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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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यदि चैवं विमृष्यामि पुनः सीदामि मोहितः। शोचिष्यामि चिरं भूयो यमदूतैः प्रचोदितः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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But if, in spite of having reflected in this way, out of sheer delusion I give in to inertia, then I will wail for an even longer time, chased by Yama’s messengers.

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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གལ་ཏེ་བདག་གིས་དེ་རྟོགས་ནས། །

རྨོངས་པས་ཕྱིས་ཀྱང་སྒྱིད་ལུག་ན། ། འཆི་བར་འགྱུར་བའི་དུས་ཀྱི་ཚེ། །

མྱ་ངན་ཆེན་པོ་ལྡང་བར་འགྱུར། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

24

If having understood all this,

I’m stupidly despondent still, Then at the moment of my death,

My sorrows will be black indeed.

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

Si, ayant bien compris ce point,

Je reste indolent par ignorance, Au moment où je mourrai,

Quelle ne sera mon affliction !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si habiendo entendido todo esto,

por estupidez luego me sumo en la indolencia, cuando llegue el momento de la muerte

mi sufrimiento será tremendo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Should I, after having understood this,

Still be indolent due to ignorance, When the time to die comes

Great misery will arise.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If I realize that.

But I still ignorantly feel discouraged, When the time of death arrives,

Great sorrow will arise.

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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གལ་ཏེ་བདག་གིས་དེ་རྟོགས་ནས། །

རྨོངས་པས་ཕྱིས་ཀྱང་སྒྱིད་ལུག་ན། ། འཆི་བར་འགྱུར་བའི་དུས་ཀྱི་ཚེ། །

མྱ་ངན་ཆེན་པོ་ལྡང་བར་འགྱུར། །

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Having realized that,

If I continue to be indolent through stupidity, At the time of death,

Great anguish will arise.

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.

གལ་ཏེ་བདག་གིས་དེ་རྟོགས་ནས། །

རྨོངས་པས་ཕྱིས་ཀྱང་སྒྱིད་ལུག་ན། ། འཆི་བར་འགྱུར་བའི་དུས་ཀྱི་ཚེ། །

མྱ་ངན་ཆེན་པོ་ལྡང་བར་འགྱུར། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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