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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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शमथेन विपश्यनासुयुक्तः

कुरुते क्लेशविनाशमित्यवेत्य। शमथः प्रथमं गवेषणीयः

स च लोके निरपेक्षयाभिरत्या॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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“One who is properly engaged in the cultivation of insight, accompanied by calm, will destroy the afflictions." Knowing this, one should first seek to have calm; and calm arises from equanimity before the delights of 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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ཞི་གནས་རབ་ཏུ་ལྡན་པའི་ལྷག་མཐོང་གིས། །

ཉོན་མོངས་རྣམ་པར་འཇོམས་པར་ཤེས་བྱས་ནས། ། ཐོག་མར་ཞི་གནས་བཙལ་བྱ་དེ་ཡང་ནི། །

འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆགས་པ་མེད་ལ་མངོན་དགས་འགྲུབ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding

Utterly eradicates afflicted states. Knowing this, first search for calm abiding,

Found by people who are happy to be free from worldly ties.[p.109]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

Sachant que la vision supérieure associée au calme mental

Détruit toute émotion négative, Il recherchera d’abord le calme mental, lequel

S’accomplit quand on se détache du monde avec joie.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

La visión penetrante asociada a la calma mental

erradica por completo las emociones aflictivas. Sabiendo esto, buscaré primero la calma mental

que encuentran aquellos que con alegría están libres del apego al mundo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Having understood that superior insight endowed

With calm abiding destroys the afflictions, One should strive first in calm abiding, which in turn

Is attained joyfully by lacking attachment for the world.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Understanding that defilements are completely eliminated

By insight which possesses complete calm abiding, First search for calm abiding; that too

Can be accomplished by genuine joy in detachment from the world.

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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ཞི་གནས་རབ་ཏུ་ལྡན་པའི་ལྷག་མཐོང་གིས། །

ཉོན་མོངས་རྣམ་པར་འཇོམས་པར་ཤེས་བྱས་ནས། ། ཐོག་མར་ཞི་གནས་བཙལ་བྱ་དེ་ཡང་ནི། །

འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆགས་པ་མེད་པ་མངོན་དགས་འགྲུབ། །

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Vipashyana that is fully endowed with shamatha,

Completely destroys the kleshas. Having understood that, I should first seek shamatha

That is accomplished through the joy of non-attachment.

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.

ཞི་གནས་རབ་ཏུ་ལྡན་པའི་ལྷག་མཐོང་གིས། །

ཉོན་མོངས་རྣམ་པར་འཇོམས་པར་ཤེས་བྱས་ནས། ། ཐོག་མར་ཞི་གནས་བཙལ་བྱ་དེ་ཡང་ནི། །

འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆགས་པ་མེད་ལ་མངོན་དགས་འགྲུབ། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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