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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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मेरोरपि यदासङ्गान्न भस्माप्युपलभ्यते। क्षणात् क्षिपन्ति मां तत्र बलिनः क्लेशशत्रवः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

31

But my powerful enemies, the afflictions in an instant throw me into that fire which will upon contact turn Mount Meru7In Buddhist cosmology, the mountain at the center of the world. into ashes.

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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ཉོན་མོངས་སྟོབས་ཆེན་དགྲ་འདིས་ནི། །

གང་དང་ཕྲད་ན་རི་རབ་ཀྱང་། ། ཐལ་བ་ཡང་ནི་མི་ལུས་པ། །

དེར་བདག་སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་ལ་འདོར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

31

And yet the mighty fiend of my afflictions

Flings me in an instant headlong down To where the mighty lord of mountains54Mount Sumeru, the axis of the universe according to traditional Hindu-Buddhist cosmology.

Would be burned, its very ashes all consumed.

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

Mais il suffit d’un instant à ces puissants ennemis,

Les émotions négatives, pour me précipiter Dans [un feu qui,] s’il touchait le mont Mérou,

N’en laisserait pas même de cendres.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Pero estos poderosos enemigos, mis pasiones,

en un solo instante pueden enviarme allí donde no quedarían ni las cenizas

del Monte Meru, si ahí se encontrase55Monte Meru, según la concepción del cosmos de la antigua India, una montaña inmensa, más ancha en la cima que en la base, que está situada en el centro del mundo y alrededor de la cual se hallan los cuatro continentes.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

This enemy of the powerful afflictions

Throws me in an instant into Where even the ashes of Mount Meru

Do not remain upon contact.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

The powerful enemy of the defilements

Will throw me in a single instant, Where if caught, even Mount Sumeru

Will not remain, even as ashes.

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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ཉོན་མོངས་སྟོབས་ཅན་དགྲ་འདི་ནི། །

གང་དང་ཕྲད་ན་རི་རབ་ཀྱང༌། ། ཐལ་བ་ཡང་ནི་མི་ལུས་པ། །

དེར་བདག་སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་ལ་འདོར། །

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However, the enemies, the great powerful kleshas,

Will instantly throw me there. Whatever touches those fires, even Mount Meru,

Will be destroyed without leaving behind even ash.

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.

ཉོན་མོངས་སྟོབས་ཅན་དགྲ་འདིས་ནི། །

གང་དང་ཕྲད་ན་རི་རབ་ཀྱང་། ། ཐལ་བ་ཡང་ནི་མི་ལུས་པ། །

དེར་བདག་སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་ལ་འདོར། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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