།བློ་གྲོས་དམན་ཞིང་སྦྱངས་པ་ཆུང་བའི་ཕྱིར། །མཁས་ལ་དགྱེས་པའི་སྡེབ་སྦྱོར་མ་མཆིས་ཏེ། །མདོ་དང་དམ་པའི་གསུང་ལ་ བརྟེན་པའི་ཕྱིར། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་འཁྲུལ་མེད་ལགས་པར་སེམས། 

[AP] Since my intellect is only feeble and I have studied but a little,

This is not a composition likely to delight the connoisseurs,

Yet since I’ve relied upon the sutras and what the saints have taught

I feel these are indeed the genuine trainings of the buddhas’ heirs.

[KM] Because I have limited intelligence and little education,

These verses are not the kind of poetry that delights the learned.

But because I relied on the teachings of the sutras and the revered

I am confident that The Practices of a Bodhisattva is sound.

[AB] Because my intelligence is feeble and my education meager, they may not be in poetic meter that would please the erudite. 

But, because I’ve relied on the sutras and the words of the hallowed ones, I think that (these) bodhisattva practices are not deceived.