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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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नानाधिमुक्तिकाः सत्त्वा जिनैरपि न तोषिताः। किं पुनर्मादृशैरज्ञैस्तस्मात्किं लोकचिन्तया॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

22

Sentient beings have different inclinations. Not even the victorious conquerors could please them all, how much less an ignorant person like myself! Therefore, why should I be concerned with pleasing or displeasing the world?

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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སེམས་ཅན་མོས་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་པ* སྣ་ཚོགས་ལ་་ in the source text. ། །

རྒྱལ་བས་ཀྱང་ནི་མི་མགུ་པ། ། བདག་འདྲ་ངན་པས་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

དེ་བས་འཇིག་རྟེན་བསམ་པ་བཏང་། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

22

So many are the leanings and the wants of beings

That even Buddha could not please them all— Of such a wretch as me no need to speak!

I’ll give up such concerns with worldly things.

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

Les aspirations des êtres sont d’une telle variété

Que les bouddhas eux-mêmes ne peuvent les satisfaire – Que dire alors d’un être aussi mauvais que moi ?

Je renoncerai donc aux idées du monde !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Los seres tienen tal abundante diversidad de deseos

que incluso el Buda no pudo satisfacerlos todos; qué decir pues de alguien censurable como yo.

Abandonaré, por lo tanto, tales preocupaciones mundanas.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Sentient beings have many wishes,

That even the conquerors cannot satisfy. What need is there to mention someone inferior like oneself?

Therefore, give up worldly thoughts.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Sentient beings' motivations are so varied,

Even the Buddha cannot please them. What need to mention someone as inferior as me?

Therefore, discard thoughts of worldly beings.

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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སེམས་ཅན་མོས་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་པ། །

རྒྱལ་བས་ཀྱང་ནི་མི་མགུ་ན། ། བདག་འདྲ་ངན་པས་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

དེ་བས་འཇིག་རྟེན་བསམ་བ་གཏང༌། །

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Because sentient beings have a variety of interests,

Some are not satisfied even with the Victorious One. Needless to say, they would not be satisfied With a person having negativity like me.

Therefore, I should relinquish thinking of the worldly.

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.

སེམས་ཅན་མོས་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་པ། །

རྒྱལ་བས་ཀྱང་ནི་127ཏུན་ཧོང་ཁ་༴ ༨.༢༢ ‘་་་མི་མགུ་ན། །’ ་་་ ༩.༡༨ ‘གལ་ཏེ་མར་མེ་བཞིན་དུ་ནི། །’ བར་མི་ཚང་།མི་མགུ་ན། ། བདག་འདྲ་ངན་པས་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

དེ་བས་འཇིག་རྟེན་བསམ་པ་བཏང་། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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