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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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सविवादं महायानमिति चेदागमं त्यज। तीर्थिकैः सविवादत्वात्स्वैः परैश्चागमान्तरम्॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

43

The dispensation is rooted in the monkhood and the monkhood itself is imperfectly established. Even the Enlightenment of those whose minds grasp onto entities is imperfectly established.

Crosby & Skilton 2002

The Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening

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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ཐེག་ཆེན་རྩོད་བཅས་ཕྱིར་ཞེ་ན། །

ལུང་ལ་མུ་སྟེགས་པ་རྣམས་དང་། ། ལུང་གཞན་ལ་ཡང་རང་གཞན་དག །

རྩོད་བཅས་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་དོར་བྱར་འགྱུར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

43

“Mahāyāna is at fault,” you say, “because it is contested.”

But Buddhist texts are questioned by extremists, While Buddhists also vie among themselves;

And so your own tradition you must now abandon.

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

If you say, “Because the great vehicle is disputed,”

You should abandon your scriptures, Because these scriptures are disputed by the forders,

As are certain of their parts between you and others. [43]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

– Le Grand Véhicule est contesté !

– Vos textes le sont aussi par les non-bouddhistes Et par certains bouddhistes :

Rejetez-les donc !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

“Las escrituras del Mahayana han sido cuestionadas”, decís.

Pero los textos budistas son cuestionados por los no budistas y los budistas también debaten y rivalizan entre ellos mismos,

por lo tanto deberíais abandonar vuestra tradición.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If you say, ‘The Mahayana is in question’,

Non-Buddhists also question the texts, And other texts are also questioned by

Self and other. Therefore they should be abandoned.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If you say that the Mahayana is disputed,

Then holy scriptures that are disputed by non-Buddhists And scriptures that are disputed by both ourselves and others

Would also be subject to be discarded.

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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གལ་ཏེ་ཕན་ཚུན་འགལ་ཞེ་ན། །

འདུལ་ལ་སོགས་པའང་དོར་དགོས་སོ། ། སེམས་ཅན་མི་མཐུན་དགའ་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །

གསུངས་པ་དེ་ཅི་མི་འདོད་དམ། །

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MD: If you say that the Mahayana texts

Are not authentic because we disagree, Then you must abandon the vinaya and your other texts. In order to please different types of sentient beings,

The Buddha taught different teachings — don’t you accept that?

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.

ཐེག་ཆེན་རྩོད་བཅས་ཕྱིར་ཞེ་ན། །

ལུང་ལ་མུ་སྟེགས་པ་རྣམས་དང་། ། ལུང་གཞན་ལ་ཡང་རང་གཞན་དག །

རྩོད་བཅས་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་དོར་བྱར་འགྱུར། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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