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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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तेऽप्यासन् दंशमशका मक्षिकाः कृमयस्तथा। यैरुत्साहवशात् प्राप्ता दुरापा बोधिरुत्तमा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

18

those who by their own efforts have attained to supreme awakening—which is so difficult to attain—were previously gnats, flies, mosquitoes, and worms.

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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སྦྲང་བུ་ཤ་སྦྲང་བུང་བ་དང་། །

དེ་བཞིན་སྲིན་བུར་གང་གྱུར་པ། ། དེས་ཀྱང་བརྩོན་པའི་སྟོབས་བསྐྱེད་ན། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་དཀའ་བླ་མེད་འཐོབ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

18

That if they bring forth strength of perseverance,

Even bees and flies And gnats and grubs will gain

Supreme enlightenment so hard to find.[p.100]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

S’ils avaient la force de s’y appliquer,

Les mouches, les abeilles et les taons Atteindraient l’Éveil suprême

Qu’il est si difficile d’atteindre.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si generan la fuerza de la perseverancia,

incluso las moscas, los mosquitos, las abejas y los gusanos obtendrán

la budeidad suprema tan difícil de alcanzar.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Those that became flies, mosquitoes

Bees and likewise worms, Even they, if they generated the force of enthusiasm,

Attain the difficult to attain highest enlightenment.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

"Even mosquitoes, flies, and bees,

And those who became worms If they develop the power of diligence will attain

Difficult unsurpassable enlightenment.”

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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སྦྲང་བུ་ཤ་སྦྲང་བུང་བ་དང༌། །

དེ་བཞིན་སྲིན་བུར་གང་གྱུར་པ། ། དེས་ཀྱང་བརྩོན་པའི་སྟོབས་བསྐྱེད་ན། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་དཀའ་བླ་མེད་འཐོབ། །

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“Mosquitoes, black flies, bees,

And all the other insects, Would attain unsurpassable enlightenment difficult to achieve

If they were to apply the power of exertion.”

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.

སྦྲང་བུ་ཤ་སྦྲང་བུང་བ་དང་། །

དེ་བཞིན་སྲིན་བུར་གང་གྱུར་པ། ། དེས་ཀྱང་བརྩོན་པའི་སྟོབས་བསྐྱེད་ན། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་དཀའ་བླ་མེད་འཐོབ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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