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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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यथा दृष्टं श्रुतं ज्ञातं नैवेह प्रतिषिध्यते। सत्यतः कल्पना त्वत्र दुःखहेतुर्निवार्यते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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We do not reject things as they are given to us by perception, tradition, or reason. But we do reject the notion that the mind’s capacity for generating imagined realities is the cause of sorrow in any substantial sense.

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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ཇི་ལྟར་མཐོང་ཐོས་ཤེས་པ་དག །

འདིར་ནི་དགག་པར་བྱ་མིན་ཏེ། ། འདིར་ནི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྒྱུར་གྱུར་པ། །

བདེན་པར་རྟོག་པ་བཟློག་བྱ་ཡིན། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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It’s not indeed our purpose to disprove

Experiences of sight or sound or knowing. Our aim is here to undermine the cause of sorrow:

The thought that such phenomena have true existence.[p.141]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

How something is seen, heard, or known

Is not what is negated here. Rather, the object of refutation

Is the cause for suffering, which is the conception of reality. [25]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Nous ne contestons pas les perceptions

De la vue, de l’ouïe ou de la conscience, Mais qu’elles existent réellement, c’est une idée

Que nous voulons éliminer comme étant la cause de la souffrance.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Las experiencias de ver, oír o conocer

no es lo que tratamos de refutar. Lo que intentamos desechar es la causa del sufrimiento:

la creencia de que ellas tengan existencia verdadera.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Just as the consciousnesses of seeing and listening,

Are not to be refuted here, That which becomes the cause of suffering,

The formulation of true existence, is to be refuted.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Whatever is seen, heard, or understood, etc.,

Is not refuted here. Here, what is rejected is the misapprehension that it truly exists,

Which itself becomes the cause of suffering.

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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འདི་ལྟར་མཐོང་དང་ཐོས་པ་ཀུན། །

འདི་ལ་དགག་པར་བྱ་མེད་ཀྱི། ། འདིར་ནི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྒྱུར་འགྱུར་བ། །

བདེན་བ་ཉིད་དུ་རྟོག་པ་ཟློག །

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MD: All phenomena that are seen and heard

Are not to be refuted. Here, what are to be refuted

Are the concepts that cling to true existence causing suffering.

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.

ཇི་ལྟར་176ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘དེ་ལྟར་’ ཏུན་ཧོང་ཁ་༴ ‘འདི་ལྟར་’མཐོང་ཐོས་ཤེས་པ་དག །

འདིར་ནི་དགག་པར་བྱ་མིན་ཏེ། ། འདིར་ནི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྒྱུར་གྱུར་པ། །

བདེན་པར་རྟོག་པ་བཟློག་བྱ་ཡིན། །177ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘དབེན་པ་ཉིད་དུ་རྟོག་པ་ཟློག །’ ཏུན་ཧོང་ཁ་༴ ‘བདེན་པ་ཉིད་དུ་རྟོག་པ་ཟློག །’

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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