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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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एक उत्पद्यते जन्तुर्म्रियते चैक एव हि। नान्यस्य तद्व्यथाभागः किं प्रियैर्विघ्नकारकैः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

33

Because the human being is born and dies alone, no one shares this pain. What good are loved ones, who are only an obstacle in the path?

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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སྐྱེ་ན་གཅིག་པུ་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་ཞིང་། །

འཆི་ནའང་དེ་ཉིད་གཅིག་འཆི་སྟེ། ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྐལ་གཞན་མི་ལེན་ན། །

གེགས་བྱེད་མཛའ་བས་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

32

Alone we’re born, alone we come into the world,

And when we die, alone we pass away. No one shares our fate, and none our suffering.

What need have I of “friends” who hinder me?[p.114]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.

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

Nous sommes seuls quand nous naissons

Et seuls quand nous mourons. Si nul ne peut partager nos souffrances,

À quoi bon les amis qui nous entravent ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Al nacer, solos venimos al mundo,

al morir, solos nos vamos. Nadie comparte nuestro sufrimiento.

¿Para qué necesitamos amigos que nos creen obstáculos?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

When one is born, one is born alone,

And when one dies, one dies alone. Since others will not take our fortune and luck,

What is there to do with obstructing friends?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

At birth, one is born alone;

At death, one dies alone. If this portion of suffering cannot be shared with others,

What use is friendship, which causes only hindrance?

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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སྐྱེ་བོ་གཅིག་པུ་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་ཞིང༌། །

འཆི་ནའང་དེ་ཉིད་གཅིག་འཆི་སྟེ། ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྐལ་གཞན་མི་ལེན་ན། །

བགེགས་བྱེད་མཛའ་བས་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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In this life we are born alone

And even when we die, we die alone. If no one else takes away part of our suffering,

What is the point of friends who create obstacles?

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.

སྐྱེ་ན་གཅིག་པུ་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་ཞིང་། །

འཆི་ནའང་དེ་ཉིད་གཅིག་འཆི་སྟེ། ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྐལ་གཞན་མི་ལེན་ན། །

གེགས་བྱེད་མཛའ་བས་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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