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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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तस्मादावरणं हन्तुं समाधानं करोम्यहम्। विमार्गाच्चित्तमाकृष्य स्वालम्बननिरन्तरम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

186

Therefore, in order to cut through the veils, I will collect my mind, pulling it away from wayward paths, fixing it on the true object.

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་བས་སྒྲིབ་པ་བསལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །

ལོག་པའི་ལམ་ལས་སེམས་བླན་ཏེ། །[p.102]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. ཡང་དག་དམིགས་ལ་རྟག་པར་ཡང་། །

བདག་གིས་མཉམ་པར་བཞག་པར་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

187

Thus to banish all obscuring veils

I’ll bend my mind from the mistaken path; And constantly upon the perfect object

I shall rest my mind in even meditation.

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

Pour dissiper les voiles,

Je détournerai mon esprit des voies erronées Et l’établirai toujours en égalité

Sur son véritable objet de concentration.[p.165]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Para eliminar los oscurecimientos

apartaré mi mente de los caminos erróneos y constantemente sobre el objeto perfecto

en ecuanimidad la dejaré descansar.[p.155]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

Therefore, to eliminate the obscurations

I take the mind away from wrong paths And place it continuously in equipoise

On a correct object.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Therefore, in order to dispel obscurations, and

Seal the mind from wandering on the wrong path, I shall constantly focus it in equipoise,

Upon right observation.

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་བས་བསྒྲིབ་པ་བསལ་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །

ལོག་པའི་ལམ་ལས་སེམས་བླན་ཏེ། ། ཡང་དག་དམིགས་པ་རྟག་པར་ཡང་། །

བདག་གིས་མཉམ་བར་བཞག་པར་བྱ། །

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Therefore, in order to dispel the obscurations,

I will turn my mind away from wrong paths. I shall always focus on excellence

And engage in meditative equipoise.

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་བས་སྒྲིབ་པ་བསལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །

ལོག་པའི་ལམ་ལས་སེམས་བླན་ཏེ། ། ཡང་དག་དམིགས་ལ་རྟག་པར་ཡང་། །

བདག་གིས་མཉམ་པར་གཞག་པར་བྱ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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