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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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बहवो लाभिनोऽभूवन् बहवश्च यशस्विनः। सह लाभयशोभिस्ते न ज्ञाताः क्व गता इति॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

20

There have been many famous and wealthy men; of their wealth and fame we know no more. Where have they gone?

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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རྙེད་པ་དག་ནི་མང་བྱུང་ཞིང་། །

གྲགས་དང་སྙན་པ་བྱུང་གྱུར་ཀྱང་། ། རྙེད་དང་གྲགས་པའི་ཚོགས་བཅས་ཏེ། །

གང་དུ་འདོང་བའི་གཏོལ་མེད་དོ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

20

For people may have gained great wealth of riches,

Enjoying reputation, sweet renown. But who can say where they have gone to now,

With all the baggage of their gold and fame?

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

On a beau faire de vastes profits,

Être célèbre et avoir bonne réputation, Nul ne sait où finiront ces gains

Et cette renommée.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Ha habido gente con grandes riquezas,

que ha disfrutado de fama y buena reputación, pero quién sabe ahora adónde se halla,

con todo ese cúmulo de riqueza y fama.[p.132]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

Although one may receive lots of gain

And also receive fame and pleasantness, This accumulation of gain and fame,

One has to give them up without freedom.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Having well acquired material,

Fame and pleasure also occur. Yet, there is no clue where and when

It will be lost along with the fame and pleasure.

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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རྙེད་པ་དག་ནི་མང་བྱུང་ཞིང༌། །

གྲགས་དང་སྙན་པ་བྱུང་གྱུར་ཀྱང༌། ། རྙེད་དང་གྲགས་བའི་ཚོགས་བཅས་ཏེ། །

གང་དུ་འདོང་བའི་གཏོལ་མེད་དོ། །

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Even if I amass extensive wealth

And gain renown being spoken of with pleasantries, It is uncertain where the gain and renown

Will lead me.

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.

རྙེད་པ་དག་ནི་མང་བྱུང་ཞིང་། །

གྲགས་དང་སྙན་པ་བྱུང་གྱུར་ཀྱང་། ། རྙེད་དང་གྲགས་པའི་ཚོགས་བཅས་ཏེ། །

གང་དུ་འདོད་པའི་གཏོལ་མེད་དོ། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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