Toh 1154 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

Ten Praises of the Buddha

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

Edition 1.0 · 2026 · not a critical edition machine draft

Catalogue: Toh 1154
Genre: Eulogy
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 001_བསྟོད་ཚོགས།_ཀ.txt
Extent: 2 passages · 1,992 Tibetan characters · 455 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 Buddhastotra-daśaka (The Tenfold Praise of the Buddha) is a devotional composition that employs the stotra genre to articulate the ontological and soteriological status of the Buddha. The text functions as a series of formal salutations, framing the Buddha as the source of deathless liberation for sentient beings. By utilizing imagery of submission—such as the crowns of Śiva adorning the Buddha's feet and the bowing of the Earth Goddess—the work establishes a hierarchy of spiritual authority where traditional Indic deities and worldly powers are subordinate to the Buddha's awakening. The text commits the reader to a posture of prostration and recognition of the Buddha's supreme qualities, specifically his role as the giver of liberation and his status as the sublime lion among men. The structure is built around the repetition of praise, blending the Buddha's historical identity as Śākyamuni with his transcendental nature as one who abides in the absorption of union.

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About this text

A tenfold praise of the Buddha, the dpal shAkya thub pa'i bstod pa bcu pa is a work of classical Tibetan Buddhism. The composition is attributed to the Indian author Vanaratnapāda. It entered the Tibetan tradition through the translation efforts of da ri dra pa rgya mtsho’i sde and is preserved within the Eulogy collection of the Tengyur, specifically in volume ཀ, where it occupies two pages. The work enacts a series of formal prostrations to Śākyamuni, framing the Buddha as the source of deathless liberation for wandering beings. Through imagery of submission, it depicts the crowns of Śiva adorning the Buddha's feet and the Earth Goddess bowing in longing, thereby establishing a spiritual hierarchy where traditional Indic deities and the lord of the Sahā world, Brahmā, are subordinate to the Buddha's awakening. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to examine how the Buddha is characterized as the supreme giver and the sublime lion among men, utilizing a structure of repetitive praise to articulate the Buddha's victory over Māra and his role in granting supreme awakening.

Sanskrit title: not recorded
Indian author: Vanaratnapāda
Tibetan translators: da ri dra pa rgya mtsho’i sde
Canonical collection: Eulogy
Genre: Eulogy
Source edition: Tengyur, vol. ཀ
Period: classical Tibetan

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Significance

This work is significant for its synthesis of Buddhist soteriology with the formal conventions of Indian praise poetry. It illustrates the tradition's method of incorporating and subordinating non-Buddhist deities to assert the primacy of the Buddha's awakening.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1-2	Introduction and Initial Praises	Opening homage and the first descriptions of the Buddha's role in liberation and his superiority over worldly and divine entities.

Themes

Soteriology and Liberation (1)
Divine Subordination (2)
The Buddha's Transcendental Nature (2)

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

AnuvādaTen Praises of the Buddha·

༄༅༅། ། རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། བུདྡྷ་སྟ་བ་ད་ཤ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྟོད་པ་བཅུ་པ། སངས་རྒྱས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། མཆོག་གི་བྱང་ཆུབ་རྒྱུ་ནི་དང་པོར་བསྐྱེད་པ་ལས། ། འགྲོ་ལ་རྣམ་པར་ཕན་ཕྱིར་འཆི་མེད་ཐར་མཛད་དེ། ། ཡང་དག་འབར་བའི་འོད་འཕྲོ་བདུད་ལས་རྒྱལ་བ་ཅན། ། རྒྱལ་བ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ ལ་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། ཐུབ་པའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དམ་པ་གཞན་གྱི་མགོན་པོ་མཆོག། གཅིག་ཏུ་བརྩོན་པས་ཚངས་པ་མཆོག་ལ་ངེས་གནས་ཤིང་། ། སོ་སོའི་བློ་ཅན་ཕས་རྒོལ་ལག་ལྡན་དབང་པོར་ནི། ། རི་དྭགས་བདག་པོ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ལ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། ཐུབ་པ་མར་མེ་མཛད་ལ་སོགས་ལ་ མཆོག་ཐོབ་པས། ། འབར་བའི་རིན་ཆེན་དམ་པ་ཐོར་ཅོག་ལ་འཆང་བའི། ། འཛིན་མའི་བདག་པོ་ཚངས་དང་རྒས་མེད་ཀྱིས་བསྟོད་པ། ། སྡིག་སྤངས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། ཐུབ་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེའི་འོད་ཟེར་རྒྱན་གྱིས་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྐོར། ། མེ་ཆུའི་ཡངས་པ་དག་དང་རབ་རྒྱས་ གསལ་བའི་འོད། ། ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཡུལ་ལ་ཁྱབ་པར་སྤྲོ་བ་ཅན། ། ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ལ་དེང་བདག་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། ཐུབ་པ་སྐྱེས་མཆོག་བདེན་པ་མཆོག་ཏུ་སྟོན་པ་པོ། ། འཇིག་རྟེན་ལྷ་དང་ལྷ་མིན་མྱ་ངན་འདས་བགྱིད་པའི། ། ཐབས་མཛད་པ་ལ་ཆོ་ག་བཞིན་དུ་མཁས་ པ་སྟེ། ། དགེ་འོས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། ཐུབ་པའི་དབུས་སུ་མངོན་དགྱེས་ཐུགས་རྗེས་གནས་པ་སྟེ། ། ཏིང་འཛིན་མཆོག་གིས་འདོད་དང་དྲག་པོ་རྣམ་རྨོངས་ཤིང་། ། མཆོག་གི་བིམ་པ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཞལ་སྒྲོས་ཕུལ་དང་ལྡན། ། དམ་པ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ལ་རབ་ ཏུ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། ཐུབ་པའི་ཆོས་འཛིན་པ་ལས་ནད་དང་རིམས་འཕྲོག་ཅིང་། །

In the language of India: Buddhastotra-daśaka. In the language of Tibet: Sangs rgyas kyi bstod pa bcu pa (The Tenfold Praise of the Buddha). Homage to the Buddha! Through first generating the cause of supreme awakening, you act to grant the deathless liberation for the benefit of wandering beings. To the Victorious One, Śākyamuni, who possesses victory over Māra and radiates the light of perfect brilliance, I prostrate. To the supreme King of Sages, the ultimate protector of others, who dwells with singular diligence in the supreme state of Brahmā, and who is like a lion to the elephants of opposing disputants—Śākyamuni, the Lord of Beasts, I prostrate. Having attained the supreme state from the Sage Dīpaṃkara and others, you wear a crown of sublime, blazing jewels. Praised by Brahmā, the Lord of the Earth, and by the Ageless One—Śākyamuni, who has abandoned all sin, I prostrate. The Sage is completely encircled by the ornament of vast rays of light; with the expansive clarity of fire and water, your brilliant radiance spreads to pervade the realm of the Brahmā world. To Śākyamuni, I now prostrate. The Sage, the supreme among beings, who teaches the supreme truth, acts as a skillful means to bring the gods and asuras of the world to nirvāṇa. To the Śākyamuni who is worthy of virtue, I prostrate. The Sage, who dwells in compassion and is delighted in the midst of the assembly, is utterly deluded by desire and Rudra through supreme meditative absorption. Possessing a supreme, excellent mouth like a bimba fruit—to the sublime Śākyamuni, I prostrate. From upholding the Sage’s Dharma, you snatch away disease and epidemics.

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.

terminologyསངས་རྒྱས → “buddha”. The title, not a name. In Old Tibetan the spelling is usually སངས་རྒྱས already; the plural sense ('the buddhas') is carried by context, not by a suffix.

homonymསངས་རྒྱས is rendered “buddha” here; the glossary also records Awakened, awakened, Buddha for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionསངས་རྒྱས “buddha” — The Indic term buddha means "The Awakened One" and is used in Buddhism as an epithet for the historical Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama as well as other spiritually enlightened beings in general. “ Buddha ” is the past partici

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

definitionབྱང་ཆུབ “awakening” — I.e., awakening to the reality of phenomena (inner and outer) as they actually are.

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

definitionབདུད “Māra” — Māra , literally “death” or “maker of death,” is the name of the deva who tried to prevent the Buddha from achieving awakening, the name given to the class of beings he leads, and also an impersonal term for the destruct

definitionརྒྱལ་བ “Victorious One” — A particularly auspicious time that is marked by the moon passing through the constellation puṣya .

terminologyཚངས་པ → “Brahmā”. The god, not 'pure' (which is ཚངས་པ too in compounds such as ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ, the vow of chastity). Context decides; do not carry the deity capital into the vow.

homonymཚངས་པ is rendered “Brahmā” here; the glossary also records brahman, brahmās, Brahma for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionཚངས་པ “Brahmā” — One of the primary deities of the Brahmanical pantheon, Brahmā occupies an important place as one of two deities (the other being Indra / Śakra ) that are said to have first exhorted Śākyamuni to teach the Dharma. The pa

termསངས་རྒྱས → buddha

termབསྟོད་པ → praise

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termབྱང་ཆུབ → awakening

termལས → action

termབདུད → Māra

ཞབས་ཟུང་དག་ལ་འཕྲོག་བྱེད་ཅོད་པན་གྱིས་རབ་མཚན། ། ཟུང་འཇུག་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ལ་རྟག་ཏུ་བཞུགས་པ་ཡི། ། མཆོག་སྦྱིན་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། ཐུབ་པ་སེང་གེ་དམ་པ་མི་ཡི་སེང་གེ་མཆོག། ཚངས་པ་མི་མཇེད་བདག་པོས་མཆོག་གྱུར་གདུགས་བསྒྲེང་ཞིང་། ། ནོར་འཛིན་གཙོ་མོའི་རེ་བའི་ཕྱག་གིས་མངོན་བཏུད་པ། ། ཕྱག་འོས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། ཐུབ་པ་ཞི་བྱེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གཙུག་གི་བདེ་གཤེགས་ཏེ། ། མ་ལུས་ཉེས་པ་སྤངས་ཤིང་ཡོན་ཏན་ཆུ་ཡི་གཏེར། ། མཐའ་དག་སྐྱེ་བོའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་སེལ་བ་གཏེར་ལྟ་བུ། ། སྡིག་སེལ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། ཐུབ་པ་བརྩོན་པས་འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་སྒྲུབ་མཛད་པ་ལ། ། མཁའ་ལྡིང་བདག་པོའི་མགོན་ཏེ་ལྟུང་གྱུར་སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས། ། ཡང་དག་འདྲེན་ཞིང་ཕ་རོལ་བདེ་བར་མཛད་པ་ཡི། ། སྟོན་ པ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱག་བགྱིའོ། ། དཔལ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པའི་བསྟོད་པ་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་རྫོགས་སོ། ། ། ། འདི་ནི་དཔལ་ནགས་ཀྱི་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཞབས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པ་སྟེ། པཎྜི་ཏ་ཆེན་པོ་དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་བཀའ་དྲིན་གྱིས་འཚོ་བའི་དཱ་རི་དྲ་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་སྡེས་བསྒྱུར་བའི་ཡི་གེ་པ་ནི་བློ་ དང་ལྡན་པ་བྱམས་པ་ཀུན་དགའོ། །

With the crowns of Śiva adorning your two feet, You who always abide in the absorption of union, To Śākyamuni, the supreme giver, I prostrate. The Sage, the sublime lion, the supreme lion among men, For whom Brahmā, lord of the Sahā world, raised the excellent parasol, And the Earth Goddess bowed with hands of longing— To Śākyamuni, worthy of homage, I prostrate. The Sage, the Sugata who is the crown of all who bring peace, Who has abandoned every fault and is an ocean of qualities, A treasure-like remover of the suffering of all beings— To Śākyamuni, the dispeller of sin, I prostrate. The Sage who, through diligence, accomplishes the welfare of beings, The protector of the Garuḍa lords, who leads fallen sentient beings To the far shore of perfect bliss— To the Teacher Śākyamuni, I prostrate. The Praise in Ten Verses to the Glorious Śākyamuni is hereby complete. This was composed by the venerable Śrī Vanaratna. It was translated through the kindness of that same great Paṇḍita by the humble Dāri-dra-pa Gyatso-de, with the scribe being the intelligent Jampa Kunga.

structureColophon: closes the text and names the translators or author.

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

definitionཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན “absorption” — In general, the second of the three trainings ( triśikṣā ), and in this text and others the second of five qualities of the Saṅgha that are also described in other texts as the five undefiled (or beyond-worldly) aggregat

definitionམི་མཇེད “Sahā world” — The name for our world system, the universe of a thousand million worlds, or trichiliocosm, in which the four-continent world is located. Each trichiliocosm is ruled by a god Brahmā; thus, in this context, he bears the t

definitionསྡུག་བསྔལ “suffering” — The first of the four truths of the noble ones. The term “suffering” includes all essentially unsatisfactory experiences of life in cyclic existence, whether physical or mental. These comprise (1) the suffering of suffer

definitionབྱམས་པ “Maitreya” — The bodhisattva Maitreya is an important figure in many Buddhist traditions, where he is unanimously regarded as the buddha of the future era. He is said to currently reside in the heaven of Tuṣita, as Śākyamuni’s regent

adherencePinned rendering paraphrased here: name; self

termམཚན → name

termཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན → absorption

termཚངས་པ → Brahmā

termམི་མཇེད → Sahā world

termབདག → self

termསྡུག་བསྔལ → suffering

Terminology used in this text (22)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
བསྟོད་པ	praise	2
ཚངས་པ	Brahmā	2	The god, not 'pure' (which is ཚངས་པ too in compounds such as ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ, the vow of chastity). Context decides; do n
བདག	self	2
སངས་རྒྱས	buddha	1	The title, not a name. In Old Tibetan the spelling is usually སངས་རྒྱས already; the plural sense ('the buddhas') is carr
ཕྱག་འཚལ	homage	1
བྱང་ཆུབ	awakening	1
ལས	action	1	84000 uses 'action' where the mechanics matter, 'karma' where it is a fixed term.
བདུད	Māra	1
རྒྱལ་བ	Victorious One	1
རྒྱལ་པོ	king	1
དབང	empowerment	1	In compounds དབང་ཆེན is 'great power' (a deity epithet), not 'great empowerment'.
མར་མེ་མཛད	Dīpaṃkara	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
ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན	Brahmā world	1
ལྷ	god	1	Standard 84000 rendering is 'god'; 'deity' where the text contrasts classes of beings.
ལྷ་མིན	asura	1
ས་འཛིན	Dharaṇīdhara	1
མཚན	name	1	མཚན་བརྗོད is recitation of names; in མཚན་ཉིད it is a 'definition' (lakṣaṇa) — same spelling, different word.
ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན	absorption	1
མི་མཇེད	Sahā world	1
སྡུག་བསྔལ	suffering	1
བྱམས་པ	Maitreya	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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