A Praise to the Lotus King - by Śāntigarbha
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༄༅། །པདྨའི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་བསྟོད་པ་བཞུགས།
by Śāntigarbha
དངོས་གྲུབ་མཆོག་བརྙེས་ཡ་མཚན་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིས། །
ngödrub chok nyé yatsen chenpo yi
Homage to you, Lotus King, the Transcendent,
འཇིག་རྟེན་མ་འགྱུར་པདྨའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལས། །
Who by the great marvel of reaching supreme accomplishment,
དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་མན་ངག་གསང་ཆེན་རྣམས། །
deshyin shekpé mengak sang chen nam
Unravelled from the expanse
ཀློང་ནས་བཀྲོལ་མཛད་དེ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
long né trol dzé dé la chaktsal lo
The Tathāgata’s most secret instructions!
སློབས་དཔོན་ཤན་ཏིང་གར་བས་བརྟགས་ནས་མ་ནོར་ནས། སམ་བ་བྷ་ལ་སྟོད་པ་འོ།།
The master Śāntigarbha, having examined and found it flawless, is praising Sambhava.
| Lhasey Lotsawa Translations, 2018.
↑ This four-line praise forms the colophon of the Noose of Methods (IOL Tib J 321, Thabs zhags, or *Upāyapāśa), a Mahāyoga commentary attributed to Padmasambhava. For a detailed discussion of this praise and a study of the commentary, see: Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer, A Noble Noose of Methods, The Lotus Garland Synopsis: A Mahāyoga Tantra and Its Commentary, (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012). The following Tibetan edition and its English translation is based on a comparison of several Tibetan editions.