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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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किमुत सततसर्वदुःखहेतून् प्रकृतिरिपूनुपहन्तुमुद्यतस्य। भवति मम विषाददैन्यमद्य व्यसनशतैरपि केन हेतुना वै॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

38

How much more should I persevere then, I who have set out to destroy my natural enemies, the constant cause of all suffering! What reason is there to give in to despair and dejection, even among hundreds of difficulties?

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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རྟག་ཏུ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན་གྱི་རྒྱུར་གྱུར་པ། །

རང་བཞིན་དགྲ་ངེས་གཞོམ་བརྩོན་བདག་ལ་དེང་། ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་རྒྱུར་གྱུར་གང་གིས་ཀྱང་། །

ཡི་ཆད་སྒྱིད་ལུག་མི་འགྱུར་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

38

No need to say that I will not lose heart,

Regardless of the hardships of the fray. From this day forth I’ll strive to crush

These foes whose very nature is to bring me pain.

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

Il va sans dire que, même par centaines, les douleurs

Ne me décourageront pas, dès lors que j’essaie de vaincre Un ennemi vraiment tel par nature,

Source continue de toutes mes souffrances.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Desde hoy me esforzaré en derrotar certeramente

a estos enemigos cuya naturaleza es causar sin cesar todo mi sufrimiento. Aunque tenga que afrontar cientos de aflicciones,

huelga decir que no desfalleceré ni caeré en el desaliento.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

What need is there to mention that they who strive

In destroying the natural enemy, which is the continual Cause for all suffering, strive without despondence or laziness,

Despite hundredfold sufferings.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Then, what need to mention not becoming weary and despondent

At any of these hundreds of causes of suffering, From exerting myself to destroy this certain natural enemy

Which is constantly the cause of all types of suffering?

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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རྟག་དུ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན་གྱི་རྒྱུར་གྱུར་པ། །

རང་བཞིན་དགྲ་ངེས་གཞོམ་བརྩོམ་བདག་ལ་དེང༌། ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་རྒྱུར་གྱུར་གང་གིས་ཀྱང༌། །

ཡི་ཆད་སྒྱིད་ལུག་མི་འབྱུང་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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When I today exert myself in defeating

The certain natural enemy, [the kleshas] The cause of all suffering at all times. Needless to say, I won’t be disappointed or disheartened

By whatever causes hundreds of sufferings.

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.

རྟག་ཏུ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན་གྱི་རྒྱུར་གྱུར་པ། །

རང་བཞིན་དགྲ་དེས་གཞོམ་བརྩོན་44སྡེ་དགེ་༴ ‘དགྲ་དེས་གཞོམ་བརྟོན་’ ཅོ་ནེ་༴ ‘དགྲ་དེས་གཞོམ་བརྩོན་’ སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་༴ ‘དགྲ་ངེས་གཞོམ་བརྩོན་’ ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘དགྲ་ངེས་གཞོམ་བརྩོམ་’བདག་ལ་དེང་། ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་རྒྱུར་གྱུར་གང་གིས་ཀྱང་། །

ཡི་ཆད་སྒྱིད་ལུག་མི་འགྱུར་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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