Sarvadharmasvabhāvasamatāvipañcitasamādhirājanāmamahāyānasūtraṭīkākīrtimālā/Full text

सर्वधर्मस्वभावसमताविपञ्चितसमाधिराजनाममहायानसूत्रटीकाकीर्तिमाला

Sarvadharmasvabhāvasamatāvipañcitasamādhirājanāmamahāyānasūtraṭīkākīrtimālā

ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པའི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་གྲགས་པའི་ཕྲེང་བ

chos thams cad kyi rang bzhin mnyam pa nyid rnam par spros pa'i ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo'i 'grel pa grags pa'i phreng ba

A Commentary on the Mahāyāna Sūtra "The King of Samādhis, the Revealed Equality of the Nature of All Phenomena," called "The Garland of Renown" (84000)

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The Kīrtimālā ("The Garland of Fame") is a commentary on the Samādhirājasūtra attributed to the Indian scholar Mañjuśrīkīrti, surviving only in Tibetan translation. It was translated by Nagtso Lotsawa, the translator and guide of Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (980–1054), and gained importance more than two hundred years after the sūtra itself had been translated into Tibetan, particularly within the circle of students who founded the Kadampa tradition.

A notable feature of the commentary is philological: Nagtso's Tibetan translation of the Kīrtimālā incorporates the earlier Tibetan translation of the sūtra itself, indicating that Mañjuśrīkīrti's original commentary was composed for the same Sanskrit recension of the sūtra already rendered into Tibetan, rather than the longer version quoted by Candrakīrti. The commentary also proved useful in modern translation work: Mañjuśrīkīrti's commentary defines the list of qualities of the samādhi given in chapter 1 of the sūtra, and—despite discrepancies between its definitions and those in chapter 40 and the Sanskrit versions—was useful in ascertaining the intended meaning of these terms. Roberts notes, however, that in China the sūtra never achieved the prominence of texts like the White Lotus of the Good Dharma, and unlike there, no commentary [on the sūtra] was translated [into Chinese].

Source: Peter Alan Roberts, trans., The King of Samādhis Sūtra (Toh 127), 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, Introduction, §i.19 and §i.33. https://www.tilogaard.dk/english/King_of_Samadhis_Sutra_translated_by_Peter_Alan_Roberts_84000_translating_the_words_of_the_Buddha.pdf

Reference

Mañjuśrīkīrti (slob dpon 'jam dpal grags pa). sarvadharmasvabhāvasamatāvipañcitasamādhirājanāmamahāyānasūtraṭīkākīrtimālā [सर्वधर्मस्वभावसमताविपञ्चितसमाधिराजनाममहायानसूत्रटीकाकीर्तिमाला]. chos thams cad kyi rang bzhin mnyam pa nyid rnam par spros pa'i ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo'i 'grel pa grags pa'i phreng ba [ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པའི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་གྲགས་པའི་ཕྲེང་བ]. [A Commentary on the Mahāyāna Sūtra "The King of Samādhis, the Revealed Equality of the Nature of All Phenomena," called "The Garland of Renown" (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3350 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3350&typ=2.

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Mañjuśrīkīrti, Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa, Śāntibhadra

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Source	Adarshah
Date	3 September 2026
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