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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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बाध्यन्ते धीविशेषेण योगिनोऽप्युत्तरोत्तरैः। दृष्टान्तेनोभयेष्टेन कार्यार्थमविचारतः॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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Yogins in turn can be invalidated by the superior mental faculties of other yogins who have advanced higher in the path. Yet they agree on the similes that describe reality, and therefore do not differ on the goal they seek.

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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རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་ཡང་བློ་ཁྱད་ཀྱིས། །

གོང་མ་གོང་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་གནོད། ། གཉིས་ཀ་ཡང་ནི་འདོད་པའི་དཔེས། །

འབྲས་བུའི་དོན་དུ་མ་དཔྱད་ཕྱིར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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(Within whose ranks

The lower, in degrees of insight, are confuted by the higher) By means of the examples that the yogis and the worldly both accept.

And for the sake of the result, analysis is left aside.[p.138]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

Also the yogins, due to differences in insight, Are overruled by successively superior ones [4ab]

Through examples that are asserted by both, While not analyzing what serves the result. [4cd][p.626]The Center of the Sunlit Sky
Brunnhölzl, Karl. The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition. Including a translation of Pawo Rinpoche's commentary on the knowledge section of Śāntideva's The Entrance to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Bodhicaryāvatāra). Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Les contemplatifs se subdivisent à leur tour,

Et les supérieurs l’emportent sur les inférieurs. Tous s’accordent sur certains exemples

Et sur le but à atteindre, tant qu’il n’est pas soumis à l’analyse.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

(entre cuyos diversos niveles, los inferiores,

en nivel de entendimiento penetrante, son refutados por los superiores) por medio de ejemplos que tanto los yoguis como la gente corriente aceptan

y que, a fin de conseguir el resultado, se dejan sin analizar.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

And yogis are outdone as well through distinctions Of awareness by the one above.

Through examples asserted by both, There is no investigation towards a result.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Practitioners are also different in intellect. The high are outshone by the even higher.

Through examples accepted by both Because of lack of analysis for the purpose of the result,

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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གོང་མ་གོང་མའི་ཁྱད་བར་གྱིས། །

རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་ཡང་སུན་འབྱིན་ཏོ། ། དེ་ལྟར་རྣམ་གཉིས་མཐོང་བས་ན། །

དེ་ཕྱིར་དོན་རྣམས་དཔྱད་པར་བྱ། །

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MD: And higher levels of realization of yogins

Invalidate lower ones. Therefore, we see two types of individuals4yogins and ordinary people

And should analyze the absolute accordingly.

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.

རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་ཡང་བློ་ཁྱད་ཀྱིས། །

གོང་མ་གོང་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་གནོད། ། གཉི་ག་ཡང་ནི་འདོད་པའི་དཔེས། །

འབྲས་བུའི་དོན་དུ་མ་དཔྱད་ཕྱིར། །160ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘གོང་མ་གོང་མའི་ཁྱད་པར་གྱིས། །རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་ཡང་སུན་འབྱིནད་ཏོ། །དེ་ལྟར་རྣམ་གཉིས་མཐོང་བས་ན། །དེ་ཕྱིར་དོན་རྣམས་དཔྱད་པར་བྱ། །’

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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