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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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अध्यतिष्ठदतो नाथः स्वनामाप्यवलोकितः। पर्षच्छारद्यभयमप्यपनेतुं जनस्य हि॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

118

This is why the protector Avalokiteshvara8The bodhisattva who embodies compassion. has established his own name even as a means for people to gain confidence in the public assembly.

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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དེ་བས་མགོན་པོ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས། །

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོས་འགྲོ་བ་ཡི། ། འཁོར་གྱི་འཇིགས་པའང་བསལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །

རང་གི་མཚན་[p.93]Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)
Slob dpon zhi ba lha and Mkhan po kun dpal. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990.

ཡང་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

118

This is why the Lord Avalokita

Out of great compassion blessed his name, That those caught in the midst of multitudes

Might be released and freed from every fear.101In the Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra, Avalokiteshvara says, ‟Let whoever stands before a crowd invoke my name three times and have no fear.”

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

C’est ainsi que, par grande compassion,

Le protecteur Avalokita a béni Son nom pour libérer aussi les êtres

De la peur suscitée par la foule.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Por eso el protector Avalokitesvara

debido a su inmensa compasión bendijo su nombre a fin de disipar el miedo de aquellos

que se hallan entre una multitud114En el Sutra Gandavyuha, Avalokitesvara dice: “Que se disipe el miedo a estar ante una multitud de aquel que invoque mi nombre tres veces”..

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

The protector Chenresig

Blessed therefore even his name, Out of great compassion,

To eliminate migrators’ sufferings of cyclic existence.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Therefore, the protector Avalokiteshvara,

From his great compassion, To dispell the fears of samsaric beings

Blessed even his own name.

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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དེ་བས་མགོན་པོ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས། །

འགྲོ་ལ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་མངའ་བས། ། འཁོར་ཀྱི་འཇིགས་པའང་བསལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །

རང་གི་མཚན་ཀྱང་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབས། །

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In that way, because the protector Avalokiteshvara

Possesses great compassion, He blessed his name

In order to dispel our fear of being among a crowd of people.

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.

དེ་བས་མགོན་པོ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས། །

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོས་འགྲོ་བ་ཡི། །143ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘འགྲོ་ལ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་མངའ་བས། །’ འཁོར་གྱི་འཇིགས་པ་བསལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །

རང་གི་མཚན་ཡང་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབས། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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