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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.

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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རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་རྣམས་ལྟར། །

རིགས་པའི་སྲན་ནི་གཟུགས་བྱ་སྟེ། ། ཉིན་མཚན་ཕྱེད་པར་མ་འབད་ན། །

བདག་གི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ནམ་མཐར་ཕྱིན། །

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186

Like the Buddhas’ heirs, in their compassion,

I will bear with all that should be borne. For if I do not labor night and day,

When will my sorrows reach their end?105This stanza only occurs in the Tibetan translation; there is no equivalent in any extant Sanskrit version.[p.136]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.

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 les bodhisattvas pleins de compassion,

Je me consacrerai fermement à l’action juste. Quand verrai-je la in de mes souffrances

Si, nuit et jour, je ne produis de constants efforts ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Como los herederos compasivos de los budas

sobrellevaré las dificultades que sean necesarias. Porque si no me esfuerzo día y noche, sin tregua,

¿cuándo podrán llegar a su fin mis sufrimientos?118Esta estrofa solo se halla en la traducción tibetana, no en la versión en sánscrito..[p.154]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

Like the great compassionate ones

I shall start suitable actions. If I do not practice continuously day and night,

Then when shall I leave suffering behind?[p.55]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

Just as greatly compassionate Sons of Buddhas

Tolerate what is suitable, Without exerting myself both day and night,

How can I put an end to this suffering?

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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རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་རྣམས་ལ། །

རིགས་པའི་སྲན་ནི་གཟུགས་བྱ་སྟེ། ། ཉིན་མཚན་ཁྱད་པར་མ་འབད་ན། །

བདག་གི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ནམ་མཐར་ཕྱིན། །

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In accord with the bodhisattvas possessing great compassion,

I should apply reasonable patience. If I don’t exert myself day and night,

When will my sufferings come to an end?

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.

རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་རྣམས་ལྟར། །

རིགས་པའི་སྲན་ནི་གཟུགས་བྱ་སྟེ། ། ཉིན་མཚན་ཕྱད་པར་མ་འབད་ན། །

བདག་གི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ནམ་མཐར་ཕྱིན། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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