Toh 1151 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

Praise of All the Tathāgatas

Translated from the Tibetan by buddhist-nlp/mitra-qwen35-translate · machine-assisted

Edition 1.0 · 2026 · not a critical edition machine draft

Catalogue: Toh 1151
Genre: Eulogy
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 001_བསྟོད་ཚོགས།_ཀ.txt
Extent: 2 passages · 1,556 Tibetan characters · 371 English words
Translation: buddhist-nlp/mitra-qwen35-translate (English, machine-assisted)
Status: Edition 1.0 · 2026 · machine draft
Rights: Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)

The Praise of All the Tathāgatas is a devotional hymn that functions as a formal act of veneration toward the collective body of awakened beings. The text begins with a traditional homage to the Three Jewels and proceeds to address the Tathāgatas through a series of laudatory attributes. It emphasizes the ontological state of the Buddha, specifically the total eradication of mental afflictions and their underlying habitual tendencies. The work employs a combination of ethical and physical descriptions, linking the internal realization of perfection and the welfare of others with the external manifestation of the thirty-two supreme marks and the golden complexion of the Buddha's form. By engaging with this text, the reader is committed to a practice of prostration and recognition of the transcendent qualities of the enlightened mind, framing the Buddha not as a historical individual but as a universal archetype of spiritual victory and refined purity.

Provenance

About this text

A hymn of praise to all the Tathāgatas, the Sarvatathāgatastotra is a work of the classical Tibetan tradition. It is attributed to the Indian author Triratnadāsa. The Tibetan version, titled de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad la bstod pa, is preserved in the Tengyur, volume ཀ, where it occupies two pages within the Eulogy collection. The work enacts a formal act of veneration, beginning with homage to the Three Jewels and proceeding through prostrations to the awakened beings. It emphasizes the total conquest of mental afflictions and their habitual tendencies, while celebrating the physical manifestation of enlightenment through the thirty-two supreme marks and a golden complexion. A scholar or serious reader consults this text to examine the intersection of ethical perfection and the physical attributes of the Buddha, as the work links the welfare of others with the transcendent qualities of the enlightened mind.

Sanskrit title: Sarvatathāgatastotra
Indian author: Triratnadāsa
Tibetan translators: not recorded
Canonical collection: Eulogy
Genre: Eulogy
Source edition: Tengyur, vol. ཀ
Period: classical Tibetan

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Summary & commentary

Significance

This work is significant as it exemplifies the Tibetan tradition of translating and preserving Sanskrit stotras to facilitate ritualized praise. It illustrates the intersection of soteriological achievement—the conquest of afflictions—and the iconographic standards of the Buddha's physical form.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1	Homage and Invocation	Initial salutations to the Three Jewels and the teaching.
2	Laudation of the Tathāgatas	Praise of the Buddhas' victory over afflictions and their physical characteristics.

Themes

The eradication of afflictions and habits (2)
Physical marks of enlightenment (2)
Altruism and the welfare of others (1)

Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.

AnuvādaPraise of All the Tathāgatas·

༄༅༅། ། རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། སརྦ་ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ་སྟོ་ཏྲཾ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་བསྟོད་པ། དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ ལོ། ། བསྟན་པ་འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་མཆོག་གྱུར་ཅིང་། ། གཞན་དོན་རྫོགས་མཛད་པ་ལ་རྣམ་པར་མཁས། ། ཉོན་མོངས་སྦྲུལ་ཆེན་ཀུན་དུ་འབྱིན་མཛད་པའི། ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་འདུད། ། ཟག་བཅས་བག་ཆགས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྤངས་གྱུར་ཅིང་། ། དོན་ཀུན་ དེ་ཉིད་ངེས་པར་གཟིགས་མཛད་པ། ། སྐྱེ་དགུ་ཐམས་ཅད་དོན་ལ་བརྩོན་གྱུར་པ། ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་འདུད། ། དམ་ཆོས་རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་སྣོད་གྱུར་ཅིང་། ། ལམ་མཆོག་མྱ་ངན་འདས་པ་སྟོན་མཛད་ལ། ། ཡིད་ལ་རེ་བ་ཀུན་དུ་རྫོགས་མཛད་པའི། ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་འདུད། ། འཇིག་རྟེན་རྣམས་ལ་རྗེས་བརྩེར་མངོན་པར་གུས། ། བྱམས་དང་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྒོས་གྱུར་ཅིང་། ། ཀུན་དོན་སྤྱོད་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་མཛད་པའི། ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་འདུད། ། ཀུན་དོན་བསམ་ པ་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་མཛད་པའི། ། གདུལ་བྱའི་པདྨ་འབྱེད་པའི་སྤྱན་དང་ལྡན། ། རྒྱ་ཆེན་སློབ་མ་དམ་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བསྐྱེད། ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་འདུད། ། བསྐལ་པ་མཐའ་ཡས་ཚོགས་ནི་བསགས་གྱུར་ཅིང་། ། ཚངས་དབང་ལྷ་དབང་ རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཕྱག་བྱས་ལ། ། སྐུ་ལ་འདོམ་གང་འོད་ཀྱིས་བརྒྱན་གྱུར་པའི། ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་འདུད། ། ཉེས་པའི་རྩ་བ་མ་ལུས་བཅོམ་གྱུར་ཅིང་། ། ཡེ་ཤེས་མེ་ཡིས་དྲི་མའི་ཤིང་བསྲེགས་ལ། ། ཤེས་རབ་དམ་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་མཛད་པའི། །

In the language of India: Sarvatathāgatastotra. In the language of Tibet: De bzhin gshegs pa thams cad la bstod pa (Praise to All the Tathāgatas). Homage to the Three Jewels. To the teaching, the supreme of all wandering beings, Skilled in the perfection of the welfare of others, Who utterly expels the great serpents of the afflictions— To all the Tathāgatas, I prostrate and bow. Who have abandoned all contaminated habitual tendencies, Who definitively perceive the suchness of all objects, And who strive for the benefit of all living beings— To all the Tathāgatas, I prostrate and bow. Who have become the vessel for the source of the precious sublime Dharma, Who show the supreme path of nirvāṇa, And who completely fulfill every hope of the mind— To all the Tathāgatas, I prostrate and bow. Who are manifestly devoted to compassion for the worlds, Thoroughly imbued with love and compassion, And who completely perfect the conduct for the benefit of all— To all the Tathāgatas, I prostrate and bow. Who completely perfect the intention for the benefit of all, Possessing the eyes that open the lotuses of those to be trained, And who generate the qualities of the sublime, vast disciples— To all the Tathāgatas, I prostrate and bow. Who have accumulated the collections for infinite eons, And to whom Brahmā, Indra, and the lords of gods prostrate, Whose bodies are adorned with light a fathom wide— To all the Tathāgatas, I prostrate and bow. Who have destroyed every root of faults without exception, Who have burned the wood of stains with the fire of primordial wisdom, And who have completely perfected sublime insight—

structureTitle block: the Sanskrit title is given as it is transmitted in Tibetan transliteration, not reconstructed from Sanskrit sources; the Tibetan title is translated after it.

terminologyདེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ → “tathāgata”. Kept as the Sanskrit loan in translation (84000 practice), not 'Thus-Gone One'.

homonymདེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ is rendered “tathāgata” here; the glossary also records thus-gone, Thus-Gone One, thus-gone one for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionདེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ “tathāgata” — A frequently used synonym for buddha . According to different explanations, it can be read as tathā-gata , literally meaning “one who has thus gone,” or as tathā-āgata , “one who has thus come.” Gata , though literally m

definitionབསྟོད་པ “praise” — An encomium or hymn of praise.

definitionདཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ “the Three Jewels” — The Tibetan literally means “the three rare and precious ones,” the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha‍—the three objects of Buddhist refuge.

homonymཉོན་མོངས is rendered “affliction” here; the glossary also records afflictions, defilement, afflictive emotion for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionཉོན་མོངས “affliction” — The essentially pure nature of mind is obscured and afflicted by various psychological defilements, which destroy the mind’s peace and composure and lead to unwholesome deeds of body, speech, and mind, acting as causes f

periodཆོས → “dharma”. In Abhidharma lists (སྐྱེ་མཆེད, ཁམས) ཆོས is 'phenomena', the objects of mind — not the Buddhist teaching. Same word, two referents; the list decides.

homonymཆོས is rendered “dharma” here; the glossary also records special qualities, phenomena, qualities for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionཆོས “dharma” — The term “ dharma ” ( chos ) conveys ten different meanings, according to Vasubandhu’s Vyākhyāyukti . It may mean the Buddhist teachings, the awakened qualities which buddhas and bodhisattvas acquire, phenomena or thing

definitionབསྐལ་པ “eon” — The Indian concept of a period of millions of years, sometimes equivalent to the time when a world appears, exists, and disappears. There are also the intermediate kalpas during the existence of a world, the longest of w

definitionམཐའ་ཡས “Ananta” — One of the principal nāga kings. Also known as Śeṣa or Anataśeṣa. Considered the source of Patañjali grammar in Buddhism. In Vaiśnavism he is the serpent that Viṣṇu rests upon in between the creations of worlds.

terminologyདབང → “empowerment”. In compounds དབང་ཆེན is 'great power' (a deity epithet), not 'great empowerment'.

termདེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ → tathāgata

termབསྟོད་པ → praise

termདཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ → the Three Jewels

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termཉོན་མོངས → affliction

termཆོས → dharma

དེ་ བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་འདུད། ། ཉོན་མོངས་བག་ཆགས་བཅས་ཀུན་རྣམ་བཅོམ་ཞིང་། ། གྲགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀུན་དུ་གྲགས་གྱུར་ལ། ། མཚན་མཆོག་སུམ་ཅུ་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་རྣམ་པར་བརྒྱན། ། པདྨ་ལྟ་བུའི་སྤྱན་ནི་རབ་རྒྱས་ཤིང་། ། བཙོ་མའི་གསེར་གྱི་ཕུང་པོ་འདྲ་ བ་ཡི། ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཀུན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་འདུད། ། བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་ཆེན་རྨད་བྱུང་འདི་ཡིས་ནི། ། བདག་ཉིད་ཉོན་མོངས་བག་ཆགས་བཅས་འབྱིན་ཅིང་། ། འཁོར་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོ་འདིར། ། ནུབ་པར་གྱུར་པའི་འགྲོ་བ་འདོན་པར་ཤོག། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་རྫོགས་སོ། །

I prostrate and bow to all the Tathāgatas. You have utterly conquered all afflictions along with their habitual tendencies, And your great renown is celebrated everywhere. Adorned with the thirty-two supreme marks, Your lotus-like eyes are fully blossomed, And you resemble a mass of refined gold. I prostrate and bow to all the Tathāgatas. By this vast and marvelous merit, May I eliminate my own afflictions along with their habitual tendencies, And may I deliver all beings who are submerged In this great ocean of the afflictions of saṃsāra. The Praise to All the Tathāgatas is complete.

terminologyམཚན → “name”. མཚན་བརྗོད is recitation of names; in མཚན་ཉིད it is a 'definition' (lakṣaṇa) — same spelling, different word.

homonymམཚན is rendered “name” here; the glossary also records major signs, buddha marks, auspicious marks for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionམཚན “name” — The thirty-two primary physical characteristics of a “great being,” mahāpuruṣa , which every buddha and cakravartin possesses. They are considered “major” in terms of being primary to the eighty minor marks or signs of a

homonymཕུང་པོ is rendered “aggregate” here; the glossary also records aggregates, Aggregates for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionཕུང་པོ “aggregate” — This translation of skandha is fairly well established, although some prefer the monosyllabic “group.” It is important to bear in mind that the original skandha has the sense of “pile,” or “heap,” which has the connotati

definitionབསོད་ནམས “merit” — In this text, merit is established as the most prized possession of human beings, more than good looks, diligence , artistry , and insight . In Buddhism more generally, merit refers to the wholesome tendencies imprinted

definitionབདག “self” — A substantial, self-subsistent entity within beings or things, or the intrinsic reality of things, or the intrinsic identity of things, that is permanent and nonrelative. The Buddha’s teaching, in contrast to that of oth

adherencePinned rendering paraphrased here: homage; name; aggregate; self

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termཉོན་མོངས → affliction

termམཚན → name

termཕུང་པོ → aggregate

termདེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ → tathāgata

termབསོད་ནམས → merit

Terminology used in this text (20)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ	tathāgata	2	Kept as the Sanskrit loan in translation (84000 practice), not 'Thus-Gone One'.
བསྟོད་པ	praise	2
ཕྱག་འཚལ	homage	2
ཉོན་མོངས	affliction	2
དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ	the Three Jewels	1
ཆོས	dharma	1	In Abhidharma lists (སྐྱེ་མཆེད, ཁམས) ཆོས is 'phenomena', the objects of mind — not the Buddhist teaching. Same word, two
ཐུགས་རྗེ	compassion	1
བསྐལ་པ	eon	1
མཐའ་ཡས	Ananta	1
དབང	empowerment	1	In compounds དབང་ཆེན is 'great power' (a deity epithet), not 'great empowerment'.
ལྷ	god	1	Standard 84000 rendering is 'god'; 'deity' where the text contrasts classes of beings.
དབང་	initiation	1
རྩ	channel	1
ཡེ་ཤེས	wisdom	1	Distinguish from ཤེས་རབ (prajñā, 'insight'): ཡེ་ཤེས is the buddhas' non-dual wisdom, ཤེས་རབ the discriminating faculty o
མེ	fire	1	In ritual and cosmological prose མེ is the element 'fire'; Agni is the deity only where he is named or invoked. Do not c
ཤེས་རབ	insight	1
མཚན	name	1	མཚན་བརྗོད is recitation of names; in མཚན་ཉིད it is a 'definition' (lakṣaṇa) — same spelling, different word.
ཕུང་པོ	aggregate	1
བསོད་ནམས	merit	1
བདག	self	1

Colophon

Source: tengyur vol. 001_བསྟོད་ཚོགས།_ཀ.txt. Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction).

Translation status: 84000 catalogue + registry; grade no-translation-known; checked 2026-11-10.

Set in Newsreader and EB Garamond; Tibetan in Noto Serif Tibetan; Chinese in Noto Serif SC.

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