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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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तस्मात्प्राज्ञो न तामिच्छेदिच्छातो जायते भयम्। स्वयमेव च यात्येतद्धैर्यं कृत्वा प्रतीक्षताम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

19

Therefore, the wise do not want this kind of enjoyment. For fear will come to the person who wants it. But, should the same fear come of itself, the wise would remain firm and wait.

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་མཁས་པས་ཆགས་མི་བྱ། །

ཆགས་པ་ལས་ནི་འཇིགས་པ་སྐྱེ། ། འདི་དག་རང་བཞིན་འདོར་འགྱུར་བས། །

བརྟན་པར་གྱིས་ཏེ་རབ་ཏུ་རྟོགས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

19

Since this is so, the wise have no attachments;

From such cravings fear and anguish come. And fix this firmly in your understanding:

All that may be wished for will by nature fade to nothing.

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

Le sage ne s’attachera donc pas,

Car de l’attachement naît la peur. Comme toutes ces choses sont par nature périssables,

Soyez fermes dans cette compréhension !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Por lo tanto, el sabio no se apega,

pues el apego genera el miedo. Entiende esto y grábalo firmemente:

Todo lo que se desea, por naturaleza, acabará desapareciendo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Therefore, the skilful should not be attached, From attachment fear is generated.

Because they have to be given up naturally, One should generate firm realization of this.[p.8]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

Therefore the wise are not attached.

From attachment arises fear. Firmly understand

That its nature can be discarded.

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་མཁས་པས་ཆགས་མི་བྱ། །

ཆགས་པ་ལས་ནི་འཇིགས་པ་སྐྱེ། ། འདི་དག་རང་བཞིན་འདོང་འགྱུར་བར། །

བརྟན་བར་གྱིས་ཏེ་རབ་དུ་རྟོགས། །

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Therefore, since attachment gives rise to fear,

The wise know not to be attached to anything. They have a stable understanding

That things by their nature must be abandoned.

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་མཁས་པས་ཆགས་མི་བྱ། །

ཆགས་པ་ལས་ནི་འཇིགས་པ་སྐྱེ། ། འདི་དག་རང་བཞིན་འདོར་འགྱུར་བས། །

བརྟན་པར་གྱིས་ཏེ་རབ་ཏུ་རྟོགས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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