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