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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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तस्माद्यथाप्रतिज्ञातं साधनीयं मयादरात्। नाद्य चेत्क्रियते यत्नस्तलेनास्मि तलं गतः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

12

Therefore, whatever I have promised I should carry out zealously. If today I do not make effort I will have sunk from the low to the lowest.

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་ལྟས་ཇི་ལྟར་དམ་བཅས་བཞིན། །

བདག་གིས་གུས་པར་བསྒྲུབ་པར་བྱ། ། དེང་ནས་བརྩོན་པར་མ་བྱས་ན། །

འོག་ནས་འོག་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བར་འགྱུར། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

12

And so, according to my promise,

I will act attentively. From this day forth, if I now fail to strive,

I’ll fall from low to even lower states.

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

Je vais donc respectueusement

Mettre en œuvre ce que j’ai promis. Si, désormais, je ne m’y efforce point,

Je tomberai de plus en plus bas.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Por lo tanto, practicaré respetando

lo que he prometido. Desde ahora, si no me esfuerzo

caeré cada vez más y más bajo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Therefore I should practice respectfully

According to my promise. If I do not strive starting from today

Then I will go from low to low.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Thus, just as the commitment was made, I must comply with devotion.

If I do not exert myself beginning now. I may go lower and lower.

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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ཇི་ལྟར་ཇི་ལྟར་དམ་བཅས་བཞིན། །

བདག་གིས་གུས་པས་བསྒྲུབ་པར་བྱ། ། དེང་ནས་བརྩོན་པར་མ་བྱས་ན། །

འོག་ནས་འོག་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་འགྱུར། །

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Just as I have vowed,

I should practice with devotion. If I do not exert myself from today onwards,

I will venture downward and downward.

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་ལྟས་ཇི་ལྟར་36ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘ཅི་ལྟར་ཅྀ་ལྟར་’དམ་བཅས་བཞིན། །

བདག་གིས་གུས་པར་བསྒྲུབ་པར་བྱ། ། དེང་ནས་བརྩོན་པར་མ་བྱས་ན། །

འོག་ནས་འོག་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བར་འགྱུར། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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