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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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छन्दस्थामरतिमुक्तिबलं सत्त्वार्थसिद्धये। छन्दं दुःखभयात्कुर्यादनुशंसांश्च भावयन्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

31

To benefit all sentient beings one needs an army consisting of zeal, pride, joy, and renunciation. Zeal arises from fear of suffering, and by meditation on the benefits of virtue.

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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སེམས་ཅན་དོན་བསྒྲུབ་བྱ་ཕྱིར་དཔུང་། །

མོས་བརྟན་དགའ་དང་དོར་བ་ཡིན། ། མོས་པ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་འཇིགས་པ་དང་། །

དེ་ཡི་ཕན་ཡོན་བསམ་པས་བསྐྱེད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

31

The forces that secure the good of beings,

Are aspiration, steadfastness, relinquishment, and joy. Aspiration grows through fear of suffering

And contemplation of the benefits to be attained.

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

Pour réaliser le bien des êtres [il faut] une armée

Composée d’aspiration, de fermeté, de joie et de renoncement. L’aspiration naît de la peur des souffrances

Et de l’évocation des bienfaits.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Para lograr el beneficio de los seres,

las fuerzas son: aspiración, firmeza, alegría y desistir. La aspiración se desarrolla con el miedo al sufrimiento

y reflexionando sobre los beneficios que se obtendrán.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

The armies for accomplishing the purpose of sentient beings

Are belief, stability, joy and relinquishment. Belief is generated by reflecting on its benefits

And the fears of suffering.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Forces to accomplish beings' welfare are:

Motivation, stability, joy, and setting aside. Motivation is fear of suffering.

Its benefit is developed by thinking.

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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སེམས་ཅན་དོན་ནི་འགྲུབ་བྱ་ན། །

མོས་བརྟན་དགའ་དང་རིགས་དཔུང་བསྐྱེད། ། མོས་པ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་འཇིགས་པ་དང་། །

དེ་ཡི་ཕན་ཡོན་བསམ་བས་བསྐྱེད། །

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In order to accomplish the benefit of sentient beings,

One gives rise to the troops: Devoted interest, stabilization, joy, and appropriate behavior. One gives rise to devoted interest by contemplating

The fear of suffering and the benefits of having devoted interest.

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.

སེམས་ཅན་དོན་གྲུབ་བྱ་ཕྱིར་དཔུང་། །

མོས་བརྟན་དགའ་དང་དོར་བ་ཡིན། །112ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ‘སེམས་ཅན་དོན་ནི་འགྲུབ་བྱ་ན། །མོས་བརྟན་དགའ་དང་རིགས་དཔུང་བསྐྱེད། །’ མོས་པ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་འཇིགས་པ་དང་། །

དེ་ཡི་ཕན་ཡོན་བསམ་པས་བསྐྱེད། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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