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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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क्वासौ यायान्मन्मनःस्थो निरस्तः

स्थित्वा यस्मिन् मद्वधार्थं यतेत। नोद्योगो मे केवलं मन्दबुद्धेः

क्लेशाः प्रज्ञादृष्टिसाध्या वराकाः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

46

If this enemy were expelled from its dwelling place in my mind, where could it go to again plot my destruction? He depends only on my lack of fortitude, on my sluggish mind. The wretched afflictions could be conquered merely by seeing with the eye of wisdom.[p.407]How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
Gómez, Luis O., trans. "How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)." In Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism, edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., 395–441. New York: Norton, 2017.

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་ཉོན་མོངས་ཤེས་རབ་མིག་གིས་སྤང་། །

བདག་ཡིད་ལས་བསལ་གང་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་འགྱུར། ། གང་དུ་གནས་ནས་བདག་གནོད་བྱ་ཕྱིར་འོང་། །

བློ་ཞན་བདག་ལ་བརྩོན་པ་མེད་པར་ཟད། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

46

Miserable defilements, scattered by the eye of wisdom!

Where will you now run, when driven from my mind? Whence would you return to do me harm?

But oh, my mind is feeble. I am indolent![p.60]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.

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

Misérables émotions que chasse l’œil de la Connaissance !

Où irez-vous quand vous aurez quitté mon esprit ? D’où reviendrez-vous pour me nuire ?

Je ne suis qu’un sot qui ne fait pas d’efforts !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Las pasiones miserables huyen ante el ojo de la sabiduría.

¿A dónde van cuando escapan de mi mente? ¿De qué lugar vuelven para dañarme?

Pero mi mente es débil y está consumida por la indolencia.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

The deluded afflictions are abandoned by the eye of wisdom,

When cleared from the mind where will they go? Where will they abide to gain strength and return?

The weak mind does not let me strive.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

The defilement of defilements is abandoned by the eye of wisdom.

Dispelled from the mind, where do they go? Can they return to harm me? After dwelling where?

It is only my lack of effort and discouragement.

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་ཉོན་མོངས་ཤེས་རབ་མིག་གིས་སྤང༌། །

བདག་ཡིད་ལས་བསལ་གང་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་འགྱུར། ། གང་དུ་གནས་ནས་བདག་གནོད་བྱ་ཕྱིར་འོང༌། །

བློ་ཞན་བདག་ལ་བརྩོམ་པ་མེད་པར་ཟད། །

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Kleshas upon kleshas are abandoned with the eye of prajna.

If I have removed the kleshas from this mind of mine, Where will they go? It’s not that the kleshas return To harm me from some other dwelling place. It must be that I am weak-minded

And did not apply sufficient effort.

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་ཉོན་མོངས་ཤེས་རབ་མིག་གིས་སྤང་། །

བདག་ཡིད་ལས་བསལ་གང་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་འགྱུར། ། གང་དུ་གནས་ནས་བདག་གནོད་བྱ་ཕྱིར་འོང་། །

བློ་ཞེན་བདག་ལ་བརྩོན་པ་49ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘བརྩོམ་པ་’མེད་པར་ཟད། །

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