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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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कदोपलम्भदृष्टिभ्यो देशयिष्यामि शून्यताम्। संवृत्यानुपलम्भेन पुण्यसंभारमादरात्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

167

When will I avail myself of the language of convention in order to teach emptiness to those who still perceive a real object of clinging? And when will I be able to teach them with dedication how to gather merit without relying on an object of clinging?

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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ནམ་ཞིག་དམིགས་པ་མེད་ཚུལ་དུ། །

གུས་པས་བསོད་ནམས་ཚོགས་བསགས་ཏེ། ། དམིགས་པས་ཕུང་བར་འགྱུར་རྣམས་ལ། །

སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ནི་སྟོན་པར་འགྱུར། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

167

My wealth of merit gathered in,

With reverence but without conceptual target, When shall I reveal this truth of emptiness

To those who go to ruin through belief in real existence?

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

As a result of [my] careful gathering of the accumulation of merit

By means of the seeming and in a nonreferential manner, When will I teach emptiness

To those who have referential views? [167]1802The Sanskrit of this verse reads:
kadopalambhadṛṣṭibhyo deśayiṣyāmi śūnyatām saṃvṛttyānupalambhena puṇyasaṃbhāramādarāt
The Tibetan says:
nam zhig dmigs pa med tsul du - Having carefully gathered the accumulation of merit
gus pas bsod nams tsogs bsags te - In a nonreferential manner,
migs pas phung bar gyur rnams la - When will I teach emptiness
stong pa nyid ni ston par ’gyur - To those who are ruined by being referential?
The English translation primarily follows Prajñākaramati’s commentary. He explains that the accumulation of merit is not gathered in a random way, but by very carefully employing the expedient conventions of seeming reality, without which ultimate emptiness cannot be taught. The accumulation of merit consists of the perfections, such as generosity, which are all practiced in a nonreferential manner, that is, by not conceptualizing the triad of giver, recipient, and the act of generosity. Those who have referential views are the realists, that is, those who cling to really existing entities. (ACIP TD 3872@287A–B).

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Quand donc aurai-je humblement accumulé

Assez de mérites libres de références Pour montrer la vacuité à ceux

Que les références détruisent ?[p.194]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

¿Cuándo, habiendo reunido suficientes méritos,

con devoción pero sin conceptos, podré exponer la verdad de la vacuidad

a los que van hacia el desastre por creer en la existencia verdadera?[p.179]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

May I, by respectfully building up the accumulation of merits

In the way that lacks focus, Be able to show emptiness to those

Who are destitute because of having focus.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

When will I be able to teach emptiness

To those who struggle with objects, Through my devoted accumulation

Of objectless merit?

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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ནམ་ཞིག་དམིགས་པ་མེད་ཚུལ་དུ། །

གུས་པས་བསོད་ནམས་ཚོགས་བསགས་ནས། ། དམིགས་པས་ཕུང་བར་འགྱུར་རྣམས་ལ། །

སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ཅིག་སྟོན་པར་འགྱུར། །

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MD: One day, I will accumulate merit

Without reference point. To those having problems with reference points,

I will teach emptiness.

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.

ནམ་ཞིག་དམིགས་པ་མེད་ཚུལ་དུ། །

གུས་པས་བསོད་ནམས་ཚོགས་བསགས་ཏེ། ། དམིགས་པས་ཕུང་བར་འགྱུར་རྣམས་ལ། །

སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ནི་སྟོན་པར་འགྱུར། །

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