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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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एवं तस्यापि तत्सङ्गात्तेनानर्थसमागमः। एकाकी विहरिष्यामि सुखमक्लिष्टमानसः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

14

One fool gets the same from the other. Accordingly, association with fools is association with misfortune. I will therefore live alone, in the open, my mind unaffected by the values of the world.

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་ལྟར་བདག་དང་གཞན་བསྟེན་པ། །

དེས་ནི་ཕུང་བར་འགྱུར་བ་ཟད། ། དེས་ཀྱང་བདག་[p.79]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. དོན་མ་བྱས་ལ། །

བདག་ཀྱང་དེ་དོན་མི་འགྱུར་བས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

14

Only ruin can result

From such a link between myself and others. For they will bring no benefit to me,

And I in turn can do them nothing good.

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

De telles fréquentations

Ne peuvent que causer ma perte. Je ne ferai pas mon propre bien

Et pas davantage celui des autres.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Relacionarme así con ellos

solo puede hacerme degenerar. Con ello no conseguiré ningún beneficio,

ni tampoco podré beneficiarlos en modo alguno.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Thus, the relationship between self and other Will create loss.

As they have not produced one’s purpose And one also does not become meaningful for them,

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Thus, reliance between myself and others

Will only bring misfortune. Neither do they perform my welfare,

Nor can I accomplish theirs.

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་ལྟར་བདག་དང་གཞན་སྟེན་པ། །

དེས་ནི་ཕུང་བར་འགྱུར་བར་ཟད། ། དེས་ཀྱང་བདག་དོན་མི་བྱས་ལ། །

བདག་ཀྱང་དེའི་དོན་མི་འགྱུར་བས། །

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In this way, when I and the foolish rely on each other,

It ends in ruin. Also, they will not benefit me,

And I will not benefit them.

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་ལྟར་བདག་དང་[p.105-1-23b]གཞན་བསྟེན་པ། །

དེས་ནི་ཕུང་བར་འགྱུར་བར་ཟད། ། དེས་ཀྱང་བདག་དོན་མ་བྱས་ལ། །

བདག་ཀྱང་དེ་དོན་མི་འགྱུར་བས། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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