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'''Praise of the Supramundane''' (Skt. Lokātītastava; [[Wyl.]] ''‘jig rten las ‘das par bstod pa''), a shastra written by [[Nagarjuna]].
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'''''Praise of the Supramundane''''' (Skt. ''Lokātītastava''; Tib. འཇིག་རྟེན་ལས་འདས་པར་བསྟོད་པ་, ''jikten lé depar töpa'', [[Wyl.]] ''‘jig rten las ‘das par bstod pa'') a shastra written by [[Nagarjuna]], which belongs to his ''[[Collection of Praises]]''.


This text belongs to Nagarjuna’s [[Collection of Praises]].
In this short text (26 verses), Nagarjuna praises the [[Buddha]] for his teachings on [[emptiness]] and [[dependent origination]]. In his translation of this text, Geshe [[Thupten Jinpa]] translates the title of the text as follows: ''Hymn to [the Buddha] the World Transcendent''.


In this short text (26 verses), Nagarjuna praises the Buddha for his teachings on emptiness and dependent origination. In his translation of this text, Geshe Thubten Jinpa translates the title of the text as follows: ''Hymn to [the Buddha] the World Transcendent''.
==Further Reading==
*''Master of Wisdom, Writings of the Buddhist Master Nagarjuna'', translations by Christian Lindtner, Dharma Publishing, 1986


==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.tibetanclassics.org/pdfs/WorldTranscendentHym.pdf Translation by Geshe Thupten Jinpa, 2007]
*[http://www.tibetanclassics.org/html-assets/WorldTranscendentHym.pdf Translation by Geshe Thupten Jinpa, 2007]


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Latest revision as of 09:17, 5 December 2018

Praise of the Supramundane (Skt. Lokātītastava; Tib. འཇིག་རྟེན་ལས་འདས་པར་བསྟོད་པ་, jikten lé depar töpa, Wyl. ‘jig rten las ‘das par bstod pa) — a shastra written by Nagarjuna, which belongs to his Collection of Praises.

In this short text (26 verses), Nagarjuna praises the Buddha for his teachings on emptiness and dependent origination. In his translation of this text, Geshe Thupten Jinpa translates the title of the text as follows: Hymn to [the Buddha] the World Transcendent.

Further Reading

  • Master of Wisdom, Writings of the Buddhist Master Nagarjuna, translations by Christian Lindtner, Dharma Publishing, 1986

External Links