[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Hymns, epistles and poetry](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra) › [Praises of Mañjuśrī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri) › [Bhaṭṭārakamañjuśrīparamārthastuti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti) › [འཕགས་པ་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་དོན་དམ་པའི་བསྟོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo) › Ultimate Praise of the Noble and Venerable Mañjuśrī # Ultimate Praise of the Noble and Venerable Mañjuśrī Translation of [འཕགས་པ་རྗ་བཙན་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱ་དན་དམ་པའ་བསྟད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ (འཕགས་པ་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་དོན་དམ་པའི་བསྟོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo) - **Language:** English - **Date:** 2021 CE - **Translator:** [Adam Pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/person/adam-pearcey) - **Extent:** 16 passages, 372 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** lotsawahouse · Adam Pearcey (tr.), Ultimate Praise of the Noble and Venerable Mañjuśrī, Lotsawa House (version… · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site ## Contents - [p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p1) - [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p2) - [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p3) - [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p4) - [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p5) - [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p6) - [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p7) - [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p8) - [p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p9) - [p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p10) - [p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p11) - [p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p12) - [p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p13) - [p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p14) - [p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p15) - [p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p16) ## Text ### [p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p1) Ultimate Praise of the Noble and Venerable Mañjuśrī ### [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p2) by Nāgārjuna ### [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p3) In the language of India: ārya-bhaṭṭārakamañjuśrīparamārthastuti-nāma In the language of Tibet: ’phags pa rje btsun ’jam dpal gyi don dam pa’i bstod pa In the English language: Ultimate Praise of the Noble and Venerable Mañjuśrī ### [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p4) Homage to the youthful Māñjuśrī! ### [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p5) You do not arrive and do not depart; You do not rise and do not remain. You thoroughly transcend this world. Yours is the domain beyond words. ### [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p6) O protector, how should I praise you? As the world conceives of you, Just so, I too exalt and honour you In my devotion for you, O guru. ### [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p7) By your very nature you are unborn, For you there can be no arising. Protector who neither comes nor goes, To you, the insubstantial, I offer homage and praise. ### [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p8) You are neither real nor unreal. Neither a nullity nor everlasting, Neither constant nor transitory. To you, the non-dual, I offer homage and praise. ### [p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p9) You’re not red or green or crimson; You’re not yellow, white or black. You do not have any colour at all. To you, the colourless, I offer homage and praise. ### [p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p10) You are neither large nor small, Neither heavyset nor slender. Your form is neither tall nor short. To you, the sizeless, I offer homage and praise. ### [p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p11) In your wisdom, you’re not confined to existence; Out of compassion, you do not dwell in peace. You do not remain in either saṃsāra or nirvāṇa. To you, the non-abiding, I offer homage and praise. ### [p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p12) You do not reside in phenomena; Yours is the realization of all things. You are sustained by supreme profundity. To you, the profound, I offer homage and praise. ### [p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p13) Like this, I could exalt you repeatedly. For how else might I offer you praise? In the emptiness of all phenomena Who is there to offer praise? To whom? ### [p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p14) You have no limits, no centre. To you, the inconceivable Beyond perceiver and perceived, I offer homage and praise. ### [p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p15) This is the expression of the ultimate attributes Of the guru and protector Mañjughoṣa. Through the merit of this, may this world Come to resemble the one gone to bliss. ### [p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey.p16) This concludes the Ultimate Praise of the Noble and Venerable Mañjuśrī composed by the great master Nāgārjuna. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.manjusri.bhattarakamanjusriparamarthastuti*bo~en-pearcey) · Pramāṇa