Toh 705Tantra

The Noble Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokiteśvara [1]

འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ།

Āryāvalokiteśvarasya­nāmāṣṭaśatakam

’phags pa spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug gi mtshan brgya rtsa brgyad pa

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Summary

This is one of two short texts with the same title, The Noble Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokiteśvara, each of which enumerates the hundred and eight “names” of Avalokiteśvara, which are more like descriptive epithets. The first part of the text describes his many excellent qualities. The second part of the text describes the benefits that result from praising Avalokiteśvara with these names.

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