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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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कः पण्डितस्तमात्मानमिच्छेद्रक्षेत्प्रपूजयेत्॥ न पश्येच्छत्रुवच्चैनं कश्चैनं प्रतिमानयेत्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

124

What wise man would seek to protect or pay his respects to this self and would not see it as an enemy? Who would have a high regard for it?

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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མཁས་པ་སུ་ཞིག་ལུས་དེ་ལ། །

འདོད་ཅིང་བསྲུང་དང་མཆོད་བྱེད་ཀྱི། ། འདི་ལ་སུ་ཞིག་དགྲ་བཞིན་དུ། །

བལྟ་བར་མི་བྱེད་བརྙས་མི་བྱེད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

124

Where are the wise and prudent then

Who cherish, guard, and serve the body? Who would not perceive it as their foe,

And as their foe, regard it with contempt?

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

Alors, quel être sensé pourrait aimer

Ce corps, le protéger et l’honorer ? Qui n’y verrait pas, au contraire, un ennemi ?

Qui ne le mépriserait ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

¿Quién entre los sabios y prudentes

desearía proteger y agasajar a este cuerpo? ¿Quién no lo consideraría como un enemigo

y como a tal lo despreciaría?[p.146]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

Hence, who that is wise would not view

This body that is desired, protected And made offerings to,

As an enemy, and deride it?[p.38]The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
Stracke, Fedor, trans. The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors: A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. By Gyaltsab Rinpoche. N.p.: Happy Monks Publication, 2016. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Would the wise be attached to,

Venerate, or guard this body? Who would not condemn this body

And regard it as an enemy?

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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མཁས་པ་སུ་ཞིག་ལུས་དེ་ལ། །

འདོད་ཅིང་སྲུང་དང་མཆོད་བྱེད་ཀྱི། ། འདི་ལ་སུ་ཞིག་དགྲ་བཞིན་དུ། །

ལྟ་བར་མི་བྱེད་རྙས་མི་བྱེད། །

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What wise person would

Desire, protect, and make offerings to this body?

Who wouldn’t view this body like an enemy and scorn it?

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.

མཁས་པ་སུ་ཞིག་ལུས་དེ་ལ། །

འདོད་ཅིང་བསྲུང་དང་མཆོད་བྱེད་ཀྱི། ། འདི་ལ་སུ་ཞིག་དགྲ་བཞིན་དུ། །

བལྟ་བར་མི་བྱེད་བརྙས་མི་བྱེད། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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