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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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न नाम साध्यं बुद्धत्वं संसारेऽपि कुतः सुखम्। स्वसुखस्यान्यदुःखेन परिवर्तमकुर्वतः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

131

Whoever fails to replace his own pleasure with the suffering of others will not reach, of course, the station of the awakened, but neither will he know happiness even in this cycle of transmigration.

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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བདག་བདེ་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དག །

ཡང་དག་བརྗེ་བར་མ་བྱས་ན། ། སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད་དུ་མི་འགྲུབ་ཅིང་། །

འཁོར་བ་ན་ཡང་བདེ་བ་མེད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

131

If I do not interchange

My happiness for others’ pain, Enlightenment will never be attained,

And even in saṃsāra, joy will fly from me.

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

Si je n’échange pas authentiquement

La souffrance des autres contre mon bonheur, Je n’accomplirai pas la bouddhéité

Et ne serai pas même heureux dans le samsâra.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si no cambio mi felicidad

por el sufrimiento de los demás, no lograré la budeidad

y ni siquiera en el samsara la felicidad.[p.147]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

If one does not perfectly exchange

One’s happiness for the suffering of others One will not achieve enlightenment

And one will also lack happiness in cyclic existence.[p.40]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

If one’s own happiness

Is not completely exchanged for others’ suffering, Attaining Buddhahood is impossible;

Even in samsara, happiness will not be found.

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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བདག་བདེ་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དག །

ཡང་དག་བརྗེ་བ་མ་བྱས་ན། ། སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད་དུ་མི་འགྲུབ་ཅིང་། །

འཁོར་བ་ན་ཡང་བདེ་བ་མེད། །

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If I do not genuinely exchange my happiness

For the suffering of others, I will not accomplish enlightenment,

And even within samsara, I won’t obtain happiness.

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.

བདག་བདེ་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དག །

ཡང་དག་བརྗེ་བ་མ་བྱས་ན། ། སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད་དུ་མི་འགྲུབ་ཅིང་། །

འཁོར་བ་ན་ཡང་བདེ་བ་མེད། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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