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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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बलनाशानुबन्धे तु पुनः कर्तुं परित्यजेत्। सुसमाप्तं च तन् मुञ्चेद् उत्तरोत्तरतृष्णया॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

66

If one is not suited to the task, the moment one realizes this, one should abandon it. And once a task has been completed, one should give it up for the one that will follow.

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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སྟོབས་ཉམས་པ་དང་རྗེས་འབྲེལ་ན། །

སླར་བྱའི་དོན་དུ་དོར་བར་བྱ། ། ལེགས་པར་ཟིན་ན་ཕྱི་མ་དང་། །

ཕྱི་མ་འདོད་པས་དེ་སྤང་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

67

If impaired by weakness or fatigue,

I’ll lay the work aside, the better to resume. And I will leave the task when it’s complete,

All avid for the work that’s next to come.

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’il se trouve que les forces me manquent,

J’abandonnerai pour reprendre plus tard. Et lorsque j’aurai fini un travail, je m’en détacherai

Avec le désir d’en accomplir un autre, et un autre encore.[p.131]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si en algún momento estoy agotado y sin fuerza,

debo dejar mi trabajo a fin de retomarlo después. Cuando lo haya completado, lo dejaré

deseando iniciar el siguiente.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If one is affected by weakening strength One should relinquish to start again.

If it is well completed one relinquishes, Because one wishes to do it later again and again.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If a decline in strength is experienced,

Set things aside in order to begin again. Set aside that which is well completed,

Wishing to follow with the next and the next.

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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རྗེས་སུ་མི་བདེར་འགྱུར་བའི་ལས། །

རིག་འགྱུར་དེ་མ་ཐག་དུ་གཏང་། ། དེ་ནི་ཤིན་དུ་རྫོགས་ན་ཡང་། །

ཕྱི་ཕྱིར་བྱེད་འདོད་སྤང་བར་བྱ། །

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Seeing an action that will later bring unhappiness,

I should immediately abandon it. Even if I have completed it,

I should abandon the desire to do it again.

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.

སྟོབས་ཉམས་པ་དང་རྗེས་འབྲེལ་ན། །

སླར་བྱའི་དོན་དུ་དོར་བར་བྱ། ། ལེགས་པར་ཟིན་ན་ཕྱི་མ་དང་། །

ཕྱི་མ་འདོད་པས་དེ་སྤང་བྱ། །119ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ‘རྗེས་སུ་མྱྀ་བདེར་འགྱུར་པའི་ལས། །རིག་འགྱུར་དེ་མ་ཐག་ཏུ་བཏང་། །དེ་ནི་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྫོགས་ན་ཡང་། །ཕྱི་ཕྱིར་བྱེད་འདོད་སྤང་བར་བྱ། །’

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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