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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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भवचारकपालका इमे नरकादिष्वपि वध्यघातकाः। मतिवेश्मनि लोभपञ्जरे यदि तिष्ठन्ति कुतः सुखं मम॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

35

How could I know happiness as long as these guards of the prison of existence, the executioners of those who are condemned to hell and the other evil destinies, lodge in the house of my mind, in the cage of my desires?

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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འཁོར་བའི་བཙོན་རའི་སྲུང་མ་དམྱལ་སོགས་སུ། །

གསོད་བྱེད་གཤེད་མར་གྱུར་པ་འདི་དག་ནི། ། གལ་ཏེ་བློ་གནས་ཆགས་པའི་དྲ་བ་ན། །

གནས་ན་བདག་ལ་བདེ་བ་ག་ལ་ཡོད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

35

And if the jail guards of the prisons of saṃsāra,

The butchers and tormentors of infernal realms, All lurk within me in the web of craving,

What joy can ever be my destiny?

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

Comment puis-je être heureux si ces gardiens

De la prison des existences, ces bourreaux Qui assassinent dans les enfers et ailleurs, occupent

Mon esprit, nichés dans le ilet de mes désirs ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si en mi mente se cobijan en las redes del apego

los guardianes de la prisión de la existencia, los asesinos y carniceros de los distintos infiernos,

¿cómo podré disfrutar de algo de dicha?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If this guardian of the prison of cyclic existence,

Who becomes the executioner and torturer in hell, Abides within the net of attachment in my mind,

Then how can I have happiness?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

These hell guardians of the prison of samsara,

Executioners, and butchers; If they dwell in the web of my mental attachment,

How can I be happy?

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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འདི་ནི་འཁོར་བའི་བཙོན་རའི་སྲུངས་མ་སྟེ། །

དམྱལ་ལ་སོགས་ནའང་གསོད་བྱེད་གཤེད་མ་ཡིན། ། སྡོམ་བརྩོན་སེང་གེ་འཆོར་བའི་ལྕགས་གཟེབ་པས། །

གལ་ཏེ་བདག་ལ་གནས་ན་ག་ལ་བདེ། །[p.77]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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These kleshas are the executioners

For the Lord of Death in the hells and so forth. They are the guardians of the prison of samsara. How can I be happy if the kleshas abide in me? However, the lion that observes monastic discipline

Escapes the iron net of the kleshas,[p.78]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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.

འཁོར་བའི་བཙོན་རའི་སྲུང་མས་དམྱལ་སོགས་སུ། །

གསོད་བྱེད་གཤེད་མར་གྱུར་པ་འདི་དག་ནི། ། གལ་ཏེ་བློ་གནས་ཆགས་པའི་དྲ་བ་ན། །

གནས་ན་བདག་ལ་བདེ་བ་ག་ལ་ཡོད། །42ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘འདྀ་ནི་འཁོར་བའི་བཙོན་རའི་སྲུངས་མ་སྟེ། །དམྱལ་ལས་སྩོགས་ན་འང་གསོད་བྱེད་གཤེད་མ་ཡིན། །སྡོམ་བརྩོན་སེང་གེ་འཆོར་བའྀ་ལྕགས་གཟེབ་པས། །གལ་ཏེ་བདག་ལ་གནས་ན་ག་ལ་བདེ། །’

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