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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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मन्त्रादीनामसामर्थ्यान्न मायाचित्तसंभवः । सापि नानाविधा माया नानाप्रत्ययसंभवा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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An Objector Interjects: A magically generated mind is an impossibility, for there are no magical techniques—formulae, etc.—that can effectively produce a mind. The Author Replies: The magical phenomena we speak of are of a variety of types, and they arise from a variety of causes and conditions.

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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སྔགས་སོགས་རྣམས་ལ་ནུས་མེད་ཕྱིར། །

སྒྱུ་མའི་སེམས་ནི་འབྱུང་བ་མེད། ། སྣ་ཚོགས་རྐྱེན་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ཡི། །

སྒྱུ་མ་དེ་ཡང་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཉིད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

12

There is no power in things like spells,

So mirage-like minds do not occur through them. Illusions spring from various causes;

Thus illusions are of different kinds.

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

Since mantras and such do not have the potential,

They do not manifest illusory minds. Having manifested from manifold conditions,

Illusions are manifold too. [12]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Les formules magiques sont impuissantes

À produire une conscience illusoire. La variété des illusions dépend aussi

De la variété de leurs causes.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Puesto que las fórmulas mágicas no tienen poder,

de ellas no se manifiestan mentes ilusorias. Las ilusiones engañosas surgen de causas diversas,

por lo tanto hay múltiples tipos de ellas.[p.157]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

Since mantras and the like do not possess the power,

An illusory mind does not arise. The illusion that arises from manifold conditions

Is also manifold.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Because mantra, etc. lack the ability,

A magical apparition does not give rise to mind. Arising from a variety of conditions,

A variety of magical apparitions also arise.

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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སྒྱུ་འདྲའི་སེམས་ལྡན་དེ་ལ་ནི། །

ཕན་དང་གནོད་པ་སྲིད་པ་ཡིན། ། སྔགས་ལ་སོགས་པ་མཐུ་མེད་ཕྱིར། །

སྒྱུ་མ་ལ་ནི་སེམས་མི་འབྱུང་། །[p.247]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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སྣ་ཚོགས་རྐྱེན་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ཡི། །

སྒྱུ་མ་དེ་ཡང་སྣ་ཚོགས་པ། ། རྐྱེན་གཅིག་གིས་ཀུན་ནུས་པ་ནི། །

གང་ནའང་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ། །

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MD: For beings who possess a mind of illusory nature,

It is possible for benefit and harm to arise. Since mantras and the like lack the capability,

A mind does not arise in their illusion.[p.248]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

MD: A variety of conditions produces

A variety of illusory phenomena. There is no single condition

That produces all phenomena.

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.

སྔགས་སོགས་རྣམས་ལ་ནུས་མེད་ཕྱིར། །

སྒྱུ་མའི་སེམས་ནི་འབྱུང་བ་མེད། ། སྣ་ཚོགས་རྐྱེན་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ཡི། །

སྒྱུ་མ་དེ་ཡང་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཉིད། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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