Viśeṣastava

ཁྱད་པར་དུ་འཕགས་པའི་བསྟོད་པ

khyad par du 'phags pa'i bstod pa

Praise of Exaltation (84000)

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

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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Udbhaṭasiddhisvāmin (slob dpon mtho btsun grub rje). viśeṣastava. khyad par du 'phags pa'i bstod pa [ཁྱད་པར་དུ་འཕགས་པའི་བསྟོད་པ]. [Praise of Exaltation (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 1 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=1&typ=2.

Commentaries

'Phags bstod kyi 'grel pa

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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Number	1
Canon	bstod tshogs
Sanskrit	viśeṣa-stava (D)
Alternate Titles	khyad par du 'phags pa'i bstod pa;khyad par du 'phags par bstod pa
Alternate Titles - Sanskrit	viśeṣa-stava
Author	Udbhaṭasiddhisvāmin
Author (Tibetan)	slob dpon mtho btsun grub rje
Translator	zhu chen gyi lo tsA ba ban de rin chen;ban de dpal brtsegs rak+Shi ta
Translator Pandita	rgya gar gyi mkhan po sarba dz+nyA de wa
Colophon	khyad par du 'phags pa zhes bya ba de bzhin gshegs pa'i bstod pa / slob dpon mtho btsun grub rjes mdzad pa'i rgya cher bshad pa // byang phyogs kyirgyud du byung ba / bhang ga la'i yul gyi slob dpon shes rab go chas mdzad pa rdzogs so // // rgya gar gyi mkhan po paN+Di ta dzA ran da na dang / zhu chen gyi lo tsA ba dge slong rin chen bzang pos bsgyur cing zhus te gtan la phab pa // //
Title from Colophon	khyad par du 'phags pa'i bstod pa