Deśanāstava

Deśanāstava (T. bshags pa'i bstod pa). "Hymn [in Form of] Confession”. A text by Chandragomin extant in Tibetan and Sanskrit.

Text

Sanskrit editions:

• "Deśanāstava" in Buddhist Hymns: A New Collection, edited by Zhen Liu and Johannes Schneider, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023. Archive version
• Deśanāstava , The Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA)

Tibetan edition:

• bshags pa'i bstod pa, The Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA)

Translation

English translation:

• "Praise in Confession" in Candragomin, Difficult Beginnings: Three Works on the Bodhisattva Path, translated by Mark Tatz, Shambhala, 1985. Archive version.

German translation:

• Hahn, Michael and Astrid Lohofer (2016). Der MahayanaBuddhismus in den Augen des Dichters Candragomin. Candragomins Schauspiel Freude fiir die Menschen, sein Brief an die Schiiler und sein Hymnus in Form eines Siindenbekenntnisses. Indologica Marpurgensia 8. Munchen: P. Kirchheim.

Sources

• Buddhist Hymns: A New Collection, edited by Zhen Liu and Johannes Schneider, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023.