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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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धर्मार्थमात्रमादाय भृङ्गवत् कुसुमान्मधु। अपूर्व इव सर्वत्र विहरिष्याम्यसंस्तुतः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

16

As the bee takes only the nectar from flowers, I will take with me only what is essential for the practice of dharma, and I will live everywhere unknown, like the new moon.

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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བུང་བས་མེ་ཏོག་སྦྲང་རྩི་བཞིན། །

ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་ཙམ་བླངས་ནས་ནི། ། ཀུན་ལ་སྔོན་ཆད་མ་མཐོང་བཞིན། །

འདྲིས་པ་མེད་པར་གནས་པར་བྱ། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

16

Like bees that get their honey from the flowers,

Take only what will serve the practice of the Dharma. Treat everyone like new acquaintances

And keep yourself from close familiarity.

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 l’abeille qui ne prélève que le nectar des leurs,

Je ne prendrai que ce qui sert au Dharma ; Et, comme lors d’une première rencontre,

Avec tous j’éviterai l’intimité.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Como una abeja coge el polen de las flores,

tomaré sólo lo que es necesario para el darma y como si apenas los conociese

evitaré intimar con ellos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Like the bee takes the honey from the flower

Take only the meaning of the dharma and, Like not having seen them before,

Abide without familiarity.[p.7]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

Taking only for the purpose of Dharma,

Like a bee takes honey from a flower, Dwell without being too familiar.

Act toward all as though one had not met them before.

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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བུང་བས་མེ་ཏོག་སྦྲང་རྩི་བཞིན། །

ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་ཙམ་བླངས་ནས་ནི། ། ཀུན་ལ་སྔོན་ཆད་མ་མཐོང་བཞིན། །

འདྲིས་པ་མེད་པར་གནས་པར་བྱ། །

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Just like a bee drinking nectar from a flower,

I should obtain the mere necessities for the purpose of the dharma. And just as if I had never seen any of my acquaintances before,

I should abide free from dependency.

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.

བུང་བས་མེ་ཏོག་སྦྲང་རྩི་བཞིན། །

ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་ཙམ་བླངས་ནས་ནི། ། ཀུན་ལས་སྔོན་ཆད་མ་མཐོང་བཞིན། །

འདྲིས་པ་མེད་པར་གནས་པར་བྱ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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