'Phags bstod kyi 'grel pa

འཕགས་བསྟོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ

'phags bstod kyi 'grel pa

Commentary on the Praise of Exaltation

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

A commentary on the Viśeṣastava by Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen. This abridged commentary by Khunu Lama was published in Dharamsala (around 1966) by the Council for Religious Affairs and the Tibetan Cultural Printing Press (1996). It was also published by Drepung Loseling Educational Society Publication (1995). This text has also been in the syllabus of the language courses of the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute, Dharamsala, and the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala. (Source: "A Note on the Viśeṣastava (Khyad par 'phags bstod); "Superior Verses in Praise [of Buddha Šakyamuni]" by Ācārya Sangye T. Naga, 50)

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'phags bstod kyi 'grel pa [འཕགས་བསྟོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ]. [Commentary on the Praise of Exaltation].

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Viśeṣastava

The Viśeṣastava is a Buddhist stotra by the author Udbhaṭasiddhasvāmin and has pride of place as the text that opens the Tibetan bsTan 'gyur. Originally written in Sanskrit, it was extensively propagated and sung. It was written to demonstrate the superiority of Buddhism over tirthikas. It has long been only known from its Tibetan translation (in the 9th century by the efforts of Sarvajñadeva and the Tibetans Rin-chen-mchog (d. 840) and Dpal-brtseg Rakṣita). Now, it is also known in a Sanskrit version thanks to Johannes Schneider and Liu Zhen's study. At the time of its translation into Tibetan, the Indian paṇḍita Prajñāvarman wrote a commentary on it which immediately follows it in the bsTan 'gyur. (Source Accessed Oct 21, 2025)

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