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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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क्लेशप्रहारान् संरक्षेत् क्लेशांश् च प्रहरेद् दृढम्। खड्गयुद्धम् इव आपन्नः शिक्षितेनारिणा सह॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

67

Like someone engaged in a duel with a fierce enemy, one must guard oneself before the sword of the afflictions, with a mind to vanquish that enemy.

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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འཐབ་རྙིང་དགྲ་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ། །

གཡུལ་ངོར་རལ་ཁ་ལྷགས་པ་བཞིན། ། ཉོན་མོངས་མཚོན་ལས་གཟུར་བྱ་ཞིང་། །

ཉོན་མོངས་དགྲ་རྣམས་འཇེབས་པར་བཏགས* འཇིབས་པར་བཏབ། in the source text. ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

68

As seasoned fighters face the swords

Of enemies upon the battle line, I’ll lightly dodge the weapons of defilement,

And strike my enemy upon the quick.

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

Comme un combattant aguerri,

Quand les lames seront tirées au clair, J’esquiverai les armes des émotions négatives

Et pulvériserai les poisons ennemis !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Como un guerrero veterano se enfrenta

a las espadas de los enemigos en un campo de batalla, esquivaré las armas de las emociones aflictivas

y exterminaré por completo a esos enemigos.[p.127]La Práctica del Bodisatva
Hervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Like the seasoned warrior that is engaged

In a fencing duel with the enemy One should avoid the weapon of the afflictions

And look to attack the enemy of the afflictions.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Just as warriors experienced in meeting the enemy

Would engage in a battle with swords, So while avoiding the weapons of the defilements

Smash and destroy the enemy that is the defilements.

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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འཐབ་རྙིང་དགྲ་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་དུ། །

གཡུལ་ངོར་རལ་ཁར་ལྷགས་པ་བཞིན། ། ཉོན་མོངས་མཚོན་ལས་བཟུར་བྱ་ཞིང་།

ཉོན་མོངས་དགྲ་རྣམས་འཇེབས་པར་གཏག །[p.189]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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Just like the old warrior who

Engages with swords in battle, I should defeat the enemies, the kleshas

And avoid being struck by the weapons of the kleshas.[p.190]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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.

འཐབ་རྙིང་དགྲ་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ། །

གཡུལ་ངོར་རལ་ཁ་ལྷགས་པ་བཞིན། ། ཉོན་མོངས་མཚོན་ལས་གཟུར་བྱ་ཞིང་། །

ཉོན་མོངས་དགྲ་རྣམས་གཞོམ་པར་བཏེག །120ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ‘ཉོན་མོངས་མཚོན་ལས་གཟུར་བྱ་ཞིང་། །’ མེད། སྡེ་དགེ་དང་ཅོ་ནེ་༴ ‘གཞོམ་པར་བཏེག །’

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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