Study of a Newly Identified Sanskrit Manuscript of the Saptajinastotra

This paper focuses on a newly identified Sanskrit manuscript of the Saptajinastotra (Praise of the Seven Buddhas) that was found at the Drepung Monastery in Tibet. By providing a critical edition and translation, as well as a comparison of the parallel Tibetan and Chinese texts, it presents the Sanskrit version of T 1682 Qi fo zan bai jia ta 七佛讚唄伽他 for the first time and corrects several mistakes, misspellings and misreadings of the manuscript, Tibetan and Chinese works.