ཚགས་ས་བཅད་པ་བཞ་པ intro.3
The Four Stanzas intro.3
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The Sanskrit text of The Four Stanzas is extant in several manuscripts from Nepal. Gergely Hidas edited one of these manuscripts as part of his edition of two dhāraṇī collections.² Kazuo Kano has also published a critical edition of the Sanskrit text of The Four Stanzas,³ together with a Japanese translation. The initial stanza in the extant Sanskrit versions differs from the Tibetan translation found in The Four Stanzas, but the Tibetan translation of the first verse in Jetāri’s Bodhicittotpādasamādānavidhi (Toh 3968) aligns perfectly with the Sanskrit. The earliest quotation of The Four Stanzas can be found in the Tibetan translation of Bhāviveka’s Tarkajvālā (Toh 3856), composed during the sixth century.⁴ This was followed by several quotations in other works.⁵