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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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शून्यदेवकुले स्थित्वा वृक्षमूले गुहासु वा। कदानपेक्षो यास्यामि पृष्ठतोऽनवलोकयन्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

27

When will I go, free of worries, without looking back, to live under a tree, in an abandoned temple, or in a cave?

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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ཕུག་གམ་ལྷ་ཁང་སྟོང་པའམ། །

ལྗོན་ཤིང་དྲུང་དུ་གནས་བཅས་ཏེ། ། ནམ་ཞིག་རྒྱབ་ཏུ་མི་བལྟ་ཞིང་། །

ཆགས་པ་མེད་པར་འགྱུར་ཞིག་གུ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

26

When shall I depart to make my home

In cave or empty shrine or under spreading tree, With, in my breast, a free, unfettered heart,

Which never turns to cast a backward glance?

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

Quand m’en irai-je sans un regard en arrière,

Le cœur libre de tout attachement, Pour m’établir dans une grotte, un temple vide

Ou au pied d’un arbre ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

¿Cuándo podré habitar en una cueva,

un templo vacío o bajo un gran árbol, libre de cualquier apego

y no volver ya nunca la mirada atrás?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Abiding in a cave, empty temple

Or abiding at the foot of a tree, When will I not look back

And be without attachment?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

When shall I have the chance to become detached,

Never looking back, Dwelling among the trees,

Empty shrines, and caves?

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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ཕུག་གམ་ལྷ་གང་སྟོང་པ་འམ། །

ལྗོན་ཤིང་དྲུང་དུ་གནས་བཅས་སྟེ། ། ནམ་ཞིག་རྒྱབ་དུ་མི་ལྟ་ཞིང༌། །

ཆགས་པ་མེད་པར་འགྱུར་ཞིག་གུ །

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May I dwell in caves, emptied places of worship,

And under trees. May there be a time when I do not look back

And am free from attachments.

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.

ཕུག་གམ་ལྷ་ཁང་སྟོང་པའམ། །

ལྗོན་[p.105-1-24a]ཤིང་དྲུང་དུ་གནས་བཅས་ཏེ། ། ནམ་ཞིག་རྒྱབ་ཏུ་མི་ལྟ་ཞིང་། །

ཆགས་པ་མེད་པར་འགྱུར་ཞིག་གུ། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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