Toh 1152 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

Praise of the Bhagavan Śākyamuni

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

Edition 1.0 · 2026 · not a critical edition machine draft

Catalogue: Toh 1152
Genre: Eulogy
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 001_བསྟོད་ཚོགས།_ཀ.txt
Extent: 2 passages · 1,984 Tibetan characters · 553 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)

This short liturgical text serves as a formal praise of the historical Buddha, Śākyamuni. The work is structured as a series of devotional addresses and homages, employing a repetitive formula of praise to characterize the Buddha's ontological and pedagogical attributes. The text emphasizes the Buddha's transcendence of the mundane world and his role as a source of illumination for others. It specifically highlights the perfection of his speech and the nature of his wisdom, which is described through the lens of emptiness, the absence of signs, and the absence of aspiration. By presenting the Buddha as both profoundly difficult to realize and yet skilled in the means of liberation, the text commits the reader to a recognition of the Buddha's supramundane status. The work functions as a meditative tool to orient the practitioner toward the ideal qualities of an enlightened being, bridging the gap between the human condition and the state of liberation.

Provenance

About this text

A praise of the Blessed One Śākyamuni, the Bhagavacchākyamunistotra is a work of the classical Tibetan tradition attributed to the Indian author Triratnadāsa. The Tibetan version, titled bcom ldan 'das shAkya thub pa'i bstod pa, is preserved in the Tengyur (vol. ཀ) within the Eulogy collection, where it extends over two pages. The work enacts a series of formal homages and devotional addresses, characterizing the Buddha as the Illuminator of the World who has transcended the mundane. It emphasizes the perfection of the Buddha's speech and a wisdom defined by emptiness, the absence of signs, and the absence of aspiration. By presenting the Buddha as both profoundly difficult to realize and skilled in the means of liberation, the text functions as a meditative tool to orient the practitioner toward the ideal qualities of an enlightened being. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to examine how the Buddha's ontological and pedagogical attributes are articulated through repetitive formulas of praise, bridging the gap between the practitioner and the supramundane status of the historical Buddha.

Sanskrit title: Bhagavacchākyamunistotra
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

The work is significant as it reflects the standard Indo-Tibetan tradition of using stotras to internalize the qualities of the Buddha. For a modern reader, it provides a concise example of how Buddhist soteriology is expressed through the praise of specific cognitive and linguistic perfections.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1	Introduction and Initial Praise	Provides the title in Sanskrit and Tibetan and begins the praise by identifying the Buddha as a lamp for the world with excellent wisdom.
2	Homage to the Buddha's Qualities	Focuses on the perfection of the Buddha's speech and his realization of emptiness, signlessness, and the skill of liberation.

Themes

Transcendence and Illumination (1)
Perfection of Speech (2)
Emptiness and Signlessness (2)
Skill in Liberation (2)

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

AnuvādaPraise of the Bhagavan Śākyamuni·

༄༅། ། རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། བྷ་ག་ཝཱན་ཤཱཀྱ་མུ་ནི་སྟོ་ཏྲ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པའི་བསྟོད་པ། དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། འཇིག་རྟེན་འདས་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་སྒྲོན་མེ་མཛད། ། ཁྱོད་ ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་དོན་མཛད་བློ་གྲོས་བཟང་། ། སྣང་བ་བརྙེས་ཤིང་ཉོན་མོངས་དྲི་བསལ་བ། ། འཇིག་རྟེན་སྣང་མཛད་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། སྦྱིན་ལ་དགྱེས་ཤིང་སྟོབས་བཅུའི་མཆོག་མངའ་བ། ། གདུལ་བྱ་འདུལ་བཞིན་གདུལ་བྱའི་ཕ་རོལ་བྱོན། ། བཅོམ་ལྡན་ལྷ་དང་མི་དང་ཀླུས་ མཆོད་པ། ། གདུལ་བྱའི་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། མཚན་མཆོག་འགྲོ་བ་མང་པོའི་དོན་མཛད་ཅིང་། ། འདོམ་གང་འོད་ནི་གསེར་གྱི་ཁ་དོག་འདྲ། ། དགེ་བ་མཚན་གྱི་དམ་པའི་གཟུགས་མངའ་བ། ། སྲིད་གསུམ་མཚུངས་མེད་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། ཕ་རོལ་གཤེགས་ པས་གཞན་གྱི་ཚོགས་རྫོགས་ཤིང་། ། ཕ་རོལ་ཕས་རྒོལ་ཚོགས་འཇོམས་མི་གཡོ་བ། ། སེམས་ཅན་གཞན་གྱི་སེམས་དང་སྤྱོད་ལ་མཁས། ། ཕ་རོལ་ཚོགས་འཇོམས་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། དགྲ་བཅོམ་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཉོན་བཅིལ་དྲི་བསལ་བ། ། འཚོ་བ་དག་ཅིང་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་ཚུལ་ ཁྲིམས་གནས། ། ལྷ་ཡི་ལྷ་མཆོག་དྲི་མེད་དྲི་བྲལ་བ། ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་མཆོག་ལྡན་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། ཆུ་བོ་བཞི་བརྒལ་བདེན་བཞིའི་བཀའ་མཆིད་གསུང་། ། མིག་སྦྱིན་བདུད་རྩི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བཀའ་མཆིད་ཅན། ། མཉམ་ཐུགས་འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་ལ་བྱམས་པའི་ཐུགས། ། ཆོས་ལ་མཉམ་ གནས་མི་རྣམས་ཁ་ལོ་སྒྱུར། ། ཡོན་ཏན་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། སྙན་པའི་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་རྣམ་པར་དག་དང་ལྡན། ། ཚངས་པའི་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་ལྟ་བུར་སྙན་པའི་གསུང་།

In the language of India: Bhagavān-śākyamuni-stotra. In the language of Tibet: Bcom ldan 'das śā kya thub pa'i bstod pa (Praise of the Blessed One Śākyamuni). Homage to the Three Jewels! You who have transcended the world, you who act as a lamp for the world, you whose wisdom is excellent and who acts for the benefit of the world—homage to you, the Illuminator of the World, who has attained light and cleared away the stains of the afflictions. You who delight in generosity and possess the supreme ten powers, who tame those to be tamed and have reached the far shore of those to be tamed, you who are worshipped by gods, humans, and nāgas—homage to you, the Blessed One, who has reached the ultimate goal of those to be tamed. You who perform the benefit of many beings through your supreme marks, whose fathom-wide radiance is like the color of gold, and who possess a form of sublime virtuous marks—homage to you, the peerless one in the three realms of existence. By your arrival at the far shore, you complete the accumulations of others; you are immovable, crushing the hosts of adversaries. You are skilled in the minds and conduct of other sentient beings—homage to you, the crusher of the hosts of adversaries. Arhat King, who has subdued the afflictions and cleared away stains, whose livelihood is pure and who abides in the discipline of ascetic conduct, supreme god of gods, stainless and free from defilement—homage to you, who possess supreme compassion. You who have crossed the four rivers and speak the discourse of the Four Truths, who grant the eye and possess the nectar-like discourse of the Dharma, whose mind is equanimous and whose heart is loving toward all beings—homage to you, the charioteer of men who abides in equanimity toward the Dharma and has perfected all qualities. You who possess a perfectly pure and melodious voice, whose speech is as sweet as the voice of Brahmā.

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.

definitionབྷ་ག “bhaga” — A polyvalent term that refers in tantric scriptures to the dharmodaya , which is iconographically represented as a red triangle. It is identical in essence with the buddha’s body, speech, and mind, symbolized by its thre

terminologyབཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས → “the Blessed One”. 84000 harmonises on 'the Blessed One'. Do not alternate with 'Bhagavān' inside one text.

homonymབཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས is rendered “the Blessed One” here; the glossary also records blessed, Blessed One, bhagavān for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionབཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས “the Blessed One” — In Buddhist literature, this is an epithet applied to buddhas, most often to Śākyamuni. The Sanskrit term generally means “possessing fortune,” but in specifically Buddhist contexts it implies that a buddha is in possess

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.

periodམེ → “fire”. In ritual and cosmological prose མེ is the element 'fire'; Agni is the deity only where he is named or invoked. Do not capitalise the element.

homonymམེ is rendered “fire” here; the glossary also records Āgneya, Analā, Acalā for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionམེ “fire” — Classified as a “ lord of beings ” ( prajāpati ).

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

periodལྷ → “god”. Standard 84000 rendering is 'god'; 'deity' where the text contrasts classes of beings.

homonymལྷ is rendered “god” here; the glossary also records deva, divine being, God for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

termབྷ་ག → bhaga

termབཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས → the Blessed One

termབསྟོད་པ → praise

termདཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ → the Three Jewels

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termམེ → fire

། ཐམས་ཅད་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་གསུང་ཚུལ་རྫོགས། ། བདེན་པ་སྙན་གསུང་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་ འཚལ་ལོ། ། སྟོང་པ་མཚན་མ་མེད་ཅིང་སྨོན་དང་བྲལ། ། ཟབ་མོ་བལྟ་དཀའ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྟོགས་པར་དཀའ། ། ཐར་ལ་འཇུག་པར་མཁས་པའི་བློ་གྲོས་ཅན། ། ཐར་པའི་ལམ་དགྱེས་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། རྒྱུ་ལ་བརྟེན་པའི་མཁས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་ཅན། ། མཐའ་གཉིས་ལྟ་བ་རྟག་ཏུ་ མི་མཁས་པ། ། ལས་ཀྱི་འབྲས་བུ་རྣམ་སྨིན་ཁོ་ནར་གསུང་། ། ལྟ་བའི་མུན་བྲལ་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། གང་ནས་མ་བྱོན་གང་དུའང་གཤེགས་མ་ལགས། ། རྟག་ཏུ་དབེན་པའི་ཆོས་རྣམས་རབ་གསུང་བ། ། སྨིག་རྒྱུ་སྒྱུ་བཞིན་ང་ཡིར་མི་མངའ་བ། ། དགེ་བའི་ཆོས་ཚུལ་ ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། སྐྱེ་དང་མི་སྐྱེ་གང་དུ་སྐྱེས་མ་ལགས། ། སྐྱེ་དང་འཇིག་དང་གང་དུ་མི་གསལ་བ། ། ཆོས་ཀྱི་གནས་ཉིད་ཇི་ལྟར་གནས་ལ་གནས། ། གནས་དང་མི་གནས་རྒྱལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། དེ་བཞིན་ཁོ་ན་བ་བཞིན་ཡང་དག་གསུང་། ། རྟག་ཏུ་མི་གཡོ་དེ་བཞིན་ ཉིད་ལ་བཞུགས། ། རི་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་འདྲ་བའི་སྐུ། ། མི་གཡོ་རི་རབ་མཚུངས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པའི་བསྟོད་པ་སློབ་དཔོན་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་གྱི་འབངས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པ་རྫོགས་སོ། ། ། །

Homage to you, whose speech is perfected in the expression of all melodic branches, and whose voice is the truth. Homage to you, who are empty, signless, and free from aspiration; profound, difficult to see, and extremely difficult to realize; possessing the wisdom skilled in entering liberation, and who delight in the path of liberation. Homage to you, the wise one who relies on causes, who is forever unskilled in the views of the two extremes, and who teaches only the ripening of the fruits of karma; free from the darkness of views. Homage to you, who have not come from anywhere and have not gone anywhere; who perfectly teach phenomena that are eternally secluded; who, like a mirage or an illusion, possess no sense of "mine"; and who are the way of virtuous phenomena. Homage to the Victor, who is neither born nor unborn, who is not born anywhere, and in whom arising and ceasing are not apparent; who abides in the very nature of phenomena just as it is. Homage to the one who speaks only the truth, who eternally abides in the unwavering suchness, and whose body is like Mount Meru or a vajra victory banner; to the one who is as immovable as Mount Meru. This praise of the Blessed One Śākyamuni, composed by the master Ratnatrayadāsa, is complete.

terminologyལས → “action”. 84000 uses 'action' where the mechanics matter, 'karma' where it is a fixed term.

homonymལས is rendered “action” here; the glossary also records act, Action, activity for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionལས “action” — Matters that govern the saṅgha community’s daily life, regular observances (such as the rains retreat and the restoration ) and special events (like ordination) are ratified by a formal act of the saṅgha. There are one h

definitionརི་རབ “Mount Meru” — According to ancient Buddhist cosmology, this is the great mountain forming the axis of the universe. At its summit is Sudarśana, home of Śakra and his thirty-two gods, and on its flanks live the asuras. The mount has fo

definitionརྡོ་རྗེ “vajra” — This term generally indicates indestructibility and stability. In the sūtras, vajra most often refers to the hardest possible physical substance, said to have divine origins. In some scriptures, it is also the name of th

definitionསློབ་དཔོན “ācārya” — A spiritual teacher, meaning one who knows the conduct or practice ( ācāra ) to be performed. It can also be a title for a scholar, though that is not the context in this sūtra .

adherencePinned rendering paraphrased here: name; the Three Jewels

termམཚན → name

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termལས → action

termཆོས → dharma

termརི་རབ → Mount Meru

termརྡོ་རྗེ → vajra

Terminology used in this text (20)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས	the Blessed One	2	84000 harmonises on 'the Blessed One'. Do not alternate with 'Bhagavān' inside one text.
བསྟོད་པ	praise	2
དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ	the Three Jewels	2
ཕྱག་འཚལ	homage	2
མཚན	name	2	མཚན་བརྗོད is recitation of names; in མཚན་ཉིད it is a 'definition' (lakṣaṇa) — same spelling, different word.
ཆོས	dharma	2	In Abhidharma lists (སྐྱེ་མཆེད, ཁམས) ཆོས is 'phenomena', the objects of mind — not the Buddhist teaching. Same word, two
བྷ་ག	bhaga	1
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
ཉོན་མོངས	affliction	1
ལྷ	god	1	Standard 84000 rendering is 'god'; 'deity' where the text contrasts classes of beings.
མཆོད་པ	offering	1
གཟུགས	form	1
མི་གཡོ་བ	Acalā	1
རྒྱལ་པོ	king	1
ཐུགས་རྗེ	compassion	1
བདུད་རྩི	amṛta	1
ལས	action	1	84000 uses 'action' where the mechanics matter, 'karma' where it is a fixed term.
རི་རབ	Mount Meru	1
རྡོ་རྗེ	vajra	1
སློབ་དཔོན	ācārya	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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