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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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अकुर्वतश्च कुशलं पापं चाप्युपचिन्वतः। हतः सुगतिशब्दोऽपि कल्पकोटिशतैरपि॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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For him who does not practice the good and accumulates evil conduct, the word "good destiny" has perished for hundreds of millions of cosmic ages.

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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དགེ་བ་དག་ཀྱང་མ་བྱས་ལ། །

སྡིག་པ་དག་ཀྱང་ཉེར་བསགས་ན། ། བསྐལ་པ་བྱེ་བ་བརྒྱར་ཡང་ནི། །

བདེ་འགྲོའི་སྒྲ་ཡང་ཐོས་མི་འགྱུར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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Never, there, performing any virtue,

Only ever piling up my sins, And for a hundred million ages,

I’ll not even hear of happy destinies.53See note 45.

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 ne pourrai plus pratiquer aucune vertu

Et constamment accumulerai méfait sur méfait, Au point que pendant cent fois dix millions d’ères,

Je n’entendrai plus même les mots de « destinées heureuses ».

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si nunca actúo virtuosamente

y sólo acumulo actos dañinos, en mil millones de kalpas

ni siquiera oiré hablar de los destinos felices54V. nota 44.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

One did not generate virtue

And one accumulated negativity easily. Even for ten million eons

One will not hear even the words 'happy realm.'

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

By not accumulating virtue, and

Intensely accumulating only sin. Even for a hundred million eons,

Even the words "higher birth" will not be heard.

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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དགེ་བ་དག་ཀྱང་མ་བྱས་ལ། །

སྡིག་པ་དག་ཀྱང་ཉེ་བསགས་ན། ། བསྐལ་པ་བྱེ་བ་བརྒྱར་ཡང་ནི། །

བདེ་འགྲོའི་སྒྲ་ཡང་ཐོས་མི་འགྱུར། །

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Not performing virtuous activities,

If I only gather negative deeds, Even over billions of kalpas,

I won’t hear the words “higher realms.”

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.

དགེ་བ་དག་ཀྱང་མ་བྱས་ལ། །

སྡིག་པ་དག་ཀྱང་ཉེར་བསགས་ན། ། བསྐལ་པ་བྱེ་བ་བརྒྱར་ཡང་ནི། །

བདེ་འགྲོའི་སྒྲ་ཡང་ཐོས་མི་འགྱུར། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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