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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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मयान्यदुःखं हन्तव्यं दुःखत्वादात्मदुःखवत्। अनुग्राह्या मयान्येऽपि सत्त्वत्वादात्मसत्त्ववत्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

94

I should put an end to the suffering of others because it is as much suffering as my own suffering. I should be kind to others because they are living beings like myself.

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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བདག་གིས་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བསལ། །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་བདག་སྡུག་བཞིན། ། བདག་གིས་གཞན་ལ་ཕན་པར་བྱ། །

སེམས་ཅན་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་བདག་ལུས་བཞིན། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

94

And therefore I’ll dispel the pain of others,

For it is simply pain, just like my own. And others I will aid and benefit,

For they are living beings, like my body.

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

Je dissiperai la souffrance des autres

Parce qu’ils souffrent comme moi ; Je ferai le bien des autres

Parce qu’ils ont un esprit comme moi.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Disiparé el sufrimiento de los otros

pues es sufrimiento como el mío. Beneficiaré y ayudaré a los demás

porque, como mi cuerpo, son seres vivos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

I shall clear the sufferings of others

Because they are suffering, like my own suffering. I shall benefit others

Because they are sentient beings, like my body.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

I must dispel others’ suffering

Because it is suffering, just like my own. I must benefit others because they are sentient beings

Just like myself.

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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བདག་གིས་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བསལ། །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་བདག་སྡུག་བཞིན། ། བདག་གིས་གཞན་ལ་ཕན་བ་བྱ། །

སེམས་ཅན་ལུས་ཕྱིར་བདག་ལུས་བཞིན། །

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I must dispel the suffering of others,

Because it is suffering that is just like my own. I must benefit others,

Because the bodies of sentient beings are just like my body.

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.

བདག་གིས་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བསལ། །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་བདག་སྡུག་བཞིན། ། བདག་གིས་གཞན་ལ་ཕན་པར་བྱ། །

སེམས་ཅན་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་བདག་ལུས་བཞིན། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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