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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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सर्वान्यचिन्तानिर्मुक्तः स्वचित्तैकाग्रमानसः। समाधानाय चित्तस्य प्रयतिष्ये दमाय च॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

39

Free from any other concern, the mind having itself as its focus, I will dedicate all my energies to recollection and self-mastery.

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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བསམ་པ་གཞན་ནི་ཀུན་བཏང་སྟེ། །

བདག་ལ་སེམས་པ་གཅིག་པུ་ཡིས། ། སེམས་ནི་མཉམ་པར་བཞག་ཕྱིར་དང་། །

དུལ་བར་བྱ་ཕྱིར་བརྩོན་པར་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

38

Relinquishing all other aspirations,

Focusing myself on one intent alone, I’ll strive to still my mind

And, calming it, to bring it to subjection.

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

Libéré de tout autre souci

Et n’entretenant qu’une seule pensée, Je m’efforcerai de poser mon esprit

Uniment et de le maîtriser.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Libre de todas las demás aspiraciones

y teniendo un único propósito, me esforzaré en calmar mi mente

y tener control sobre ella.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Giving up all other thoughts,

I shall strive single-mindedly In placing the mind in equipoise

And subduing it.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Give up all other thoughts

Except with a single focus of mind, Strive for the goal of equipoise and

For the goal of taming.

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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བསམ་བ་གཞན་ནི་ཀུན་བཏང་སྟེ། །

བདག་ལ་སེམས་པ་གཅིག་པུ་ཡིས། ། སེམས་ནི་མཉམ་བར་གཞག་ཕྱིར་དང་། །

དུལ་བར་བྱ་ཕྱིར་བརྩོན་ཏེ་བྱ། །

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I should relinquish all other thoughts.

With single-minded intention, I will exert myself in order to

Place my mind in equipoise and tame it.

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.

བསམ་པ་གཞན་ནི་ཀུན་བཏང་སྟེ། །

བདག་ལ་སེམས་[p.105-1-24b]པ་གཅིག་པུ་ཡིས། ། སེམས་ནི་མཉམ་པར་གཞག་ཕྱིར་དང་། །

དུལ་བར་བྱ་ཕྱིར་བརྩོན་ཏེ་བྱ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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