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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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यदा मम परेषां च भयं दुःखं च न प्रियम्। तदात्मनः को विशेषो यत्तं रक्षामि नेतरम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

96

If others and myself find fear and sorrow equally undesirable, then what makes me so special, that I should protect myself, not others?

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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གང་ཚེ་བདག་དང་གཞན་གཉིས་ཀ །[p.90]Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)
Slob dpon zhi ba lha and Mkhan po kun dpal. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990.

སྡུག་བསྔལ་མི་འདོད་མཚུངས་པ་ལ། ། བདག་དང་ཁྱད་པར་ཅི་ཡོད་ན། །

གང་ཕྱིར་གཞན་མིན་བདག་བསྲུང་བྱེད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

96

Since I and other beings both,

In fleeing suffering, are equal and alike, What difference is there to distinguish us,

That I should save myself and not the others?

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

Dans la mesure où les autres et moi-même,

Nous fuyons pareillement la souffrance, En quoi serais-je assez différent

Pour me protéger moi seul et non eux tous ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Tanto yo como los demás

huimos por igual del sufrimiento. ¿Qué hay de especial en mí

para que me proteja a mí y no a ellos?[p.142]La Práctica del Bodisatva
Hervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

When both self and others

Are the same in not desiring suffering What difference is there to me?

Why do I protect myself but not others?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

When both I and others

Equally wish to avoid suffering, How are they different than me?

Why strive to protect myself alone?

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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གང་ཚེ་བདག་དང་གཞན་གཉི་ག །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་མི་འདོད་མཚུངས་པ་ལ། ། བདག་དང་ཁྱད་པར་ཅི་ཡོད་ན།

གང་ཕྱིར་གཞན་མིན་བདག་སྲུང་བྱེད། །

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When both I and others

Are equal in not wanting suffering, What is the difference between us?

Why is it that I protect myself and not others?

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.

གང་ཚེ་བདག་དང་གཞན་གཉི་ག །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་མི་འདོད་མཚུངས་པ་ལ། ། བདག་དང་ཁྱད་པར་ཅི་ཡོད་ན། །

གང་ཕྱིར་གཞན་མིན་བདག་སྲུང་བྱེད། །138ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་པར་ཤླཽ་ཀ་འདི་མེད།

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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