འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟགས་དབང་ཕྱག་ག་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ intro.4

intro.4

Toh 705/900 and Toh 706 are similar enough to be considered different versions of the “same” text. However, the differences between them are significant enough that the editors of the Degé Kangyur elected to include both works, side-by-side. We have likewise elected to translate them separately. These two works share a very large percentage of their content, especially in the introductory and concluding narrative sections. The structure of the praise by way of the hundred and eight names, however, is distinct in the two works. In Toh 705/900, the praise has been rendered into Tibetan in verse, while in Toh 706 the praise is rendered in prose. There are also additional differences in some of the content in the praise section, suggesting that the two versions likely represent translations of different Sanskrit recensions of the work. The close relationship between Toh 705 and Toh 706 is further highlighted by the fact that the final colophons at the end of both versions append the additional title “The Receptacle of the Precious Relics of all Victors,” with the only difference being that the attribute “precious” is not contained in Toh 706.