ШЕРАБBDW 5 — Молитвенник «Три драгоценности»
BDW 5 «Мост 5: Пустота в повседневности»
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Three Treasures
a Buddhist prayer book
©2015 Geshe Michael Roach
published by Standing On The Sky Press
email: standingontheskypress@gmail.com
ISBN: 978-0-9914738-2-3
publication date of record: March 10, 2015
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85,88,96,101,103 of The Offering to Lamas
Maria del Rosario Otero Fernandez: verse 30 of The Meditation Song
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Ori Carin, original artwork: verse 148 of The Meditation Song
Cazaubon Jacques Seronde, original artwork: verse 11 of The Thousand Angels
Geshe Michael Roach: verses 4,32,38,46,88,104,106,118,178,182,203 of The Meditation Song;
verses 1,4 of The Thousand Angels; verses 46,109 of The Offering to Lamas
Translators of Chinese edition: Xia Liyang, Stanley Chen, Alison Zhou
Translator of Spanish edition: Alejandro Julien Medina Mora, Alexa Diaz de Sandy, Andrea Ramirez Vazquez
Design by: Geshe Michael Roach, Georgina Rivera
Production by: Ven. Jigme Palmo, Elizabeth van der Pas; Timothy Lowenhaupt
Editorial team: Ven. Lobsang Nyingpo, Eric Brinkman; David Fishman; Mercedes Bahleda;
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Printing team: Nicole Vigna, Ronit Shoshan
CONTENTS
Jorchu 001
The Meditation Song
The Thousand Angels 167
of the Heaven of Bliss
Ganden Hlagyama
Lama Chupa 187
The Offering to Lamas
Notes from the translator:
If you are reciting The Meditation Song in Tibetan by Meditation Song a joyful event. It’s very appropriate if—
following the pronunciation provided, please note that when doing the Song by yourself, or with friends—you
the sections in parentheses are only instructions and are sing some of the sections to a tune that comes to your heart;
not normally sung out loud with the rest (unless they are or play an instrument with parts; act out sections (such as
mantras in italics). Some sections are traditionally repeated becoming an offering Goddess in that section); pause to do
three times, and these are marked with (3x). some of the Song as a quiet meditation; get up and dance to
the Lamas as an offering at points where it calls to you; and
You will be able to pronounce the Tibetan fairly closely anything of the sort.
if you just follow the pronunciation given, and remember
these simple rules for the vowels: Be sure to set out generous offerings, including tasty
dishes that you and your friends can share in afterwards;
a is pronounced like the a in the English word call and please set aside lots of time to do a nice job with the
ceremony, so you won’t feel rushed. It’s a wonderful and
e is pronounced like the second e in Chevrolet, or in highly meaningful way to spend an entire day, especially
prey (like the ay in day) with friends!
i is pronounced like the i in helium (like the ee in And of course leave plenty of time for meditating on the
sweet) lam-rim, or the steps of the path to enlightenment—since
the whole purpose of the Song is to prepare you for these
o is pronounced like the o in spoke contemplations. You can even sprinkle these in through the
entire ceremony. Je Tsongkapa’s own magnificent summary
u is pronounced like the u in flute (like the oo in of these steps, The Source of All My Good, is included by
root) tradition in full at the end of this ceremony, and for those
“sprinkled” meditations you can skip back and forth to this
In the Tibetan tradition, it is encouraged to make The work (it is found at verses 163-176). Please enjoy!
[Note: English sections in italics, and Tibetan section in parentheses, are not usually recited out loud.]
Jorchu
The Meditation Song
written by
Dakpo Lama Rinpoche
Jampel Hlundrup Gyatso
(1845-1919)
The Root Lama of Pabongka Rinpoche,
author of A Gift of Liberation, Thrust Into Our Hands
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
1
hkA$-&u0-;1->m-:m1-.8m-+1:-Dm+-Bv:-;1->m-#},-8E}8m-$#- Herein contained is “A Necklace for the [1]
8+},->m-:m1-.-={:-0+{-0P#-&}#-0!;-07$-1Em,-W,-6{=-A- Fortunate,” a ritual in specific steps which
are easily carried out, and designed to be
0-0bo#=-=}kk sung as a preparation for meditating upon
the steps of the path to enlightenment,
2 as these are presented in The Quick Path,
hR-1-+$-*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-+A{:-1-1&m=-.8m-60=-;-`o=- a spiritual practice based upon practical
*1=-%+-`o-@#-83;-6m$-[0=-=v-1&m8}k 0P{-0-&{,-.}=- instructions from one’s teacher.
I{=-=v-07v$-`o-#=};k
There is a Holy Being who is half my Lama, [2]
3
and half the Buddha himself, in his most
8+m:-W;-0-+0{,-=-.-&{,-.}8m-1,-$#-A$-&u0-;1->m-:m1-.8m-#},-8E}- secret form: the Keeper of the Diamond.
[1]
^}:-08m-&}=-Hs#-#m-$#-8+},-808-6m#-@}#=-#%m#-_p-0am#=-){-8={:- These two parts can never be divided from
each other.
0+{:jangchub
+#}+-.-;k lam
-ngundroy gyi rimpay martri Nyurlam gyi
ngakdun gyi rimpa kyerde lakchok
Kelsang Dringyen shejawa shuk so I bow down to the holy feet of this Being, in
4
^}:-08m-&}=-+$-.}-#,=-"$-Am-+}:-A=-;-!r-#=v$-*v#=-<m-K{,-+E1-.k every single moment of the day, for all days
[2] to come. In You do I take my shelter. And
Lama dang Tubwang Dorje Chang yer machipay I ask You, please, shower upon me your
5 shab la du tamche du chaktsel shing kyabsu chio.
#(m=-.-1&}+-.-#9}-1{+-%m$-0!}+-.-14|=-.:-0<1=-.k infinite love: take me with You, keep me
Tsewa chenpu jesu sung du sul with You.
3
I{8+}=,-=->v-0m-:7vm1$--`.o--#==}{:-;0+{k -0P#-&}#-0!;-07$-1Em,-W,-6{=-A-
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
3
0-0bo#=-=}kk
In this holy book I have set forth, in one [3]
8+m:-W;-0-+0{,-=-.-&{,-.}8m-1,-$#-A$-&u0-;1->m-:m1-.8m-#},-8E}-
2
^}hR-: 018m-+&}$-= *Hvs0#-+#m-$0$-#-L8}-+}I{,- -88&$- 08-6+m#A{-@:} -#1=--1#&m%m#=--_p.-08mam-6#=-
0=-){ 8;={-`:o -=- place, just a song that you can sing for the
0+{ :-+#}%+-+-.`-o;-@k#-83;-6m$-[0=-=v-1&m8}k 0P{-0-&{,-.}=- six preparations which you must follow
1
before meditating upon the steps of the path
*1=-
hkA$-&u0-;1->m-:m1 .8m-+1:-Dm+-Bv:-;1->m-#},-8E}8m-$#-
I{8+}=,-=->v-0m-:7vm1$--.`o--#={=}:-;0+{k -0P#-&}#-0!;-07$-1Em,-W,-6{=-A- to enlightenment, according to the personal
[3]
4
advices of that victorious Buddha, Master
^}:-0(dir 8m-&}=Gyalwa
-+$-.}-#,=- "$-Am-+}:-A=-;- r-#=v$-*v#=-<m-K{,-+E1-.k
Wensapa chenpoy men-ngak jangchub Wensapa—the saint of the desert places.
0-8+m0:bolam
3 # gyi
=- = } rimpay ngundro jorway chu druk gi
k k
#(m=ngakdun
5
2
--W.;--1&}0-++-0{.,-#bashik
-=9}-.-1-&{+{,-%chok
-.m$}8-0m-1!}chik
,-+-$.#--1tuA4|=$-drik te kyerde
1->m-:.m1k-.8mgupa
-&.u0:--;0<1=- -#},-8E}la)-
^}hR-:-018m-+-&$-}=-*Hv0s#--+#0$- m-$#-L8}-+}I,{-8-8&$- 08-6+m#A{-:@}#-1=--1#&m%m#=--_.p-08mam-6#0=-
=-){-;8={-`:o=- -
0+{ :-+#}%+-+-.`-o-;@k#-83;-6m$-[0=-=v-1&m8}k 0P{-0-&{,-.}=- The First Step:
*1=- Prepare Your Meditation Space
4
I{^}=:-0-=8mv--0&7v}=$-+-$-`.o-#}-#=},=-;k"$-Am-+}:-A=-;-!r-#=v$-*v#=-<m-K{,-+E1-.k
The first of the preparations is to [4]
clean and straighten up your room,
3
5
[4] and set up an altar there.
#(m:=-W-.;--10&}-++-0{.,-#-=9}-.-1-&{+{,-%-.m$}8-0m-1!},-+ $.#--1A4|$-=&.u0:--;0<1=-
8+m 1->m-:.m1k-.8m-#},-8E}-
^}:-(jorway
08m-&}=-Hs#chu -#m-$dangpo
#-8+},-808- nekang
6m#-@}#jidor =-#%m#je-_lap-0amku#=-sung
){-8={tuk
:-
kyi ten drampa)
0+{:-+#}+-.-;k
4
kTheForth
^}:-08m-&}=-+$-.}-#,=-"$-Am-+}:-A=-;-!r-#=v$-*v#=-<m-K{,-+E1-.Put Second Step:
Offerings
5
#(m=-.-1&}+-.-#9}-1{+-%m$-0!}+-.-14|=-.:-0<1=-.k The second preparation is to put forth [5]
offerings which have been obtained
[5] honestly. Be sure to arrange them in an
(nyipa chupa yo-me ching kupa dzepar shampa) attractive way.
5
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
The Third Step:
Take Your Meditation Posture & Prepare Your Heart
6
#=v1-.-%,-0+{-0-;-;v=-M1-'$-#m-&}=-0`o,-X,-`o-8"}+-+{-+#{-={1=- The third preparation is to seat yourself upon [6]
=+-.:-%,->m-$$-,=-[0=-={1=-=}#=-A-0-;k *}#-1:-[0=-9v;- your meditation cushion, and place your body
in the seven-point posture of Vairochana, the
Angel of Appearances. Put your mind into
#=;-8+{0=-.-,mk
a particularly sacred mood, then start the
[6]
67 practices which begin with going for refuge.
:$-1(sumpa
#=v #- m.- -1%`o,-,0-+{>ten- m-0*-;+-dewa
;Hv=$-M#lam1--,'lu1-$-Namnang
#1m-&"8m}=-0#`o,,=--Xgi,-=v-`chu
o-=8{$"}-+#dunden
- {-+{-&+{,#{--.=}-{10du
=-W+- For this, we first bring to mind the vision of the
<m=.ku
=+- 0:-){%de#,-la,>-.m-$
-jawa gesem kyeparchen
$--:,m,=--.[}-0=-
8mtokmar }#gyi=-A-0-
{8m=D{1m- =-=seldeppa
&kyabyul ngang;k ne*}#-1
ni)
kyabsem :-[0=-sok 9v;- places of shelter.
#=;-8+{0=-.-,mk
1*}-6m$-9$=-.8m-%{$-":-'-3~#=-.+-S-(m-18m-+<m;-8"}:->Go
8
m- for Shelter Standing before me, [7]
7
#+,-#m;-1-`o,->m-*+-H$-#m-,1-1"8m-#,=-=v-={$-#{-&{,-.}-0W+-
:$- In mid-air,
Is a jeweled throne
9
<m$}-=0-}-0:){$-##-.m-H8mm,-:-%m,,--.P}--&0{88mm--DRm--1-9m,-.-;-M1-.-W;-0-cv<-*v0-.- Held aloft
By eight mighty lions.
8
!r1*}-1-6+}m$#- -9#={$=-:-.08m2~--%1{ -$-W"-0:-v '-3~#=-.+-S-(m-18m-+<m;-8"}:->m-
10
#+,- It is high, [8]
+0v-#;2t#- -)}:-+$-X,-.-6;-#%m#-@#-#(m=-#9=-=-#,},k And wide,
9
$}[7]-#9}0-,:-$-1#m(1--Hm0,-%6#-,-P#-m0%{8m$--R,-1-9m,-.-;-M1-.-W;-0-cv<-*v0-.- And upon it sits a cushion
Of a multicolor lotus,
!r0`o-1+rang
11 +}chenpo
# - gi dun gyi tedrang gi namkay ne su senge
# ={$-gye
:0-08m2~kyi--[1s$-tekpay
W-0-07{v-+-0rinpochey
'1=-.k tri And the disks
[8]
- P m = - # Of the moon and sun.
10
!r-;-tokyilnkor
12
+0v #-&2tshing
}=#--#)}:}=-yangpay
+$$-v:X-e,-m#.-#-tengkar
-gyi den la
6m-1;-+}##%m-%#,-natsok
-@##-=}#;(mpenda
- nyimay
=k-#9=-
0 =-#,},k
#9},-1(1-06#-#m-%{$-,-
7
11
0`o+-Pm=-#$-08m-[s$-07{+-0'1=-.k
1*}-6m$-9$=-.8m-%{$-":-'-3~#=-.+-S-(m-18m-+<m;-8"}:->m-
#+,-;-
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
9
$}-0}-:$-#m-Hm,-%,-P-08m-R-1-9m,-.-;-M1-.-W;-0-cv<-*v0-.-
Upon the throne [9]
!r-1+}#-#={:-02~-1-W-0v- Sits a Holy Being.
Inside, they are my Heart Lama,
10 Who has been so kind to me.
+0v-#2t#-)}:-+$-X,-.-6;-#%m#-@#-#(m=-#9=-=-#,},k Outside, they are the Buddha:
Lord of the Shakya Clan,
#9},-1(1-06#-#m-%{$-,- Victorious One,
With a body shining
11 Like molten gold.
0`o+-Pm=-#$-08m-[s$-07{+-0'1=-.k
Their hair is tied up [10]
12 In a knot;
They have one head,
!r-;-&}=-#}=-$v:-em#-#m-1+}#-%,-#=};-0k
And two arms.
13
13,-+.{=-0W,-.8m-3$=-#=;-8}+-<m-:$-06m,-%,- Their right hand presses the earth;
Their left hand is held
14
In the gesture of meditation.
!r-;=-[{=-.8m-8}+-<m-/v$-.}8m-+0v=-,-60=-#(m=-L}-I{-[m;-Cs$-
[9]
Upon this hand [11]
ngowo
#m=-0bo #=-.krang gi drinchen tsaway Lama yinpa la Rests a sage’s bowl
nampa Gyalwa Shakya Tuppa kundok sertsoma tabu Filled with the nectar
15
[10]
+{-(m+-<m-1*8-!}:-`o-+$}=-+$-0Wv+-.8m-R-1-9m-+1-=$=-W=- Of immortality.
A$-uw =yun{1=-tsuktor
+ .8- dang
0 }- 1
nyamshak gi teng na
denpa
"8- 8 E} - &shel
} = - [ } chik
$ -Ns $chak
- 1 8m - nyi
3 ~ # yeM1=-
=- sa nun,
<m=- Draped upon [12]
Their holy body
0!}:-,=-0bo#=-.k
[11] Are the robes
Of russet gold.
16
-+dutsi
+{[12]#-:$-:gangway
$-#m-1`o,hlungse
-,-#+,-Dnampa m-/v,-=v1-3~#=-.-;-:$-:$- Their body is adorned [13]
#m=ku-#=vla$chugu
=-.8m-;ngurmik
v$-#m-&}=-Mgi1=- dokchen
8}+-<m-:sulwa$-06m,-%,->m-.v-)m8m- With the marks and signs
Of an Enlightened Being;
[13].:-9}+-.k
M1- Their body is made
tsenpe gyenpay dangsel uw kyi rangshin chen Of crystal light.
17
3~#=-6m$-M1=-<$-:$-(m+-;-+>{=-.8m-3u;-+$-k 9
18
:$-(m+-<$-3~#=-6m$-M1=-<m-9},-),-+$-*v#=-I{-H,-.8m-++-
13
13,-+.{=-0W,-.8m-3$=-#=;-8}+-<m-:$-06m,-%,-
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
14
!r-;=-[{=-.8m-8}+-<m-/v$-.}8m-+0v=-,-60=-#(m=-L}-I{-[m;-Cs$- Their two legs are folded [14]
#m=-0bo#=-.k In the lotus posture,
And they sit in the center
15
+{-(m+-<m-1*8-!}:-`o-+$}=-+$-0Wv+-.8m-R-1-9m-+1-=$=-W=- Of a mountain of light
That pours from their own body.
A$-={1=-+.8-0}-1"8-8E}-&}=-[}$-Ns$-18m-3~#=-M1=-<m=-
Around my Lama [15]
0!}:-,=-0bo#=-.k Sit my own personal teachers,
And the teachers of the lineage.
16
+{-+#-:$-:$-#m-1`o,-,-#+,-Dm-/v,-=v1-3~#=-.-;-:$-:$-
They are surrounded
#m=-#=v$=-.8m-;v$-#m-&}=-M1=-8}+-<m-:$-06m,-%,->m-.v-)m8m- By gatherings of close Angels,
M1-.:-9}+-.k And Buddhas, and bodhisattvas,
And Warriors and their Angels,
17 And protectors of the teachings,
3~#=-6m$-M1=-<$-:$-(m+-;-+>{=-.8m-3u;-+$-k And the guardians as well.
[14]
18
:$-(kum+-le<$-3~
kyepay
#=-6muw$-Mkyi1=-<m-9
pungpoy
},-),-uw+$-*nav#=-
shab
I{-Hnyi,-.8m-dorje
++- Set in front [16]
Of each of these Holy Beings
.-[15]&kyiltrung
{,-.}8m-$$-,gi=kshukpa Is an exquisite cushioned stand,
de-nyi kyi takor du ngu dang gyupay Lama Yidam And upon each stand
Sangye jangsem Pawo Kandro chuk yong sungmay Rests each of the teachings
tsok nam kyi kor ne shukpa Each teacher has ever given:
The physical Dharma,
[16] In the form of a book
dedak rang rang gi dun na dentri punsum tsokpa Made of light itself.
la rang rang gi sungpay lung gi chu nam uw kyi
rangshin chen gyi putiy nampar yupa
11
#m=-#=v$=-.8m-;v$-#m-&}=-M1=-8}+-<m-:$-06m,-%,->m-.v-)m8m-
M1-.:-9}+-.k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
17
3~#=-6m$-M1=-<$-:$-(m+-;-+>{=-.8m-3u;-+$-k Each being [17]
In this Garden of Karma
18 Is extremely pleased with me.
:$-(m+-<$-3~#=-6m$-M1=-<m-9},-),-+$-*v#=-I{-H,-.8m-++-
.-&{,-.}8m-$$-,=k I too [18]
Am overwhelmed
19 With devotion,
+{=-,-0+#-+$-1-={1=-%,-*1=-%+-*}#-1-1{+-.-,=-+-W8m- Just thinking of the fine qualities
0:-`o-]m:-8"}:-0-+$- And the kindness
Of everyone here in the Garden.
20
Think next these thoughts to yourself: [19]
=+-.:-$,-=}$-#=v1->m-&r#-0#;-'-3~#=-.-6m#-B}$-8`o#-
_p-7m,-<$-k Now I
21 And every living creature,
Every one of them
+-`o$-&r#-0#;->m-#)m$-+$-1*8-K}#=-+!8-0:-8`o#
[17]
22
My own mother,
k+{=tsokshing
-,-+-:{=-Jnam{+-.:-kyang
+!8-6rang-nyi
m$-J{+-,-+},la-&gyepay
{-08m-+;-tsul
8A}:dang
->m-1m- Have already suffered
Here in the cycle
[18]
;v=-=+-.:-%,-*}0k Of life in general,
rang-nyi kyang tsokshing nam kyi yunten dang
For time with no beginning.
23 tukje drenpay depa chenpoy ngang ne
1';-
[19]
+!8-08m-=$=-W=-<m-0%,-.-:m,-.}-&{-+$-1';-
And more particularly, [20]
`o=dedatay
24
-8+mna:-8dak dang ma semchen tamche tokma mepa ne
"}bar:du
-08mchir
-&r#-korwa
0#;-1dang
*8-+#-($=-.8m-*:-.-1&}#- We have each already
Been through a million
[20]
9$-+#-.:-Q}#=-.8m-=$=-W=-<m-#}-8/$-6m#-+-W-(m+-,=- Kinds of pain,
*}0-kyepar
.nyong
:- duk ngensong sum gyi duk-ngel natsokpa shik
tu sin kyang
In the three realms
Of misery.
25 13
1-A=-,k U:-9$-]m:-8"}:-0-+$-=+-.:-$,-=}$-#=v1-
>m-&r#-0#;-%m-:m#=-.-6m#-B}$-+#}=-.:-8`o#
0:-`o-]m:-8"}:-0-+$-
20
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
=+-.:-$,-=}$-#=v1->m-&r#-0#;-'-3~#=-.-6m#-B}$-8`o#-
_p-7m,-<$-k
21
Still though [21]
+-`o$-&r#-0#;->m-#)m$-+$-1*8-K}#=-+!8-0:-8`o#
22
It is a difficult thing
k+{=-,-+-:{=-J{+-.:-+!8-6m$-J{+-,-+},-&{-08m-+;-8A}:->m-1m- To say
How deep this pain
;v=-=+-.:-%,-*}0k Will continue to go,
23
How far its edge can spread.
1';-+!8-08m-=$=-W=-<m-0%,-.-:m,-.}-&{-+$-1';-
And so this one time [22]
24
`o=-8+m:-8"}:-08m-&r#-0#;-1*8-+#-($=-.8m-*:-.-1&}#- I have attained
[21] The body of a human,
9$-+#- dadung dukngel
.:-Q}#=- .8m-=gyi$=-ting
W=-<mdang
-#}-8ta/$-tok6m#-+
kawar
-W-(m+duk-,=- A perfect body,
A perfect opportunity—
*}[22]0-.de:-na da-re nyepar ka shing nye na dun cheway Impossible to find,
But once found,
1-Adelnjor
25
=-,k gyiU:-mi9$-lu]kyeparchen
m:-8"}:-0-+$-top=+-.:-$,-=}$-#=v1- Capable of great things.
>m[23]-&rjel#-0kaway Sangye
#;-%m-:m# =-.-6mkyi#-B}$
tenpa rinpoche
-+#}=-. :-8`o#dang jel And this one time [23]
I have met
With the priceless teachings
Of a Buddha—
Impossible to find.
14
23
1';-+!8-08m-=$=-W=-<m-0%,-.-:m,-.}-&{-+$-1';-
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
24
`o=-8+m:-8"}:-08m-&r#-0#;-1*8-+#-($=-.8m-*:-.-1&}#- I must work then [24]
9$-+#-.:-Q}#=-.8m-=$=-W=-<m-#}-8/$-6m#-+-W-(m+-,=- From this one moment on
To reach enlightenment—
*}0-.:- Perfect, complete,
Ultimate freedom,
25
1-A=-,k U:-9$-]m:-8"}:-0-+$-=+-.:-$,-=}$-#=v1- Free of all the pain
Of this endless circle.
>m-&r#-0#;-%m-:m#=-.-6m#-B}$-+#}=-.:-8`o#
And if I fail? [25]
26 Then there is no choice:
k+{=-,-&r#-0#;-+{-+#-;=-[}0-.8m-ao=-.-1`o,-,-0bo#=- One more time
.8m-R-1-+!},-1&}#-#=v1-;-9}+-.=k Through a life of pain—
And this time it could be
27 In the hells,
0+#-#m=-1-={1=-%,-*1=-%+-<m-+},-`o-Q}#=-.8m-=$=-W=- As an animal,
[24]
<m-#du}-8/$-
dir*korway
}0-.:-Akdukngel tadak pangpay tarpa chok Or as a spirit
yangdakpar dzokpay Sangye kyi gopang shik data nyi Driven by craving.
28
+{8m-ne@m:toppar
-`o-R-1-+!},-1&}#-#=v1-;-[0=-=v-8E}-0:-A8}k And so the beings [26]
[25]
k$1-ma
`o-0=1- ;k Here before me—
je na, lar yang chir korwa dang kyepar ngensong My Lama,
kR-1sum
29
-;-[gyi0=-dukngel
=v-1&m8}kchi rikpa shik nyong gupar duk And the Three Jewels—
Possess the power
[26]
k=$=- W=-;-[0=-=v-1&m8}k To protect me
de na dukngel dedak le kyoppay nupa dun na From this pain.
shukpay
k&}=-;- Lama
[0=-=v- 1&m8}kkonchok sum la yu-pe
k+#{-8`o,-;-[0=-=v-1&m8}kk
6{=-[0=-8E}-;,-#=v1-=}#=-%m-ao=-0I}+k
15
k+{=-,-&r#-0#;-+{-+#-;=-[}0-.8m-ao=-.-1`o,-,-0bo#=-
.8m-R-1-+!},-1&}#-#=v1-;-9}+-.=k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
27
0+#-#m=-1-={1=-%,-*1=-%+-<m-+},-`o-Q}#=-.8m-=$=-W=- I too then [27]
<m-#}-8/$-*}0-.:-Ak Must become a Buddha—
A completely enlightened being—
28 For the sake
Of every single living creature,
+{8m-@m:-`o-R-1-+!},-1&}#-#=v1-;-[0=-=v-8E}-0:-A8}k
k$1-`o-0=1-;k Each one my own mother.
29
kR-1-;-[0=-=v-1&m8}k To help me do it, [28]
I take my shelter now
k=$=-W=-;-[0=-=v-1&m8}k In my Lama
k&}=-;-[0=-=v-1&m8}k And in the Triple Gem
k+#{-8`o,-;-[0=-=v-1&m8}kk
Take now your shelter, by repeating the [29]
6{=-[0=-8E}-;,-#=v1-=}#=-%m-ao=-0I}+k following thrice, or as many times as you can:
[27]
dak gi ma semchen tamche kyi dun du dzokpay I go to my Lama
Sangye kyi gopang toppar ja For shelter.
I go to the Buddha
[28]
For shelter.
dey chir du Lama konchok sum la kyabsu drowar
I go to the Dharma
jao
For shelter.
(nyam du sam la)
I go to the Sangha
[29] For shelter. (3x)
Lama la kyabsu chio
Sangye la kyabsu chio
chu la kyabsu chio
gendun la kyabsu chio (3x)
(she kyamdro len sum sok chi nu ju)
17
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
Feel the Wish for Enlightenment
30
k=$=-W=-&}=-+$-3~#=-<m-1&}#-M1=-;k Then repeat the following verses three times too, [30]
as the Wish for enlightenment:
kA$-&u0-0:-`o-0+#-,m-[0=-=v-1&mk
k0+#-#m=-^m,-=}#=-0>m=-.-8+m-+#-#m=k I go for shelter
To the Buddha,
k8E}-;-/,-@m:-=$=-W=-8Es0-.:-<}# And the Dharma,
And the highest Community,
%{=-;,-#=v1->m=-={1=-0[{+k Until the day
31 I become a Buddha.
k={1=-%,-*1=-%+-({-:m$-&#=-&$-+$-K;-08m-0)$-$}1=-
[30]
;-#,=-,-%m-1-:v$-k #,=-.:->v:-%m# k#,=-.:- May the good deeds
Sangye
0+#-# m=-A8}kchu dang tsok
k+{-W:- A{+-kyiao=-chok
.:-R-nam1-[la=-Am,->m=-0T0- I have done—
_p-#jangchub
=}dak;gik jin bardu dak ni kyabsu chi
sok gyipa didak gi
Giving and all the rest—
Make me into a Buddha,
dro la pen chir Sangye druppar shok (3x) For the sake of every living being. (3x)
32
k={1(che
=-%len sum%gyi
,-*1=- +-0+{sem
-0-+kye)
$-0+{-08m-Wv-+$-X,-,-%m-1-:v$-k
X,-.:->v:-%m# kX,-.:-0+#-#m=-A8}k k+{-W:-A{+-
ao=-.:-R-1-[=-Am,->m=-0T0-_p-#=};k
19
k0+#-#m=-^m,-=}#=-0>m=-.-8+m-+#-#m=k
k8E}-;-/,-@m:-=$=-W=-8Es0-.:-<}# Jorchu, The Meditation Song
%{=-;,-#=v1->m=-={1=-0[{+k
Meditate Upon the Four Infinite Thoughts
31
Meditate next upon the Four Infinite Thoughts, [31]
k={1=-%,-*1=-%+-({-:m$-&#=-&$-+$-K;-08m-0)$-$}1=-
;-#,=-,-%m-1-:v$-k #,=-.:->v:-%m# k#,=-.:- until they become part of your very being, by
repeating the following lines thrice, or as many
0+#-#m=-A8}k k+{-W:-A{+-ao=-.:-R-1-[=-Am,->m=-0T0- times as it may be:
How nice it would be
If every being
_p-#=};k
Could find equal feelings
32
k={1=-%,-*1=-%+-0+{-0-+$-0+{-08m-Wv-+$-X,-,-%m-1-:v$-k For every other being:
Never closer to those who love them
X,-.:->v:-%m# kX,-.:-0+#-#m=-A8}k k+{-W:-A{+- Never farther from those who hate them.
ao=-.:-R-1-[=-Am,->m=-0T0-_p-#=};k That’s the way it should be.
I will make it happen.
[31] And I ask my Angel,
semchen tamche nyering chakdang dang drelway My Lama,
To grant me the strength
tang-nyom la ne na chi marung, nepar gyur chik,
To do so. (3x)
nepar dak gi jao, detar je nupar Lama Hle jin-gyi
labtu sul (3x) How nice it would be [32]
[32] If every living being
semchen tamche dewa dang deway gyu dang den Had happiness,
na chi marung, denpar gyur chik, denpar dak gi And the causes of happiness.
jao, detar je nupar Lama Hle jin gyi labtu sul (3x)
That’s the way it should be.
I will make it happen.
And I ask my Angel,
My Lama,
To grant me the strength
To do so. (3x)
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33
k={1=-%,-*1=-%+-&r#-0#;-+$-&r#-0#;->m-Wv-+$-K;-,- How nice it would be [33]
%m-1-:v$-k K;-0:->v:-%m# kK;-0:-0+#-#m=-A8}k If every living being
Were free of pain,
k+{-W:-A{+-ao=-.:-R-1-[=-Am,->m=-0T0-_p-#=};k And the causes of pain.
34
={1=-%,-*1=-%+-1*}-:m=-+$-*:-.8m-0+{-0-+1-.-+$-1- That’s the way it should be.
I will make it happen.
K;-,-%m-1-:v$-k 1m-8K;-0:->v:-%m# k1m-8K;-0:- And I ask my Angel,
My Lama,
0+#-#m=-A8}k k+{-W:-A{+-ao=-.:-R-1-[=-Am,->m-0T0-_p- To grant me the strength
#=};k To do so. (3x)
6{=-;,-#=v1-=}#=-0I}+-,=-3+-1{+-06m-Wv+-+$-8H{=-${=-=v-"}1-1}kk
35
1-={1=-%,-*1=-%+-<m-+},-`o-Bv:-0-Bv:-0:-9$-+#-.:- How nice it would be [34]
[33] If no living being
Q}#=-semchen
.8m-=$=-tamche
W=-<dukngel
m-#}-8/$-:dang m,-.}-&dukngel
{-%m-,=-<$-gyi*}0gyu
-.:-Ak Ever lived outside
dang drel na chi marung, drelwar gyur chik, The three higher realms,
36
drelwar
+{8m-@m:- `o-;1-dak70-gi1}-Rjao,-1-[detar
8m-M je;-8A}
nupar Lama
:->m-"}- ,=-AHle$-&ujin0-;gyi1- Or the ultimate joy
Of freedom.
>m-:labtu
m1-.8m-sul
8Dm+-0"}1-.-;-8'v#-.:-0>m8}k
[34]
k6{=semchen
-=+-.:->m-=tamche
{1=-0[{+tori
k dang tarpay dewa dampa dang That’s the way it should be.
I will make it happen.
ma drel na chi marung, mindrelwar gyur chik, And I ask my Angel,
mindrelwar dak gi jao, detar je nupar Lama Hle jin My Lama,
gyi labtu sul (3x) To grant me the strength
(she len sum sok ju ne tse-me shi gyu dang dre-nge To do so. (3x)
su gom mo)
22
0+#-#m=-A8}k k+{-W:-A{+-ao=-.:-R-1-[=-Am,->m-0T0-_p-
#=};k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
Feel
6{=-;,-#=v1-=}#=-0I}+-,=-3+-1{+-06m-Wv+-+$- the
8H{=-$ Extraordinary Wish for Enlightenment
{=-=v-"}1-1}kk
35
1-={1=-%,-*1=-%+-<m-+},-`o-Bv:-0-Bv:-0:-9$-+#-.:- Now feel the special Wish for enlightenment: [35]
Q}#=-.8m-=$=-W=-<m-#}-8/$-:m,-.}-&{-%m-,=-<$-*}0-.:-Ak No matter what,
36
I will reach the priceless
+{8m-@m:-`o-;1-70-1}-R-1-[8m-M;-8A}:->m-"}-,=-A$-&u0-;1- State of a Buddha—
Total enlightenment,
>m-:m1-.8m-8Dm+-0"}1-.-;-8'v#-.:-0>m8}k Perfect enlightenment—
k6{=-=+-.:->m-={1=-0[{+k For the sake
Of my mothers,
Every being there is.
And I will do it quickly
I will do it quickly.
[35]
ma semchen tamche kyi dun du nyurwa nyurwar
yangdakpar dzokpay Sangye kyi gopang rinpoche And to do it, [36]
chi ne kyang toppar ja, I will meditate now
Upon the teaching
[36] On the steps of the path
dey chir du lam sabmo Lama Hlay nelnjor gyi go To enlightenment.
ne jangchub lam gyi rimpay tri gompa la jukpar
gyio To do that,
(she kyepar gyi semkye) I will follow the deep practice
Of the deepest path,
The path of the Angel:
The path of my Lama.
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
37
k*1=-%+-`o-,m-=-#6m-+# The very ground [37]
k#={#-1-;-=}#=-1{+-.-+$-k Of the entire planet
Becomes suddenly smooth
k;#-1*m;-W:-1(1-0X-B|<8mk As the palm of your hand,
Without a single stone—
k:$-06m,-8'1-.}:-#,=->v:-%m# A vast surface
Made of lapis lazuli,
38
k[-+$-1m-9m-1&}+-.8m-Q=k Yet soft to the touch.
k+$}=-=v-0<1=-+$-9m+-<m=-cu;k
k\o,-07$-1&}+-cm,-R-,-1{+k
k,1-1"8m-"1=-\o,-=0->v:-%m# The entire expanse [38]
Of the sky above
39 Is suddenly covered
k?f-,-1}-L-#-5-){k 0.-=r-:-I-1-L-,{k )-*r-#-_w-9k
[37] In clouds, the gifts
?F-tamche {-=B6Zladu-0sokvRnim-9mepa
)sekma sa
k shidang
)^-dak*rk ?f-0.|-0.|k 1dw-0.|k Of Perfect Goodness,
Unsurpassed—
1dw-){-laktil
4-0.|tark nyam 1dw-0m^j-0 .|k 1dw-0}-am-2n*-0.|k 1dw-
benduryay All things ever offered
0}am-rangshin
1b}-.-=Z-Cjampor-1-C-0.|nek gyur =N-chik
!O-?r-5-:-C-0m-<}-a-,-0.|-:s- By gods and humankind,
Some set here before me,
dw[38]k 6{=-;,-#=v1-0I}+k And others inside my mind.
hla dang mi yi chupay dze
ngu su sham dang yi kyi trul
Kunsang chutrin lana-me
namkay kam kun kyab gyur chik
25
k\o,-07$-1&}+-cm,-R-,-1{+k
k,1-1"8m-"1=-\o,-=0->v:-%m# Jorchu, The Meditation Song
39
k?f-,-1}-L-#-5-){k 0.-=r-:-I-1-L-,{k )-*r-#-_w-9k Sing now the mantra, three times over: [39]
?F-){-=B6Z-0vRm-9k )^-*rk ?f-0.|-0.|k 1dw-0.|k Om namo Bhagavate, vajra sara pramardane,
1dw-){-4-0.|k 1dw-0m^j-0.|k 1dw-0}-am-2n*-0.|k 1dw- Tathagataya,
Arhate samyak Sambuddhaya, Tadyatha,
0}am-1b}-.-=Z-C-1-C-0.|k =N-!O-?r-5-:-C-0m-<}-a-,-0.|-:s- Om vajre vajre, mahavajre, mahateja vajre,
Mahavidya vajre, maha bodhichitta vajre,
Maha bodhi mandopasankramana vajre,
dwk 6{=-;,-#=v1-0I}+k
Sarva karma avarana vishodhana vajre sva ha.
[39] (3x)
(she len sum ju)
[Pronounce the mantra opposite, three times]
Make an Act of Truth
40
+!},-1&}#-#=v1->m-0+{,-.-+$-k Bless now the gifts, by calling upon the [40]
power of what is true:
41
=$=-W=-+$-A$-&u0-={1=-+.8-*1=-%+-<m-Am,->m=-
I call
0T0=-+$- On the truth
That the Three Jewels
42
Do exist.
[40]
3~#=-#(m=-9}$=-=v-Q}#=-.8m-1$8-*$-&{,-.}-+$-k
43
konchok sum gyi denpa dang
&}=-<m-+Am$=-M1-.:-+#-%m$- I call [41]
[41]
On the blessings
0=1-Sangye
44
> m =
lab dang
- 1dang
m - = 0- .jangchub
8m - %} 0 =- < m sempa
= - + {- 0 tamche
6m , - ( m + - ` o- kyi
> v: -%jin
m # gyi
Of every Enlightened Being,
And every bodhisattva.
k%{=-0+{,-%}0=-0I}+-+{-1&}+-Q=-0T0k
26
45
06m-.-3~#=-6m$-#=;-8+{0=-3u;-;-;v#=-#(m=-;=k $#-8+},-0+{-
@m:-R-1&}+-W:-+#}+-.-;k
=$=-W=-+$-A$-&u0-={1=-+.8-*1=-%+-<m-Am,->m=-
0T0=-+$- Jorchu, The Meditation Song
42
3~#=-#(m=-9}$=-=v-Q}#=-.8m-1$8-*$-&{,-.}-+$-k I call upon [42]
The unimaginable might
43
&}=-<m-+Am$=-M1-.:-+#-%m$- Of the two collections,
Total and complete.
44
0=1->m=-1m-=0-.8m-%}0=-<m=-+{-06m,-(m+-`o->v:-%m#
40
k%{+!}=,-0-1+{,&}-%#}0-=-#=v0I}1+-->+{-1m-0&}+{+,-Q-.=-+0$-T0kk
I call upon [43]
45 The absolute purity
[42]
41
06m -.-3W~#=-=-6+m$$--#A=;- 8u0+{-0==-{13=-u;+-;.8--;v#*=-1=-
#(m%=+--;<=km-Am,->$#-m=8- +},-0+{-
=$=- $- & Of the Realm of Is.
@m:-Rtsok -1&}+nyi -W:-yongsu
+#}+-.-;dzokpay k ngatang chenpo dang
[43]
0T0=-+$-
chu kyi ying nampar dak ching
42
[44]
3~#=-#(m=-9}$=-=v-Q}#=-.8m-1$8-*$-&{,-.}-+$-k And by its inconceivable power [44]
sam gyi mi kyappay tob kyi deshin nyi du gyur May all this actually be.
43
&}=chik -<m-+Am$=-M1-.:-+#-%m$-
(che dentob ju de chudze lab)
44
0=1->m=-1m-=0-.8m-%}0=-<m=-+{-06m,-(m+-`o->v:-%m#
The Fourth Step:
k%{=-0+{,-%}0=-0I}+-+{-1&}+-Q=-0T0k Look Upon the Garden of Karma
45
06m-.-3~#=-6m$-#=;-8+{0=-3u;-;-;v#=-#(m=-;=k $#-8+},-0+{-
@m:-R-1&}+-W:-+#}+-.-;k The fourth preparation for meditation is to look [45]
upon the Garden of Karma. There are two ways of
[45]
doing this; to make it easier to sing, I will follow
(shipa tsokshing selndeb tsul la luk nyi le, the one found in The Offering to Lamas.
ngakdun de chir Lachu tar gupa la)
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
46
The broad highway of the gods is [46]
k0+{-%}$-+A{:-1{+-[-;1-9$=-.:-\o,-07$-1&}+-cm,-
8Dm#=-.8m-+0v=k indivisible bliss and void,
Covered now with the offering cloud
k;}-1-1{-)}#-8K=-0v=-9}$=-14|=-8+}+-+]o8m-+.#-0=1- of Perfect Goodness.
V},-.8m-P{:k Within it stands a tree which grants a
k#+}$-T-80:-08m-:m,-&{,-Dm-%{$-&u-[{=-(m-S-W=-.8m-%{$-k thousand wishes,
Lovely with its leaves and flowers
k0!8-Hm,-#=v1-X,-P-08m-R-1-=$=-W=-\o,->m-$}-0}-(m+k and fruit.
47
kM1-.-$v:-em#-84n,-.8m-+#{-U}$-6;-#%m#-@#-#(m=-84v1- Atop the tree is a throne of sparkling
[46]
jewels, held aloft by lions,
+!:-detong
8J}k yerme hlalam yangpar Kunsang chutrin Set with full cushions of lotus, sun,
and moon.
k@#-trikpay
#9=-uw,
&}=-8&+-#9},-.-1(1-06#-0`o+-Pm=-#$-08m-
loma metok drebu yongdze duguy paksam junpay
[s$tser,
-07{+-0'1=k And upon them sits my Heart Lama,
who has paid me all
k]odo-nga
-]o1-1barway
:gyepay +$=-
teng,
X rinchen triteng chukye nyinda
,- &}=-#}=-#=v1-#=};-#={:-1+}#-.C- Three kinds of kindness, the essence
kadrin sumden of all the Buddhas.
6=-+ 0v-;-14| =k tsaway Lama Sangye kun gyi
ngowo nyi,
k*v#=-!:-*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-+0$-6;-#%m#-@#-#(m=-!r-
1+}#-#}k
29
k#+}$-T-80:-08m-:m,-&{,-Dm-%{$-&u-[{=-(m-S-W=-.8m-%{$-k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k0!8-Hm,-#=v1-X,-P-08m-R-1-=$=-W=-\o,->m-$}-0}-(m+k
47
kM1-.-$v:-em#-84n,-.8m-+#{-U}$-6;-#%m#-@#-#(m=-84v1- My Lama is in the form here of a monk in [47]
+!:-8J}k the golden robes,
With a single face and two arms, a smile
k@#-#9=-&}=-8&+-#9},-.-1(1-06#-0`o+-Pm=-#$-08m- shining forth.
[s$-07{+-0'1=k His right hand is in the gesture of teaching
k]o:-]o1-1+$=-X,-&}=-#}=-#=v1-#=};-#={:-1+}#-.C- Dharma;
His left is in the gesture of meditation, and
6=-+0v-;-14|=k in it he holds
k*v#=-!:-*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-+0$-6;-#%m#-@#-#(m=-!r- A sage’s bowl full of deathless nectar. He
1+}#-#}k wears the triple robe
Of saffron, and the golden hat of a sage
adorns his holy head.
Within his holy heart is the Lord, the
[47] Keeper of the Diamond;
nampa ngurmik dzinpay gelong shel chik chak nyi He has one face, and two arms, and his holy
dzumkar tro, body is blue.
chak-ye chu-che yunpa nyamshak dutsi gangway
hlungse nam,
gurgum dangden chugu sumsul serndok penshe
uw la dze,
tukkar Tubwang Dorje Chang wang shel chik chak
nyi kundok ngo,
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
48
kL}:-Hm;-07v$-,=-+Am$=-@v#-1:-8=v+-[,-[{=-0+{-%}$-:};- In his hands he holds a diamond and bell, [48]
and he embraces the Queen
.=-+>{=k Of the Empty Realm, enjoying his play in
kM1-1$-:m,-&{,-W,->m=-c=-<m$-[-Q=-+:->m-,-07=-Pz0=k simultaneous bliss and void.
k13,-+.{8m-W,-X,-8}+-7{:-%}$-80:-8'8-3~,-'-T=-0!}:- He wears jewel ornaments of a hundred
08m-+0v=k different fashions,
And he is clothed in the silken raiment
kL}-I{-[m;-Cs$-3u;->m=-0bo#=-.8m-/v$-.}-M1-+#-0+{-#<{#=- worn by the gods themselves.
Tk
His body is adorned with the marks and
49
k"1=-06m-9v1-06m-[{-1&{+-P-Wv=-3n#=-M1=-A$-&u0-={1=- signs of an Enlightened Being,
[48] And he sits in the midst of a thousand
dordril
+.8-+ $}=k sung ne Yingchukmar kyu hlenkye detong shining rainbow rays, in all five hues.
k0-(rulpe
znam 0gye,
-+E-mang
%}1-(rinchen
m-Dm-&m#-%gyen
}$-9,-gyi;#-treD}-shing
0}8m-+0$-hladze
.}-(m+dar
k His legs are crossed in the lotus posture,
k8}+gyi
-7{:nabse
-@}#=-[lup,}$-#,}+-^m,-#=$-0-8'm#-K{,-.-M1=-60=- and the five parts of his being
<m-#tsenpey
korway uw,
+,k gyenden uw-ser tongbar jatsun na nge Are totally pure—the Five Buddhas who
have Gone to Bliss.
dorje kyiltrung tsul gyi shukpay pungpo namdak
k1*8- 0!}:-:m1-06m,-+$}=-0Wv+-R-1-9m-+1-+<m;-8"}:-[-
Deshek nga,
3~#=-+$-k
32
08m-+0v=k
kL}-I{-[m;-Cs$-3u;->m=-0bo#=-.8m-/v$-.}-M1-+#-0+{-#<{#=-
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
Tk
49
The four elements of His body are the [49]
k"1=-06m-9v1-06m-[{-1&{+-P-Wv=-3n#=-M1=-A$-&u0-={1=-
+.8-+$}=k four Holy Women; His doors of sense,
And His tendons and joints and
k0-(z-+E-0%}1-(m-Dm-&m#-%}$-9,-;#-D}-0}8m-+0$-.}-(m+k ligaments, are actual bodhisattvas.
k8}+-7{:-@}#=-[}$-#,}+-^m,-#=$-0-8'm#-K{,-.-M1=-60=- The pores of His skin are the 21,000
<m-#+,k destroyers of the enemy,
And His limbs no less than the Lord of
k1*8-0!}:-:m1-06m,-+$}=-0Wv+-R-1-9m-+1-+<m;-8"}:-[- the Angels Fierce.
3~#=-+$-k The rays of light are the protectors of
the directions;
Spirits of harm, secret, the worldly
[49] provide His platform.
kam shi Yum shi kyeche tsagyu tsik nam jangchub
sempa ngu, Surrounding Him are rows of my
bapu drachom nyitri chiktong yenlak Trowoy direct and lineage Lamas
Wangpo nyi, And masses of close Angels, Angels of
uw-ser chok-kyong nujin sangwa jiktenpa nam the secret world.
shab kyi den,
takor rimshin ngu-gyu Lama Yidam kyilnkor Hla
tsok dang,
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
50
k=$=-W=-A$-={1=-+.8-0}-1"8-8E}-0%,-Ns$-W-13~=- He sits circled by a sea of Buddhas and [50]
0!}:-,=-0bo#=k bodhisattvas,
Warriors and Their Angels, and the
k+{-+#-"}-#=v1-L}-I{-#=v1-13,-fzZ-9m#-8}+-7{:-U#=-<v-9m=k protectors of the Word—
k:$-06m,-#,=-,=-9{-<{=-.-M1=-],-H$=-+A{:-1{+-0K,- All marked by the triple diamond of the
.:->v:k three doors of expression.
And then from the letters hung fly rays of
51
k1-;v=-={1=-%,-\o,->m-1#},->v:-%m$-k light in the shape of hooks,
k0`o+-&{-+.v$-0%=-1m-07+-8'}1=-14+-[k Beckoning Beings of Wisdom from the
Land of Reality,
k+$}=-M1=-1-;v=-9$-+#-1={,->v:-.8mk Drawing Them in to melt indivisibly,
k0%}1-X,-8"}:-0%=-#,=-8+m:-#<{#=-=v-#=};k turning then perfectly firm.
52
[50] Z-0Z->}\+1-
k4\fzSangye 3n#-.-+$-#(m=-=v-1{+-.:->v:k Next make your request to the Garden: [51]
jangsem Pawo Kandro tensung gyatsu kor
k6{=ne-3~#shuk,
=-6m$-#=;-#+0k You are the protector
dedak go sum dorje sum tsen hung yik uw-ser
Of uncountable living beings;
chakkyu yi,
You are the Angel who smashes
rangshin ne ne yeshepa nam chendrang yer-me
Demonic forces of evil;
tenpar gyur.
You are the one who can see
[51] Every single existing thing—
malu semchen kun gyi gun-gyur ching O Conqueror, we beg you,
du-de pungche mi-se jomdze Hla Come here to this place,
ngu nam malu yangdak kyen gyurpay Along with those who attend you.
Chomden korche nendir sheksu sul.
35
k+$}=-M1=-1-;v=-9$-+#-1={,->v:-.8mk
k0%}1-X,-8"}:-0%=-#,=-8+m:-#<{#=-=v-#=};k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
52
k4\fzZ-0Z->}\+1-3n#-.-+$-#(m=-=v-1{+-.:->v:k Jah hung vam hoh [52]
They meld as one
With the Beings of Pledge.
k6{=-3~#=-6m$-#=;-#+0k
[52]
jah hung vam hoh,
damtsikpa dang nyisu mepar gyur
(she tsokshing seldab)
Bathe and Dress the Holy Beings
53
kDs=-<m-"$-.-<m,-_p-Hm-6m1-.k Now create the baths: [53]
k<{;->m-=-#6m-#=;-6m$-83|:-0-%:k Here is a crystal bathing house,
k:m,-&{,-80:-08m-!-0-9m-8}$-X,k Set in a fragrant breeze;
Its floor is glass,
k1v-)m#-8}+-&#=-R-:{-K{=-.-+{:k Sparkling clear.
k6{=-Ds=-"$-0[{+k Its lovely columns
Blaze in jewels,
54 With a pearl canopy
k'm-W:-0W1=-.-21->m=-,mk Glowing warm.
[53]
k[-Mtru1=-kyi<m=kangpa
-,m-Ds=-#shintu=};-Wdri:k shimpa
k[-9shel-&u-,gyim-+#-barway
mrinchen sashi
.-9m=selkkawashing tserwa tar
yi-ong den
k+{-0mutik
6m,-0+#- uchak labre drepa;der
# m =- ! r - D s =- # =} k
k?f-(she
=N-)trukang
-*r-#-)-?kye) -Lm-D{-!-)-=-1-9-Msm-9{-?\fzZk
55
k/v,-3~#=-+#{-;{#=-A{-0=-0`u,-.8m-!rk 37
k1*8-9=-8E}-08m-:{-0-!}$-08m-#=v$-k
k<{;->m-=-#6m-#=;-6m$-83|:-0-%:k
k:m,-&{,-80:-08m-!-0-9m-8}$-X,k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k1v-)m#-8}+-&#=-R-:{-K{=-.-+{:k
k6{=-Ds=-"$-0[{+k
54
k'm-W:-0W1=-.-21->m=-,mk
And then bathe the Holy Beings: [54]
k[-M1=-<m=-,m-Ds=-#=};-W:k
k[-9m-&u-,m-+#-.-9m=k I bathe you in
These crystal waters divine,
k+{-06m,-0+#-#m=-!r-Ds=-#=};k Just as all the Angels
Made offering by bathing him
k?f-=N-)-*r-#-)-?-Lm-D{-!-)-=-1-9-Msm-9{-?\fzZk Upon the occasion of his birth.
55
k/v,-3~#=-+#{-;{#=-A{-0=-0`u,-.8m-!rk Om sarva Tathagata abhishekata
samaya shriye ah hung.
[54]
k1*8-9=-8E}-08m-:{-0-!}$-08m-#=v$-k
k1-;jitar <tampa
{=-Akyi-'m-6tsam
vhla=-nam 7mgyi#=-nitar.8m-*v#=k
mni,-#trusul
k*v0hla
+0$-yiLchu
-deshin I{-8ni&$-
}-dak dakpa
; -
gi kutru sul.
! r - yis=-#=};k
D
k?f-=OmN-)-*r
sarva Tathagata
-#-)-?-L m-D{-!-)-=-1- abhishekata
9-Msm-9{-?\fzZk
samaya shriye ah hung
38
k[-9m-&u-,m-+#-.-9m=k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k+{-06m,-0+#-#m=-!r-Ds=-#=};k
k?f-=N-)-*r-#-)-?-Lm-D{-!-)-=-1-9-Msm-9{-?\fzZk
55
k/v,-3~#=-+#{-;{#=-A{-0=-0`u,-.8m-!rk Your holy body was born [55]
k1*8-9=-8E}-08m-:{-0-!}$-08m-#=v$-k From a billion perfect deeds;
Your words fulfill the hopes
k1-;v=-<{=-A-'m-6m,-#7m#=-.8m-*v#=k Of infinite living creatures;
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k Your mind perceives all things
Exactly as they are—
k?f-=N-)-*r-#-)-?-Lm-D{-!-)-=-1-9-Msm-9{-?\fzZk I bathe this divine form,
Lord of the Able Ones,
Keeper of the Diamond.
[55] Om sarva Tathagata abhishekata
puntsok gelek je-we trunpay ku samaya shriye ah hung.
ta-ye droway rewa kongway sung
malu sheja jishin sikpay tuk
Tubwang Dorje Chang la kutru sul
om sarva Tathagata abhishekata
samaya shriye ah hung
39
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
56
kW-&{,-]}+-.8m-0Wv+-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k I bathe the holy bodies [56]
k70-1}-W-08m-0Wv+-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k Of the Lamas
Of the Lineage of Far-Reaching Deeds;
k(1=-;{,-Am,-0T0=-0Wv+-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k
k0Wv+-.8m-R-1-M1=-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k I bathe the holy bodies
Of the Lamas
k?f-=N-)-*r-#-)-?-Lm-D{-!-)-=-1-9-Msm-9{-?\fzZk Of the Lineage of the Profound View;
57
k%},-.-=$=-W=-M1=-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k I bathe the holy bodies
Of the Lamas
k[}0-.-+1-&}=-M1=-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k Of the Lineage of Inspired Practice;
[56]
gyachen
k8H{,-. chupay
-+#{-8`o, -M1=-gyu;-!lar-Ds=
kutru
-#=}sul;k I bathe the holy bodies
sabmo taway gyu la kutru sul Of every Lama
nyamlen
k[0=- #,=-+jinlab!},-1&}gyu#-#la=vkutru
1-;-!sul
r-Ds=-#=};k Who has passed the teachings down.
k?f-gyupay -*r-#Lama
=OmN-)sarva -?-nam
Lm-D{-!la-)abhishekata
-)Tathagata kutru
-=-1-9sul.
-Msm-9{-?\fzZk
Om sarva Tathagata abhishekata
samaya
6{=-Ds=-#=};kshriye ah hung samaya shriye ah hung.
58
k+{-+#-!r-;-13u$=-.-1{+-.8m-#}=k
k#2$-;-Hm-:0-0"}=-.=-!r-@m8}k
k?f-fzZ-FsZ-Osm\?\\v-9-0m-<}-a-,-9{-:s-dwk
6{=-.=-!r-@m=-+$-
41
k0Wv+-.8m-R-1-M1=-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k
k?f-=N-)-*r-#-)-?-Lm-D{-!-)-=-1-9-Msm-9{-?\fzZk
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
57
k%},-.-=$=-W=-M1=-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k I bathe the holy bodies [57]
Of the Teachers,
k[}0-.-+1-&}=-M1=-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k The Enlightened Buddhas.
k8H{,-.-+#{-8`o,-M1=-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k I bathe the holy bodies
k[0=-#,=-+!},-1&}#-#=v1-;-!r-Ds=-#=};k Of our Protection,
The perfect Teachings.
k?f-=N-)-*r-#-)-?-Lm-D{-!-)-=-1-9-Msm-9{-?\fzZk
6{=-Ds=-#=};k I bathe the holy bodies
Of our Guides,
58 The Community.
k+{-+#-!r-;-13u$=-.-1{+-.8m-#}=k
k#2$-;-Hm-:0-0"}=-.=-!r-@m8}k I bathe the holy bodies
Of all three Supreme Gems,
k?f-fzZ-FsZ-Osm\?\\v-9-0m-<}-a-,-9{-:s-dwk To whom we go for shelter.
6{=-.=-!r-@m=-+$- Om sarva Tathagata abhishekata
samaya shriye ah hung.
[57]
tunpa Sangye nam la kutru sul
kyoppa damchu nam la kutru sul
drenpa gendun nam la kutru sul Next, dry their bodies: [58]
kyabne konchok sum la kutru sul.
Om sarva Tathagata abhishekata I dry now their holy bodies
samaya shriye ah hung With the most exquisite towels,
(she tru sul) Sparkling clean
[58] And divine in fragrance.
dedak ku la tsungpa mepay gu
tsang la drirab gu-pe ku chio. Om hung tram hrih,
Om hung tram hrih, ah kaya vishodhanaye sva ha ah kaya vishodhanaye sva ha.
(she-pe ku chi dang)
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
59
k%}$-#=v1-\o,-_p-Hm-$+-X$-0-9mk And now apply oil to their bodies: [59]
kHm-1&}#-M1=-<m=-*v0-+0$-M1=-<m-!rk I spread now scented oil
k#={:-^$=-02~-1-Am-+}:-A=-.-W:k Upon the holy bodies
Of these Lords of the Able Ones;
k8}+-&#=-80:-0-+{-+#-Av#-.:-0>mk They shine like purest gold
k6{=-.=-!r-Av# Polished to a perfect sheen
Wrapped in exquisite perfumes
60 Whose delicate fragrance drifts
kN0-8'1-9$-0-[-9m-#}=k To the edges of the universe.
k1m-@{+-L}-I{8m-!r-0J{=-;k
k1m-@{+-++-.=-0+#-80v;-,k Then dress them: [60]
With faith that is adamantine
k0+#-<$-L}-I{8m-!r-*}0-<}#
k%{=-#}=-+0v;k I offer these clothes of the gods,
Gossamer soft, light as a feather,
61
[59]
kW;-tong
0-1sum
3,-+kuntu
.{8m-:$-dri-nge
06m,-W,-dangwa
X,-@m:kyi To those who have attained
The body adamantine,
kW,-drichok
# 6,- + nam
#- # m =kyi
- 0 Tubwang
W,-. :-
serjang tsoma jidor jepa tar
1 m - 8nam
3;- 9 kyi
$- k ku The holy body of diamond;
And so may I as well
uw-chak
k:m,-&{, barwa
-W,-1&} #-/v;-0 dedak jukpar
=-8E}- 0-\o,gyik Achieve this diamond body.
(she-pe ku juk)
k13,-
[60]
+.{=-0W,-.8m-!r-;v=-*}0-.:-<}#
%{=-.sabjam
=-W,-/v;yangwa
k hla yi gu
mi-che dorjey ku nye la
mi-che de-pe dak bul na
dak kyang dorjey ku tob shok
(che gu ul)
45
k0+#-<$-L}-I{8m-!r-*}0-<}#
k%{=-#}=-+0v;k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
61
kW;-0-13,-+.{8m-:$-06m,-W,-X,-@m:k Next put on their jewelry: [61]
kW,-#6,-+#-#m=-0W,-.:-1m-83;-9$-k The Victorious Ones already possess
k:m,-&{,-W,-1&}#-/v;-0=-8E}-0-\o,k The natural ornament
Of the signs and marks of enlightenment;
k13,-+.{=-0W,-.8m-!r-;v=-*}0-.:-<}# As such they have no need
%{=-.=-W,-/v;k For other jewelry.
62
k0+#-+$-8E}-;-*v#=-0P{8m-@m:k Yet still I dress you now
In gems beyond all price,
k(m+-<m-Qw-8Js;-1*v-9m=-,mk With the prayer that every living being
Might one day reach the body
Adorned in those marks and signs.
k'm-Nm+-1&}+-.-0+#-0>m+-,k
k+{-Nm+-0%}1-X,-0bo#=-=v-#=};k
k6{=-.=-0bo#=-=v-#=};k Finally, ask them to stay in your life: [62]
63
[61]
T-.-0=#=-^$-#m-#,+-0&r=-.-9,-;#-0`o,-.-1b;-+$-0%=-.- I ask you, O Conquering Ones,
To stay here in my life
80v;Gyalwa
-0-,mk tsenpey rangshin gyenden chir
gyenshen dak gi gyenpar mi-tsel yang As long as I still make
k/v,rinchen
64
tsenpe +gyenchok
-3~#=-gyenpay#{-;{#=-kulu Apulwe=-0drowa
{-0toppar -.8mkun
`u,shok -!rk These precious gifts to you—
Use the might of miracles
(che-pe gyen pul) Which only you possess;
k1*8-
[62]
9=-8E}-08m-:{-0-!}$-08m-#=v$-k Do it out of your love for me,
k1-;dakv=-<{dang
=-A-dro'm-0la6m,-#
tuktsey 7m#=-chir.8m-*v#=k And for every other person.
kcv<nyi
8m-#kyi2~
jisi chupa -0dzutrul
}-+{-dak;-@gyi#-tu8nayi3;-ni ;}k
desi Chomden shuksu sul
k*v#(she-pe
65
=-I{-&{,shuksu
-.}-0+{-#sul)<{#=-L}-I{-8&$-k
47
k1&}#-#7m#=-){-;}-.-+$-av-:}-.k
k+.;-1&}#-Bf-Lm-.-+$-?-)m-<k
k0+#-+$-8E}-;-*v#=-0P{8m-@m:k
k(m+-<m-Qw-8Js;-1*v-9m=-,mk
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k'm-Nm+-1&}+-.-0+#-0>m+-,k
The Fifth Step:
Amassing and Purifying
k+{-Nm+-0%}1-X,-0bo#=-=v-#=};k
k6{=-.=-0bo#=-=v-#=};k
62
with the Seven-Part Prayer, and the Offering of the Mandala
k0+#-+$-8E}-;-*v#=-0P{8m-@m:k
63
T-k(m.+-0-<=#=- The fifth preparation is to perform the [63]
m-Qw-8Js^;$-#-1m-#*v,+--9m=0&r-,=mk-.-9,-;#-0`o,-.-1b;-+$-0%=-.- Seven-Part Prayer—a prayer which includes
80v;-0-,mk within it all the crucial arts of amassing good
k'm-Nm+-1&}+-.-0+#-0>m+-,k
64
[63],-3~#=-+#{-;{#=-A{-0=-0`u,-.8m-!rk karma and purifying negative karma, as well as
k/v
k+{-N(ngapa
m+-0%}1sakjang-X,-0bo#gi=-ne=dupa v-#=};Yenlak
k Dunpa mendel the Offering of the Mandala, a Perfect World.
k1*8--.dang
k6{= chepa
=-90=-bo#8 bulwa :{;-0k -!ni)}$-08m-#=v$-k
=-E}-=0v-#8m-=}
k1-
T-.;-0=#=-
63 v=-<{=^-A$--#'m-m-#0,+- 6m,0-#&r7m=#-.=--9,-.;8m-#-*v#0`o=k,-.-1b;-+$-0%=-.-
kcv The First of the Seven Parts:
80v<;-8m0--#,mk2~-0}-+{-;-@#-83;-;}k Bow Down
65
64
k*vk/v#,-=-3~#I{-=-&{,+-#{.}-0;+{{#-#=-<{A#{-0=-=-L0}-I`u{-8,&$-
-.8mk-!rk
Your holy body was born [64]
k1&}
k1*8-#9-#=-7m#8E}=-0){-8m;-:}-.{-0-+-!$-}$a-v0-:8m}-.-#k =v$-k From a billion perfect deeds;
k+.;-
k1- ;v=1-<&}{=#-A-B-'f-Lm-0m-.6m-+,$--#?7m-#)=-m-<k.8m-*v#=k Your words fulfill the hopes
Of infinite living creatures;
k(1=-
kcv <8m ;#2~{,-0A}-m,+-{0;T0=--@#-803;- Wv+-;}k-@#-83;-;}k Your mind perceives all things
Exactly as they are—
65 I bow down to the leader
[64]
k*v#=-I{-&{,-.}-0+{-#<{#=-L}-I{-8&$-k Of the Clan of Shakya.
k1&}puntsok
# - # 7m # gelek jewe trunpay ku
=- ){-;}-.-+$-av-:}-.k
ta‑ye droway rewa kongway sung
k+.;- malu 1&}#sheja jishin
-Bf-Lm-. -+$-?- sikpay)m-<ktuk
Shakyay Tsowo de la chaktsel lo
k(1=- ;{,-Am,-0T0=-0Wv+-;-@#-83;-;}k 49
k1-;v=-<{=-A-'m-06m,-#7m#=-.8m-*v#=k
kcv<8m-#2~-0}-+{-;-@#-83;-;}k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
65
k*v#=-I{-&{,-.}-0+{-#<{#=-L}-I{-8&$-k I bow down to the Lineage [65]
Of Inspired Practice—
k1&}#-#7m#=-){-;}-.-+$-av-:}-.k To the Keeper of Diamond,
k+.;-1&}#-Bf-Lm-.-+$-?-)m-<k Compassionate One, Gone to Bliss;
To Tilopa and Naropa,
k(1=-;{,-Am,-0T0=-0Wv+-;-@#-83;-;}k Who looked upon the ultimate;
To Dombipa and Atisha,
66
kA1=-.-*}#=-1{+-+Am#-#({,-M1-E};-&{k Ultimate in their glory.
k1&}#-&{-`o;-08m-&{-+$-E#=-.8m-+.;k
k={$-07$-\o-=-;m-#(m=-#={:-Qm$-.k
kW-&{,-]}+-.8m-0Wv+-;-@#-83;-;}k I bow down to the Lineage [66]
Of Far-Reaching Deeds:
67 To Maitreya, the Loving One;
k8'1-+A$=-9}+-1{+-@}#=-8'm#-Pz-au0-+$-k To Asanga, Vasubandhu,
[65]
kS-0-tukje And Vimukti Sena;
E#=-. chenpo Deshek
-:m#-.8m -"v-Av#-Dorje
&{k Chang Parama Sena, Vinita Sena,
choksik Telopa dang Naropa
And Yasha Shri;
pelchok Dombipa dang Atisha
k=$=- W=-+#}$=-[}$-8/#=-.-90-N=-=}#=k
Haribhadra, the two Kusalis,
k70-nyamlen
1}-W-08m-jinlab
0Wv+-;gyu -@#-la83;-
chaktsel
;}k lo And Suvarna Dvipa.
68
[66]
k0<+- au0-#+1=-.8m-1&}#-1$8-?-)m-<k
Jampa Tokme Yiknyen Namdrul De
Chokde
k0!8- #+1=- Dulway
0%,-.De8m-1dang{=-.}-8Drakpay
K}1-%},-IPel
{k
kM;-Sengsang
gyachen chupay
8 A} : - M1- Kusali nyi Serlingpa
0 6m-!r-1gyu
&{+-la#=vchaktsel
1-;-=}#lo=k
k0!8-#+1=-R-1-M1=-;-@#-83;-;}k
51
k={$-07$-\o-=-;m-#(m=-#={:-Qm$-.k
kW-&{,-]}+-.8m-0Wv+-;-@#-83;-;}k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
67
k8'1-+A$=-9}+-1{+-@}#=-8'm#-Pz-au0-+$-k I bow down to the Lineage [67]
Of the Profound View:
To Manjushri,
kS-0-E#=-.-:m#-.8m-"v-Av#-&{k
k=$=-W=-+#}$=-[}$-8/#=-.-90-N=-=}#=k And to Nagarjuna—
Who destroyed both sides,
k70-1}-W-08m-0Wv+-;-@#-83;-;}k The idea that things can exist
And the idea that they can’t;
68
k0<+-au0-#+1=-.8m-1&}#-1$8-?-)m-<k To Chandrakirti,
And Vidya Kokila the Elder;
k0!8-#+1=-0%,-.8m-1{=-.}-8K}1-%},-I{k To the realized Father and Son
Who defended
kM;-8A}:-M1-06m-!r-1&{+-#=v1-;-=}#=k Lord Buddha’s true thought;
k0!8-#+1=-R-1-M1=-;-@#-83;-;}k And to many other masters.
[67]
Jamyang yu-me chokjik Ludrup dang I bow down [68]
Dawa Drakpa Rikpay Kujuk Che To the Lamas of the Kadampa:
Sangye gong-kyong Pakpa Yabse sok To Atisha, who kept the highest advices
Sabmo taway gyu la chaktsel lo Of learning and of practice;
To Dromtun Je, the forefather
[68] Of the teachings of the Kadampa;
shedrup dampay chok-nga Atisha And to masters such as
Kadam tenpay mepo Dromtun Je The Four High Practitioners
Nelnjor Nam Shi Ku-che Sum la sok And the Three Close Brothers.
Kadam Lama nam la chaktsel lo
53
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
69
k#$=-%,-<m$-K8m-N};-8A{+-2~$-"-.k I bow down [69]
To the Father and his Sons,
k+$}=-%}0=-:m#=-.8m-+0$-@v#-W;-30-I{k Along with all their line—
k1+}-##=-0%,-.8m-0+#-.}-1"=-Es0-I{k To Je Tsongkapa,
Innovator from the Land of Snows;
k90-N=-0Wv+-.:-0%=-;-@#-83;-;}k To Gyaltsab Je,
King of deductive reasoning;
70
k[0=-#=v1-\o,-8`o=-R-1-L}-I{-8&$-k And to Kedrup Je,
Lord of the open and secret Word.
k#$-;-#$-8`o;-0<{=-#({,-3u;-07v$-,=k
k1&}#-+$-*v,-1}$-+$}=-Es0-+};-14+-.8mk
kHm,-%,-R-1-M1=-;-@#-83;-;}k I bow down [70]
To my Lamas of kindness—
71 Each one in truth the Teacher
k:0-
[69]
8A1=-#=v$-:0-\o,-;-0W-08m-1m# Who Keeps the Diamond,
k!;-gangchen
07$-*:-.shingtay
:-0E}+-.sulje
8m-8'v#Tsongkapa
-$}#=-1&}# The Triple Shelter all wrapped
ngutob rikpay wangchuk Gyaltsab Je Within a single being—
k0P{do-ngak
-0=-0[}+tenpay dakpo
-.8m-*0=- 1"=-Kedrup
14+-.Je-9m=k Pretending to come to me
yabse gyupar che la chaktsel lo As my own spiritual guide,
k#=;- 14+-0<{=-#({,-M1=-;-@#-83;-;}k In whatever form it takes
[70]
To tame me, and bestow
kyab sum kundu Lama Dorje Chang Both highest and common goals.
gang la gang dul She-nyen tsul sung ne
chok dang tunmong ngudrup tsul dzepay
drinchen Lama nam la chaktsel lo
55
k1&}#-+$-*v,-1}$-+$}=-Es0-+};-14+-.8mk
kHm,-%,-R-1-M1=-;-@#-83;-;}k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
71
k:0-8A1=-#=v$-:0-\o,-;-0W-08m-1m# I bow down [71]
k!;-07$-*:-.:-0E}+-.8m-8'v#-$}#=-1&}# To my spiritual guides—
You are eyes to see
k0P{-0=-0[}+-.8m-*0=-1"=-14+-.-9m=k Each of the billion scriptures;
You are the ultimate entry point
k#=;-14+-0<{=-#({,-M1=-;-@#-83;-;}k For the fortunate
72
Who seek to travel to freedom;
k#=$-0-8`o=-.-0+{-+>{=->{-:v-!- You show me things
With skillful means,
k+.;-&{,-L}-I{-8'm#=-A{+-;-=}#=-.k Driven by your love.
kE$=-1{+-Wv+-&{-06m-9m-8"}:-;}8m-1#},k
k9m-+1-[-3~#=-M1=-;-@#-83;-;}k
I bow down to the host [72]
73
k1*v,-.8m-*},-;1-+#{-3~#=-O+-Av$-6m$-k Of Angels and Close Angels:
To the Secret Collection, Highest Bliss,
[71]
k]+-.-]}+-3|-,1-9$-1&{+->v:-;k Lo Diamond and Heruka;
rabjam sungrab kun la taway mik To the Lady of Glory
kelsang
k0!;- 07$-#tarpar
%m#-;drupay
-14+-.-juk-ngok
1*:-@m,-.chok
8mk And to the Lord of Terror—
kQ}#tsewe
=- . 8m kyupay
- = $=- W tapke
=- % } $ - dzepa
; -
selndze She-nyen nam la chaktsel lo
@ #- yi3;-;}k
8 To the countless Saviors
Of all the teachings
74 In all four groups
k13,-;{#=-:m,-&{,-#={:-07$-B-$,-1{+k
[72] Of the Secret Word.
k&}=Sangwa
-E#=-1Dupa $},-1={De,-*Gye,-WHeruka
;-cv<-*v0k
Pelchen Dorje Jikje lasokpa
kW-&drangme
{,-*},-;1-gyu-de
+#}$=-shi.-9yi}$korloy
=-Q}#=-gun
.k
k0+{Yidam
-0:-#<{Hlatsok
#=-.-0W+-nam;la -@chaktsel
#-83;-;lo}k
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kE$=-1{+-Wv+-&{-06m-9m-8"}:-;}8m-1#},k
k9m-+1-[-3~#=-M1=-;-@#-83;-;}k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
73
k1*v,-.8m-*},-;1-+#{-3~#=-O+-Av$-6m$-k I bow down [73]
To the Thousand Perfect Buddhas
k]+-.-]}+-3|-,1-9$-1&{+->v:-;k Who will appear within this eon,
k0!;-07$-#%m#-;-14+-.-1*:-@m,-.8mk And in those blessed years
Accomplish all they planned—
kQ}#=-.8m-=$=-W=-%}$-;-@#-83;-;}k You made your prayers together
For us in future times;
74 You labored to gather the karma
k13,-;{#=-:m,-&{,-#={:-07$-B-$,-1{+k In miraculous amounts;
k&}=-E#=-1$},-1={,-*,-W;-cv<-*v0k And all the deeds you do will spread
In the universe, forever.
kW-&{,-*},-;1-+#}$=-.-9}$=-Q}#=-.k
k0+{-0:-#<{#=-.-0W+-;-@#-83;-;}k I bow down [74]
To the Eight Who Have Gone to Bliss:
To Good Name, Jewel, and Fine Gold,
[73] And the One Beyond All Sadness;
tunpay munlam getsok mejung shing To Singer of Teachings, to the Seer,
chepa chutse namyang che gyur la To Medicine Buddha and Shakyamuni—
kelsang chik la dzepa tar chinpay May all the vastness of your prayers
dzokpay Sangye tong la chaktsel lo And all the wishes of your hearts
Come completely true.
[74]
Tsenlek Rinchen Sersang Nya-ngen-me
Chudrak Ngunkyen Mengyal Shakya Tup
gyachen munlam gongpa yongdzokpa
Dewar Shekpa Gye la chaktsel lo
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
75
75
k\o,-8Av$-1v,-.8m-=-0},-1*:-14+-%m$-k I bow down [75]
To the high Dharma
k&r#-0#;-7v#-Hw8m-P-0-Hs$=-,=-8Am,k Of all three of the ways:
kW;-9v1-<{=-:0-/-:};-@m,-;-=}#=k To the Mother of the Victors,
The Perfection of Wisdom,
k*{#-#=v1-+1-.8m-&}=-;-@#-83;-;}k And every other teaching—
To those that put an end
76
76
k8'1-+A$=-@#-,-L}-I{-],-:=-#7m#=k To the seed, the darkness,
The source of pain;
k=-9m-$m$-.}-am0-.-M1-.:-={;k And rip from its very roots
The agony of the pain itself.
k,1-1"8m-$m$-.}-A1=-.-\o,-_p-07$-k
k({-08m-N=-&{,-0W+-;-@#-83;-;}k
77
77 I bow down [76]
k70-1}-K{,-8K{;-0%t-#(m=-;{#=-0"}1=-.=k To the great ones,
[75] Av$-:$-=$=-W=-<m-9{-<{=-,mk
k:$- The Eight Close Sons:
k0K{kunjung
,dukngel munpay sabun tarndze ching
-.-1{+-.suk-nguy
8m-3u;->m=tsawa
-*v#=-&drung
u+-.8mkne jin To Gentle Voice,
The Holder of the Diamond,
gyalyum sherab parul chin la sok And Loving Eyes;
tek sum
k8/#=- .-:$-dampay
W;-M1=-chu;la-@#-chaktsel
83;-;lo}k To the Heart of the Earth,
And Destroyer of Obstacles;
[76] To the Heart of the Sky,
Jamyang Chakna Dorje Chenresik And Loving One,
Sayi Nyingpo Drippa Nampar Sel And Perfect Goodness too.
Namkay Nyingpo Jampa Kuntu Sang
nyeway sechen gye la chaktsel lo
59
76
k8'1-+A$=-@#-,-L}-I{-],-:=-#7m#=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k=-9m-$m$-.}-am0-.-M1-.:-={;k
k,1-1"8m-$m$-.}-A1=-.-\o,-_p-07$-k
k({-08m-N=-&{,-0W+-;-@#-83;-;}k
77
k70-1}-K{,-8K{;-0%t-#(m=-;{#=-0"}1=-.=k I bow down [77]
To those realized beings,
k:$-Av$-:$-=$=-W=-<m-9{-<{=-,mk The self-made buddhas—
k0K{,-.-1{+-.8m-3u;->m=-*v#=-&u+-.8mk To those who without any help
Plumbed the depths of the wisdom
k8/#=-.-:$-W;-M1=-;-@#-83;-;}k Of the self-made ones, the self-made
victors,
By meditating carefully
On that profound concept:
[77] The twelve links of dependent creation.
sabmo tendrel chu-nyi lek gompe
rangjung rang sangye kyi yeshe ni
tenpa mepay tsul gyi tuk chupay
pakpa rang-gyel nam la chaktsel lo
60
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
78
k*v0-.=-0!8-0"}=-0%,-.8m-W;-13,-84n,k I bow down [78]
k9,-;#-8Av$-+$-1-/1-,#=-,-#,=k To the Sixteen Elders
And all those in their retinue,
k`o=-X,-L}-I{-1}8m-0v-07$-.}-+$-k Serving at Lord Buddha’s decree,
k#={:-0{8v-L-:-h-4-#={:-%,-1&}# Upholding the banner of the Dharma:
To the one Born in the Branches,
k8/#=-.-0-\o-;-+$-a-#%,-84n,k And the Undefeatable;
k;1-J,-L-:-h-4-0=}+-$}1=-;{,k To the Forest Hermit, and the Patriarch;
To the Son of the Lady of the Diamond;
k;1-0%,-Pz8m-&{-){+-A{+-1m-@{+-.k To Good One and the Golden Child;
To the great Bharadvaja of the Gold,
k#,=-0K,-8"}:-+$-0%=-;-@#-83;-;}k And the realized being Bakula;
To Dark Planet, and the Trail;
79
k1"8-;-]}+-.8m-#,=-1&}#-+1-.-,=k To Bharadvaja the Mendicant,
The Guide, Dragon’s Horde;
[78]
k1$}Tuppe
,-<{=-kagu
Qw-8Js;tenpay
-1$8-0gyeltsen
8m-1*v-%}0dzin
=-%,k The Concealer, and to the Unbroken.
Yenlak
kau0-.- .}-;-1Jung dang
-9m=-0 Mapam
v-06m,-# 7m#=kNak Na Ne
Dunden Dorjemoy Bu Sangpo dang
Serbeu
k#,=- #=v1Bharadvaja
-1"8-8E}8m-Serchen
3~#=-;-@chok #-83;-;}k
80
Pakpa Bakula dang Drachen Dzin
Lamtren
k#},-3|-0 Bharadvaja
%}1-X,-8 +=-<m-],-#-Su-nyom
:vk Len
k&}=Lamten
06m,-akorLuy
-Neten -1De4+-che
u0-.dang Be-je Michepa
.8mla-#chaktsel
$-7#-M1=k lo
k0v-06m,-[}$-0:-6;->m=-06{=-.-9mk
k&}=-[}$-Ns$-18m-3~#=-;-@#-83;-;}k
61
k;1-0%,-Pz8m-&{-){+-A{+-1m-@{+-.k
k#,=-0K,-8"}:-+$-0%=-;-@#-83;-;}k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
79
k1"8-;-]}+-.8m-#,=-1&}#-+1-.-,=k I bow down [79]
To the multitude
k1$},-<{=-Qw-8Js;-1$8-08m-1*v-%}0=-%,k Of the Angels of the Sky,
kau0-.-.}-;-1-9m=-0v-06m,-#7m#=k Who cover all three realms—
Who see beyond the seen,
k#,=-#=v1-1"8-8E}8m-3~#=-;-@#-83;-;}k Who can appear anywhere at will,
Women of miracles;
80
k#},-3|-0%}1-X,-8+=-<m-],-#-:vk Who from their holy paradise,
The Heaven of the Sky,
k&}=-06m,-au0-.-14+-.8m-#$-7#-M1=k Look down in love on those of us
Who try to do our practice,
k0v-06m,-[}$-0:-6;->m=-06{=-.-9mk As mothers gaze on children.
k&}=-[}$-Ns$-18m-3~#=-;-@#-83;-;}k
[79] I bow down [80]
ka la chupay nechok dampa ne To the host of Guardians,
ngunshe dzutrul ngaway tutobchen Protectors of the Dharma,
druppapo la ma yi bu shin sik Who in ancient days
ne sum Kandroy tsok la chaktsel lo Knelt before the Conquering Buddhas
And swore they would protect
[80]
All those who rightly practice the Dharma,
ngun tse Chomden De kyi chen nga ru
As if they were their very own
chushin druppa dzepay gangsak nam
Beloved sons and daughters.
bu shin kyongwar shel gyi shepa yi
chu-kyong sungmay tsok la chaktsel lo
63
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
81
k9v;-8"}:-0Ns$-+$-8/#=-[{=-.}k I bow down [81]
To the Four Great Kings,
k],-1m-07$-+$-M1-*}=-N=k Each with their own group of followers
k:$-:$-8"}:-8`o;-"}-06m-0Ns$-k Whom they have subdued,
And each protecting one of the Gates:
kW;-&{,-06m-;-@#-83;-;}k To the Guardian of the Land,
To the Highness,
82
k@#-A:-8}=-.-*1=-%+-;k To Dreadful Gaze,
And to Prince of Learning.
k6m$-Ly;-\o,->m-E$=-${+-<mk
k;v=-0_p+-.-9m=-M1-\o,-_pk
k1&}#-_p-++-.=-@#-83;-;}k
And finally [82]
83 I split my body
k8/#=-.-8'1-+.;-#6},-ao:->v:-.-;-@#-83;-;}k Into as many bodies
As there are atoms
k'm[81]-$Yulkor
84
{+-=v-+#-Sung
@}#=-dang
0%t8m-Pak
8'm#Kyepo
-K{,-,k In this universe;
And with each of these bodies
k`o=Chen -#=v1Misang
-#<{#=-dang
.-1m-9Namtu
m-={$-#{-\Seo,k I throw myself down
rang rang kor dul go shi sung
And bow,
k0+#- Gyelchen
#m=-1-;Shiv=-+la{-+chaktsel
#-*1=-%lo+-;k In pure devotion,
[82]=-+$-$#-9m+-+$-0=-@#-0>m8}k
k;v To anyone anywhere
chakjar upa tamche la Whose deeds deserve
shingdul kun gyi drang nye kyi My honor.
lu tupa yi nam kun tu
chok tu de-pe chaktsel lo
64
82
k@#-A:-8}=-.-*1=-%+-;k
k6m$-Ly;-\o,->m-E$=-${+-<mk Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k;v=-0_p+-.-9m=-M1-\o,-_pk The Second of the Seven Parts:
Make Lovely Offerings
k1&}#-_p-++-.=-@#-83;-;}k
83
I bow down to the realized one, to the [83]
k8/#=-.-8'1-+.;-#6},-ao:->v:-.-;-@#-83;-;}k
84
glorious Gentle Voice, become young.
k'm-${+-=v-+#-@}#=-0%t8m-8'm#-K{,-,k
k`o=-#=v1-#<{#=-.-1m-9m-={$-#{-\o,k
k0+#-#m=-1-;v=-+{-+#-*1=-%+-;k I bow down [84]
To anyone
k;v=-+$-$#-9m+-+$-0=-@#-0>m8}k In any corner of the universe
Who has reached enlightenment,
Who is reaching enlightenment,
Who will ever reach enlightenment—
[83] I bow with my body,
pakpa Jampel shunnur gyurpa la chaktsel lo I bow with my words,
I bow with my mind,
[84] To every single one of them,
ji-nye su dak chokchuy jikten na To these lions of living kind.
dusum Shekpa mi yi senge kun
dak gi malu dedak tamche la
lu dang ngak yi dangwe chakgyio
65
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
85
k07$-.}-]}+-.8m-*},-;1-%}0=-+#-#m=k I throw myself down [85]
Before every Victorious Buddha—
kW;-0-*1=-%+-9m+-<m-1$},-=v1-`ok And by the power of the Prayer of Perfect
k6m$-#m-Ly;-${+-;v=-:0-0_p+-.-9m=k Goodness,
May each of them see directly in front of
kW;-0-\o,-;-:0-_p-@#-83;-;}k them
Copies of me equal in number
86
kLy;-#%m#-%{$-,-Ly;-${+-=$=-W=-M1=k To the atoms of the universe,
Each one bowing in perfect devotion.
k=$=-W=-N=-<m-+0v=-,-0bo#=-.-+#
k+{-W:-&}=-<m-+Am$=-M1=-1-;v=-.k
k*1=-%+-W;-0-+#-#m=-#$-0:-1}=k At this very moment, [86]
Buddhas equal in number
87 To the atoms of the universe
k+{-+#-0##=-.-1m-7+-W-13~-M1=k Are sitting surrounded
[85]
k+A$=- <m-9,-;#-W-13~8m-a-\o,->m=k By their bodhisattva sons and daughters
Sangpo Chupay munlam tob dag gi Inside every atom there is.
kW;-Gyalwa
0-\o,->tamche
m-9},-),-yi:0-kyi0I}ngunsum
+-%m$-k du I close my eyes and see
k0+{shing
0:-#gi<{#kun
-Gyalwa dul nye lu rab tupa yi
=-.la-*rabtu
1=-%+-chaktsel
0+#-#lom=-0%}+k Every emptiness there is
Filled to overflowing
With all the victorious Buddhas.
[86]
dul chik teng na dul-nye Sangye nam
sangye se kyi uw na shukpa dak
detar chu kyi ying nam malupa
tamche Gyalwa dak gi gangwar mu
67
86
kLy;-#%m#-%{$-,-Ly;-${+-=$=-W=-M1=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k=$=-W=-N=-<m-+0v=-,-0bo#=-.-+#
k+{-W:-&}=-<m-+Am$=-M1=-1-;v=-.k
k*1=-%+-W;-0-+#-#m=-#$-0:-1}=k
87
k+{-+#-0##=-.-1m-7+-W-13~-M1=k I sing the endless praises [87]
k+A$=-<m-9,-;#-W-13~8m-a-\o,->m=k Of each and every being
Who has ever Gone to Bliss—
kW;-0-\o,->m-9},-),-:0-0I}+-%m$-k I sing on the sound
k0+{-0:-#<{#=-.-*1=-%+-0+#-#m=-0%}+k Of every wave
Breaking now on every shore
Of the oceans of the earth,
Sing of the high good qualities
Of every conquering Buddha.
[87]
dedak ngakpa mi-se gyatso nam
yang kyi yenlak gyatsoy dra kun gyi
Gyalwa kun gyi yunten rabju ching
Dewar Shekpa tamche dak gi tu
69
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
88
k1{-)}#-+1-.-J{$-0-+1-.-+$-k And I present gifts [88]
k=m;-$,-M1=-+$-Av#-.-#`o#=-1&}#-+$-k To every Victorious One—
Perfect flowers,
k1:-1{-1&}#-+$-0`o#-(}=-+1-.-9m=k Perfect strings of flowers,
Perfect songs of bells,
kW;-0-+{-+#-;-,m-1&}+-.:-0>mk Perfect oils spread upon their bodies,
Perfect parasols,
89
k,-078-+1-.-M1=-+$-Hm-1&}#-+$-k Perfect lamps,
Perfect incense.
k@{-1-/v:-1-:m-:0-1(1-.-+$-k
k0!}+-.-=+-.:-8/#=-.8m-1&}#-\o,->m=k
kW;-0-+{-+#-;-,m-1&}+-.:-0>mk Gifts I present [89]
To every Victorious One—
90
k1&}+-.-#$-M1=-R-1{+-W-&{-0k Perfect silken softness to wear,
[88] Perfect fragrances,
metok
k+{-+#- dampa
W;-0- trengwa
*1=-%+- dampa
;-9$-1 }=k dang Piles of incense powder
sil-nyen nam dang jukpa dukchok dang Higher than the Himalayas;
marme
k07$- .}-]}+chok
-;-++-dang
.8m-%dukpu
}0=-+#-dampa
#m=k yi Perfect in their arrangement,
kW;-Gyalwa
0-\o,-;dedak
-@#-8la3;-ni1chupar
&}+-.:-gyi
0>mk Simple and total perfection.
[89]
91
k1b;-,mk
nabsa dampa nam dang drichok dang
chema purma rirab nyampa dang
kupa kyepar pakpay chok kun gyi
Gyalwa dedak la ni chupar gyi
71
k0!};-+-$.,--=M+-1=-.:-+8$-Av/#=-
k=m #-..-#8m-`o1#&}=-#-1\o&},-#>- m+=$-k k
kW;-10{-1+{-&}+#-+;-$-,m-01`o&}#-+-(}.=:-+01->mk.-9m=k
k1:- Jorchu, The Meditation Song
90
kW;-+0-.-+-#{-+$-#-M;1=- -,m-1R&}-1+{+-.-W:--&0{->m0kk
k1&} In my mind I send each of these offerings, [90]
89
k+{k,-+0#-78-W+;-1-0.- -*M1=-
1=-%++-$-;H-m91$-&}#1}-=+k$-k Unsurpassable, spread as far as the sky,
To every Enlightened Being there is.
k07$-
k@{-1-/.v:}-]-1}+-:-;m-:-+0-+-1.(1-8m-%.}0-+=-$-+k#-#m=k By the mystical power of my devotion
To the Practice of Perfect Goodness,
kW;-+-0.- -\o=,-+-;.-@:-#-8 8/#=-
k0!} 3;-.18m&}-+1-&}.#:-0\o>m,-k>m=k I hereby bow and make my gifts
To every Enlightened Being there is.
91
kW;- 0 - + {- +#- ; - , m- 1 &} +- . :- 0 k
[90]
k1b;-,mk >m
k1&}chupa
90
dedak Gyalwa
+ - . - # gang nam la-me gya chewa
$-M1=-Rtamche -1{+-W-&la{-0yang k mu
k+{-+Sangpo
#-W;-0Chu -*1=-la %depay
+-;-9tob$-1dag
Gyalwa kun la chaktsel chupar gyi
}=k gi
k07$-.}-]}+-;-++-.8m-%}0=-+#-#m=k
kW;-0-\o,-;-@#-83;-1&}+-.:-0>mk Offer the Mandala, a Perfect World
91
k1b;-,mk
Make now the offering of the Mandala—of a [91]
92
?f-0.-Lq-1m-?r\fzZk Perfect World:
+0$-&{,-#={:->m-=-#6mk
Om vajra bhumi ah hung, [92]
93
[91]
?f-0.-:{-"{-?r\fzZk Here is the mighty ground of gold.
@m[92]-U(mendel
#=-:m-"}:ni)-9v#-#m=-0!}:-08m-
94
om vajra bhumi ah hung
+0vwangchen
=-=v-:m8m-W;-ser.}-gyi
:m-:0ksashi <:-;v=-8/#=-.}k [}-841-
0v-Qm$-k ao0-0-;$-]}+k A$-a-1m-$,k 73
95
;v=-+$-;v=-8/#=k H-90-+$-H-90-#6,k #9}-X,-
?f-0.-Lq-1m-?r\fzZk
+0$-&{,-#={:->m-=-#6mk Jorchu, The Meditation Song
93
?f-0.-:{-"{-?r\fzZk Om vajra rekhe ah hung, [93]
@m-U#=-:m-"}:-9v#-#m=-0!}:-08m- Here is the surrounding
Outer wall of mountains.
94
+0v=-=v-:m8m-W;-.}-:m-:0k <:-;v=-8/#=-.}k [}-841-
0v-Qm$-k ao0-0-;$-]}+k A$-a-1m-$,k
In the center is Summit, [94]
95 King of Mountains.
;v=-+$-;v=-8/#=k H-90-+$-H-90-#6,k #9}-X,- To the east is Greatbody,
+$-;1-1&}#-8E}k a-1m-$,-+$-a-1m-$,->m-Sk To the south is Jambu,
To the west is Cattle,
96 To the north is Sound of Terror.
:m,-.}-&{8m-:m-0}k +.#-0=1->m-<m$-k 8+}+-8'}8m-0k
1-O}=-.8m-;}-)}#
[93]
k8"}om
97 vajra rekhe ah hung
:chi-;chakri
}-:m,-.}-koryuk
&{k ,}gi:-0korway
v-:m,-.}-&{k 02t,-1}-:m,-.}-&{k Body and Greatbody, [95]
R},-.}-:m,-.}-&{k Q$-.}-:m,-.}-&{k K-1&}#-:m,-.}-&{k Oxtail and the Second,
[94] Moving and the High Path,
+1#-uw+.}su,-riy
:m,-gyalpo
.}-&{k rirab,
#){:shar
-&{,-.lu}8m-0pakpo,
v1-.k hlo dzambu Sound of Terror and its Mate.
ling, nub balang chu, jang dra mi-nyen
[95]
lu dang lupak, ngayab dang ngayab shen, yonden
dang lam chokdro, dra mi-nyen dang
dra mi-nyen gyi da
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;v=-+$-;v=-8/#=k H-90-+$-H-90-#6,k #9}-X,-
+$-;1-1&}#-8E}k a-1m-$,-+$-a-1m-$,->m-Sk Jorchu, The Meditation Song
96
:m,-.}-&{8m-:m-0}k +.#-0=1->m-<m$-k 8+}+-8'}8m-0k Here is the Jewel Mountain, [96]
The Tree of Wishes,
1-O}=-.8m-;}-)}# The Cow that gives
Whatever you want;
97
k8"}:-;}-:m,-.}-&{k ,}:-0v-:m,-.}-&{k 02t,-1}-:m,-.}-&{k Crops that grow themselves.
R},-.}-:m,-.}-&{k Q$-.}-:m,-.}-&{k K-1&}#-:m,-.}-&{k
Here is the precious Wheel, [97]
+1#-+.},-:m,-.}-&{k #){:-&{,-.}8m-0v1-.k
98 The precious Jewel,
"{#-1}-1k J{$-0-1k Qz-1k #:-1k 1{-)}#-1k The precious Queen,
The precious Chancellor,
0`o#-(}=-1k '$-#=;-1k Hm-&0-1k The precious Elephant,
99 The precious Horse,
(m-1k S-0k :m,-.}-&{8m-#`o#=k @}#=-;=-M1-.:- The precious General,
[96] The goldmine of the Vase.
W;- rinpochey
08m-W;-13,k riwo, paksam gyi shing, dujoy ba, ma
100
mupay lotok
+0v=-=v-[-+$-1m8m-+.;-8A}:-/v,-=v1-3~#=-.-1-3$-0-1{+-.-
[97] 6m$-9m+-`o-8}$-0- Here is the Lady posing lovely, [98]
#2$- korlo rinpoche, norbu rinpoche, tsunmo rinpoche, The Lady of the garland,
The Lady of song,
8+m-+lunpo
101
makpun
#- H m , rinpoche, langpo rinpoche, tachok rinpoche,
-%,-rinpoche,
P-0-+$-0terWv+chenpoy
-.:-0%=-bumpa
.8m-+.;-X,-R-1-+1- The Lady of dance,
The Lady of flower,
.-M1=-+$-k =+-.:-`o-9$-R-1-R}-07$-*v0-+0$-L}-I{- The Lady of incense,
[98]
The Lady of lamps,
8&$- gegmoma,
&{,-.}8m-[-3trengwama,
~#=-8"}:-+$-luma,
0%=-garma,
.-M1=-metokma,
;-6m$-"1=-
The Lady of perfume.
+0v;dukpuma,
-0:-0>m8}knangselma, drichabma
102 77
k*v#=-I{=-8E}-08m-+},-`o-06{=-=v-#=};k k06{=-,=-<$-
0+#-=}#=-8E}-0-1:->v:-,1-1"8m-1*8-+$-1(1-.8m-
"{#-1}-1k J{$-0-1k Qz-1k #:-1k 1{-)}#-1k
0`o#-(}=-1k '$-#=;-1k Hm-&0-1k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
99
(m-1k S-0k :m,-.}-&{8m-#`o#=k @}#=-;=-M1-.:- Here is the Sun, [99]
Here is the Moon,
W;-08m-W;-13,k The jeweled Parasol,
100 The Banner of victory.
+0v=-=v-[-+$-1m8m-+.;-8A}:-/v,-=v1-3~#=-.-1-3$-0-1{+-.-
#2$-6m$-9m+-`o-8}$-0-
101
Here in the middle [100]
8+m-+#-Hm,-%,-P-0-+$-0Wv+-.:-0%=-.8m-+.;-X,-R-1-+1- Are all the riches
Of gods and humans;
.-M1=-+$-k =+-.:-`o-9$-R-1-R}-07$-*v0-+0$-L}-I{- Excellent, total, all there is;
8&$-&{,-.}8m-[-3~#=-8"}:-+$-0%=-.-M1=-;-6m$-"1=- Totally pure, exquisite.
+0v;-0:-0>m8}k
102
k*v[99]#=-I{=-8E}-08m-+},-`o-06{=-=v-#=};k k06{=-,=-<$- All this I offer to my kind and holy [101]
Root and lineage Lamas,
0+#-=} nyima, dawa,
#=-8E} rinpochey
-0-1:->v:-,1-1duk,
"8m-1chok*8-le+$-1
nampar
(1-.8m- And especially
1=-gyalway
={[100] %,-*1=-gyeltsen
%+-;-*v#=-0P{-0-&{,-.}8m-"}-,=-Am,->m=- Do I present this Paradise
To the Lama, Lobsang,
0T0-uw _ p - su=};
# hlak dang miy pelnjor punsum tsokpa ma- Lord of the Able Ones,
tsangwa mepa tsang shing yi-du ongwa Great Keeper of the Diamond,
[101] And to all the host of Angels
didak drinchen Tsawa dang gyupar chepay pelnden In their retinue.
Lama dampa nam dang, kyepar du yang Lama
Lobsang Tubwang Dorje Chang chenpoy hlatsok
kor dang chepa nam la shingkam ulwar gyio
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8&$-&{,-.}8m-[-3~#=-8"}:-+$-0%=-.-M1=-;-6m$-"1=-
+0v;-0:-0>m8}k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
102
k*v#=-I{=-8E}-08m-+},-`o-06{=-=v-#=};k k06{=-,=-<$- Give in to Your compassion, [102]
And for the sake of
0+#-=}#=-8E}-0-1:->v:-,1-1"8m-1*8-+$-1(1-.8m- Every living being
={1=-%,-*1=-%+-;-*v#=-0P{-0-&{,-.}8m-"}-,=-Am,->m=- Accept my offering,
Accept and in Your infinite love
0T0-_p-#=};k Bless me and all others,
Every suffering creature there is,
103 Living beings who stretch as far
k=-#6m-(}=-<m=-Av#=-<m$-1{-)}#-0C1k As space itself,
k:m-:0-Qm$-06m-(m-S=-0W,-.-8+mk Every one my mother.
k=$=-W=-6m$-`o-+1m#=-){-+0v;-0:-0>mk
Here is the great Earth, [103]
k8E}-\o,-M1-+#-6m$-;-]}+-.:-<}# Filled with the smell of incense,
Covered with a blanket of flowers.
104
k0+#-#6,-;v=-$#-9m+-#=v1-;}$=-]}+-`o=-#=v1-+#{- The Great Mountain,
[102]
3~#=-+$-k The Four Continents,
k:m,tukje -1droway
-sok&{,drowa 7$-dundu
b;-0margyur -0she7$-su1&}sul,
.}-\o,namkay she ne kyang dak
+ta-.dang
8m-3~#nyampay
=-+$-0%=k Wearing a jewel
Of the Sun and Moon.
kR}-9semchen
mlab=-tuR$=-
sul
tamche la tuk tsewa chenpoy go ne jin gyi
,=-R-1-9m-+1-+!},-1&}#-#=v1-;-80v;k In my mind I make them
k*v#=-I{8m-+0$-#m=-06{=-,=-0+#-;-Am,->m-0T0-_p-#=};k The Paradise of a Buddha,
And offer it all to You.
[103]
1-1juk
k?m-sa+1-shi]o-:puv-:kyi !Z-,m-<jmetok
b-;-shing -)-9r-1mktram
By this deed
rirab ling shi nyinde gyenpa di
105 May every living being
Sangye shing du mik te ulwar gyi
6{=-0I}+-;-1b;-/v;k c}-,-Ws$-0<#=-=}#=-<$-8+},k k1+}:- Experience
0&r-,kdro kun namdak shing la chupar shok The Pure World.
79
k=$=-W=-6m$-`o-+1m#=-){-+0v;-0:-0>mk
k8E}-\o,-M1-+#-6m$-;-]}+-.:-<}# Jorchu, The Meditation Song
104
k0+#-#6,-;v=-$#-9m+-#=v1-;}$=-]}+-`o=-#=v1-+#{- In my mind I imagine [104]
That I take all the things
3~#=-+$-k That I and other people
Ever enjoy,
k:m,-&{,-1b;-07$-.}-\o,-07$-1&}+-.8m-3~#=-+$-0%=k And all the good we have ever done,
kR}-9m=-R$=-,=-R-1-9m-+1-+!},-1&}#-#=v1-;-80v;k Or are doing now,
Or will ever do in our thoughts
k*v#=-I{8m-+0$-#m=-06{=-,=-0+#-;-Am,->m-0T0-_p-#=};k Or words, or actions—
k?m-+1-]o-:v-:1-1b-;-!Z-,m-<j-)-9r-1mk And I turn it into
A perfect jewel world,
105
6{=-0I}+-;-1b;-/v;k c}-,-Ws$-0<#=-=}#=-<$-8+},k k1+}:- Covered with clouds
Of the gifts of Perfect Goodness,
0&r-,k
And I offer it all to my Lama,
And to the Close Angels,
[104] And to the Triple Gem.
dak shen lu ngak yi sum longchu dusum getsok
dang Give in to Your compassion;
rinchen mendel sangpo Kunsang chupay tsok Accept this gift,
dang che And grant me with Your blessing.
lo yi lang ne Lama Yidam konchok sum la bul
tukjey wang gi she ne dak la jin gyi lab tu sul Idam Guru Ratna mandalakam niryatayami.
idam Guru Ratna mandalakam niryatayami
Offer thus the Perfect World. If you wish, [105]
[105] you may also recite here the Confession of
(she ju la mendel pul, tro na tungshak sok kyang Downfalls, and other such prayers. All these
dun, dor du na) may be summarized in the following lines—
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
The Third of the Seven Parts:
Bare Your Heart
106
k8+}+-&#=-6{-&$-#)m-1v#-+0$-#m=-,mk Overcome by ignorant liking, [106]
k;v=-+$-$#-+$-+{-06m,-9m+-<m=-<$-k Overcome by ignorant disliking,
And overcome by ignorance itself,
k&m#-.-0+#-#m=-0>m=-.-%m-1&m=-.k I have hurt others
In my actions and words and thoughts.
k+{-+#-*1=-%+-0+#-#m=-=}-=}:-0<#=k I here confess and admit, openly,
107
Each of these deeds, one by one.
k@}#=-0%t8m-W;-0-\o,-+$-=$=-W=-N=k
[106]
k:$-duchak
W;-M1=- +$-U}0-+$-1m-U}0-+$-k
shedang timuk wang gi ni
k8E}lu-0dang
-\o,->ngak
m-0=}+dang
-M1=-deshin
#$-;-9yi$-kyik kyang
k+{-+dikpa dak gi gyipa chi chipa
dedak tamche
#- \ o ,->m-I{=-=dak
v-0+#-gi 9sosor
m-:$-kshak
108
k#$-M1=-@}#=-0%t8m-8'm#-K{,-a},-1{-+#
kA$-&u0-:m1-.:-=$=-W=-1-&#=-0J{=k
k1#},-.}-+{-+#-0+#-#m=-*1=-%+-;k
k8"}:-;}-R-,-1{+-.-0!}:-0:-0!r;k
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
84
106
k8+}+-&#=-6{-&$-#)m-1v#-+0$-#m=-,mk
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k;v=-+$-$#-+$-+{-06m,-9m+-<m=-<$-k
k&m#-.-0+#-#m=-0>m=-.-%m-1&m=-.k The Fourth of the Seven Parts:
k+{-+#-*1=-%+-0+#-#m=-=}-=}:-0<#=k Take Joy in the Good
107
k@}#=-0%t8m-W;-0-\o,-+$-=$=-W=-N=k I take joy [107]
In all the good
k:$-W;-M1=-+$-U}0-+$-1m-U}0-+$-k Done by every living being
k8E}-0-\o,->m-0=}+-M1=-#$-;-9$-k In all the universe—
In the good of all the Buddhas,
k+{-+#-\o,->m-I{=-=v-0+#-9m-:$-k In the good of the bodhisattvas,
The good of the self-made ones,
108
k#$-M1=-@}#=-0%t8m-8'm#-K{,-a},-1{-+# The good of those still learning,
And the good of those whose
kA$- & u 0 - : m 1 - . :- = $=- W =- 1 - & #=- 0 J{ =k learning is ended.
[107]
k1#}chokchuy
,-.}-+{-+#-Gyalwa 0+#-#m=kun dang
-*1=- %+-Sangye
;k se
k8"}rang-gyal
:drowa
-;}-Rkun -,-1nam dang lob dang milob dang
{+gyi-.-0sunam
!}:-0:-gang
0!r;lak yang
dedak kun gyi jesu dak yi-rang
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107
k@}#=-0%t8m-W;-0-\o,-+$-=$=-W=-N=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k:$-W;-M1=-+$-U}0-+$-1m-U}0-+$-k
The Fifth of the Seven Parts:
k8E}-0-\o,->m-0=}+-M1=-#$-;-9$-k Ask Your Teacher to Teach
k+{-+#-\o,->m-I{=-=v-0+#-9m-:$-k
108
k#$-M1=-@}#=-0%t8m-8'm#-K{,-a},-1{-+# You are shining lamps [108]
On all the planets
kA$-&u0-:m1-.:-=$=-W=-1-&#=-0J{=k In the darkness of the galaxy;
k1#},-.}-+{-+#-0+#-#m=-*1=-%+-;k You came to your enlightenment,
The end of ignorant desire,
k8"}:-;}-R-,-1{+-.-0!}:-0:-0!r;k By following the steps of the path—
O Saviors, I beg every one of you
To turn the unsurpassable
[108] Wheel of the Holy Dharma.
gang nam chokchuy jikten drunme dak
jangchub rimpar Sangye machak nye
gunpo dedak dak gi tamche la
korlo lana mepa korwar kul
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
The Sixth of the Seven Parts:
Ask Your Teacher to Stay
109
kB-$,-8+8-%},-#$-06{+-+{-+#-;k I know there may be some of you, [109]
My Lamas, who might consider
k8E}-0-\o,-;-/,-6m$-0+{-08m-@m:k Pretending to pass from this world
k0!;-.-6m$-#m-Ly;-${+-0bo#=-.:-9$-k Into Your final nirvana;
k0+#-#m=-*;-1}-:0-^:-#=};-0:-0>mk But I join my palms at my heart
And beg you with my life
110
k@#-83;-0-+$-1&}+-%m$-0<#=-.-+$-k To stay instead in this world with us,
kI{=-=v-9m-:$-0!r;-6m$-#=};-0-9m=k For billions of eons,
For eons equal in number
k+#{-0-%t$-7+-0+#-#m=-%m-0=#=-.k To the tiny pieces of dust
That make the ground of this entire planet.
[109]
k*1=-%+-0+#-#m=-A$-&u0-@m:-0#}8}k
nya-ngen datun gangshe dedak la
111
drowa kun la pen shing deway chir All of us here
k6{=-0I}+-;k k131=-8+m:-1b;-W=-.-80v;-0-,mk
kalpa shing gi dul nye shukpar yang Still need your help,
112 dak gi telmo rabjar sulwar gyi And the happy life you will give us.
?f-0.-Lq-1m-?r\fzZk
+0$-&{,-#={:->m-=-#6mk
113
?f-0.-:{-"{-?r\fzZk
@m-U#=-:m-"}:-9v#-#m=-0!}:-08m-
88
k8E}-0-\o,-;-/,-6m$-0+{-08m-@m:k
k0!;-.-6m$-#m-Ly;-${+-0bo#=-.:-9$-k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
The Last of the Seven Parts:
k0+#-#m=-*;-1}-:0-^:-#=};-0:-0>mk
110 Send the Goodness
109
And so I have bowed myself down, [110]
k@#- 8 3;- 0 -
kB-$,-8+8-%},-#$-06{+-+{-+#-;k + $- 1 &} + - % m
$ - 0 <#=- . - + $- k
kI{k8E}=--=0v--\9o,m-:-;$-0/!r,-;6m$-6-0m$+{-#-0=}8m;-@-0m:-k9m=k And presented my gifts,
And admitted my mistakes;
k+#{
k0!;- -0-%.t$-6-7m$+--#0m-L+#- y;-$#{+m=-0-%bom-0#=#=- =-.:-.9k $-k I have taken joy in goodness,
I have asked my Lamas to teach,
And begged them to stay with me.
k*1=- % +- 0 +#-
k0+#-#m=-*;-1}-:0-^:-#=};-0:-0>mk # m = - A $- & u 0 - @ m : - 0 #} 8 } k
[110]
111
110
k6{k@#-
=chaktselwa
-08I}3;-
+-;k0-+$-k131=- -8%+mm$:-0ching
-1<#=- =-..-+-8$-0vk;dang
-0-,mk I must have planted thus
dang
1&}+chu b;-Wshakpa
Some tiny quantity
112 jesu yi-rang kul shing sulwa yi
?fkI{-=0gewa m:-?$-r\0fz!rZk;dak
-.-=v-Lq9- m1-chungse -6m$-gi#=}chi;-sakpa 0-9m=k Of positive karmic seeds—
And now I give them all away,
tamche dak:-0>gim-+#-= #m6m=
jangchub chir .k ngo-o
+0$-0&-
k+#{ {,%t-$#-7={+- k-%m-0=#=- I dedicate them, every one,
To my coming enlightenment,
113
k*1=- % +- 0 +#- # m = - $- & u 0 - m : - 0 8 } k And all those I will help.
?f-0.-:{-"{-?r\fzZk A @ #}
111
Offer Again a Perfect World
@mk6{-=U-0#=-I}+:;m-k"}:-9v# k131=- -#m=8-0+m:!}-1:-0b;-8m-W=-.-80v;-0-,mk
112 Once you have finished the Seven Steps, offer [111]
?f-0.-Lq-1m-?r\fzZk once more your Perfect World:
+0$-&{,-#={:->m-=-#6mk
113
Om vajra bhumi ah hung, [112]
[111] .-:{-"ju{-?la,r\fztsam Zk dir mendel gyepa bulwa ni)
?f-0(she Here is the mighty ground of gold.
@m-U#=-:m-"}:-9v#-#m=-0!}:-08m-
[112]
om vajra bhumi ah hung,
wangchen ser gyi sashi
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112
?f-0.-Lq-1m-?r\fzZk
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
+0$-&{,-#={:->m-=-#6mk
113
?f-0.-:{-"{-?r\fzZk Om vajra rekhe ah hung, [113]
@m-U#=-:m-"}:-9v#-#m=-0!}:-08m- Here is the surrounding
Outer wall of mountains.
114
+0v=-=v-:m8m-W;-.}-:m-:0k <:-;v=-8/#=-.}k [}-841-
0v-Qm$-k ao0-0-;$-]}+k A$-a-1m-$,k In the center is Summit, [114]
115 King of Mountains.
;v=-+$-;v=-8/#=k H-90-+$-H-90-#6,k #9}-X,- To the east is Greatbody,
+$-;1-1&}#-8E}k a-1m-$,-+$-a-1m-$,->m-Sk To the south is Jambu,
To the west is Cattle,
116 To the north is Sound of Terror.
:m,-.}-&{8m-:m-0}k +.#-0=1->m-<m$-k 8+}+-8'}8m-0k
[113]
1-Oom}=-.vajra
8m-;}-)rekhe
}# ah hung
Body and Greatbody, [115]
k8"}chi:-;chakri
117
}-:m,-.}-koryuk
&{k ,}gi:-korway
0v-:m,-.}-&{k 02t,-1}-:m,-.}-&{k Oxtail and the Second,
[114] Moving and the High Path,
R},-uw
.}-:sum,-.riy}-&{kgyalpoQ$-rirab,
.}-:m,-.shar
}-&{k lupakpo,
K-1&}#hlo-:m,dzambu
-.}-&{k Sound of Terror and its Mate.
+1#-ling,+.}nub,-:m,balang
-.}-&{k chu,#){jang
:-&{,dra-.}8mi-nyen
m-0v1-.k
[115]
118
"{#lu-1dang
}-1k lupak, J{$-0-ngayab
1k Qzdang -1k ngayab#:-1shen,
k 1{yonden-)}#-1k
0`o#dang-(}=lam-1k chokdro,'$-#=;-dra 1mi-nyen
k Hm-&dang 0-1k dra mi-nyen
gi da,
119
(m-1k S-0k :m,-.}-&{8m-#`o#=k @}#=-;=-M1-.:-
W;-08m-W;-13,k 90
115
;v=-+$-;v=-8/#=k H-90-+$-H-90-#6,k #9}-X,-
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
+$-;1-1&}#-8E}k a-1m-$,-+$-a-1m-$,->m-Sk
116
:m,-.}-&{8m-:m-0}k +.#-0=1->m-<m$-k 8+}+-8'}8m-0k Here is the Jewel Mountain, [116]
The Tree of Wishes,
1-O}=-.8m-;}-)}# The Cow that gives
Whatever you want;
117
k8"}:-;}-:m,-.}-&{k ,}:-0v-:m,-.}-&{k 02t,-1}-:m,-.}-&{k Crops that grow themselves.
R},-.}-:m,-.}-&{k Q$-.}-:m,-.}-&{k K-1&}#-:m,-.}-&{k
+1#-+.},-:m,-.}-&{k #){:-&{,-.}8m-0v1-.k
118 Here is the precious Wheel, [117]
"{#-1}-1k J{$-0-1k Qz-1k #:-1k 1{-)}#-1k The precious Jewel,
The precious Queen,
0`o#-(}=-1k '$-#=;-1k Hm-&0-1k The precious Chancellor,
[116]
119
The precious Elephant,
(m-1rinpochey
k S-0k riwo,:m,paksam
-.}-&{8m-#gyi
`o#=kshing, @}dujoy
#=-;ba,=-Mma1-.:- The precious Horse,
The precious General,
W;-mupay
08m-W;-lotok
13,k The goldmine of the Vase.
[117]
korlo rinpoche, norbu rinpoche, tsunmo rinpoche,
lunpo rinpoche, langpo rinpoche, tachok rinpoche,
makpun rinpoche, ter chenpoy bumpa,
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R},-.}-:m,-.}-&{k Q$-.}-:m,-.}-&{k K-1&}#-:m,-.}-&{k
+1#-+.},-:m,-.}-&{k #){:-&{,-.}8m-0v1-.k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
118
"{#-1}-1k J{$-0-1k Qz-1k #:-1k 1{-)}#-1k Here is the Lady posing lovely, [118]
0`o#-(}=-1k '$-#=;-1k Hm-&0-1k The Lady of the garland,
The Lady of song,
119 The Lady of dance,
(m-1k S-0k :m,-.}-&{8m-#`o#=k @}#=-;=-M1-.:- The Lady of flower,
W;-08m-W;-13,k The Lady of incense,
The Lady of lamps,
The Lady of perfume.
120
+0v=-=v-[-+$-1m8m-+.;-8A}:-/v,-=v1-3~#=-.-1-3$-0-1{+-.-
#2$-6m$-9m+-`o-8}$-0-
121
Here is the Sun, [119]
8+m-+#-Hm,-%,-P-0-+$-0Wv+-.:-0%=-.8m-+.;-X,-R-1-+1- Here is the Moon,
The jeweled Parasol,
.-M1=-+$-k =+-.:-`o-9$-R-1-R}-07$-*v0-+0$-L}-I{-
[118] The Banner of victory.
8&$-gekmoma,
&{,-.}8m-[trengwama,
-3~#=-8"}:-+luma, $-0%=-garma,
.-M1=-metokma,
;-6m$-"1=-
dukpuma, nangselma, drichabma
+0v;-0:-0>m8}k
[119] Here in the middle [120]
122
k*v#nyima,
=- I{ =- 8dawa,
- 0 8m - rinpochey
+ } , - ` o-0 6{ =- duk,
=v- # =}chok
; k le nampar
k06{=-,=-<$- Are all the riches
Of gods and humans;
E}
gyalway gyeltsen
0+#-=}#=-8E}-0-1:->v:-,1-1"8m-1*8-+$-1(1-.8m- Excellent, total, all there is;
[120] Totally pure, exquisite.
={1uw
=-%su,-*hla
1=-dang %+-;miy -*v#=-pelnjor
0P{-0-&punsum
{,-.}8m-"}-tsokpa
,=-Am,-ma
>m=-
0T0-tsangwa
_p-#=};mepak tsang shing yi du ongwa
123
+{-,=k 93
124
kR-1-+$-+!},-1&}#-:m,-.}-&{-M1-.-#=v1-;-[0=-=v-1&m8}k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
Je Tsongkapa
94
+0v=-=v-[-+$-1m8m-+.;-8A}:-/v,-=v1-3~#=-.-1-3$-0-1{+-.-
#2$-6m$-9m+-`o-8}$-0- Jorchu, The Meditation Song
121
[121]
8+m-+#-Hm,-%,-P-0-+$-0Wv+-.:-0%=-.8m-+.;-X,-R-1-+1- All this I offer to my kind and holy
.-M1=-+$-k =+-.:-`o-9$-R-1-R}-07$-*v0-+0$-L}-I{- Root and lineage Lamas,
And especially
8&$-&{,-.}8m-[-3~#=-8"}:-+$-0%=-.-M1=-;-6m$-"1=- Do I present this Paradise
To the Lama, Lobsang,
+0v;-0:-0>m8}k Lord of the Able Ones,
122
Great Keeper of the Diamond,
k*v#=-I{=-8E}-08m-+},-`o-06{=-=v-#=};k k06{=-,=-<$- And to all the host of Angels
In their retinue.
0+#-=}#=-8E}-0-1:->v:-,1-1"8m-1*8-+$-1(1-.8m-
={1=-%,-*1=-%+-;-*v#=-0P{-0-&{,-.}8m-"}-,=-Am,->m=- Give in to Your compassion, [122]
0T0-_p-#=};k And for the sake of
Every living being
123
+{-,=k Accept my offering,
Accept and in Your infinite love
[121]
124 Bless me and all others,
Every suffering creature there is,
kR-1didak
-+$-+drinchen
!},-1&}#tsawa
-:m,-.}-&dang
{-M1-.gyupar
-#=v1-;chepay
-[0=-=pelnden
v-1&m8}k
k={+Lama
M1=-dampa
-Lobsang -0+#-nam#m-Wdang,
<=Tubwang +-Am kyepar
vDorje -Chang du_yang
>m=-0T0- p - # =} Lama
; k Living beings who stretch as far
chenpoy hlatsok As space itself,
kor dang chepa nam la shingkam ulwar gyio Every one my mother.
[122]
tukje droway dundu she su sul, she ne kyang dak
sok drowa margyur namkay ta dang nyampay Continue now with a supplication, by asking [123]
semchen tamche la tuk tsewa chenpoy go ne jin gyi for help in achieving three great goals:
lab tu sul
[123]
(de ne)
95
123
+{-,=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
124
I seek my shelter [124]
kR-1-+$-+!},-1&}#-:m,-.}-&{-M1-.-#=v1-;-[0=-=v-1&m8}k
k={+-M1=-<m=-0+#-#m-Wv+-Am,->m=-0T0-_p-#=};k In my Lama,
And in the three high and precious Jewels;
125 Please help me,
k0+#-+$-1-={1=-%,-*1=-%+-0<{=-#({,-;-1-]o=-.-,=- Please bless my heart.
07v$-%{-0+#-#(m=-=v-13,-1:-84n,-.8m-0:->m-@m,-%m-;}#-#m-
R}-'-1*8-+#-8##-.-+$-k Please bless my heart, [125]
And the hearts of every being,
126
k0<{=-#({,-;-]o=-.-=}#=-@m,-%m-1-;}#-.8m-R}-'-1*8-+#- Every one my mother,
So that mistaken states of mind
0+{-R#-_p-[{-0-+$-k Might never grow there—
Not a single one,
127
kV{,-@m-,$-#m-0:-#%}+-*1=-%+-({-0:-6m-0:-Am,->m=-0T0-_p- Starting with showing disrespect
To my Spiritual Guide,
[124]
#=}Lama
;k dang ]o-:v-:1-rinpoche
?m-+1-Konchok 1b-;-!Z-,nampa
m-<j-)-9r-sum
1mk la And all the way up
To believing that people or things
kyabsu
k6{=-+},- chio,
&{,-.}-# =v1->m-"}-,=-#=};-0-#+0k Could be coming from themselves.
kye nam kyi dak gi gyu jin gyi lab tu sul
128
Hs#-.-#=};-0-8+{0=-.-1,-$#-06m,-Wv+-+$-8H{=-${=-=v-A-
[125]
0-,mkdak dang ma semchen tamche She-nyen la magupa Please bless our hearts [126]
ne sung te dak nyi su tsenmar dzinpay bar gyi So that every unmistaken state of mind
chinchilok Might easily grow there—
129
k+.;- X,-P-08mgi-Rlo-1na-:m,tadak
-.}-&{k gakpa dang Beginning with showing deep respect
[126]
k0+#-#m-]m-0}:-.+-S8m-%{$-0bo#=-;k To our Spiritual Guide.
She-nyen la gupa sok chinchi ma lokpay lo na tadak
delak
k0!8- Hm,tu-&{,kyewa
-.}8m-"}-dang
,=-I{=-07v$-%{k
k!r-#=v$-*v#=-<m-+$}=-Es0-+;-`o-#=};k 96
126
k0<{=-#({,-;-]o=-.-=}#=-@m,-%m-1-;}#-.8m-R}-'-1*8-+#-
0+{-R#-_p-[{-0-+$-k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
127
kV{,-@m-,$-#m-0:-#%}+-*1=-%+-({-0:-6m-0:-Am,->m=-0T0-_p- And finally please bless our hearts [127]
#=};k ?m-+1-]o-:v-:1-1b-;-!Z-,m-<j-)-9r-1mk So that every obstacle,
Both those within us and those outside,
125
k6{k0+#-
=-+},+-$-&{,1-.=}-{#1=-=v1%,-->*m-"1=-}-,=-%+-#0=}<{;=-0-#-#({,+0k -;-1-]o=-.-,=- May be brought to a final end.
128
Hs07vR}#-$-.-%-#{-0=}+#-;#-0(m=-8-=+{v-01=- 3,-.1-1:-8,-4n$,#- -.8m0-06m:-,>-Wm-@v+m,--%+m-;$-}#8-#H{m-=-${=-=v-A- Idam Guru Ratna mandalakam niryatayami.
[127]'-1*8-+#-8##-.-+$-k
0-,jinmkkyengyichilabtu nang gi barchu tamche nyewar shiwar
k0<{=-#({,-;-]o=-.sul,
126
-=}#=-idam @m,-%m-1Guru -;}#-.Ratna 8m-R}-'-1*8- mandalakam
+#-
129 niryatayami
0+{-(she
k+.;- R#-X_p-dun
,-[{-0P-+-0chenpo
$-8mk -R-1-:sum m,-.}-gyi&{k go ne sulwadab)
127
k0+#-
kV{,-@m ,#$-m-]#m m-0:-}:#-.%}+-*S1=- 8m-%%+-{$(-0{-0bo:-#6=-m-0:-;Akm,->m=-0T0-_p- The Sixth Step:
#=} ; k ?m - + 1- ]
k0!8-Hm,-&{,-.}8m-"}-,=-I{=-07v$-%{k o- : v - : 1- 1 b- ; - ! Z - , m- <j- ) - 9 r - 1 m k Asking for Help
k!rk6{=-#-+},=v-&${,--.*}-#v#=v=-1-><m-"m-+}-,$}=-=#=}-E;-s00--#++0k;-`o-#=};k
128
Hs#-.-#=};-0-8+{0=-.-1,-$#-06m,-Wv+-+$-8H{=-${=-=v-A- The sixth preparation for meditation is to ask [128]
0-,mk our Lamas for help—from the very depths of
our being, and following the personal advices:
129
k+.;-X,-P-08m-R-1-:m,-.}-&{k
[128]
k0+#-#m-]m-0}:-.+-S8m-%{$-0bo#=-;k
(drukpa sulwandebpa men-ngak shin gyu dang
dre-nge su jawa ni)
k0!8- Hm,-&{,-.}8m-"}-,=-I{=-07v$-%{k
k!r-#=v$-*v#=-<m-+$}=-Es0-+;-`o-#=};k
97
128
Hs#-.-#=};-0-8+{0=-.-1,-$#-06m,-Wv+-+$-8H{=-${=-=v-A-
0-,mk Jorchu, The Meditation Song
129
k+.;-X,-P-08m-R-1-:m,-.}-&{k Heart Lama, [129]
Precious One,
k0+#-#m-]m-0}:-.+-S8m-%{$-0bo#=-;k Glorious One,
k0!8-Hm,-&{,-.}8m-"}-,=-I{=-07v$-%{k Come now
To the tip of my head,
k!r-#=v$-*v#=-<m-+$}=-Es0-+;-`o-#=};k Seat yourself there
On a cushion made
130 Of a lotus bloom
k8H{,-.-1(1-1{+-%},-.-0%}1-X,-8+=k And the soft disk of the moon;
kW;-30-+1-.-I{-02t,-1m-/1-1#},k Grant me your infinite kindness,
Keep me with You,
kW;-0=-;v$-0%,-8/#=-.-*}#=-1{+-60=k Grant me to attain
The way that You act,
k=$=-W=-A$-={1=-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k And the way that You speak,
And even the way You think.
131
k841-Qm$-1"=-.8m-#2t#-W,-+Am#-#m-#({,k
I ask for your help, [130]
k+0v-18m-;1-0J{=-8/#=-.-M1-E};-&{k Buddha and Bodhisattvas Three:
[129]
k++-pelnden
.8m-=:-#Tsaway ,=-02tLama ,-.-M1-rinpocheE};-&{k Conquering Buddha,
Matchless Guide,
k8'mdak
# - Kgi
{ , - 1chiwor
m # - 8
kadrin chenpoy go ne jesung te
A{ + penday
- # =v 1 - ;teng
- # shuk
=} ; - 0 - la+{0=k
8 The Teacher;
kO+-kuAvsung
132
$-$}-1tuk 3:-#kyi,=-ngudrup>v:-1&}#tsel-#m-&du{k sul Highest Regent,
Loving Eyes, Holy One,
[130] Undefeatable Savior;
k70-drenpa
1}8m-;1-nyam-me >m=-Wv+-^Tunpa $=-`o;Chomden-08m-&{k De
gyaltsab dampa jetsun Mipam gun And the Honored One,
Realized Being,
kT0=- & { , - ] } + - . 8m -
gyalwe lung ten pakpa Tokme shab
# ){ : -> v : - M 1- ' $- 1 4+k
k8E}Sangye
-08m-P-;jangsem #-#=v1-sum ;-#=}la;sulwandeb Asanga—
He whom the Victors foretold.
-0-8+{0=k
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
Master Vasubandhu
100
kW;-0=-;v$-0%,-8/#=-.-*}#=-1{+-60=k
k=$=-W=-A$-={1=-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
131
[131]
k841-Qm$-1"=-.8m-#2t#-W,-+Am#-#m-#({,k I ask for your help,
k+0v-18m-;1-0J{=-8/#=-.-M1-E};-&{k You Three who Opened the Eyes
Of the entire world:
k++-.8m-=:-#,=-02t,-.-M1-E};-&{k Vasubandhu,
k8'm#-K{,-1m#-8A{+-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Crowning jewel
Of the sages on this planet;
132
kO+-Av$-$}-13:-#,=->v:-1&}#-#m-&{k Vimukti Sena the Realized,
Who found the middle way;
k70-1}8m-;1->m=-Wv+-^$=-`o;-08m-&{k
kT0=-&{,-]}+-.8m-#){:->v:-M1-'$-14+k And Vimukti Sena the Reverend One,
Who will always have our devotion.
k8E}-08m-P-;#-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
I ask you for help, [132]
The Three Anchors
For all living beings:
[131]
dzamling kepay tsukgyen Yikgi Nyen Parama Sena,
umay lam nye pakpa Namdrul De Our wondrous
depay sarne tsunpa Namdrul De Place of miracles;
jikten mikje sum la sulwandeb Vinita Sena,
Who bathed his mind
[132] In the profound path;
mejung ngotsar ne-gyur Chokgi De
sabmoy lam gyi gyujang Dulway De And Vairochana,
labchen chupay tergyur Namnang Dze True goldmine
droway tsalak sum la sulwandeb Of powerful, far-reaching deeds.
101
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
Dromtun Je
102
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
133
[133]
k;1-1&}#-<{:-@m,-W=-14+-={$-07$-60=k I ask for your help,
kW;-08m-1,-$#-\o,-84n,-\o-=-;mk The Three Captains
Of this ship we all sail:
k8E}-\o,-0P{-0=-I{=-84n,-+#{-0-%,k The revered Haribhadra,
k8E}-08m-+{+-+.},-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Who spread that highest path,
The perfection of wisdom;
134
kA$-&u0-*v#=-;-1$8-0J{=-#={:-Qm$-.k Kusali the Elder,
Who held all the private advices
Of the victorious Buddhas;
k<m$-K-&{,-.}8m-N};-84n,-1:-1{-14+k
k;1-07$-#=;-14+-%},-.-:m,-.}-&{k And Kusali the Younger,
k0%,-.8m-N}#-<m$-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Who lovingly took
Every being into his care.
135
he-0-S-1{+-8H{,-1&}#-cv<8m-)}#
I ask for your help, [134]
kW;-08m-1={,-:0-\o,-0&r=-8'1-.8m-+A$=k Three Pillars of the Teachings:
[133]
k70-lamchok
1}8m-+},-#sherchin
7m#=-8/#=- gyedze 1&}Sengsang
#-Pz-au0-6shab0=k Lama of the Golden Isle,
ke-0Gyalway
8m - # 2t # - men-ngak
,- # =v 1 - ; kundzin
- # =} ; - 0 - Kusali
8 +{0=k Absolute master
Of the Wish for enlightenment;
W
dro kun tsewe jendzin Gewachen
droway depun sum la sulwandeb
Maker of Light, Lord Atisha,
[134] Keeper of this new advancement,
The path of the greater way;
jangchub tuk la nga-nye Serlingpa
shingta chenpoy sulndzin Marmendze And Dromtun Rinpoche,
lamsang selndze Tunpa Rinpoche Who illuminated for us
tenpay sokshing sum la sulwandeb This excellent path.
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
Master Chandrakirti
104
k;1-07$-#=;-14+-%},-.-:m,-.}-&{k
k0%,-.8m-N}#-<m$-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
135
he-0-S-1{+-8H{,-1&}#-cv<8m-)}# And I ask for your help, [135]
kW;-08m-1={,-:0-\o,-0&r=-8'1-.8m-+A$=k Three Crowning Jewels
Among all the teachers on earth:
k70-1}8m-+},-#7m#=-8/#=-1&}#-Pz-au0-60=k That highest guide,
ke-08m-#2t#-W,-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k And matchless Instructor,
Pinnacle of the Shakyas;
136
k8/#=-.8m-+#}$=-.-#=;-14+-S-0-E#=k Gentle Voice, all the wisdom
Of all the Victors
k+{-N=-*v-0}-:m#-.8m-"v-Av#-&{k Combined in a single form;
kW;-N=-:m#-.8m-"v-Av#-#(m=-.8m-60=k And Nagarjuna,
k:m#-.8m-+0$-@v#-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Highest of realized beings,
Seer of that deepest thing.
137
kK{,-8K{;-70-1}-'m-06m,-#7m#=-.-9m=k
I ask for your help, [136]
k<m$-K-&{,-.}8m-N};-84n,-1:-1{-14+k Three Lords of Knowledge:
[135]
k;1-mawa
07$-da-me
#=;-1drenchok
4+-%},-.Shakyay
-:m,-.}-&{k Tok Chandrakirti,
Gyalway kyenrab kundu Jampay Yang Who illuminated
sabmoy dunsik pakchok Ludrub shab The true thought of the Realized One;
k841- Qm$-W,->v:-#(m=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
138
maway tsukgyen sum la sulwandeb
hM;-8A}:-+0$-@v#-+.;-X,-+#},-.-0k Vidya Kokila,
[136] The one who was
k70-pakpay
1}8m-)m$gongpa
-84n,-0K,-selndze
.8m-'{8Dawa
v-7v:-.kDrak His foremost son;
k8`odegyelse
;-se08mtuwo {-'}+Rikpay
-&Rikpay -84n,Kujuk
-\o,Kujuk #-1Che
-*Nyipay-.k shab And Vidya Kokila the Second,
Bodhisattva son
rikpay
k1*8- wangchuk
8"}0-a},- 1{-#=v1-sum;-#la=};-0-
sulwandeb
8+{0=k Of all the victorious Buddhas.
105
kW;-N=-:m#-.8m-"v-Av#-#(m=-.8m-60=k
k:m#-.8m-+0$-@v#-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
137
kK{,-8K{;-70-1}-'m-06m,-#7m#=-.-9m=k I ask you for help, [137]
Two Jewels of the World:
k<m$-K-&{,-.}8m-N};-84n,-1:-1{-14+k
Maker of Light, Lord Atisha,
k;1-07$-#=;-14+-%},-.-:m,-.}-&{k Who had the vision
k841-Qm$-W,->v:-#(m=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Of the deeper way
In which things occur
138
Through other things—
hM;-8A}:-+0$-@v#-+.;-X,-+#},-.-0k Thus keeping this new advancement,
The path of the greater way;
k70-1}8m-)m$-84n,-0K,-.8m-'{8v-7v:-.k
And Dromtun Rinpoche,
k8`o;-08m-&{-'}+-\o,-84n,-*#-1-.k Who illuminated for us
This excellent path.
k1*8-8"}0-a},-1{-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
And I ask for your help, [138]
Three Shining Lights
In the dark of uncivilized lands:
[137]
tendrel sabmo jishin sikpa yi Gunpawa,
The Glorious One,
shingta chenpoy sulndzin Marmendze Emperor of yogis;
lamsang selndze Tunpa Rinpoche
dzamling gyen-gyur nyi la sulwandeb Neusurpa,
Rock firm inside
[138] The deepest meditation;
nelnjor wanchuk pelnden Gunpawa
sabmoy tingdzin tenpay Neusurpa And Takmapa,
dulway denu kundzin Takmapa Keeper of all
takop drunme sum la sulwandeb The teachings on discipline.
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
139
k0P},-.=-au0-.-[s:-;{,-,1-={$-60=k I ask for your help, [139]
Namka Senge,
k+1-.=-Am,-0T0=-,1-1"8-W;-.}-+$-k Who attacked his practice
With passion;
k8'm#-K{,-&}=-0W+-($=-.8m-={$-#{-07$-k Namka Gyalpo,
kW;-N=-07$-.}8m-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Blessed by the highest
Of beings;
140
kA$-&u0-*v#=-<m=-8E}-\o,-0v-06m,-#7m#=k Senge Sangpo,
Who gave up completely
k[#-.8m-[-9m=-I{=-07v$-Am,->m=-0T0=k All the eight worldly thoughts;
And I also ask
k$m#=-`o=-8E}-0-8H{,-.8m-0<{=-#({,-1&}# The revered one,
Gyelse Sangpo for help.
k,1-1"8-W;-13,-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
141 I ask you for help, [140]
hW;-08m-#`o$-83~0-0<{=-#({,-.}-)}-0k Holy One,
kM1-+?}+-8E,-S-K;-08m-<-:-0k Namka Gyeltsen—
[139]
Who with the Wish for enlightenment
kA$-tsunpe
&u0-*v#druppa hlurlen
=-<m-0!8- 00=-8Namseng
&+-"-0k shab Looked upon every living being
k8E}dampe
-jikten {-jinlab
!}$-#=vNamka
08m-:chug-ye -;-#=}Gyalpo
1pangpay -0-8+{dang
;Senge 0Sang
=k As if they were his child,
Gyelse Sangpoy shab la sulwandeb Who was blessed
And taken into their care
[140] By the Angels of the Angels,
jangchub tuk kyi dro kun bu shin sik And served as a spiritual
hlakpay Hla yi jesung jin gyi lab Friend and guide
nyikdu drowa drenpay she-nyen chok For suffering beings
Namka Gyeltsen shab la solwandeb In the days of dark.
107
k$m#=-`o=-8E}-0-8H{,-.8m-0<{=-#({,-1&}#
k,1-1"8-W;-13,-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
141
hW;-08m-#`o$-83~0-0<{=-#({,-.}-)}-0k And I ask for your help, [141]
The Three Who Fulfill
kM1-+?}+-8E,-S-K;-08m-<-:-0k The hopes of every living being:
kA$-&u0-*v#=-<m-0!8-00=-8&+-"-0k Potowa,
Who carried on
k8E}-08m-:{-!}$-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k The ways of the conquering Buddhas;
142
k;v$-K}#=-1$8-0+#-A$-={1=-]m;-0v-.k Sharawa,
Whose powers of intellect
kHm-1{+-;v$-#m-+0$-@v#-1"=-.8m-1&}# Knew no equal at all;
k"1=-#=v1-8E}-08m-1#},-.}-:m,-.}-&{k And Chekawa,
To whom the teachings
k#,=-0K,-&{,-.}-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k On the enlightened Wish were passed.
143
kM1-+#-3u;-Dm1=-$+-X$-7$=-&{,-.k I ask for your help,
[141]
[142]
k8`oGyalway
;-0-80v1dungtsob
-&{8m-1$8-0she-nyen
+#-13~-'Potowa
-0k The Three Great Elders:
k&}=namchu
-1$},-Wdrenda
-13~8m-1drelway
*:-=},-1Sharawa
},-f-.k Chilbupa, the bodhisattva,
Absolute lord
k8E}jangchub
-droway ,-tuk
.-#kyi
08m-8H{rekong 1kabab
=vsum Chekawa
-;-#la=}sulwandeb
;-0-8+{0=k Of scriptures and visions;
144
[142]
k70-%m$-W-&{8m-&}=-;-1$8-0J{=-.8mk Hlalung Wangchuk,
Highest of sages,
k!;-lungtok
dri-me Lung
X ,- 8 ngadak jangsem Chilbupa
E} -0-\o,gi->Wangchuk
m-[0=-=v->v:kepayk chok Master of the immaculate Word;
k8Jmkam-;sum
,neten 07$-Droway
=-chenpo .}=sum-0%,-Gunpo
. - Rinpoche
=-
la sulwandeb
W 14+-.k And Drogun Rinpoche,
Savior of every
k+.;-X,-R-18m-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Suffering being in all three realms.
109
k"1=-#=v1-8E}-08m-1#},-.}-:m,-.}-&{k
k#,=-0K,-&{,-.}-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
143
kM1-+#-3u;-Dm1=-$+-X$-7$=-&{,-.k I ask for your help, [143]
Three Guides of Living Kind:
k8`o;-0-80v1-&{8m-1$8-0+#-13~-'-0k
Sangchenpa,
k&}=-1$},-W-13~8m-1*:-=},-1},-f-.k From whom the scent
k8E}-08m-8H{,-.-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Of pure morality wafts;
144
Tsonawa,
k70-%m$-W-&{8m-&}=-;-1$8-0J{=-.8mk Consummate master
Of a thousand teachings on discipline;
k!;-X,-8E}-0-\o,->m-[0=-=v->v:k
And Mundrapa,
k8Jm,-;=-07$-.}=-0%,-.-W=-14+-.k Who crossed the massive sea
Of the system of Higher Knowledge.
k+.;-X,-R-18m-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
I ask for your help, [144]
Chukyab Sangpo,
[143] Lama of Glory,
namdak tsultrim ngedang Sangchenpa
dulwa bumdey ngadak Tsonawa Who as total master
chu-ngun gyatsoy tarsun Mundrapa Of all the teachings,
droway drenpa sum la sulwandeb Both profound and reaching far,
[144] Became a refuge
For every living being
sab ching gyachey Chu la nga nyepay
Who possessed enough good fortune,
kelnden drowa kun gyi Kyabsu gyur
trinley Sangpu tenpa gye dzepa And with his good
pelnden Lamay shab la solwandeb And enlightened deeds
Spread the teachings wide.
110
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
145
hEs0-.8m-+0$-@v#-&{,-.}-3u;-Dm1=-80:k And I ask for your help, [145]
Three Sons of the Victors:
k0<{=-#({,-3u;-06m,-0%{,-14+-#6},-ao-8}+k
Tsultrim Bar,
k*{#-1&}#-;1->m-Wv+-^$=->{:-"}1-60=k Great king among
The accomplished ones;
kW;-08m-N=-.}-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
Shunnu Uw,
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kO+-Av$-9},-),-14~+-84n,-=$=-W=-+0},k Who took himself to his Spiritual Guide
In exactly the proper way;
k+1-.=-Am,-0T0=-,1-1"8-W;-.}-+$-k
And Gyergompa,
k8'm#-K{,-&}=-0W+-($=-.8m-={$-#{-07$-k Who bathed his mind
In the path of the ultimate way.
kW;-N=-07$-.}8m-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
147 I ask for your help, [146]
kA$-&u0-*v#=-<m=-8E}-\o,-0v-06m,-#7m#=k Sangye Wuntun,
Treasure house
k[#-.8m-[-9m=-I{=-07v$-Am,->m=-0T0=k
[145] Of wondrous virtues;
druppay wangchuk chenpo Tsultrim #Bar
k$m#she-nyen
=- `o=-8E}tsulshin
-0-8 H{,-.tendze
8m-0 <{=Shunnu
-#({,- 1&}Uw Namka Gyalpo,
Blessed by the highest
tekchok
k,1-1 "8-W;-lam1gyi gyujang
3,-60=- Gyergom
;-#=}; -0-8+{0shab
=k Of beings;
Gyalway sepo sum la sulwandeb
Senge Sangpo,
[146] Who gave up completely
mejung yunten dzundzin Sangye Wun All the eight worldly thoughts;
dampe jinlab Namka Gyalpo dang
jikten chu gye pangpay Senge Sang And I also ask
Gyelse Sangpoy shab la sulwandeb The revered one,
Gyelse Sangpo for help.
111
k8'm#-K{,-&}=-0W+-($=-.8m-={$-#{-07$-k
kW;-N=-07$-.}8m-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
147
kA$-&u0-*v#=-<m=-8E}-\o,-0v-06m,-#7m#=k I ask you for help, [147]
Holy One,
k[#-.8m-[-9m=-I{=-07v$-Am,->m=-0T0=k Namka Gyeltsen—
k$m#=-`o=-8E}-0-8H{,-.8m-0<{=-#({,-1&}# Who with the Wish for enlightenment
Looked upon every living being
k,1-1"8-W;-13,-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k As if they were his child,
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h+1m#=-1{+-0P{-08m-#){:-&{,-],-:=-#7m#=k Who was blessed
And taken into their care
kHm-1{+-1={,-.8m-+0$-.}-8'1-+.;-+A$=k By the Angels of the Angels,
And served as a spiritual
k#$=-%,-1"=-.8m-#2t#-W,-2~$-"-.k
Friend and guide
kR}-07$-E#=-.8m-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k For suffering beings
In the days of dark.
149
kEs0-.8m-+0$-@v#-8'1-+.;-W-13~-+$-k And I ask at your feet [148]
k1"=- 0 - - 0 8m - ( m - 1 - + #{- ; { # =- + .;k For help,
Lobsang Drakpa—
[147]
E s e
jangchub
k$,-0Wv +-#+1=- tuk . kyi 8m-1dro4~+-8
kun 4n,-bu0-=}shin-I{k sik You are Loving One,
kS-1hlakpay
{nyikdu #Hla
+-R-1-drowa =v1yi-;drenpay
jesung jin gyi lab
-#=};-0she-nyen
-8+{0=k chok Vast treasure
Of love with nothing it sees;
150
Namka Gyeltsen shab la sulwandeb
k7v$-8'v#-!r-0J{=-&}=-<m-L}-I{-+$-k You are Gentle Voice,
[148] The Lord
k!r-#mikme
=v1-1tseway
$},->v:-Wterchen ;-0-+0{Chenresik
,-=-.k Of immaculate wisdom;
k;v$dri-me
K}#=-1kyenpay
-gangchen 0+#-wangpo
$8-kepay = $=- Jampel
=-
tsukgyen Tsongkapa
W 9 { - < { =Yang
-60=k You are Tsongkapa,
k1"=-Lobsang Drakpay
Es0-&{,-.}- #=v1-;shab-#=}la;-0-8 sulwandeb +{0=k Crowning jewel
Of the sages of the Land of Snow.
113
k#$=-%,-1"=-.8m-#2t#-W,-2~$-"-.k
kR}-07$-E#=-.8m-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
149
I ask for your help [149]
kEs0-.8m-+0$-@v#-8'1-+.;-W-13~-+$-k
k1"=-Es0-e-08m-(m-1-+#{-;{#=-+.;k Three Matchless Lamas:
k$,-0Wv+-#+1=-.8m-14~+-84n,-0-=}-I{k Jampel Gyatso,
King of those
kS-1{+-R-1-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Whose practice succeeded;
150 Gelek Pel,
Bright Sun among teachers,
k7v$-8'v#-!r-0J{=-&}=-<m-L}-I{-+$-k
k!r-#=v1-1$},->v:-W;-0-+0{,-=-.k Wise and accomplished too;
k;v$-K}#=-1$8-0+#-=$=-W=-9{-<{=-60=k Baso Je,
A treasure chest
k1"=-Es0-&{,-.}-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Of advices of the oral tradition.
I ask for your help, [150]
Three Wise and Accomplished Saints:
[149]
druppay wangchuk Jampel Gyatso dang Chukyi Dorje,
kedrup maway nyima Gelek Pel Who gained the holy body
nyengyu dampay dzundin Baso Je Of the Union of the Two;
da-me Lama sum la sulwandeb The victorious Buddha,
Wensapa,
[150]
Who changed to all three bodies;
sungjuk ku-nye Chukyi Dorje dang
kusum ngun-gyur Gyalwa Wensapa And Sangye Yeshe,
lungtok ngadak Sangye Yeshe shab Lord and master
kedrup chenpo sum la sulwandeb Of teachings and realizations.
115
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
His Holiness the First Panchen Lama
116
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
151
kR}-07$-&}=-<m-W;-13,-84n,-.8m-I{k I ask for your help, [151]
k+{-9m-*v#=-N=-+!},-1&}#-W;-13,-60=k Three High and Holy Lamas:
k;1-07$-#=;-14+-R}-07$-9{-<{=-){k Lobsang Chukyi Gyeltsen,
His Holiness the First Panchen Lama,
kI{-02t,-R-1-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k The Lord who upheld
The banner of the teachings;
152
k*v0-0%,-({;-14+-$#-+0$-A1=-.-+$-k And his closest spiritual son,
The holy one,
k+{-9m-*v#=-N=-R}-07$-$,-E#=-60=k Konchok Gyeltsen;
kW-13~-W-0v8m-9},-),-1*8-9=-1$8k And Lobsang Yeshe,
Who came to illuminate
kHm,-%,-R-1-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k That most excellent of paths.
153
kR}-07$-9{-<{=-0%,-.-:0-W=-I{k I ask for your help, [152]
kR}-E}=-07$-.}=-8E}-\o,-M1-E};-14+k Three Lamas of Kindness:
[151]
kR}-Lobsang
07$-W;-Chukyi 08m-&}=-3Gyeltsen Ngawang Jampa,
dzinpay je
u;-^m,-1"=- .k
Who spread wide
k13udelamsang
$yi=-1tukse -1Konchok
{+-Rselndze -;Gyeltsen
-#=v1Lobsang -0-8shab
-#=};Yeshe +{te0=k The Word of the Able Ones;
jetsun Lama sum la sulwandeb His spiritual son,
The revered one,
[152] Lobsang Nyendrak;
tupten pelndze Ngawang Jampa dang
de yi tukse Lobsang Nyendrak shab And Gyatso Ta-ye,
Gyatso tabuy yunten Ta-ye nga Who possessed fine qualities
drinchen Lama sum la sulwandeb As infinite as the sea.
117
kW-13~-W-0v8m-9},-),-1*8-9=-1$8k
kHm,-%,-R-1-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
153
I ask for your help,
kR}-07$-9{-<{=-0%,-.-:0-W=-I{k [153]
kR}-E}=-07$-.}=-8E}-\o,-M1-E};-14+k Three Matchless Lamas:
kR}-07$-W;-08m-&}=-3u;-^m,-1"=-.k The Lord,
Lobsang Yeshe Tenpa Rabgye;
k13u$=-1{+-R-1-#=v1-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Lobsang Namdrul,
154
Who with his fine wisdom
k0!;-07$-M1-8H{,-06m-.8m-;v$-K}#=-0%,k Frees all living beings;
k0<+-au0-#(m=-<m=-84n,-;-S-K;-0k And Lobsang Jinpa,
Pure-minded one
k0!8-Hm,-1(1-1{+-P-08m-R-1-;k Wise in giving
The Dharma of the Victors.
k"}-#=v1-]o=-.-&{,-.}=-#=};-0-8+{0=k
155
k1$-*}=-#+1=-.:-<:-08m-+<m;-8"}:-W=k I ask for your help, [154]
In great respect
k:m1-#(m=-]}+-.8m-:m-3#=-#7v#=-0J,-#=;k Expressed through all three doors—
[153]
k!;-Lobsang
0 7$- # `oYeshe
; - A8mTenpa
- 1 v
Lodru Sangpu drokun Namdrul dze
, -= { Rabgye
; - \ o , - + je-#({,k
8m Kelsang Tendzin,
Kindness that knows no equal,
k0%,-Lobsang
84n,-1Gyalway
"=-Es0-6chutsul 0=-;-#=}Jin;kepa -0-8+{0=k Lama of my heart;
tsungme Lama sum la sulwandeb
156
k`o=-#=v1-[0=-#,=-1-;v=-8`o=-.8m-!rk Unrivalled in upholding
[154] The Word of the Fourth of the Guides
kR}-0Kelsang
7$-8'1-namdren
+.;-;{#shipay =-0<+-lungtok a}#=-1Ten "=-#=v$-k In this, the fortunate eon;
k0U0-shedrup
# =v 1 -nyi - 8 kyi Dzin
[ s , - 0la-Wda-1drelwa
3~8m-*v#=k Holding both the physical word
kadrin nyam-me Tsaway Lama la
W v K=- E s
And all the realizations
kHm,-go%,-c
sumu;-.gupa
8m-!r-;-chenpu
#=};-0-8+{ sulwandeb 0=k Through your teachings and your practice.
118
154
k0!;-07$-M1-8H{,-06m-.8m-;v$-K}#=-0%,k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k0<+-au0-#(m=-<m=-84n,-;-S-K;-0k
k0!8-Hm,-1(1-1{+-P-08m-R-1-;k
k"}-#=v1-]o=-.-&{,-.}=-#=};-0-8+{0=k I ask for your help, [155]
Kelsang Kedrup,
155
k1$-*}=-#+1=-.:-<:-08m-+<m;-8"}:-W=k Keeper of the teachings,
Wise and accomplished saint;
k:m1-#(m=-]}+-.8m-:m-3#=-#7v#=-0J,-#=;k
The light of that shining orb—
The way in which
k!;-07$-#`o;-A8m-1v,-={;-\o,-+8m-#({,k
k0%,-84n,-1"=-Es0-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k You found personal lessons
In the thousands of teachings you’ve
156 heard—
k`o=-#=v1-[0=-#,=-1-;v=-8`o=-.8m-!rk Spreads ever more widely;
kR}-07$-8'1-+.;-;{#=-0<+-a}#=-1"=-#=v$-k
[155] It reveals the form
mangtu
k0U0- dampar
#=v1-Wv-8 sharway
K=-[s,- kyilnkor
Es0-W-13~ gye
8m-*v#=k Of a mountain deer,
rim nyi chupay ridak suknyen sel Stepping through
Kelsang
kHm,-%,- duljay
cu;-.8m munsel
-!r-;-# kunday
=};-0-8+{ 0=knyen Both of the levels;
tendzin Kedrup shab la sulwandeb
It stands the friend
Of the night-blooming lotus
And banishes dark night
For your fortunate disciples.
119
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
Lama Jampel Hlundrup Gyatso, author of the Song
120
155
k1$-*}=-#+1=-.:-<:-08m-+<m;-8"}:-W=k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k:m1-#(m=-]}+-.8m-:m-3#=-#7v#=-0J,-#=;k
k!;-07$-#`o;-A8m-1v,-={;-\o,-+8m-#({,k
I ask for your help, [156]
k0%,-84n,-1"=-Es0-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
156
Jampel Hlundrup Gyatso,
k`o=-#=v1-[0=-#,=-1-;v=-8`o=-.8m-!rk Kind One,
Emanation—
kR}-07$-8'1-+.;-;{#=-0<+-a}#=-1"=-#=v$-k
k0U0-#=v1-Wv-8K=-[s,-Es0-W-13~8m-*v#=k Whose holy body
Envelops within it
kHm,-%,-cu;-.8m-!r-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k All the shelter in this world,
Past and present and future;
Whose holy words
Display perfect mastery
In singing forth
The fine explanations
[156] Of Lobsang, the Gentle Voice;
dusum kyabne malu dupay ku
lobsang Jampel lekshe drokke sung And whose holy mind
labsum gyundre Hlundrup Gyatsoy tuk Is a massive ocean
drinchen trulpay ku la sulwandeb Where all three trainings
Appear automatically
As the fruits of practice
And their causes as well.
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
157
kA1=-.-3u;-X,-;-=}#=-8/#=-,}:->m=k I ask for your help, [157]
High and holy Lama,
k*v#=-Wv+-;{#=-#)1=-W;-0%,-84n,-.8m-#2~k Pabongka Rinpoche,
kM1-06m8m-8Jm,-;=-W-13~8m-#}=-%,-=},k Jampa Tendzin Trinle Gyatso—
k9}$=-=0-I{-02t,-R-1:-#=};-0-8+{0=k Whose holy mind
Is filled to brimming with love
158 And the Jewels of the Realized,
kR}-07$-W;-0-\o,->m-9{-<{=-,mk Such as leading an ethical way of life;
k#%m#-0&r=-Hm-1{+-W;-0%,-84n,-.8m-#2~k
Who is prince among all
[157]
k:0-8A1=-+<m;-8"}:-W-13~-c}-0&r8m-1#},k Who uphold the Victors’ Word;
kHm,Jampa
%,-R-tsulnden
-tukgyu 1lektam ;lasok
-#=}paknor
8m-60=-GyalTen 0-8+{0gyi=ktso
;-Dzinpay Whose enlightened deeds
159
nam shiy Trinle Gyatsoy guchen kyun Of all four kinds
k13uyongkyab
$=-1{+-Rjetsun Lamar
}-+$-07$- .}8m-Msulwandeb
1-+?}+-<m=k Spread across the entire expanse
Of the Lady Who Wears the Oceans.
k1+}-##=-#bo$-;v#=-W-13~8m-1*:-=},-){k
k;1-+$-8K=-0v8m-<{:-@m,-70-1}8m-3u;k
k%},-1"=-I{-02t,-R-1:-#=};-0-8+{0=k
123
157
kA1=-.-3u;-X,-;-=}#=-8/#=-,}:->m=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k*v#=-Wv+-;{#=-#)1=-W;-0%,-84n,-.8m-#2~k
kM1-06m8m-8Jm,-;=-W-13~8m-#}=-%,-=},k
k9}$=-=0-I{-02t,-R-1:-#=};-0-8+{0=k
158
kR}-07$-W;-0-\o,->m-9{-<{=-,mk I ask for your help, [158]
Lama of Kindness,
k#%m#-0&r=-Hm-1{+-W;-0%,-84n,-.8m-#2~k Trijang Rinpoche,
Lobsang Yeshe Tendzin Gyatso,
k:0-8A1=-+<m;-8"}:-W-13~-c}-0&r8m-1#},k
kHm,-%,-R-18m-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Who combines
In one pure mind
159 The wisdom of each and every
k13u$=-1{+-R}-+$-07$-.}8m-M1-+?}+-<m=k Victorious Buddha;
k1+}-##=-#bo$-;v#=-W-13~8m-1*:-=},-){k Who is prince among all
[158]
k;1-+$-8K=-0v8m-<{:-@m,-70-1}8m-3u;k Who uphold the Victors’ Word;
k%}Lobsang Gyalwa kun gyi Yeshe ni
chikdu dri-me
, - 1 "=- I{-02t,GyalTen
-R-1:-#Dzinpay
=};-0-8+{0tso=k And the savior
rabjam kyilnkor Gyatso troduy gun Who sends out,
drinchen Lamay shab la sulwandeb And then draws back,
The vastness of the ocean,
Countless billions of secret worlds.
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k:0-8A1=-+<m;-8"}:-W-13~-c}-0&r8m-1#},k
kHm,-%,-R-18m-60=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
159
k13u$=-1{+-R}-+$-07$-.}8m-M1-+?}+-<m=k I ask for your help, [159]
Lama high, Lama holy,
k1+}-##=-#bo$-;v#=-W-13~8m-1*:-=},-){k Khen Rinpoche
k;1-+$-8K=-0v8m-<{:-@m,-70-1}8m-3u;k Geshe Lobsang Tharchin—
k%},-1"=-I{-02t,-R-1:-#=};-0-8+{0=k Who with your matchless mind
And excellent intellect
160
k:0-8A1=-#=v$-:0-\o,-;-0W-08m-1m# Has crossed over the sea
Of the scriptural tradition,
k!;-07$-*:-.:-0E}+-.8m-8'v#-$}#=-1&}# The teachings both open and secret;
k0P{-0=-0[}+-.8m-*0=-1"=-14+-.-9m=k A master at teaching
k#=;-14+-0<{=-#({,-M1=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k The deep ways inside
The perfection of wisdom,
161 Both as it is on the path
k+.;-X,-R-18m-M1-.:-*:-.-;k And as it will be at the goal.
[159]
k!+-%m#-21-9$-;}#-W-1m-0[{+-%m$-k I ask you for help, [160]
k%m-1tsungme
do-ngak shungluk
4+- ; { # Lo dang Sangpoy namchu kyi
=- .:-1*}$gyatsoy
-08m-1}=-]Tarsun
o=-<m=kte Every spiritual friend,
Eyes to see all the galaxy
kR-1lam8m - dang drebuy sherChin sabmoy tsul
m,-T0=-={1=-;-8'v#-.:-<}#
tunke jetsun Lamar sulwandeb
A Of the highest of spoken words;
162
[160]
k6{=-#=};-8+{0=-H#-_p-Ak Ultimate doorway for fortunate ones
rabjam sungrab kun la taway mik On their journey to liberation;
163
+{-,=kkelsang tarpar drupay jukngok chok
tsewe kyupay tapke dzepa yi Illuminating the road we take
164
selndze She-nyen nam la sulwandeb
k9},-),-\o,->m-#6m:->v:-Hm,-%,-I{k By using unexpected means,
Driven by your love.
k3u;-06m,-0%{,-.-;1->m-P-0-:vk 127
k;{#=-.:-1*}$-,=-80+-.-`o-1-9m=k
k0P{-0=-0[}+-.8m-*0=-1"=-14+-.-9m=k
k#=;-14+-0<{=-#({,-M1=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
160 Jorchu, The Meditation Song
161
k:0-8A1=-#=v$-:0-\o,-;-0W-08m-1m#
May I never, [161]
k+.;-X,-R-18m
k!;-07$-*:-.-M1-.:-*:-.-;k :-0E}+-.8m-8'v#-$}#=-1&}#
k!+-%m For even a moment’s time,
k0P{-#0=--21-9$-;}
0[}+-.8m#-*-W-1m 0=-1-0[{"=-+-%m1$4+- -k .-9m=k
Begin to think there is some mistake
k%mk#=;-
-14+-;{1#4+-=-.:-1*} $ -08m - 1} = -]o
0<{=-#({,-M1=-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k = -<m = k In the holy life my Lama leads,
kR-18m-Am,-T0=-={1=-;-8'v#-.:-<}# The Shining One, my Lama.
161
May my devotion,
k6{k+.;-
162
=-#=}X;,--8+{R-10=-H#- 8m-M1-._:-p-Ak*:-.-;k
Seeing all they do
k!+-%m#-21-9$-;}#-W-1m-0[{+-%m$-k As something fine,
[161]
163
k%mpelnden
+{-,=k -14+-;{#Lamay =-.:-1nampar *}$-08m-tarpa
1}=-]lao=-<m=k Bring their blessings
Inside my mind.
k9}kR-,kechik
164
),-\oA , tsam
chindze lekpar tongway mugu kyi
1 8m m - >m
T 0=-
- yang
#6m =
: {
->v1 lokta
=-
: ;
Hm -
, 8 mi-kye
'v #
-%,-I{ - .
k :- ching
< } #
k3uk6{;Lamay jinlab sem la-P-0-:v
jukpar shok Ask thus for help, with fierce feelings in your [162]
162 -06m , -0%{ , -.-;1->m k
[162]=-#=};-8+{0=-H#-_p-Ak heart.
k;{#(she sulndeb
=-.:-1*} draktu ja) -1-9m=k
$-,=-80+-.-`o
163
k]o+{=-,-.-&{
=k ,-.}=-0%{,-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k Review the Steps of the Path
164
with The Source of All My Good
k9},-),-\o,->m-#6m:->v:-Hm,-%,-I{k Continue now by singing The Source of All [163]
k3u;-06m,-0%{,-.-;1->m-P-0-:vk My Good. As you do, let your thoughts dwell
on the meaning of the lines.
k;{#=-.:-1*}$-,=-80+-.-`o-1-9m=k
k]o=-.-&{,-.}=-0%{,-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k The source of all my good [164]
Is my kind Lama, my Lord;
Bless me first to see
[163] (de ne) That taking myself to them
[164] In the proper way
yunten kun gyi shirgyur drinchen Je Is the very root
tsulshin tenpa lam gyi tsawa ru Of the path, and grant me then
lekpar tong ne bepa duma yi To serve and follow them
gupa chenpu tenpar jin gyi lob With all my strength and reverence.
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165
k;,-%m#-J{+-.8m-+;-08m-K{,-07$-8+mk
Bless me first to realize [165]
That the excellent life
k<m,-_p-J{+-+!8-+},-&{,-<{=->v:-,=k
k(m,-13,-\o,-_p-$m$-.}-;{,-.8m-R}k Of leisure I’ve found
Just this once
Is ever so hard to find
kWv,-&+-1{+-.:-[{-0:-Am,->m=-T}0=k
166 And ever so valuable;
k;v=-N}#-#9}-0-&u-9m-&u-0v:-06m,k
kBv:-`o-8'm#-.8m-8&m-0-H,-.-+$-k Grant me then
To wish, and never stop to wish,
k<m-08m-I{=-=v-;v=-+$-Em0-1-06m,k That I could take
k+!:-,#-;=-8K=-@m-06m,-8K$-0-;k Its essence night and day.
My body and the life in it [166]
k${=-.-0K,-.}-J{+-,=-({=-.8m-3~#=k
kJ-6m$-J-0-M1=-<$-(}$-0-+$-k Are fleeting as the bubbles
k+#{-3~#=-1*8-+#-au0-.:-A{+-.-;k In the sea froth of a wave.
Bless me first thus to recall
kK#-_p-0#-+$-X,-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k The death that will destroy me soon;
[165]
167
k]+-.=-1m -$}1=-&r#-0#;-\o,->m-"}k And help me find sure knowledge
lenchik nyepay delway tensang di That after I have died
k9m+shintu nyeka
-0K,-1m-:v dunchen
$-Nm+-.8m she-gyur
-/v,-3~# =-<mk ne The things I’ve done, the white or black,
k({=nyintsen
-+1m#=-:mkun tu nyingpo-0+{-lenpay
gyunche mepar kyewar jin gyi lob
#-,=-*:-.8m 0-;k lo And what these deeds will bring to me,
Follow always close behind,
k+},-#({:-&{,-.}-[{-0:-Am,->m=-T}0=k
[166] As certain as my shadow.
lusok yowa chu yi chubur shin Grant me then
nyurdu jikpay chiwa drenpa dang
shiway jesu lu dang dribma shin Ever to be careful,
karnak lendre chishin drangwa la To stop the slightest
ngepa tenpo nye ne nyepay tsok Wrongs of many wrongs we do,
tra shing trawa nam kyang pongwa dang And try to carry out instead
getsok tadak druppar jepa la Each and every good
taktu bak dang denpar jin gyi lob Of the many that we may.
131
k+!:-,#-;=-8K=-@m-06m,-8K$-0-;k
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k${=-.-0K,-.}-J{+-,=-({=-.8m-3~#=k
kJ-6m$-J-0-M1=-<$-(}$-0-+$-k
k+#{-3~#=-1*8-+#-au0-.:-A{+-.-;k
kK#-_p-0#-+$-X,-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k
167
k]+-.=-1m-$}1=-&r#-0#;-\o,->m-"}k Bless me to perceive [167]
k9m+-0K,-1m-:v$-Nm+-.8m-/v,-3~#=-<mk All that’s wrong
With the seemingly good things
k({=-+1m#=-:m#-,=-*:-.8m-0+{-0-;k Of this life.
k+},-#({:-&{,-.}-[{-0:-Am,->m=-T}0=k I can never get enough of them.
They cannot be trusted.
They are the door
[167] To every pain I have.
chepe mi-ngom dukngel kun gyi go
yi-ten mirung sipay puntsok kyi Grant me then
nyemik rik ne tarpay dewa la To strive instead
dun-nyer chenpo kyewar jin gyi lob For the happiness of freedom.
133
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
168
kM1-+#-0=1-.-+{-9m=-H$=-.-9mk Grant that these pure thoughts [168]
kH,-+$-<{=-06m,-0#-9}+-&{,-.}-9m=k May lead me to be watchful
And to recall
k0%,-.8m-P-0-=}-=}:-*:-.-;k What I should be doing.
kau0-.-$m$-.}:-A{+-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k Grant me to give
The greatest care
169
k:$-(m+-Nm+-13~:-[s$-0-'m-06m,-`ok To make the vows of morality
The essence of my practice;
k1:->v:-8E}-0-\o,-<$-+{-8H-0:k They are
k1*}$-,=-8E}-0-a};-08m-"v:-={:-08mk The root of the Buddha’s teaching.
kA$-&u0-={1=-1&}#-8A}$=-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k
170 I have slipped and fallen [169]
k={1=-21-0[{+-<$-3u;-Dm1=-M1-#=v1-;k Into the sea
k#}1=-.-1{+-,-A$-&u0-1m-8Es0-.:k Of this suffering life;
[168]
Bless me to see
k;{#namdak
=- . :- 1sampa
*} $ - , de
=- W yiNdrangpa
;- =-
dren dang sheshin bakyu chenpo yi
& } 1 - . yi
- ;k That every living being,
Every one my own mother,
tenpay
k0P},- .-H#-.}tsawa
=-U}0-sosor tarpa
.:-Am, ->m=la-T}0=k Has fallen in too.
druppa nyingpor jepar jin gyi lob
[169] Grant me then
rang-nyi sitsor hlungwa jishin du To practice this highest
margyur drowa kun kyang dendrawar Wish for enlightenment,
tong ne drowa drulway kur kyerway To take on myself
jangchub semchok jongpar jin gyi lob The task of freeing them all.
135
k1*}$-,=-8E}-0-a};-08m-"v:-={:-08mk
kA$-&u0-={1=-1&}#-8A}$=-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
170
k={1=-21-0[{+-<$-3u;-Dm1=-M1-#=v1-;k Bless me to see clearly [170]
k#}1=-.-1{+-,-A$-&u0-1m-8Es0-.:k That the Wish itself
Is not enough,
k;{#=-.:-1*}$-,=-W;-N=-&}1-.-;k For if I’m not well trained
k0P},-.-H#-.}=-U}0-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k In the three moralities,
I cannot become a Buddha.
171
k;}#-.8m-9v;-;-#9{$-0-6m-A{+-%m$-k Grant me then
A fierce resolve
k9$-+#-+},-;-3u;-06m,-+?}+-.-9m=k To master the vows
k6m-#,=-[#-1*}$-7v$-`o-8K{;-08m-;1k For children of the Victors.
kBv:-`o-Wv+-;-[{-0:-Am,->m=-T}0=k
Grant that I may quickly gain [171]
172
k*v,-1}$-;1-^$=-'}+-`o->v:-.-,k The path where quietude
And insight join together;
k*{#-.-\o,->m-1&}#->v:-L}-I{8m-*{#
[170]
One which quiets
k!;-semtsam
0 7$- [ { - kye
0 } 8 m - kyang
8
gompa me na jangchub mindruppar
'v # - $ } tsultrim
# =- + 1- . -nam
+ {
: k sum la
My mind from being
k0+{lekpar
-R#-(m+tong -`o-8'vne#gyelse -.:-Am,dompa->m=-T}0la=k Distracted to wrong objects,
tsunpa drakpu loppar jin gyi lob
173 The other which analyzes
k+{-3|-+$}=-Es0-M1-#(m=-8Es0-.8m-#6mk
[171] The perfect meaning
lokpay
kM1-+ #-+1-yul3n#la-&}1- yengwa
.:-#=v$ shi-je ching
=-.-; k In the correct way.
k0%}yangdak
shi-ne hlaktong
= - 1 - 1 m , - dun la tsulshin chupa yi
. 8m-${=-sungdu .-J{+->v:drelway
-,=k lam
kN}#nyurdu
-+$-0&}gyu =-){-la0Nskyewar $-0:-Ajin m,->gyi
m=-Tlob}0=k
137
k6m-#,=-[#-1*}$-7v$-`o-8K{;-08m-;1k
kBv:-`o-Wv+-;-[{-0:-Am,->m=-T}0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
172
k*v,-1}$-;1-^$=-'}+-`o->v:-.-,k Grant that once I’ve practiced well [172]
k*{#-.-\o,->m-1&}#->v:-L}-I{8m-*{# The paths shared and become
A vessel that is worthy,
k!;-07$-[{-0}8m-8'v#-$}#=-+1-.-+{:k I enter with perfect ease
The Way of the Diamond,
k0+{-R#-(m+-`o-8'v#-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k Highest of all ways,
173
Holiest door to come inside
k+{-3|-+$}=-Es0-M1-#(m=-8Es0-.8m-#6mk For the fortunate and the good.
kM1-+#-+1-3n#-&}1-.:-#=v$=-.-;k
k0%}=-1-1m,-.8m-${=-.-J{+->v:-,=k Bless me to know [173]
With genuine certainty
kN}#-+$-0&}=-){-0Ns$-0:-Am,->m=-T}0=k That when I’ve entered thus,
The cause that gives me
Both the attainments
[172] Is keeping my pledges
tunmong lamjang nu du gyurpa na And vows most pure.
tekpa kun gyi chokgyur dorjey tek
kelsang kyewoy juk-ngok dampa der Grant me then
delak nyi du jukpar jin gyi lob To always keep them
Even if it costs my life.
[173]
de tse ngudrub nam nyi druppay shi
namdak damtsik dompar sungpa la
chuma minpay ngepa nye gyur ne
sok dang du te sungwar jin gyi lob
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Jorchu, The Meditation Song
174
k+{-,=-Wv+-&{8m-$m$-.}-:m1-#(m=-<mk Bless me next [174]
To realize precisely
The crucial points
k#,+-M1=-'m-06m,-K}#=-,=-0P},-.-9m=k
k*v,-06m8m-M;-8A}:-]}+-;=-1m-#9{;-0:k Of both the stages,
The essence of
k+1-.8m-#=v$-06m,-au0-.:-Am,->m=-T}0=k The secret ways.
175
k+{-W:-;1-07$-%},-.8m-#<{=-#({,-+$-k Grant me then
To practice as
k3u;-06m,-au0-.8m-E}#=-M1=-60=-0K,-%m$-k The Holy One has spoken,
Putting all my effort in
k@m-+$-,$-#m-0:-`o-#%}+-.8m-3~#=k And never leaving off
k({-0:-6m-0:-Am,->m=-0T0-_p-#=};k The Practice of the Four Times,
Highest that there is.
176
k[{-0-\o,-_p-9$-+#-R-1-+$-k Bless me, grant me that [175]
k8K;-1{+-&}=-<m-+.;-;-;}$=-]}+-%m$-k The spiritual Guide
[174] Who shows me this good road,
k=-de+$-ne;1-gyu>m-9dey},-)nyingpo
,-:0-Q}#rim =-,nyi
=k kyi And all my true
Companions in this quest
kL}-Inetun{-8nam
&$-shiy#jishin
}-8/$-tokBchunev:-*tsunpa
m-#nelnjor <}# yi
}le0-miyelwar Live long and fruitful lives.
k%{=dampay
-3n#-+},-H,-sung
06m,-.shin
=-0I}druppar
+-;k jin gyi lob
Bless and grant me that
[175]
177 The rain of obstacles,
3~#detar
=-6m$-0lamsang
&r-0-,mk tunpay She-nyen dang Things within me
tsulshin druppay drok nam shab ten ching Or outside me
chi dang nang gi bardu chupay tsok That could stop me now,
nyewar shiwar jin gyi lab tu sul Stop and end forever.
141
k@m-+$-,$-#m-0:-`o-#%}+-.8m-3~#=k
174
k({k+{--0,:-=-6Wm-0v+:--&A{8m,m-$->m$m=-.-0}-:T0-
m1-#_(mp-#==}-<;mk k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
176
k#,+-
k[{ -0-\Mo,1=- -_p-9'$-m-0+6m#-,-RK}#-1=--+,$-=-k 0P},-.-9m=k In all my lives [176]
k*vk8K;-
,-06m18{+m-M-&;-}=8-<A}m-:+.;- -]}+-;-=-;}$1=-m-#]9{}+;-%-0m$:k-k May I never live
Apart from my perfect Lamas;
k+1-
k=-+.$-8m;-#1-=v>$m-9-0},6m-),,--a:u00--.Q:-}#A=-m,-,>=km=-T}0=k May I bask
In the glory
175
k+{kL}--IW{-8:-&$-
;1-#0m-#7$-}-8%/$-}, B.8mv:--#*}0<{-<=}#-#({,-+$-k Of the Dharma.
k3uk%{=;-3-0n#6m-+,},--aH,-u00-.6m8m,--.E=-}#0=-I}+M-;1=- May I fulfill
k 60=-0K,-%m$-k
177 Perfectly
3~k@m#-+=-$-6m$,-0$-&r#- m0- -0,mk:-`o-#%}+-.8m-3~#=k
[176] Every good quality
k({-0kyewa :- 6 m - 0 kun
:- A m , tu
- > m yangdak
=- 0 T0- _ p -Lama
# =} ; kdang Of every level and path,
drel-me chu kyi pel la longchu ching And reach then quickly
The place where I
k[{-saDorje
176
0-\dang
o,-_Changp-9lam$-+gyi yunten rabdzok ne
#-giRgopang
-1-+$-k nyur tob shok Become myself
k8K;- (che1{+-&tsikdun }=-<m-+dren .;-;-shinpe;}$=-ju]}+la)-%m$-k The Keeper of the Diamond.
k=-+$-;1->m-9},-),-:0-Q}#=-,=k
kL}-I{-8&$-#m-#}-8/$-Bv:-*}0-<}# Gather the Garden In
k%{=-3n#-+},-H,-06m,-.=-0I}+-;k
177
3~#=-6m$-0&r-0-,mk Now we gather back in the Garden of Karma. [177]
See your Lama shrink in size and descend to
the tip of your head; then sing in offering an
[177] abbreviated form of the Seven-Part Prayer,
(tsokshing duwa ni) along with the gift of a Perfect World—
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178
k+.;-X,-P-08m-R-1-:m,-.}-&{k Heart Lama, [178]
Precious One,
k0+#-#m-]m-0}:-.+-S8m-#+,-0bo#=-;k Glorious One,
k0!8-Hm,-&{,-.}8m-"}-,=-I{=-07v$-%{k
Come now
k!r-#=v$-*v#=-<m-+$}=-Es0-+;-`o-#=};k To the tip of my head,
Seat yourself there
179
k/v,-3~#=-+#{-;{#=-A{-0=-0`u,-.8m-!rk On a cushion made
Of a lotus bloom
k1*8-9=-8E}-08m-:{-0-!}$-08m-#=v$-k And the soft disk of the moon;
k1-;v=-<{=-A-'m-06m,-#7m#=-.8m-*v#=k Grant me your infinite kindness,
kcv<8m-#2~-0}-+{-;-@#-83;-;}k Keep me with You,
Grant me to attain
180 The way that You act,
k%},-.-R-1{+-=$=-W=-:m,-.}-&{k And the way that You talk,
[178]
k[}pelnden
0-.-R-1{+Tsaway -+1-&}=Lama -:m,-.}-rinpoche
&{k And even the way You think.
k8H{dak
, - gi-Rchiwor
. - 1 { + - + pendey
#{- 8 `o
kadrin chenpoy go ne jesung te
, -: m den
, - . }- shuk
& { k la
Your holy body was born [179]
ku #
k[0=- sung ,=-tuk\o,-8kyi`o=-=}
ngudrup +-;-@#-tseldu 83;-sul;}k From a billion perfect deeds;
Your words fulfill the hopes
[179] Of infinite living creatures;
puntsok gelek je-we trunpay ku Your mind perceives all things
ta-ye droway rewa kongway sung Exactly as they are—
malu sheja jishin sikpay tuk I bow down to you,
Shakyay Tsowo de la chaktsel lo King of the Shakya Clan.
145
k!r-#=v$-*v#=-<m-+$}=-Es0-+;-`o-#=};k
179
k/v,-3~#=-+#{-;{#=-A{-0=-0`u,-.8m-!rk Jorchu, The Meditation Song
k1*8-9=-8E}-08m-:{-0-!}$-08m-#=v$-k
k1-;v=-<{=-A-'m-06m,-#7m#=-.8m-*v#=k
kcv<8m-#2~-0}-+{-;-@#-83;-;}k
180
k%},-.-R-1{+-=$=-W=-:m,-.}-&{k I bow down to You, [180]
k[}0-.-R-1{+-+1-&}=-:m,-.}-&{k To the One
Who in a single person
k8H{,-.-R-1{+-+#{-8`o,-:m,-.}-&{k Combines every shelter there is:
k[0=-#,=-\o,-8`o=-=}+-;-@#-83;-;}k The matchless Teacher,
The precious Buddha;
[180] The matchless Protection,
tunpa la-me Sangye rinpoche The precious Dharma;
kyobpa la-me damchu rinpoche
drenpa la-me gendun rinpoche Those matchless Guides,
kyabne kundu Kyu la chaktsel lo The precious Sangha.
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181
k+$}=-0<1=-9m+-cu;-1&}+-.-1-;v=-80v;k And I offer [181]
Every kind of gift there is,
k*}#-1{+-,=-0=#=-&m#-Ws$-*1=-%+-0<#=k Both here before me
And those my mind can create.
k[{-8/#=-+#{-0-M1=-;-I{=-9m-:$-k
k8"}:-0-1-%}$-0:-`o-;{#=-0bo#=-,=k I confess
Every bad thing I have done,
k8E}-;-&}=-<m-8"}:-;}-0!}:-0-+$-k And every vow I have ever broken,
For time with no beginning.
k0+#-#6,-+#{-M1=-A$-&u0-&{,-.}:-0#}k
I take joy
182
kQm$-06m-:m-:0-(m-S-:m,-&{,-0`o,k In all the goodness ever done
By those who have seen emptiness,
k:m,-&{,-1b;-\o,-07$-1&}+-.8m-3~#=k And those who have yet to see.
kR-1-9m-+1-+!},-1&}#-#=v1-;-80v;k I beg my Lamas
To stay perfect here in the world,
k*v#=-I{=-06{=-,=-Am,->m=-0T0-_p-#=};k
[181] Until there is no one left
ngusham
k6{=-R-1- yitrul
]m-0}:-A},- chupa
.-;-9,- malu
;#-0`o ,-.-1bulb;-0%=-1+}:-0&r=-<m#- Within the cycle of pain.
tokme ne sak diktung tamche shak
/v;-kyepak
){k gewa nam la jeyirang And as you stay,
183 korwa matong bardu lekshuk ne
I beg you to turn
dro la chu kyi korlo korwa dang The Wheel of the Dharma,
?? dakshen genam jangchub chenpor ngo For every suffering living being.
Then finally I dedicate
The seeds of all the good
Accomplished by myself and others
To the Great Enlightenment.
149
k8E}-;-&}=-<m-8"}:-;}-0!}:-0-+$-k
k0+#-#6,-+#{-M1=-A$-&u0-&{,-.}:-0#}k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
182
kQm$-06m-:m-:0-(m-S-:m,-&{,-0`o,k I offer, [182]
To my Lama,
k:m,-&{,-1b;-\o,-07$-1&}+-.8m-3~#=k And to the Close Angels,
And to the Triple Gem,
kR-1-9m-+1-+!},-1&}#-#=v1-;-80v;k
k*v#=-I{=-06{=-,=-Am,->m=-0T0-_p-#=};k Countless clouds
Of the offerings
k6{=-R-1-]m-0}:-A},-.-;-9,-;#-0`o,-.-1b;-0%=-1+}:-0&r=-<m#- Of Perfect Goodness—
/v;-){k A perfect world,
This Jewel Mandala,
183
?? The entire planet
With all its continents,
[182] And its highest of mountains,
ling shi rirab nyinda rinchen dun Along with the sun,
rinchen mendel Kunsang chupay tsok And also the moon,
Lama Yidam konchok sum la bul And all the Seven Riches.
tukje she ne jin gyi labtu sul Give in to your compassion;
(she Lama chiwor junpa la yenlak dunpa mendel Accept these gifts,
che dordu shik pul te) And grant me with your blessing.
Devotion Like a Dagger in the Heart
Make now a supplication, with devotion like a [183]
dagger in the heart:
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184
k!r-06m8m-0+#-(m+-R-1-[#-.8m-[k I ask for your help, [184]
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Lord of the Able Ones,
Keeper of the Diamond:
185
kam0-K;-&}=-!r8m-0+#-(m+-R-1-[k Angel of Angels,
Four bodies in one,
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Loving Heart Lama of mine.
186
k0+{-&{,-;}$=-!r8m-0+#-(m+-R-1-[k I ask for your help, [185]
Lord of the Able Ones,
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Keeper of the Diamond:
Angel Lama,
187
k'-3~#=-cu;-!r8m-0+#-(m+-R-1-[k Being of the body of all things,
Seen beyond all veil.
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
188
I ask for your help, [186]
[184]
kR- 1-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k Lord of the Able Ones,
k*v0ku shiy daknyi Lama hlakpay Hla
-Tubwang
+0$- L}-I{-8Dorje &$-;Chang
-#=};-0la-8sulwandeb
+{0=k Keeper of the Diamond:
Angel Lama,
[185]
189
Being of the body of feeling,
k9m-dribdrel
+1-\o,-8chukuy `o=-R-1-daknyi
[#-.8mLama -[k Hla Ecstasy itself.
Tubwang Dorje Chang la sulwandeb
k*v 0
[186]
- + 0$- L } - I{ - 8 &$- ; - # =} ; - 0 - 8 +{ 0 =k I ask for your help, [187]
dechen longkuy daknyi Lama Hla Lord of the Able Ones,
Tubwang Dorje Chang la sulwandeb Keeper of the Diamond:
Angel Lama,
[187]
Being of the body sent to worlds,
natsok trulkuy daknyi Lama Hla
Tubwang Dorje Chang la sulwandeb In every different form.
153
k'-3~#=-cu;-!r8m-0+#-(m+-R-1-[k
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
188
kR-1-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k
I ask for your help, [188]
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Lord of the Able Ones,
Keeper of the Diamond:
189
k9m-+1-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k Angel of Angels,
Lama in whom lives
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k All the Lamas who have ever lived.
190
k=$=-W=-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k I ask for your help, [189]
Lord of the Able Ones,
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Keeper of the Diamond:
191
Angel of Angels,
k+1-&}=-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k Lama in whom lives
All Close Angels who have ever lived.
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
192
I ask for your help, [190]
[188]
k+#{Lama
-8`o,-kundu
\o,-8`o=Lama -R-1-hlakpay
[#-.8m-[Hla k Lord of the Able Ones,
Keeper of the Diamond:
Tubwang
k*v0-+0$- L}-I{-8Dorje
&$-;-#Chang
=};-0la-8+{0=k
sulwandeb Angel of Angels,
[189] Lama in whom lives
193
Yidam
k1"8- kundu
8E}-\o, Lama
-8`o=-R hlakpay
-1-[#- .8m-[kHla All the Buddhas who have ever lived.
Tubwang Dorje Chang la sulwandeb
k*v
[190]
0 -+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k I ask for your help, [191]
Lord of the Able Ones,
k&}=Sangye
194
[}$-\o,kundu
-Tubwang `o=-RLama
-8Dorje 1-[#-hlakpay
-Chang [k Hla
.la8m-sulwandeb Keeper of the Diamond:
Angel of Angels,
[191]
k*v 0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Lama in whom lives
damchu kundu Lama hlakpay Hla All the Dharma there has ever been.
195 Tubwang
k[0=- #,=-\Dorje o,-8`o=Chang
-R-1-[la#-sulwandeb
.8m-[k 154
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
191
k+1-&}=-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
192
k+#{-8`o,-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k I ask for your help, [192]
Lord of the Able Ones,
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Keeper of the Diamond:
193 Angel of Angels,
k1"8-8E}-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k Lama in whom lives
All the Sangha there has ever been.
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
194
k&}=-[}$-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k I ask for your help, [193]
Lord of the Able Ones,
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Keeper of the Diamond:
195
Angel of Angels,
k[0=-#,=-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k Lama in whom lives
All the Angels in the sky.
[192]
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k
k6{=gendun
/v:-3#=-kundu
-Tubwang =};-8+{Lama
#Dorje =-Ak hlakpay
0Chang Hla
la sulwandeb I ask for your help, [194]
Lord of the Able Ones,
[193] Keeper of the Diamond:
Kandro kundu Lama hlakpay Hla Angel of Angels,
Tubwang Dorje Chang la sulwandeb Lama in whom lives
All the Guardians of the teaching.
[194]
chu-kyong kundu Lama hlakpay Hla
Tubwang Dorje Chang la sulwandeb
155
194
k&}=-[}$-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Jorchu, The Meditation Song
195
k[0=-#,=-\o,-8`o=-R-1-[#-.8m-[k I ask for your help, [195]
Lord of the Able Ones,
k*v0-+0$-L}-I{-8&$-;-#=};-0-8+{0=k Keeper of the Diamond:
k6{=-/v:-3u#=-#=};-8+{0=-Ak Angel of Angels,
Lama in whom lives
196 All the shelter in the world.
+{-,=-]m-0}8m-R-1-*v0-+0$-;-+1m#=-){k kR-1-W;-0-cv<-*v0-.-
;-@#-83;-;}k 1&}+-+}-[0=-=v-1&m8}k k6{=-+$-k
197 Now focus upon the Lama sitting on the [196]
?f-1v-,m-1v-,m-1dw-1v-,-9{-:s-dwk 6{=-.8m-13,-##=-%m-8Es0-1*:k crown of your head—the Lord of the Able
[195] Ones—and sing the following:
198
kyab-ne
k+#{-0- 8+m-9m=-kundu Lama
Bv:-`o-0 +# hlakpay Hla
kR-1Tubwang
-(she=$=- Dorje Chang la sulwandeb
purtsuk8sulndeb
W =- Es0->v:-,ja)=k I bow down
To my Lama,
k8E}-0-#%m#-<$-1-;v=-.k To the conquering Buddha,
[196] To Shakyamuni:
k+{-9(de-=ne-;Gyalwa
mLama -chiwoy
8#}+-.:-Lama
< } # Tubwang la mik te)
Shakya Tubpa la chaktsel lo I make offering to You,
199 chu do kyabsu chio And I go to You
kkh+{(she
:-,dang)
m-:m$-`o-80+-;=-3~#=-#(m=-,mk For shelter.
k1"8-W:-9$=-.-#$-6m#-0=#=-.-+{=k
kR}-1m#-1-:m#-#m=-X}$-8E}-0-M1=k
kM1-8H{,-W;-08m-+0$-.}:-0+#->v:-%m#
157
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
196
+{-,=-]m-0}8m-R-1-*v0-+0$-;-+1m#=-){k kR-1-W;-0-cv<-*v0-.-
;-@#-83;-;}k 1&}+-+}-[0=-=v-1&m8}k k6{=-+$-k
197
?f-1v-,m-1v-,m-1dw-1v-,-9{-:s-dwk 6{=-.8m-13,-##=-%m-8Es0-1*:k Then repeat the name mantra of Lord [197]
198 Buddha, as many times as you may:
k+#{-0-8+m-9m=-Bv:-`o-0+#
kR-1-=$=-W=-8Es0->v:-,=k Om Muni Muni, Mahamunaye sva ha!
k8E}-0-#%m#-<$-1-;v=-.k
By the goodness [198]
k+{-9m-=-;-8#}+-.:-<}# That I have just done,
May I quickly become
199
kkh+{:-,m-:m$-`o-80+-;=-3~#=-#(m=-,mk My Lama, the Buddha—
[197] And may I bring all beings,
k1"8-om W:-
Muni
9$=-Muni Mahamunaye
.-#$-6m#-0 =#=-.-+sva{=kha Every one of them,
kR}-1(shepay
m#-1-:m#tsen-ngak
-#m=-X}$-8chindrup
E}-0-M1=ktar) To this same place.
[198]
kM1-gewa
8H{,-diW;-yi0nyurdu
8m-+0$-.dak}:-0+#->v:-%m#
Lama Sangye drup gyur ne
drowa chik kyang malupa
de yi sa la gupar shok
158
198
k+#{-0-8+m-9m=-Bv:-`o-0+# Jorchu, The Meditation Song
kR-1-=$=-W=-8Es0->v:-,=k
k8E}-0-#%m#-<$-1-;v=-.k The Prayer of the Years
k+{-9m-=-;-8#}+-.:-<}#
199
kkh+{:-,m-:m$-`o-80+-;=-3~#=-#(m=-,mk And finally, with feelings of intense [199]
k1"8-W:-9$=-.-#$-6m#-0=#=-.-+{=k yearning, dedicate the karma of all the
goodness you have just created by singing
kR}-1m#-1-:m#-#m=-X}$-8E}-0-M1=k this Meditation Song: send its power
towards making all the things that you
kM1-8H{,-W;-08m-+0$-.}:-0+#->v:-%m# and others pray for come true. Use the
following lines to do so—
[199] Long have I labored in this work,
der ni ringdu be le tsok nyi ni And thus added to the two collections,
katar yangpa gangshik sakpa de Which grow wide as the sky itself.
lomik marik gi dong drowa nam
namdren Gyalway wangpor dak gyur chik By this act may I become
A Lord among Victors, a guide for beings,
For the eyes of their minds
Are blinded by ignorance.
159
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
200
k+{:-1-=},-.8m-3|-:0=-\o,-_p-9$-k And in all my lives ‘til I [200]
reach that goal,
May Gentle Voice in his love
k8'1-.8m-+A$=-<m=-0P{-0=-I{=-07v$-,=k
k0%,-.8m-:m1-.-\o,-3$-;1->m-1&}# take me with him—
May I continue to find that
kJ{+-,=-0au0-.=-W;-M1=-1({=-A{+-<}# highest path
With all the steps of the
201
k:$-#m=-'m-06m,-K}#=-.8m-;1->m-#,+k teaching complete;
May I practice it well,
kco#=-H#-0P{-0=-H$=-.8m-*0=-1"=-<m=k And thus make the Victors
happy.
k8E}-08m-9m+-<m-1v,-.-0=;-A=-,=k
kW;-08m-0%,-.-9v,-:m$-84n,->v:-%m#
202 May I find as well fierce [201]
k0%,-.-:m,-&{,-1&}#-#m=-1-=0-.81k feelings of love
[200] Which impel me to use
k=0-der<$-ma(1=- .:->v:-.8m-@}#=-+{:-,mk
sunpay tserab kuntu yang unexpected methods
k$m$Jampay
-I{-&{,-.Yang }=-9m+-kyi
:0-tsewe
0[}+-.jesung
-9m=k ne To clear away the darkness
k/,-tenpay
nye ne druppe
0 +{ 8 m - #rimpa kun-tsang lam gyi chok
){:-+{-#Gyal
=;-0nam
:-A{+nye-je
-.:-<}#shok in the minds of beings
With whatever keys of the
[201] path that I’ve grasped;
rang gi jishin tokpay lam gyi ne And thus may I preserve the
shukdrak tsewe drangpay tapke kyi teachings
droway yi kyi munpa sel je ne Of the victorious Buddhas
Gyalway tenpa yun ring dzin-gyur chik for years to come.
161
k8E}-08m-9m+-<m-1v,-.-0=;-A=-,=k
kW;-08m-0%,-.-9v,-:m$-84n,->v:-%m# Jorchu, The Meditation Song
202
k0%,-.-:m,-&{,-1&}#-#m=-1-=0-.81k And may I be one who is driven [202]
k=0-<$-(1=-.:->v:-.8m-@}#=-+{:-,mk By great compassion to share
This goldmine of help and happiness
k$m$-I{-&{,-.}=-9m+-:0-0[}+-.-9m=k In places where the precious teachings
k/,-0+{8m-#){:-+{-#=;-0:-A{+-.:-<}# Have yet to reach, or in places
203
Where they have spread but declined.
kN=-0%=-W;-08m-O+-Av$-8Jm,-;=-;=k
k;{#=-Es0-A$-&u0-;1->m-:m1-.=-<$-k And may I use the steps of the path— [203]
k*:-8+}+-M1=-<m-9m+-;-+.;-%{:-6m$-k Crafted by the holy and wondrous deeds
kW;-08m-14+-.-:m$-`o-[}$->v:-%m# Of the Victors, with their sons and
daughters—
204
k;1-07$-au0-.8m-1*v,-V{,-au0-A{+-%m$-k To bring golden light into the minds
[202] Of those who seek for freedom;
k8#;-tenpa V{,rinchen
-={;-A{+-chok
1m-+$-gi1makyappa-am
m-1m,-\o,k May I for many years sustain
k3|-:kyab
0=- kyang nyampar gyurpay chok der ni
\ o,-_p-W;-0=-0##=-.-9mk
nyingje chenpu yi rab kyupa yi
The activities of the Victorious Ones.
kM1-pendey
+#-;1-ter+$-de8selwar
K;-0:-jepar1->v:shok -%m#
[203]
205
k#$-seche
3|-*{#Gyalway
-.-1&}#-;mejung
-&}=-]}+trinle -0%t=lek
k3u;lekdrup
-tarndu
06m,-Enamjangchub
-0P}yi,-lam
s0-;kyi .la-+pel{-9gyim-3terrimpe
|k shingkyang
Gyalway
k1*v-X,- M1=-<m dzepa ringdu
=-K#-_ p-E}#=-A{+kyong-gyur -%m$-k chik
k0C-<m=-W-13~=-@}#=-\o,-=0->v:-%m# k kk
163
k%{=-+{-W-0v8m-"}-,=-+{-;=-Av$-08m-+#{-P-M1=-:$-#6,->m-*},-#,=-
M1=-=v-8`o,-.-H#-.}=-0#}-0:-A8}k
k*:-8+}+-M1=-<m-9m+-;-+.;-%{:-6m$-k
kW;-08m-14+-.-:m$-`o-[}$->v:-%m# Jorchu, The Meditation Song
204
May I work to provide what people need [204]
k;1-07$-au0-.8m-1*v,-V{,-au0-A{+-%m$-k
k8#;-V{,-={;-A{+-1m-+$-1m-1m,-\o,k To practice this excellent path,
And work to clear away whatever
k3|-:0=-\o,-_p-W;-0=-0##=-.-9mk Might keep them from this practice—
kM1-+#-;1-+$-8K;-0:-1->v:-%m# May I see to it that human beings
And creatures of other kinds as well
205 Are never in all their lives to come
k#$-3|-*{#-.-1&}#-;-&}=-]}+-0%t=k Left without that purest path
k3u;-06m,-Es0-;-0P},-.-+{-9m-3|k Commended by the Victors.
k1*v-X,-M1=-<m=-K#-_p-E}#=-A{+-%m$-k
k0C-<m=-W-13~=-@}#=-\o,-=0->v:-%m# k kk And when they all begin to strive [205]
k%{=-+{-W-0v8m-"}-,=-+{-;=-Av$-08m-+#{-P-M1=-:$-#6,->m-*},-#,=- Correctly in their practice
By keeping all ten ways of life
M1=-=v-8`o,-.-H#-.}=-0#}-0:-A8}k That are found in the highest way,
[204]
May those with mighty mystic power
lamsang druppay tunkyen drupje ching Come forever to their aid—
gelkyen selje mi dang mimin kun May an ocean of goodness spread its
tserab kuntu Gyalwe ngakpa yi waters
namdak lam dang drelwar magyur chik To every corner of the world.
[205]
gangtse tekpa chok la chuchu chu
tsulshin drup la tsunpa de yi tse
tunden nam kyi taktu drokje ching
trashi gyatsu chok kun kyab-gyur chik
(che de tabuy go ne de le jungway getsa nam rangshen
gyi mun-ne namsu dunpa drakpu ngowar jao)
164
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
How This Practice Came to Be
206
k6{=-A$-&u0-;1->m-:m1-.8m-+1:-Dm+-*1=-%+-1={,-.:-0E}+-.8m-Bv:- I was approached by Kelden Rabgye, the [206]
;1->m-#},-8E}-^}:-&}=-<m-$#-8+},-8={:-0+{-0P#-&}#-6m#-+#}=-6{=- former chanting master of Bamchu Monastery,
who is a person of immense faith, effort, and
++-0P},-M1-+?}+-9$=-.8m-0Z-&}=-+0v-7v:-!;-X,-:0-W=-,=-,,-),- intellect. He urged me insistently that I
&{,-.}=-0!r;-1-Av$-0:-0K{,k should compose a ritual which is easily carried
out, and designed to be sung as a preparation
207
:$-#m-Wv,-={:-+$-!;-1(1-#6,-;8$-/,-:{8m-[#-0=1->m=-131=- for meditating upon the steps of the path to
enlightenment, as these are presented in A
Quick Path for Travelling to All-Knowing,
^:-){k
208 a spiritual practice based upon practical
`o=-1*8m-8H{,-#7v#=-.-8'1-+.;-[s,-Es0-_p-80}+-.=-0!8-#+1=- instructions from one’s teacher.
[206]
0%,-.8m-a},-1{-[0=-I{-0!8-Hm,-13u$=-1{+-W;-N=-!;-07$-0%,-
84n,(she
+.;-jangchub
-kyenpar .}-90-lam
07$-drupay 7gyi
v$-#m-rimpay
N=-Nyurlam #=v$gyi -martri
+$-1,-$tamche
-Wv,ngundro #-jorchu
06m,-Km=-.-
209
kyi ngakdun kyer de lakchok shik gu she detsun And so I did pen the work, in hopes of [207]
8+m=namchu
-<$-8'1-yangpay
1#},-$,-0WvBamchu
+-<m-0%,-Usur
.-:m,-.Kelnden
}-&{-1m-ao0-.8mRabgye
-W;-13,-`o- furthering my own understanding, and in a
>v:-ne
%m# nenten chenpu kulma jungwar ten) spirit of personal responsibility—with the hope
of benefiting other, like-minded friends.
[207]
210
1_-;giZkk gyunkyer dang kelnyam shen la-ang
kk=N-(rang
penrey hlaksam gyi tsam jar te)
165
207
:$-#m-Wv,-={:-+$-!;-1(1-#6,-;8$-/,-:{8m-[#-0=1->m=-131=-
Jorchu, The Meditation Song
^:-){k
208
`o=-1*8m-8H{,-#7v#=-.-8'1-+.;-[s,-Es0-_p-80}+-.=-0!8-#+1=- Thus have I—whom people give the name [208]
0%,-.8m-a},-1{-[0=-I{-0!8-Hm,-13u$=-1{+-W;-N=-!;-07$-0%,- of Jampel Hlundrup, the mere shadow of a
teacher here in the days when Buddhism has
84n,-+.;-07$-.}-90-N=-7v$-#m-#=v$-Wv,-+$-1,-$#-06m,-Km=-.- degenerated—completed the writing. It follows
209 the oral tradition and personal advices of both
8+m=-<$-8'1-1#},-$,-0Wv+-<m-0%,-.-:m,-.}-&{-1m-ao0-.8m-W;-13,-`o- the father—that shining light of the teachings
>v:-%m# of the Kadampas, and protector of matchless
kindness, the bodhisattva Kelsang Tendzin,
210
kk=N-1_-;Zkk good and glorious—and his spiritual son.
[208] I pray that this work may stand as a banner of [209]
(dutay drensukpa Jampel Hlundrup tu bu-pe victory, heralding a future where the precious
Kadam tenpay drunme kyabje kadrin tsungme teachings of the oral tradition of our Gentle
gyelse Kelsang Tendzin pel sangpo yabse sung gi Savior, Je Tsongkapa, live forever in this world.
sung-gyun dang men-ngak shin dripa)
[209]
(di kyang Jamgun nyen-gyu kyi tenpa rinpoche Sarva mangalam! [210]
minuppay gyeltsen du gyur chik) May good fortune spread to every
[210] place!
(sarva mangalam)
Translator’s note:
The established verses of supplication for the Lamas who have continued to pass this work down after its original
composition have been inserted at the appropriate places, in accordance with tradition.
166
The Thousand Angels
Of the Heaven of Bliss
Ganden Hlagyama
an oral tradition granted by
Je Tsongkapa
(1357-1419)
and first put into writing by
Gyuchen Sangye Gyatso
(born c. 1550)
a teacher of His Holiness the First Panchen Lama
The Thousand Angels of the Heaven of Bliss
[1]
།དགའ་ལྡན་ལྷ་བརྒྱའི་མགོན་གྱི་ཐུགས་ཀ་ནས། Please come to me, Lobsang Drakpa,
King of the Dharma, who knows all things,
[1]
།རབ་དཀར་ཞོ་གསར་སྤུངས་འདྲའི་ཆུ་འཛིན་རྩེར། Come with your Sons, riding upon
The tops of clouds
།ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས། Like mountains of pure white snow;
Come,
།སྲས་དང་བཅས་པ་གནས་འདིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ། Come from the heart
[2] Of the Lord of a Thousand Angels
Living in the Heaven of Bliss.
།མདུན་གྱི་ནམ་མཁར་སེང་ཁྲི་པད་ཟླའི་སྟེང་།
།རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་དགྱེས་པའི་འཛུམ་དཀར་ཅན། [2]
།བདག་བློ་དད་པའི་བསོད་ནམས་ཞིང་མཆོག་ཏུ། [2]
Sit in the air
In front of me,
།བསྟན་པ་རྒྱས་ཕྱིར་བསྐལ་བརྒྱར་བཞུགས་སུ་གསོལ། On a throne with cushions
Of the moon, and the lotus;
[1] Set on the backs of lions.
ganden hla-gyay gun gyi tukka ne
rabkar shosar pungdray chunzin tser My holy Lama,
chu kyi gyalpo kunkyen Lobsang Drak With pure white smile,
se dang chepa nendir shek su sol Happy with me,
I ask you to stay
[2] For a million years
dun gyi namkar sengtri penday teng To spread the teaching;
jetsun Lama gyepay dzumkar chen Stay, for there is no one Higher than you
With whom I may make merit
daklo depay sunam shingchok tu
By goodness of my faith.
tenpa gye chir kalgyar shuk su sol
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།ཤེས་བྱའི་ཁྱོན་ཀུན་འཇལ་བའི་བློ་གྲོས་ཐུགས། [3]
Your Mind
Is knowledge
།སྐལ་བཟང་རྣ་བའི་རྒྱན་གྱུར་ལེགས་བཤད་གསུང་། That wraps around
The entire mass
།གྲགས་པའི་དཔལ་གྱིས་ལྷམ་མེར་མཛེས་པའི་སྐུ། Of knowable things.
།མཐོང་ཐོས་དྲན་པས་དོན་ལྡན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ། Your Words
Are jewels
Of good explanation
That we the fortunate Wear on our ears.
Your Body
Shines forth
[3] Shines with brightness
shejay kyun kun jelway lodru tuk Shines with a glory
kelsang naway gyen-gyur lekshe sung The world will see.
drakpay pel gyi hlammer dzepay ku
I bow to You;
tong tu drenpe dunden la chaktsel
Just to see You
Just to hear You
Just to think of You
Brings great things.
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[4]
[4]
I make in my mind [4]
།ཡིད་འོང་མཆོད་ཡོན་སྣ་ཚོགས་མེ་ཏོག་དང་། And place here as well
An ocean of gifts
།དྲི་ཞིམ་བདུག་སྤོས་སྣང་གསལ་དྲི་ཆབ་སོགས། That could cover the sky;
།དངོས་བཤམས་ཡིད་སྤྲུལ་མཆོད་སྤྲིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་འདི། Presents to please
All of Your senses,
།བསོད་ནམས་ཞིང་མཆོག་ཁྱོད་ལ་མཆོད་པར་འབུལ། Every different color of flower,
Sweetest fragrant incense,
[5] Lamps of light, perfumes
།གང་ཞིག་ཐོག་མེད་དུས་ནས་བསགས་པ་ཡི། Upon your body,
And other gifts as well
།ལུས་ངག་ཡིད་གསུམ་མི་དགེ་ཅི་བགྱིས་དང་། Do I offer You,
There is no higher
།ཁྱད་པར་སྡོམ་པ་གསུམ་གྱི་མི་མཐུན་ཕྱོགས། With whom I may make merit.
།སྙིང་ནས་འགྱོད་པ་དྲག་པོས་སོ་སོར་བཤགས།
[5]From deep within my heart, [5]
I am sorry, deeply,
[4] And openly confess
yi-ong chuyun na-tsok metok dang One by one
drishim dukpu nangsel drichab sok The harm that I have done
ngusham yi-trul chutrin gyatso di In my acts or words or thoughts;
sunam shingchok kyu la chupar bul Any and every wrong
Kept with me from time
[5] With no beginning;
gangshik tokme du ne sakpa yi Especially what I may have done
lu ngak yi sum mi-ge chi-gyi dang Against any one
kyepar dompa sum gyi mitun chok Of the three different kinds
nying ne gyupa drakpu sosor shak Of vows.
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[6]
Here in the age [6]
།སྙིགས་མའི་དུས་འདིར་མང་ཐོས་སྒྲུབ་ལ་བརྩོན། Of degeneration
You made every effort
།ཆོས་བརྒྱད་སྤངས་པས་དལ་འབྱོར་དོན་ཡོད་བྱེད། To gain great learning;
།མགོན་པོ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་རླབས་ཆེན་མཛད་པ་ལ། You threw away
།བདག་ཅག་བསམ་པ་ཐག་པས་ཡི་རང་ངོ། The eight worldly thoughts
And so made use
[7]
Of Your leisure and fortune.
།རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་དམ་པ་ཁྱེད་རྣམས་ཀྱིས།
Savior, we rejoice
།ཆོས་སྐུའི་མཁའ་ལ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་ཆུ་འཛིན་འཁྲིགས། We are glad, happy deep inside,
For what you have done,
།ཇི་ལྟར་འཚམས་པའི་གདུལ་བྱའི་འཛིན་མ་ལ། So good and powerful.
།ཟབ་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཆར་པ་དབབ་ཏུ་གསོལ། [7]
Holy lamas high, [7]
[6] Wrap the sky
nyikmay dundir mangtu drup la tsun Of your dharma bodies
chu-gye pangpe delnjor dunyu je In massive clouds
gunpo kyu kyi labchen dzepa la Of knowledge and love
dakchak sampa takpe yirang ngo
And let them pour
[7] Upon the earth
jetsun lama dampa kye nam kyi Of your disciples,
chukuy ka la kyentsey chunzin trik As we are ready,
A shower of rain,
jitar tsampay duljay dzinma la
The Teachings
sabgye chu kyi charpa ap tu sol
Deep and wide.
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[8]
།བདག་གིས་ཇི་སྙེད་བསགས་པའི་དགེ་བ་འདི། May any goodness [8]
།བསྟན་དང་འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་ལ་གང་ཕན་དང་། I have done
With this my prayer
།ཁྱད་པར་རྗེ་བཙུན་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་ཡི། Be a help to the teachings
།བསྟན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་རིང་དུ་གསལ་བྱེད་ཤོག And to every living being.
[9] I make a special prayer too
།དཔལ་ལྡན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། That for many years to come
I may carry forth
།བདག་གི་སྤྱི་བོར་པད་ཟླའི་སྟེང་བཞུགས་ལ། The Light,
The Essence of the Word,
།བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེན་པོའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྗེས་བཟུང་སྟེ། The Teachings of Je Tsongkapa.
།སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་དངོས་གྲུབ་སྩལ་དུ་གསོལ། [9]
[8] Come I pray and sit [9]
dak gi ji-nye sakpay gewa di My root Lama
ten dang drowa kun la gangpen dang Shining and precious
kyepar jetsun Lobsang Drakpa yi Upon the lotus
tenpay nyingpo ring du selje shok Atop my head;
Take me after
[9] You In great kindness,
Grant that I attain
pelnden Tsaway Lama Rinpoche
Your body, speech and mind.
dak gi chiwor penday tengshuk la
kadrin chenpoy go-ne jesung te
ku sung tuk kyi ngudrup tsel du sul
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[10]
།དངོས་གྲུབ་ཀུན་འབྱུང་ཐུབ་དབང་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་། I pray to the One who Holds the Diamond [10]
The source from where
[11] Every goal is found;
།དམིགས་མེད་བརྩེ་བའི་གཏེར་ཆེན་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས། [11]
།དྲི་མེད་མཁྱེན་པའི་དབང་པོ་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས། I pray to Loving Eyes [11]
Treasure of love
།བདུད་དཔུང་མ་ལུས་འཇོམས་མཛད་གསང་བའི་བདག With no one it loves;
།གངས་ཅན་མཁས་པའི་གཙུག་རྒྱན་ཙོང་ཁ་པ། I pray to Soft Glorious Voice
།བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པའི་ཞབས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། Lord of knowledge
That has no stain;
I pray to the Keeper of the Secret
[10] Who smashes all
ngudrup kunjung Tubwang Dorje Chang The army of demons;
[11] I pray to Tsongkapa
mikme tseway terchen Chenresik Crowning jewel
drime kyenpay wangpo Jampeyang Of masters of the Land of Snow;
dupung malu jomdze Sangway Dak
gangchen kepay tsuk-gyen Tsongkapa I pray to One,
I pray at the feet,
Lobsang Drakpay shab la sulwandeb
I pray to Lobsang Drakpa.
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[12]
།དཔལ་ལྡན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། [12]
།བདག་གི་སྙིང་གར་པད་ཟླའི་སྟེང་བཞུགས་ལ། Come I pray and sit [12]
My root Lama
།བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེན་པོའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྗེས་བཟུང་སྟེ། Shining and precious
Upon the lotus
།སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་དངོས་གྲུབ་སྩལ་དུ་གསོལ། In my heart;
[13] Take me after You
།དཔལ་ལྡན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
In great kindness,
Grant that I attain
།བདག་གི་སྙིང་གར་པད་ཟླའི་སྟེང་བཞུགས་ལ། Your body, speech and mind.
།བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེན་པོའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྗེས་བཟུང་སྟེ། [13]
།མཆོག་དང་ཐུན་མོང་དངོས་གྲུབ་སྩལ་དུ་གསོལ། Come I pray and sit [13]
My root Lama
Shining and precious
[12] Upon the lotus
pelnden Tsaway Lama Rinpoche In my heart;
dak gi nying-kar penday tengshuk la Take me after You
kadrin chenpoy go-ne jesung te In great kindness,
ku sung tuk kyi ngudrup tsel du sol Grant that I attain
Both common and highest goals.
[13]
pelnden Tsaway Lama Rinpoche
dak gi nying-kar penday tengshuk la
kadrin chenpoy go-ne jesung te
chok dang tunmong ngudrup tseldu sul
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[14]
།དཔལ་ལྡན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། Come I pray and sit [14]
།བདག་གི་སྙིང་གར་པད་ཟླའི་སྟེང་བཞུགས་ལ། My root Lama
Shining and precious
།བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེན་པོའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྗེས་བཟུང་སྟེ། Upon the lotus
།བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོའི་བར་དུ་བརྟན་པར་བཞུགས།
In my heart;
Take me after You
[15] In great kindness,
།ཚེ་རབས་ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱལ་བ་ཙོང་ཁ་པས། Stay here never moving
Until the Buddha’s essence.
།ཐེག་མཆོག་བཤེས་གཉེན་དངོས་སུ་མཛད་པའི་མཐུས།
།རྒྱལ་བས་བསྔགས་པའི་ལམ་བཟང་དེ་ཉིད་ལས། [15]
Through all the string of my future lives [15]
།སྐད་ཅིག་ཙམ་ཡང་བཟློག་པར་མ་གྱུར་ཅིག May Tsongkapa the Victor come to me
And serve himself as my spiritual guide
[14] In the teachings of the Greater Way.
pelnden Tsaway Lama Rinpoche
dak gi nying-kar penday tengshuk la
kadrin chenpoy go-ne jesung te
jangchub nyinpoy bar du tenpar shuk
[15]
tserab kun tu gyalwa Tsongkape
tekchok she-nyen ngu su dzepay tu
gyalwe ngakpay lamsang de-nyi le
kechik tsamyang dokpar ma-gyur chik
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།སྐྱེ་བ་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཡང་དག་བླ་མ་དང་། In all my lives [16]
།འབྲལ་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དཔལ་ལ་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ཅིང་། May I never live
Apart from my perfect Lamas,
།ས་དང་ལམ་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་རབ་རྫོགས་ནས། May I bask
།རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་གི་གོ་འཕང་མྱུར་ཐོབ་ཤོག ༎ In the glory
Of the Dharma.
།བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་དགའ་ལྡན་ལྷ་བརྒྱ་མ་རྫོགས་སོ། May I fulfil
Perfectly
Every good quality
Of every level
And path,
[16] And reach then quickly
kyewa kun tu yangdak Lama dang The place where I
drelme chu kyi pel la longchu ching Become myself
sa dang lam gyi yunten rabdzok ne The One who Holds the Diamond.
Dorje Chang gi gopang nyurtop shok
[17]
(Lamay Neljnjor Ganden Hlagyama dzok so) This completes the Thousand Angels of
the Heaven of Bliss,
A Prayer of Lama Devotion.
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Lama Chupa
Lama Chupa Detong Yermema
The Offering to Lamas,
A Song of Indivisible Bliss & Emptiness
written by
His Holiness the First Panchen Lama
Lobsang Chukyi Gyeltsen
(1565-1662)
Lama Chupa The Offering to Lamas
[1] [1]
༇།།བླ་མ་མཆོད་པའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགས་སོ།།
Herein is found The Rite for the Offering to [1]
Lamas.
[2]
རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། གུ་རུ་པཱུ་ཛ་སྱ་ཀལྤ་ནཱ་མ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། བླ་མ་ [2]
In the language of India, this work is called the [2]
མཆོད་པའི་ཆོ་ག་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། Guru Pujasya Kalpa Nama. In Tibetan, it is
[3] called the Lama Chupay Choga. And in English
བཀའ་དྲིན་མཉམ་མེད་བླ་མ་དམ་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཞབས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཞིང་སྐྱབས་སུ་ it is called the Rite for the Offering to Lamas.
མཆིའོ། །བརྩེ་བ་ཆེན་པོས་དུས་དང་གནས་སྐབས་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ་རྗེས་སུ་གཟུང་དུ་
[3]
གསོལ།། I bow to the blessed feet of my holy Lamas, matchless [3]
[4]
in Their kindness. And I come to Them for shelter.
།གང་ལ་བརྟེན་ན་སྐུ་གསུམ་བདེ་བ་ཆེ། Out of Your great love, take me into Your care—in
།ཐུན་མོང་དངོས་གྲུབ་དང་བཅས་སྐད་ཅིག་ལ། every moment, and wherever I may be.
།སྩོལ་མཛད་འདོད་དགུའི་མཆོག་སྩོལ་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར། [4]
།རྡོ་རྗེ་ཅན་ཞབས་པདྨོར་གུས་བཏུད་ནས། I bow in devotion to the lotus feet [4]
[1] Of the One Who Has the Diamond:
(Lama Chupay Choga shuk so.) A wish-fulfilling gem who grants
[2] The highest of all my many dreams.
(Gyagar ke du, Guru Pujasya Kalpa Nama.
Bu ke du, Lama Chupay Choga shejawa.) If I surrender myself to You
[3] Then I know I shall be granted
(Kadrin nyamme Lama dampa nam kyi shab la In but a single moment of time
chaktsel shing kyabsu chio. Tsewa chenpu du dang The ecstasy of the three holy forms,
nekap tamche du jesu sung du sul.) And all the goals that are shared.
[4]
(Gang la ten na kusum dewa che,
Tunmong ngudrup dangche kechik la,
Tsulndze duguy choktsul yishin nor,
Dorje Chen shab pemor gu tu ne,)
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[5] [5]
།སྐལ་བཟང་སློབ་མའི་ཕན་བདེ་མ་ལུས་པ། This is the highest means of all [5]
For disciples of good fortune
།སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཐབས་མཆོག་གཉིས་པ་དང་བྲལ་བ། To reach all that is good,
To reach all happiness;
།མདོ་རྒྱུད་དམ་པའི་མན་ངག་པད་ཚལ་ལས། Nothing can compare to it.
།འོངས་པའི་མེ་ཏོག་ཕྲེང་མཛེས་མགུལ་རྒྱན་སྤེལ།
[6] This is a string of lovely blooms
That I carry to you from the lotus garden
དེ་ཡང་ཐར་འདོད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་གཞི་རྟེན། ལེགས་ Of the open and secret teachings,
ཚོགས་མ་ལུས་པའི་འབྱུང་གནས། མཆོག་དང་ཐུན་མོང་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་མཐའ་ And the highest of advices—
ཡས་པ་ཀུན་གྱི་རྩ་བ། ཐེག་པ་མཆོག་གི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཉམས་སུ་བླང་བར་བྱ་ Come don this jeweled necklace.
བའི་མན་ངག་མཐའ་དག་གི་གནད་བསྡུས་པ་ནི། [6]
[7]
རང་ལ་ལམ་ཕྱིན་ཅི་མ་ལོག་པར་སྟོན་པའི་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ཚུལ་བཞིན་དུ་བསྟེན་པ་
There is but one thing which is the very foundation [6]
for all the wondrous things that will ever come to
ལ་རག་ལས་པ་ཡིན་ཏེ། those who seek for freedom. It is the very source
[5] from which each and every good thing springs forth.
(Kelsang lobmay pende malupa, It is the very root of infinite attainments—both
Druppay tapchok nyipa dang drelwa, those which are supreme, and those which are held
Do-gyu dampay men-ngak petsel le, in common. It is an instruction which combines
Ongpay metok trengdze gulgyen pel.) every crucial point found in all the spiritual
advices put into practice by deep practitioners of
[6]
the ultimate path.
(De yang tarndu nam kyi punsum tsokpa tamche [7]
kyi shiten, lektsok malupay jungne, chok dang
tunmong gi ngudrup tayepa kun gyi tsawa, tekpa
It is the teaching upon how to take oneself, in the [7]
proper way, to a spiritual Friend who shows to us,
chok gi nelnjorpa nam kyi nyamsu langwar jaway perfectly, the path. For all these goals rely upon
men-ngak tadak gi ne dupa ni,) Them.
[7]
(Rang la lam chin-chi malokpar tunpay Geway
She-nyen tsulshin du tenpa la rak lepa yin te,)
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[8] [8]
བེའུ་བུམ་སྔོན་པོ་ལས། As the Blue Annals puts it, [8]
།མན་ངག་ཐམས་ཅད་བསྡུས་པའི་འགོ་ནི།
།བཤེས་གཉེན་དམ་པ་མི་བཏང་བ་ཡིན། The single door which includes within it
།དེ་ལས་དད་དང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སོགས། All the advices of the spirit
Is never giving up our spiritual Friend.
།ཡོན་ཏན་ཀུན་འབྱུང་ཀུན་གྱི་གཏེར་ཡིན། This is the mine of riches
ཅེས་གསུངས་ཤིང་། That produces every fine quality:
[9]
Faith, the Wish for Buddhahood,
རྗེ་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པས་ཀྱང་།
And all the rest as well.
།དེ་ནས་འདི་ཕྱིའི་ལེགས་ཚོགས་ཇི་སྙེད་པའི།
།རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ལེགས་པར་འགྲིག་པའི་རྩ་བ་ནི། [9]
།ལམ་སྟོན་བཤེས་གཉེན་དམ་པ་འབད་པ་ཡིས། The all-knowing Lord has said as well, [9]
།བསམ་དང་སྦྱོར་བས་ཚུལ་བཞིན་བསྟེན་པ་རུ།
See that the very root
།མཐོང་ནས་སྲོག་གི་ཕྱིར་ཡང་མི་གཏོང་བར། For setting in motion the forces
།བཀའ་བཞིན་བསྒྲུབ་པའི་མཆོད་པས་མཉེས་པར་བྱེད། That will bring to you every good thing
།རྣལ་འབྱོར་ངས་ཀྱང་ཉམས་ལེན་དེ་ལྟར་བྱས། In this life and those beyond it
།ཐར་འདོད་ཁྱེད་ཀྱང་དེ་བཞིན་བསྐྱང་འཚལ་ལོ། Is to take yourself, and properly,
ཞེས་དང་། To a supreme spiritual guide,
Striving to serve Them in both
[8]
(Beubum Ngunpo le, Your thoughts and actions too.
Men-ngak tamche dupay go ni,
She-nyen dampa mitangwa yin, Never give Them up then,
De le de dang jangchub sem sok, Even if it should cost you your life;
Yunten kunjung kun gyi ter yin. Please Them with the offering
Che sung shing,) Of carrying out Their every instruction.
[9]
(Je Tamche Kyenpe kyang,
De ne dichiy lektsok ji-nyepay,
Tendrel lekpar drikpay tsawa ni,
Lamtun she-nyen dampa bepa yi,
Sam dang jorwe tsulshin tenpa ru,
Tong ne sok gi chir yang mitongwar,
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[10]
།འཇིག་རྟེན་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདས་པའི་དགེ་ལེགས་ཀྱི། This is what I, in my deep practice,
Have carried out myself;
།ཡོན་ཏན་ཀུན་གྱི་རྩ་བ་དྲིན་ཅན་རྗེ། Those of you who hope for freedom
ཞེས་གསུངས་ཤིང་། Should seek to do the same.
[11]
[10]
བླ་མ་ལྔ་བཅུ་པ་ལས་ཀྱང་། He also spoke that [10]
།དངོས་གྲུབ་སློབ་དཔོན་རྗེས་འབྲང་ཞེས།
།རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན་པ་ཉིད་གསུང་བར། The very root for every fine quality,
Of every good and virtuous thing
།ཤེས་ནས་དངོས་པོ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱིས། In the world and beyond it too,
།བླ་མ་ཡོངས་སུ་མཉེས་པར་བྱ། Is your Lord Lama, the One
ཞེས་དང་། Who showers you with Their kindness.
Kashin druppay chu-pe nyepar je, [11]
Nelnjor nge kyang nyamlen detar je, The Fifty Verses on Lamas says as well, [11]
Tarndu kye kyang deshin kyangtsel lo. She dang,)
Grasp the fact that the Keeper
[10] Of the Diamond himself has said
(Jikten jikten depay gelek kyi, That every attainment flows
Yunten kun gyi tsawa drinchen Je. From your spiritual Master.
She sung shing,) Please Them completely then
With everything you possess.
[11]
(Lama Ngapchupa le kyang,
Ngudrup Loppun jendrang she,
Dorje Dzinpa nyi sungwar,
She ne ngupo tamche kyi,
Lama yongsu nyepar ja.
She dang,)
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[12] [12]
ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྡུད་པ་ལས་ཀྱང་། The Brief Text of the Jewel of Virtues puts it this [12]
།སློབ་མ་བཟང་པོ་བླ་མར་གུས་ལྡན་དེ་དག་གིས། way:
།བླ་མ་མཁས་པ་རྣམས་ལ་རྟག་ཏུ་བརྟེན་པར་བྱ། Those who are true disciples,
།ཅི་ཕྱིར་ཞེ་ན་མཁས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་དེ་ལས་འབྱུང་། Who show honor to their Lamas,
Surrender themselves forever
།དེ་དག་ཤེས་རབ་ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྗེས་སུ་སྟོན། To Lamas who are Masters.
།སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་རྣམས་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་ལ་བརྟེན་ཏོ་ཞེས།
།ཡོན་ཏན་ཀུན་གྱི་མཆོག་མངའ་རྒྱལ་བ་དེ་སྐད་གསུང་། Why is it that they do so?
Because it’s from the likes of these
ཞེས་གསུངས་པའི་ཕྱིར། That they win the qualities
[13] Possessed by a Master themselves;
དེ་བས་ན་སློབ་མའི་ཚོགས་གསོག་པ་དང་སྒྲིབ་པ་སྦྱོང་བའི་ཞིང་དུ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ And it’s from Teachers like these
That they learn the perfection of wisdom.
ཅད་ལས་ཀྱང་རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་ལྷག་ཏེ། སྡོམ་འབྱུང་ལས།
The victorious Buddhas themselves,
[12] Who possess all the highest of virtues,
(Yunten Rinpoche Dupa le kyang, Have stated that all the qualities
Lobma sangpo Lamar gunden dedak gi, Of an Enlightened Being
Lama kepa nam la taktu tenpar ja, Depend upon your spiritual Friend.
Chichir she na kepay yunten de le jung,
Sangye chu nam Geway She la ten to she, [13]
Yunten kun gyi chok-nga Gyalwa de ke sung. We can say then that—as an object with whom we [13]
She sungpay chir.) can collect good karma and clean away obstacles—
our Diamond Master is superior even to all the
[13] Buddhas there are. As the Source of Vows puts it,
(De-we na lobmay tsok sokpa dang dripma jongway
shing du Sangye tamche le kyang Dorje Loppun
hlak te, Domjung le,)
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[14] [14]
།འདི་ནི་རང་བྱུང་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས། They are the Conquering Buddha [14]
།ལྷག་པའི་ལྷ་ནི་གཅིག་པུ་ཉིད། Who has appeared all on Their own;
They are the one and only
།མན་ངག་རབ་ཏུ་སྟེར་བའི་ཕྱིར། God above all gods.
།རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་དེ་བས་ལྷག
And our Diamond Master is superior
།ཅེས་གསུངས་སོ།། Even to all of these,
[15] For They are the one who grants us
རྒྱུ་མཚན་དེ་ལྟར་ན། ལམ་གྱི་གནད་ཚང་བའི་བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྒོམ་པ་ནི་ Spiritual advices.
དལ་འབྱོར་ལ་སྙིང་པོ་ལེན་པའི་ཐབས་མཆོག་ཏུ་གྱུར་པ་ཡིན་པས་འདི་ལྟར་ཉམས་སུ་
[15]
བླང་བར་བྱའོ།། It is for this reason then that undertaking a deep [15]
[16] practice of the Lama—a version of this practice
which includes all the crucial points of the path—
དེ་ཡང་དགེ་སེམས་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་གྱི་ངང་ནས། སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ཚད་ is the highest way of getting the very essence out
མེད་བཞི་བསྒོམ་པ་སྔོན་དུ་བཏང་། of the leisure and opportunity we have found in
[14] this life. As such, we should do this practice as
(Di ni rangjung Chomden De, follows.
Hlakpay Hla ni chikpu nyi,
Men-ngak raptu terway chir, [16]
Dorje Loppun de-we hlak. Begin then by putting your mind into an [16]
Che sung so.) exceptional state of virtue. Before you do
anything else, meditate upon taking shelter, and
[15] the Wish for enlightenment, and the four infinite
(Gyutsen detar na, lam gyi ne tsangway Lamay thoughts.
Nelnjor gompa ni delnjor la nyinpo lenpay tab chok
tu gyurpa yinpe ditar nyamsu langwar jao.)
[16]
(De yang gesem kyerparchen gyi ngang ne,
kyabdro semkye tse-me shi gompa ngundu tang.)
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[17] [17]
བདག་ཉིད་གསང་བདེ་འཇིགས་གསུམ་སོགས་ལྷག་པའི་ལྷ་གང་རུང་གི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་དང་ལྡན་ Start off then with a deep practice where you see [17]
yourself as a god among gods—it could for example
པའི་སྐུ་ལས་འོད་ཟེར་འཕྲོས། སྣོད་བཅུད་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་མ་དག་པ་སྦྱངས། སྣོད་ཐམས་ཅད་ be any one of the three Angels of the Secret Collection,
གཞལ་ཡས་ཁང་དང་། བཅུད་ཐམས་ཅད་ལྷ་དང་ལྷ་མོའི་རང་བཞིན་གྱི་དག་པ་རབ་ Highest Bliss, or the Lord of Terror. Now, from
your holy body, fly forth rays of light. They go and
འབྱམས་འབའ་ཞིག་ཏུ་བསམ། clean every world, and every being that lives upon
[18] every world, of each and every impurity. Watch as
ནང་མཆོད་དང་མཆོད་རྫས་རྣམས་བླ་མེད་ཀྱི་ཆོ་ག་གང་ཡང་རུང་བ་ལྟར་བྱིན་རླབས་བྱ་བའམ། each of the worlds becomes a celestial mansion, and
[19] all the beings become man and woman Angels—a
མདོར་བསྡུ་ན་ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿ་ཧཱུྂ་ལན་གསུམ་བརྗོད་པས་ངོ་བོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལ་རྣམ་པ་ནང་མཆོད་དང་མཆོད་ veritable universe of total purity.
རྫས་སོ་སོའི་རྣམ་པ་བྱེད་ལས་དབང་པོ་དྲུག་གི་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་དུ་བདེ་སྟོང་གི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་ [18]
Now bless the inner offering, and the substances of [18]
བསྐྱེད་པས་
offering, in accordance with any of the traditional
rituals of the unsurpassed group of the secret
[17] teachings.
(Dak nyi Sang De Jik sum sok hlakpay Hla gang-
rung gi nelnjor dang denpay ku le u-ser tru, nu [19]
tamche ki madakpa jang, nu tamche shelye kang To sum these rituals, we first repeat, three times, [19]
dang, chu tamche Hla dang Hlamoy rangshin gyi the sacred syllables of om, ah, and hung. With
dakpa rabjam bashik tu sam.) this, the offerings become—in their essence—
wisdom itself. In their outer form they assume
[18] the appearance of the inner offering, or that of the
(Nangchu dang chudze nam la-me kyi choga gang individual substances of offering. As for what they
yang rungwa tar jinlab jawa-am,) do, they act to trigger an extraordinary form of
[19] the wisdom of bliss and voidness, by acting as the
(Dor du na om ah hung len sum ju-pe ngowo objects of the six sense organs.
yeshe la nampa nangchu dang chudze sosoy nampa
je-le wangpo druk gi chuyul du detong gi yeshe
kyeparchen kyepe,)
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[20] [20]
Watch now as the entire surface of the earth, and [20]
ས་དང་བར་སྣང་ནམ་མཁའི་ཁྱོན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡོངས་སུ་ཁྱབ་པའི་ཕྱི་ནང་གསང་བའི་མཆོད་ entire sky overhead—all of space itself—are gradually
སྤྲིན་དམ་རྫས་སྤྱན་གཟིགས་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པས་གང་བར་བསམས་ལ། covered by a massive cloud of offerings: outer offerings,
[21] inner offerings, and secret offerings; an inconceivable
quantity of the substances of pledge, and pleasing
དངོས་གཞི་ནི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པའི་སྒོ་ནས་བརྗོད་ན་འཇུག་པ་བདེ་བས་ཡིད་མ་ཡེངས་པར་
parks of creatures.
འདི་ལྟར་འདོན་ཞིང་། དོན་བསྒོམས་ལ་ཉམས་སུ་བླང་བར་བྱའོ།། [21]
[22] With this we have reached the main part of the ritual, [21]
།བདེ་སྟོང་དབྱེར་མེད་ལྷ་ལམ་ཡངས་པར་ཀུན་བཟང་མཆོད་སྤྲིན་འཁྲིགས་ which is more easily performed if we recite it in verses
of poetry. And so you should speak out the following
པའི་དབུས། lines, without allowing yourself to be distracted in
།ལོ་མ་མེ་ཏོག་འབྲས་བུས་ཡོངས་མཛེས་འདོད་དགུའི་དཔག་བསམ་ལྗོན་པའི་ any way. Go through the ceremony even as you reflect
upon its meaning.
རྩེར། [22]
།གདོང་ལྔ་འབར་བའི་རིན་ཆེན་ཁྲི་སྟེང་ཆུ་སྐྱེས་ཉི་ཟླ་རྒྱས་པའི་སྟེང་། The broad highway of the gods is indivisible [22]
bliss and void,
།བཀའ་དྲིན་གསུམ་ལྡན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀུན་གྱི་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད། Covered now with Samanta Bhadra’s offering
cloud.
[20]
(Sa dang barnang namkay kyun tamche yongsu Within it stands a tree which grants a thousand
kyappay chi nang sangway chutrin damdze wishes,
chensik sam gyi mikyappa gangwar sam la,) Lovely with its leaves and flowers and fruit.
[21]
(Ngushi ni tsiksu chepay go-ne ju na jukpa de-we yi Atop the tree is a throne of sparkling jewels,
mayengpar ditar dun shing, dun gom la nyamsu langwar jao.) held aloft by lions,
Set with full cushions of lotus, sun, and moon.
[22]
Detong yerme hlalam yangpar Kunsang chutrin trikpay uw, And upon them sits my Heart Lama, who has
Loma metok drebu yongdze duguy paksam junpay tser, paid me all
Dong-nga barway rinchen triteng chu-kye nyinda gyepay teng, Three kinds of kindness, the essence of all the
Kadrin sumden Tsaway Lama Sangye kun gyi ngowo nyi, Buddhas.
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[23] [23]
།རྣམ་པ་ངུར་སྨྲིག་འཛིན་པའི་དགེ་སློང་ཞལ་གཅིག་ཕྱག་གཉིས་འཛུམ་ [Note: In the case that our Root Lama is female, the [23]
following lines may be adjusted accordingly.]
དཀར་འཕྲོ།
།ཕྱག་གཡས་ཆོས་འཆད་གཡོན་པ་མཉམ་གཞག་བདུད་རྩིས་གང་བའི་ My Lama is in the form here of a monk in the
golden robes,
ལྷུང་བཟེད་བསྣམས། With a single face and two arms, a smile
shining forth.
།གུར་ཀུམ་མདངས་ལྡན་ཆོས་གོས་གསུམ་གསོལ་གསེར་མདོག་པཎ་
ཞྭས་དབུ་ལ་མཛེས། His right hand is in the gesture of teaching
Dharma;
[24]
His left is in the gesture of meditation, and in
།ཡང་ན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀུན་གྱི་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད། ཅེས་པའི་མཚམས་ནས། it He holds
[23] A sage’s bowl full of deathless nectar. He
Nampa ngurmik dzinpay gelong shel chik chak nyi wears the triple robe
dzumkar tro, Of saffron, and the golden hat of a sage
Chak-ye chuche yunpa nyamshak dutsi gangway adorns His holy head.
hlungse nam,
Gurkum dangden chugu sumsul serndok penshe uw [24]
la dze, If you feel it fits better at the moment, you can [24]
instead recite the following lines, after “the essence
[24] of all the Buddhas”:
(Yang na Sangye kun gyi ngowo nyi, chepay tsam
ne,)
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[25] [25]
།རྣམ་པ་ཁྱབ་བདག་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་དབང་ཞལ་གཅིག་ཕྱག་གཉིས་སྐུ་མདོག་སྔོ།
My Lama is in the form here [25]
of the Lord of the Secret World, the King,
།རྡོར་དྲིལ་བཟུང་ནས་དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་མར་འཁྱུད་ལྷན་སྐྱེས་བདེ་སྟོང་རོལ་པས་དགྱེས། The Keeper of the Diamond, sapphire colored,
with one face and two arms.
།རྣམ་མང་རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱན་གྱིས་སྤྲས་ཤིང་ལྷ་རྫས་དར་གྱི་ན་བཟས་བཀླུབས། In His hands He holds a diamond and bell,
ཞེས་པ་བློ་དང་བསྟུན་ནས་སྦྱོར། དེ་གཉིས་ཅི་བྱས་ཀྱང་ཚིག་གི་འཕྲོ་ནས་འདི་ལྟར། and embraces the Queen
[26] Of the Empty Realm, enjoying His play in
simultaneous bliss and void.
།མཚན་དཔེའི་རྒྱན་ལྡན་འོད་ཟེར་སྟོང་འབར་འཇའ་ཚོན་སྣ་ལྔས་བསྐོར་བའི་དབུས།
He wears jewel ornaments
།རྡོ་རྗེ་སྐྱིལ་ཀྲུང་ཚུལ་གྱིས་བཞུགས་པའི་ཕུང་པོ་རྣམ་དག་བདེ་གཤེགས་ལྔ། of a hundred different fashions,
And He is clothed in the silken raiment
།ཁམས་བཞི་ཡུམ་བཞི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་རྩ་རྒྱུས་ཚིགས་རྣམས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ worn by the gods themselves.
དངོས། Whichever of the two you decide to use, continue
with the following—
།བ་སྤུ་དགྲ་བཅོམ་ཉི་ཁྲི་ཆིག་སྟོང་ཡན་ལག་ཁྲོ་བོའི་དབང་པོ་ཉིད། [26]
His body is adorned with the marks and signs [26]
[25] of an Enlightened Being,
Nampa kyabdak Dorje Chang Wang shel chik chak nyi And He sits in the midst of a thousand shining
kundok ngo, rainbow rays, in all five hues.
Dordril sung ne Yingchukmar kyu hlenkye detong rulpe gye,
Nammang rinchen gyen gyi tre shing hladze dar gyi His legs are crossed in the lotus posture,
and the five parts of His being
napse lup, Are totally pure—
(Shepa lo dang tunne jor, de nyi chi je kyang tsik gi tru the five Buddhas who have Gone to Bliss.
ne ditar)
[26] The four elements of His body are the four
Holy Women; His doors of sense,
Tsenpey gyenden u-ser tongbar jatsun na-nge korway And His tendons and joints and ligaments,
uw, are actual bodhisattvas.
Dorje kyiltrung tsul gyi shukpay pungpo namdak Deshek nga,
Kamshi Yumshi kyeche tsa-gyu tsik nam jangchub The pores of His skin are the 21,000 destroyers
sempa ngu, of the enemy,
Bapu drachom nyitri chiktong yenlak Trowoy Wangpo nyi, And His limbs no less than the Lord of the
Angels Fierce.
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[27]
[27]
།འོད་ཟེར་ཕྱོགས་སྐྱོང་གནོད་སྦྱིན་གསང་བ་འཇིག་རྟེན་པ་རྣམས་ཞབས་ཀྱི་གདན། The rays of light are the protectors of the [27]
།མཐའ་སྐོར་རིམ་བཞིན་དངོས་རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ཡི་དམ་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ལྷ་ཚོགས་དང་། directions,
Spirits of harm, secret, the worldly provide
།སངས་རྒྱས་བྱང་སེམས་དཔའ་བོ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་བསྟན་སྲུང་རྒྱ་མཚོས་བསྐོར་ནས་ His platform.
བཞུགས། Surrounding Him are rows of my direct
and lineage Lamas
།དེ་དག་སྒོ་གསུམ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གསུམ་མཚན་ཧཱུྂ་ཡིག་འོད་ཟེར་ལྕགས་ཀྱུ་ཡིས། And masses of close Angels, Angels of the
།རང་བཞིན་གནས་ནས་ཡེ་ཤེས་པ་རྣམས་སྤྱན་དྲངས་དབྱེར་མེད་བརྟན་པར་གྱུར། secret world.
He sits circled by a sea of Buddhas and
bodhisattvas,
Warriors and Their Angels, and the
[27] protectors of the word—
U-ser Chok-kyong nujin sangwa jiktenpa nam shab
kyi den, All marked by the triple diamond of the
Takor rimshin ngu-gyu Lama Yidam kyilnkor Hla three doors of expression.
tsok dang, And then from the letters hung fly rays of
Sangye jangsem Pawo Kandro tensung gyatsu kor ne light in the shape of hooks,
shuk,
Dedak go sum dorje sumtsen hung-yik u-ser chak- Beckoning Beings of Wisdom from the
kyu yi, Land of Reality,
Rangshin ne ne Yeshepa nam chendrang yerme Drawing Them in to melt indivisibly,
tenpar gyur. turning then perfectly firm.
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[28] [28]
།ཕུན་ཚོགས་བདེ་ལེགས་འབྱུང་གནས་དུས་གསུམ་གྱི། Come my root and lineage Lamas, [28]
From the past and present and the future,
།རྩ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ཡི་དམ་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ། True source of perfect happiness and
goodness,
།དཔའ་བོ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་སྲུང་ཚོགས་བཅས།
Together with the company
།ཐུགས་རྗེའི་དབང་གིས་འདིར་གཤེགས་བརྟན་པར་བཞུགས། Of close Angels and the Three Supreme,
Warriors and Their Angels,
[29] Protectors and guardians of the Dharma.
དེ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཚུལ་གྱིས་བླ་མ་དང་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་དབྱེར་མེད་དུ་ལྟ་བ་ནི། རྒྱུད་མང་པོའི་དགོངས་པ་
Come to us here, stay firm with us here,
ལྟར་བླ་མ་ལྔ་བཅུ་པར། སློབ་དཔོན་དང་ནི་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན། །ཐ་དད་པར་ནི་མི་བརྟག་ Drawn by the power of Your compassion.
གོ །ཅེས་གསུངས་པ་ལྟར་ཡིན་ལ།
[29]
In this way then we are seeing our Lama and the [29]
[28] Keeper of the Diamond as being indivisible, one
Puntsok delek jungne du sum gyi, from the other. This in fact is the idea behind a
Tsa-gyu Lama Yidam Konchok Sum, great many works of the secret way; as the Fifty
Pawo Kandro chu-kyong sung-tsok che, Verses on Lamas puts it,
Tukjey wang gi dirshek tenpar shuk.
Never imagine that your Master
[29] Is in any way separate from
(De tabuy tsul gyi Lama dang Dorje Chang yerme du The Holder of the Diamond.
tawa ni, gyu mangpoy gongpa tar Lama Ngapchupar,
Loppun dang ni Dorje Dzin, Tadepar ni mitak go.
Che sungpa tar yin la,)
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[30]
[30]
དེའི་ཕུང་སོགས་ལྔ་རིགས་ལྔ་སོགས་སུ་བསྒོམ་པ་ནི་རྒྱུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕྲེང་བ་ལས། རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་ This view of things—that the five heaps and so on [30]
are actually the Buddhas of the Five Families and the
དཔོན་ལུས་འདི་ལ། །རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ་ནི་རིམ་བཞིན་གནས། ཞེས་སོགས་གསུངས་ rest—follows the idea expressed in the Secret Book
པའི་དོན་ཡིན་པ་ལྟར། of the String of Diamonds with lines such as:
[31]
The holy body of a victorious Buddha
ཚོགས་ཞིང་གསལ་བཏབ། ཡེ་ཤེས་པ་དགུག་གཞུག །སྐྱབས་གསུམ་ཀུན་ Comes in stages to reside
འདུས་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་དུ་མོས་པ་དུང་དུང་པ་བྱ། Within your Diamond Master’s form.
[32]
[31]
དེ་ནས་མགོན་པོ་ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱིས་རིམ་ལྔར།
And so we should picture this Garden for planting [31]
།མཆོད་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡོངས་སྤངས་ནས། goodness; hook the Beings of Wisdom and bring
Them in; and then see our Lama, with heartbreaking
།བླ་མ་མཆོད་པ་ཡང་དག་བརྩམ། faith, as all three places of shelter, wrapped into a
།དེ་མཉེས་པས་ནི་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་གྱི། single person.
།ཡེ་ཤེས་མཆོག་ནི་ཐོབ་པར་འགྱུར། [32]
[30] Think now upon the words of our protector, [32]
(Dey pung sok nga Rik Nga soksu gompa ni Gyu Nagarjuna, who in His book on the five stages has
Dorje Trengwa le, Dorje Loppun lu di la, Gyalway said,
ku ni rimshin ne. She sok sungpay dun yinpa tar,)
Abandon every other kind of offering,
[31] And devote yourself completely
(Tsokshing seltap, Yeshepa guk shuk, Kyabsum kun To making offerings to your Lama.
dupay daknyi du mupa dung-dungpa ja.)
[32] The act of pleasing your Lama
(De ne gunpo Ludrup kyi Rim Ngar, Brings you to the attainment
Chupa tamche yong-pang ne, Of the highest form of wisdom,
Lama chupa yangdak tsam, The knowledge of all things.
De nyepe ni kun-kyen gyi,
Yeshe chok ni toppar gyur.)
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[33] [33]
ཞེས་སངས་རྒྱས་བྱང་སེམས་གཞན་ཐམས་ཅད་མཆོད་པ་ལས། བླ་མ་མཆོད་པ་དོན་ཆེ་བར་ What this is saying is that it is of greater meaning [33]
to make an offering to your Lama than it is to make
གསུངས་པ་ལ་ངེས་ཤེས་དྲངས་ནས། ཡན་ལག་བདུན་པ་འབུལ་བ་ལ་ཐོག་མར་ཕྱག་ offerings to all the other Buddhas and bodhisattvas
འཚལ་བ་ནི། that there are. You need first to come to a realization
[34] of the fact that this is absolutely true; and then
begin the presentation of the Seven Steps. The first
།གང་གི་ཐུགས་རྗེས་བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་དབྱིངས། of these is bowing to your Lama—
།སྐུ་གསུམ་གོ་འཕང་མཆོག་ཀྱང་སྐད་ཅིག་ལ། [34]
I bow down to the lotus feet [34]
།སྩོལ་མཛད་བླ་མ་རིན་ཆེན་ལྟ་བུའི་སྐུ། Of the One Who Has the Diamond;
།རྡོ་རྗེ་ཅན་ཞབས་པདྨོར་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།
To the holy body of my Lama,
So like a precious jewel.
[33]
(She Sangye jangsem shen tamche chupa le, Lama To the One who in compassion grants me
chupa dun chewar sungpa la ngeshe drang ne, Yenlak Entrance to the realm of bliss:
Dunpa bulwa tokmar chak tselwa ni,) Who brings me in a single moment
Even the ultimate state, of all three bodies.
[34]
Gang gi tukje dewa chenpoy ying,
Ku sum gopang chok kyang kechik la,
Tsulndze Lama rinchen tabuy ku,
Dorje Chen shab pemor chaktsel lo,
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[35]
[35]
།རབ་འབྱམས་རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ནི། The wisdom of all the billions of Victors [35]
།གང་འདུལ་ཅིར་ཡང་འཆར་བའི་ཐབས་མཁས་མཆོག Appears in whatever way it takes to tame
us;
།ངུར་སྨྲིག་འཛིན་པའི་གར་གྱིས་རྣམ་རོལ་བ། This is the highest form of skillful means.
།སྐྱབས་མགོན་དམ་པའི་ཞབས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། I bow at the holy feet of my highest Savior
and Refuge:
[36]
To the One who comes now masquerading
།ཉེས་ཀུན་བག་ཆགས་བཅས་པ་དྲུངས་ཕྱུང་ཞིང་། In the golden robes of a monk.
།དཔག་མེད་ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་ཆེན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་གཏེར། [36]
You have ripped out every wrong, [36]
།ཕན་བདེ་མ་ལུས་འབྱུང་བའི་སྒོ་གཅིག་པུ། Along with its seeds, from the very root;
།རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མའི་ཞབས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། You are a goldmine of jewels,
An infinite mass of high qualities.
[35]
Rabjam Gyalwa kun gyi yeshe ni, You are the one and only door
Gangdul chiryang charway tapke chok, To all happiness and help;
Ngurmik dzinpay gar gyi namrulwa, I bow down to the dear feet
Kyabgun dampay shab la chaktsel lo, Of my Lama, the Holy One.
[36]
Nyekun bakchak chepa drungchung shing,
Pakme yunten rinchen tsok kyi ter,
Pende malu jungway go chikpu,
Jetsun Lamay shab la chaktsel lo,
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[37] [37]
།ལྷར་བཅས་སྟོན་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀུན་གྱི་དངོས། You are the reality of all the Buddhas, [37]
Of every Teacher of gods and men;
།བརྒྱད་ཁྲི་བཞི་སྟོང་དམ་ཆོས་འབྱུང་བའི་གནས། You are the source from which
།འཕགས་ཚོགས་ཀུན་གྱི་དབུས་ན་ལྷང་ངེ་བ། The 84,000 forms of high Dharma flow.
།དྲིན་ཅན་བླ་མ་རྣམས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། You stand shining in the midst of a crowd
Of all who have seen emptiness;
[38] I bow down to my Lamas,
།དུས་གསུམ་ཕྱོགས་བཅུར་བཞུགས་པའི་བླ་མ་དང་།
So kind, so kind to me.
།རིན་ཆེན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ཕྱག་འོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ། [38]
I send forth copies of my body [38]
།དད་ཅིང་མོས་པས་བསྟོད་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོར་བཅས། Equal to the atoms of the paradises,
།ཞིང་རྡུལ་མཉམ་པའི་ལུས་སྤྲུལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། And bow myself down in devotion,
In belief, singing a sea of praises,
[37] To the Lamas of the past and present
Hlarche Tunpa Sangye kun gyi ngu, And future, in every corner of the universe,
Gyetri shitong damchu jungway ne, And to the supreme and triple Gem:
Paktsok kun gyi uw na hlang-ngewa, To every being there is who may be worthy.
Drinchen Lama nam la chaktsel lo.
[38]
Dusum chokchur shukpay Lama dang,
Rinchen Chok Sum chak-uw tamche la,
De ching mu-pe tuyang gyatsor che,
Shingdul nyampay lutrul chaktsel lo.
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[39] [39]
ཞེས་སྒོ་གསུམ་གུས་པས་ཕྱག་བྱས་ནས། མཆོད་པ་འབུལ་བ་ནི། མཆོད་པའི་ We prostrate ourselves thus to Them in respect [38]
expressed in our actions and words and thoughts.
འཁོར་གསུམ་པོ་རྣམ་པར་མི་རྟོག་པ་བདེ་སྟོང་དབྱེར་མེད་ཀྱི་བདག་ཉིད་དུ་རྒྱས་བཏབ་ The next step is to present Them with offerings.
Make your presentation then as follows, being sure
ནས་འབུལ་བ་ནི། to stamp the practice with your realization that the
[40] giver, the gift, and the one receiving the gift are a
single expression of indivisible bliss and voidness,
།སྐྱབས་མགོན་རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་འཁོར་བཅས་ལ། beyond all conception.
།སྣ་ཚོགས་མཆོད་སྤྲིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་འབུལ་བ་ནི། [40]
།བཀོད་ལེགས་རིན་ཆེན་འོད་འབར་སྣོད་ཡངས་ལས། Here is an ocean of gifts, [40]
།དག་བྱེད་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཆུ་བཞི་དལ་གྱིས་འབབ།
A vast cloud of every fine thing there is,
Which I present now to my Savior and
Protector,
[39] My holy Lama, and to those within Their
(She go sum gu-pe chak je ne, chupa bulwa ni, circle.
chupay kor sumpo nampar mitokpa detong yerme
kyi daknyi du gyetap ne bulwa ni,) Here is a broad vase of sparkling jewels
Arranged in perfect symmetry,
[40] And from it softly falls the nectar
Kyabgun jetsun Lama korche la, Of the four waters of deathlessness,
Natsok chutrin gyatso bulwa ni, To make the world pure.
Kulek rinchen ubar nuyang le,
Dakje dutsiy chu shi del gyi bab,
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[41]
[41]
།སྡོང་པོ་སིལ་མ་ཕྲེང་བ་སྤེལ་ལེགས་པ། Earth and sky are suddenly filled [41]
།མཛེས་པའི་མེ་ཏོག་ས་དང་བར་སྣང་གང་།
With lovely blooms sprouting on stems,
Some scattered, some strung, patchwork
།དྲི་ཞིམ་སྤོས་ཀྱི་དུད་པ་བཻཌཱུརྻའི། colors.
།དབྱར་སྐྱེས་སྔོན་པོའི་སྤྲིན་གྱིས་ལྷ་ལམ་འཁྲིགས། The highway of the gods is cloaked
] In sapphire summerpuffs—
Lapis clouds of fragrant incense smoke.
།ཉི་ཟླ་ནོར་བུ་རབ་འབར་སྒྲོན་མེའི་ཚོགས།
།སྟོང་གསུམ་མུན་སེལ་འོད་ཟེར་རྩེ་དགའ་རྒོད།
[42]
Masses of lamps in a million worlds— [42]
།ག་བུར་ཙན་དན་གུར་ཀུམ་དྲིས་བསྒོས་པའི། Suns and moons, burning jewels;
They wipe away the darkness there
།སྤོས་ཆུའི་མཚོ་ཆེན་འཁོར་ཡུག་ཀུན་ནས་འཁྱིལ། With laughing, playful rays of light.
Waves pass back and forth across
[41] A massive sea of perfumed water,
Dongpo silma trengwa pel lekpa, Giving off the delightful scent
Dzepay metok sa dang barnang gang, Of camphor, sandalwood, and saffron.
Drishim pu kyi dupa binduryay,
Yar-kye ngunpoy trin gyi hla-lam trik.
[42]
Nyinda norbu rabbar drunmey tsok,
Tongsum munsel u-ser tsega gu,
Gabur tsenden gurkum dri gupay,
Puchuy tsochen koryuk kunne kyil.
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[43] [43]
།རོ་བརྒྱའི་བཅུད་ལྡན་བཟའ་བཅའ་བཏུང་བ་དང་། Here next is a mountain peak [43]
Of the most delectable dishes and drink
།ལྷ་དང་མི་ཡི་ཞལ་ཟས་ལྷུན་པོར་སྤུངས། Of gods and men, bursting with
།སྣ་ཚོགས་རོལ་མོའི་བྱེ་བྲག་མཐའ་ཡས་ལས། A thousand different flavors.
།བྱུང་བའི་གདངས་སྙན་འགྱུར་བས་ས་གསུམ་འགེངས། The entire surface of the earth,
[44] And all below it and above,
Overflow with the beautiful melodies
།གཟུགས་སྒྲ་དྲི་རོ་རེག་བྱའི་དཔལ་འཛིན་པའི། Of a million kinds of music.
།ཕྱི་ནང་འདོད་ཡོན་ལྷ་མོས་ཕྱོགས་ཀུན་ཁྱབ།
[44]
།བྱེ་བ་ཕྲག་བརྒྱའི་གླིང་བཞི་ལྷུན་པོར་བཅས། I cover every corner of this universe [44]
།རིན་ཆེན་བདུན་དང་ཉེ་བའི་རིན་ཆེན་སོགས།
With Goddesses of both inner and outer
Offerings of the senses: the very best
[43] Of things to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
Ro-gyay chunden sacha tungwa dang,
Hla dang mi yi shelse hlunpor pung, I cover a hundred billion worlds, each
Natsok rulmoy jedrak ta-ye le, possessed
Jungway dang-nyen gyurwe sasum geng. Of four continents and a central mountain,
With the seven most precious objects,
[44] The seven almost as precious, and the like—
Suk dra dri ro rekjay pel dzinpay,
Chi-nang duyun Hlamu chok kun kyab,
Jewa trakgyay lingshi hlunpor che,
Rinchen dun dang nyeway rinchen sok,
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[45]
[45]
།ཀུན་དགའ་སྐྱེད་པའི་སྣོད་བཅུད་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས། The most perfect worlds, the most perfect [45]
Beings to live in these worlds, treasure
།ལྷ་མིའི་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་འདོད་དགུའི་གཏེར་ཆེན་པོ། troves
Of all the pleasures of gods and men,
།དང་བའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་ཕུལ་བྱུང་ཞིང་གི་མཆོག Everything anyone could wish for—
།སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། I offer with thoughts of faith to that highest
[46]
And most excellent karmic object,
།དངོས་བཤམས་ཡིད་སྤྲུལ་ཡིད་བཞིན་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་ངོགས། To that massive storehouse of compassion,
།སྲིད་ཞིའི་རྣམ་དཀར་ལས་འོངས་མཆོད་རྫས་ཀྱི།
To my Savior and Protector.
།འདབ་སྟོང་རྒྱས་པས་ཀུན་གྱི་ཡིད་འཕྲོག་ཅིང་། [46]
And here I present, both in my imagination [46]
།འཇིག་རྟེན་འཇིགས་རྟེན་ལས་འདས་རང་གཞན་གྱི། And also in my hands, the shining flowers
།སྒོ་གསུམ་དགེ་བའི་མེ་ཏོག་ཅི་ཡང་བཀྲ། Of the goodness done in acts and words
And thoughts by both myself and others:
[45] Offerings of the blooms that grow
Kunga kyepay nuchu punsum tsok, At the edge of the sea of wishes—
Hlamiy longchu duguy ter chenpo, Gifts of the whitest deeds of both
Dangway sem kyi puljung shing gi chok, The world and of peace,
Kyabgun tukjey ter la ulwar gyi.
The thousand petals spreading forth
[46] To steal the heart of every being,
Ngusham yitrul yishin gyatsoy ngok, Goodness of this world,
Sishiy namkar le-ong chudze kyi, Goodness beyond this world.
Dabtong gyepe kun gyi yitrok ching,
Jikten jikten lende rangshen gyi,
Gosum geway metok chiyang tra.
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[47] [47]
།ཀུན་བཟང་མཆོད་པའི་དྲི་བསུང་འབུམ་འཕྲོ་ཞིང་།
I send out then a hundred thousand clouds [47]
Of Samanta Bhadra’s offerings of scent:
།བསླབ་གསུམ་རིམ་གཉིས་ལམ་ལྔའི་འབྲས་ལྡན་པའི། A garden filled with the finest fruits
Of the three extraordinary trainings,
།དགའ་ཚལ་རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་མཉེས་ཕྱིར་འབུལ། The two stages, and each of the five paths.
[48] These I present to please
།གུར་གུམ་མདངས་ལྡན་བཟང་པོའི་དྲི་ངད་ཅན། My Lord, my Holy Lama.
།རོ་བརྒྱའི་དཔལ་འཛིན་རྒྱ་ཇའི་བཏུང་བ་དང་། [48]
།ལྕགས་ཀྱུ་ལྔ་དང་སྒྲོན་མ་ལྔ་ལ་སོགས། I offer finest tea from China, [48]
།སྦྱངས་རྟོགས་སྦར་བའི་བདུད་རྩིའི་རྒྱ་མཚོས་མཆོད། Tea with a saffron hue,
Giving off a delightful fragrance
And laden with a thousand flavors—
[47]
Kunsang chupay drisung bumtro shing, I offer as well an endless ocean
Labsum rim nyi lam ngay dre denpay, Of the nectar of deathlessness:
Gatsel jetsun Lama nyechir bul. Burning and pure and realized,
Made of different substances
[48] Like the five hooks and five lights.
Gurgum dangden sangpoy dri-nge chen,
Ro-gyay pelndzin gyajay tungwa dang,
Chakkyu nga dang drunma nga la sok,
Jangtok barway dutsiy gyatsu chu.
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[49]
[49]
།ཡིད་འོང་ལང་ཚོའི་དཔལ་འཛིན་དྲུག་ཅུ་བཞིའི། I offer too as holy mates [49]
Exquisite, beautiful ladies of illusion,
།འདོད་པའི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་ལ་མཁས་ལུས་ཕྲ་མ། A crowd of Messengers born
Of holy places, the secret word, the
།ཞིང་སྐྱེས་སྔགས་སྐྱེས་ལྷན་སྐྱེས་ཕོ་ཉའི་ཚོགས། simultaneous;
Lovely slender women
།མཛེས་སྡུག་སྒྱུ་མའི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་རྣམས་ཀྱང་འབུལ། Glowing with youthful strength,
Masters in the 64 arts of pleasure.
[50]
།སྒྲིབ་བྲལ་ལྷན་སྐྱེས་བདེ་བའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཆེ། [50]
I offer to You [50]
།ཆོས་ཀུན་རང་བཞིན་སྤྲོས་དང་བྲལ་བའི་དབྱིངས། The highest form of mind,
།དབྱེར་མེད་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་སྨྲ་བསམ་བརྗོད་ལས་འདས།
The ultimate Wish for enlightenment:
།དོན་དམ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་མཆོག་ཁྱོད་ལ་འབུལ། Great wisdom
Of simultaneous bliss,
[49] Free of every obstacle;
Yi-ong langtsoy pelndzin drukchu shiy,
Dupay gyutsel la ke lutrama, The Sphere
Shing-kye ngak-kye hlen-kye Ponyay tsok, Of every single thing
Dzeduk gyumay Chakgya nam kyang bul. Free of any
Projection of truth;
[50]
Dripdrel hlen-kye deway yeshe che, The Indivisible,
Chu kun rangshin tru dang drelway ying, The Spontaneous,
Yerme hlundrup ma sam ju le de, That which is Beyond
Dundam jangchub semchok kyu la bul. All thoughts to imagine,
All words to describe.
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[51] [51]
།ཉོན་མོངས་བཞི་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བཞིའི་ནད་འཇོམས་པའི། I offer You a thousand different forms [51]
Of that excellent elixir which smashes
།བཟང་པོའི་སྨན་གྱི་བྱེ་བྲག་སྣ་ཚོགས་དང་། The sickness of the four hundred and four
Different afflictions of the mind.
།ཁྱོད་མཉེས་བགྱིད་ཕྱིར་བདག་བྲན་འབུལ་ལགས་ན།
།ནམ་མཁའ་ཇི་སྲིད་འབངས་སུ་བཟུང་དུ་གསོལ། And to please Your heart I present as well
Myself to be Your servant:
[52] For as long as space itself remains,
May You consider me Your own.
ཞེས་ཕྱི་ནང་གསང་བ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ཀྱི་མཆོད་པ་དང་། སྨན་དང་། བདག་ཉིད་
བྲན་དུ་འབུལ་བ་རྣམས་དམིགས་པ་དང་བཅས་པའི་སྒོ་ནས་བྱས་ཏེ། བཤགས་ [52]
With the lines above, you have made the outer [52]
པ་ལ་སོགས་པའི་ཡན་ལག་ལྷག་མ་སྔར་གྱི་འཕྲོ་ནས་འདི་ལྟར། and inner offerings, as well as the secret offering,
and the offering of suchness—along with the
[51] presentation of the elixir, and our own selves as
Nyon-mong shi-gya tsa shiy ne jompay, our Lama’s servant. As you do make each of these
Sangpoy men gyi jedrak natsok dang, offerings, remember to accompany them with the
Kyu nye gyi chir dak dren bul lak na, corresponding visualizations described above. We
Namka jisi bangsu sungdu sul. now perform the remaining steps of the practice—
the steps of confession and the rest—as the natural
[52] continuation of those which have gone before, in
(She chi nang sangwa dekona nyi kyi chupa dang, the following way.
men dang, daknyi dren du bulwa nam mikpa dang
chepay go-ne je te, shakpa lasokpay yenlak hlakma
ngar gyi tro ne ditar,)
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[53] [53]
།ཐོག་མེད་དུས་ནས་མི་དགེ་སྡིག་པའི་ལས།
I stand before my Lama of perfect [53]
compassion
།བགྱིས་དང་བགྱིད་སྩལ་ཡི་རང་ཅི་མཆིས་པ། And confess whatever negative deeds I
།ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་ལྡན་སྤྱན་སྔར་འགྱོད་སེམས་ཀྱིས།
have done
For time with no beginning, as well as those
།བཤགས་ཤིང་སླན་ཆད་མི་བགྱིད་སྡོམ་པ་ནོད། I encouraged in others, or even was glad
were done.
[54]
།ཆོས་རྣམས་རང་བཞིན་མཚན་མ་དང་བྲལ་ཡང་།
With feelings of deep regret I admit them,
And I swear as well that I will avoid
།རྨི་ལམ་ཇི་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་འཕགས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། Repeating them in the future.
།བདེ་དགའ་ཅིར་ཡང་འཆར་བའི་རྣམ་དཀར་ལ། [54]
།བདག་ཅག་བསམ་པ་ཐག་པས་ཡི་རང་ངོ། Nothing in the universe possesses the [54]
slightest sign
Of anything that is natural to itself;
Nonetheless, both normal people and those
[53] Who have experienced emptiness directly
Tokme du ne mi-ge dikpay le, All do perform pure deeds of white which
Gyi dang gyitsel yirang chi chipa, then
Tukje chenden chen-ngar gyusem kyi, They experience as pleasure and
Shak shing lenche mi-gyi dompa nu. happiness—
If only in a way which resembles a dream.
[54]
Chu nam rangshin tsenma dang drel yang, From the bottom of our hearts then we
Milam jishin kyepak tamche kyi, rejoice
Dega chiryang charway namkar la, In all the good that any of these beings
Dakchak sampa takpe yirang ngo. Has ever been able to accomplish.
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[55] [55]
།ཕུལ་བྱུང་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་ཆུ་འཛིན་འབུམ་དཀྲིགས་ཏེ། Let fall we beg You a rain [55]
Of the Dharma, deep and wide,
།མཐའ་ཡས་འགྲོ་འདིའི་ཕན་བདེ་ཀུན་དའི་ཚལ། From Your heart, covered in a hundred
།བསྐྱེད་དང་ཡུན་དུ་གནས་དང་སྤེལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། clouds
Of Your perfect knowledge and love;
།ཟབ་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཆར་པ་དབབ་ཏུ་གསོལ།
Let it fall upon the garden of pure white
[56] lilies—
Help and happiness for infinite living
།རྡོ་རྗེའི་སྐུ་ལ་སྐྱེ་འཆི་མི་མངའ་ཡང་། beings—
Bringing the blooms to open, stay, and
།ཟུང་འཇུག་དབང་གི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཟ་མ་ཏོག thrive.
།བདག་ཅག་མོས་པ་ཇི་བཞིན་སྲིད་མཐའི་བར། [56]
The Diamond Body knows no birth or [56]
།མྱ་ངན་མི་འདའ་རྟག་པར་བཞུགས་སུ་གསོལ། death;
Yet still we beg You to always stay with us,
[55] Never passing into final nirvana,
Puljung kyentsey chundzin bumtrik te, For as long as existence itself remains—
Ta-ye drondiy pende kunday tsel, Stay this long, as we hope You to,
Kye dang yundu ne dang pelway chir, All of us who are waiting vessels
Sabgye chu kyi charpa aptu sul. For the King of Kings, the Two Combined.
[56]
Dorjey ku la kyechi mi-nga yang,
Sungjuk wang gi gyalpoy samatok,
Dakchak mupa jishin sitay bar,
Nya-ngen minda takpar shuksu sul.
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[57] [57]
I take the mass of pure white karma [57]
།དེ་ལྟར་བསྐྲུན་པའི་རྣམ་དཀར་དགེ་བའི་ཚོགས། That I’ve created with this practice
།བཀའ་དྲིན་གསུམ་ལྡན་རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་ཡིས། And dedicate it that I may be taken,
In all my lives to come,
།ཚེ་རབས་ཀུན་ཏུ་འབྲལ་མེད་རྗེས་འཛིན་ཅིང་། Into the care of my holy Lama,
།ཟུང་འཇུག་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་དབང་ཐོབ་ཕྱིར་བསྔོ།
The one who has granted me
All three forms of kindness.
[58]
I dedicate these deeds that I might
ཞེས་ཡན་ལག་བདུན་པ་འབུལ་ཞིང་། ལོང་བྱུང་ཚེ་བཤགས་པའི་མཚམས་སུ་སྡོམ་པ་ Never again be parted from Them;
གསུམ་སོ་སོའི་བཤགས་པ་དང་། བླ་མ་རྡོར་འཛིན་མ་དང་། བྱང་ཆུབ་ལྟུང་ And that I might come to attain the state
Of the Combination of the Two,
བཤགས་སོགས་བྱའོ།། Of the Lord, the Holder of the Diamond.
[58]
[57] Practice thus the Seven Steps. At the point [58]
Detar trunpay namkar geway tsok, where you offer your confession, you can—if
Kadrin sumden jetsun Lama yi, time permits—confess transgressions of any
Tserab kuntu drelme jendzin ching, of the individual vows found in the three sets of
Sungjuk Dorje Chang Wang topchir ngo. commitments; recite the Prayer of the Lama,
the Keeper of the Diamond; and go through the
[58] Confession of the Downfalls of a Bodhisattva,
(She Yenlak Dunpa bul shing, long jung tse or other similar practices.
shakpay tsamsu dompa sum sosoy shakpa dang,
Lama Dordzinma dang, Jangchub Tungshak sok
jao.)
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[59] [59]
Bring to mind next the following lines, from [59]
།དེ་ནས་ལག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་བསྐུར་བའི་རྒྱུད་ལས།
the Secret Book of Empowerment into the
།སློབ་དཔོན་གྱི་ནི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཟུང་། Teachings of the Angel who Wields the
།སྐྱོན་ནི་ནམ་ཡང་གཟུང་མི་བྱ། Diamond:
།ཡོན་ཏན་བཟུང་ན་དངོས་གྲུབ་འཐོབ། Spend your time thinking about
།སྐྱོན་རྣམས་བཟུང་ན་དངོས་མི་འགྲུབ། The fine qualities that your Master possesses,
And never consider any of the faults
[60] Which you imagine that you see.
ཅེས་གསུངས་པ་ལྟར། བླ་མའི་སྐྱོན་རྟོག་གི་བློ་ཡེ་མ་ཤོར་བ་བྱའོ་སྙམ་དུ་
By considering Their qualities,
དྲན་ཤེས་ཡང་ཡང་བསྟེན་ནས། བླ་མ་བསྟེན་པའི་ཕན་ཡོན། མ་བསྟེན་ You reach your attainments;
པའི་ཉེས་དམིགས་རྣམས་མདོ་རྒྱུད་དམ་པའི་གསུང་བགྲོས་བཞིན་ལེགས་པར་ By imagining Their faults,
You deny yourself attainments.
བསམ།
[60]
As these lines are meant to express, we must [60]
[59] maintain a constant state of awareness, assuring
(De ne Lakna Dorje Wang Kurway Gyu le, that our mind never falls into imagining that our
Loppun gyi ni yunten sung, Lama possesses any kind of fault. We spend our
Kyun ni namyang sung mija, time, rather, undertaking a careful contemplation
Yunten sung na ngudrup top, of the benefits of taking ourselves to a Teacher, and
Kyun nam sung na ngu mindrup.) the problems of not doing so, as these have been
described in the high open and secret teachings.
[60]
(Che sungpa tar, Lamay kyun tok gi lo ye
mashorwa jao nyam du drenshe yang-yang ten ne,
Lama tenpay penyun, matenpay nyemik nam do-
gyu dampay sungdru shin lekpar sam.)
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[61] [61]
More especially, the simple act of hearing our Heart [61]
ཁྱད་པར་དུ། རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་དེ་ཉིད་མཚན་ཐོས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་ངན་འགྲོའི་འཇིགས་པ་ Teacher’s name spoken out loud is enough to rip
འཕྲོག་ཅིང་། དྲན་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་འཁོར་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་སེལ་བ། གསོལ་བ་ away from us any need to fear a birth in one of the
བཏབ་ན་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་བླག་ཏུ་སྩོལ་བར་མཛད་པའི་སྐྱབས་གནས་བསླུ་བ་མེད་པ་ realms of misery. Just thinking of Them is enough
to dispel the sufferings of the cycle of pain; and if
དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་པོ་འདུས་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་དུ་བསམས་ལ། we only beg Them to do so, They can grant us all
[62] our spiritual goals, with perfect ease. See your
Heart Teacher then as They really are: the single
རེ་ས་གཞན་ན་མེད་པའི་བློ་བལྟོས་བཅས་ཏེ་གདུང་ཤུགས་དྲག་པོས། དམིགས་བརྩེ་ embodiment of all three of the Jewels—a place of
མ་སོགས་ཀྱིས་གསོལ་བ་གང་མང་བཏབ་པའི་མཐར་ཡང་འདི་ལྟར་གསོལ་བ་གདབ་པར་ refuge which can never fail us.
བྱའོ།།
[62]
Decide then that there is no one and no thing else [62]
[61] in which you can put your hopes, and with fierce
(Kyepar du, Tsaway Lama de nyi tsen tupa tsam feelings of devotion make supplication to Them
gyi ngendroy jikpa trok ching, drenpa tsam gyi using verses such as those of Love with Nothing
korway duk-ngel selwa, sulwa tap na ngudrup it Sees: the Miktsema Mantra. Repeat the verses
tamche delak tu tsulwar dzepay kyabne luwa mepa a great many times, and then recite the following
Konchok Sumpo dupay daknyi du sam la,) lines of supplication as well—
[62]
(Re sa shen na mepay lotu che te dungshuk drakpu,
Miktsema sok kyi sulwa gang mang tappay tar
yang ditar sulwa dappar jao.)
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[63]
[63]
།ཡོན་ཏན་འབྱུང་གནས་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེ། All fine qualities flow from You, [63]
A vast sea of ethical deeds
།མང་ཐོས་ནོར་བུའི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ཡོངས་སུ་བལྟམས། Whose depths are filled with the jewels
Of Your infinite spiritual learning.
།ངུར་སྨིག་འཛིན་པ་ཐུབ་དབང་གཉིས་པའི་རྗེ།
།གནས་བརྟན་འདུལ་བ་འཛིན་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། You who wear the robes of gold,
Lord, second Buddha upon this Earth,
[64] Elder of wisdom, keeper of vows,
I make my supplication to You.
།གང་དང་ལྡན་ན་བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པའི་ལམ།
།སྟོན་པར་འོས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ་ལྡན་པ། [64]
You possess all ten of the qualities [64]
།མ་ལུས་རྒྱལ་བའི་གདུང་ཚོབ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྗེ། That make one worthy to teach the path
Of Those Who Have Gone to Bliss;
།ཐེག་མཆོག་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།
You are the Lord of the Dharma,
Who maintains the tradition
[63] Of countless victorious Buddhas;
Yunten jungne tsultrim gyatso che, And I make my supplication to You,
Mangtu norbuy tsok kyi yongsu tam, Spiritual Friend of the supreme way.
Ngurmik dzinpa Tubwang nyipay je,
Neten dulwa dzin la sulwa deb.
[64]
Gang dang den na Dewar Shekpay lam,
Tunpar upay yunten chu denpa,
Malu Gyalway dungtsob Chukyi Je,
Tekchok Geway She la sulwandeb.
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[65]
[65]
།སྒོ་གསུམ་ལེགས་བསྡམས་བློ་ཆེན་བཟོད་ལྡན་དྲང་། You have perfect control [65]
Over what You do, and say, and think;
།གཡོ་དང་སྒྱུ་མེད་སྔགས་དང་རྒྱུད་ཤེས་ཤིང་། Great wisdom You possess, and patience.
།དེ་ཉིད་བཅུ་ཟུང་བྲི་དང་འཆད་མཁས་པའི། You are infinitely sincere,
Incapable of dishonesty,
།རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན་པའི་གཙོ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། Or misrepresenting yourself;
[66] And You are versed in the secret word,
And all the secret books.
ཞེས་འདུལ་བ་དང་ཐེག་ཆེན་ཐུན་མོང་བ་དང་། རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པའི་བླ་མའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ You have the pair of ten qualities;
དང་ལྡན་པའི་སྒོ་ནས་གསོལ་བ་གདབ་དེ་ནས། You are a master at drawing,
And a master of explaining.
I make my supplication then
[65] To the King
Go sum lekdam lochen sunden drang, Of the Holders of the Diamond.
Yo dang gyu-me ngak dang gyu she shing,
De-nyi chu sung dri dang che kepay, [66]
Dorje Dzinpay tso la sulwandeb. With these lines then we have made supplication to [66]
our Lama through mention of the qualifications of
[66] a Lama as described in the teachings on discipline;
(She dulwa dang tekchen tun-mongwa dang, dorje in the shared teachings of the greater way; and in
tekpay Lamay tsennyi dang denpay go-ne sulwa the teachings of the diamond way. We continue
dap de ne,) now with:
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[67] [67]
།སངས་རྒྱས་གྲངས་མེད་བྱོན་པས་མ་ཐུལ་བའི། I make supplication [67]
to the Compassionate One,
།མ་རུངས་འདུལ་དཀའི་སྙིགས་དུས་འགྲོ་བ་ལ། To my Protector, my Savior—
།བདེ་གཤེགས་ལམ་བཟང་ཇི་བཞིན་སྟོན་པ་ཡི།
To the one who teaches the pure path,
The path of Those Gone to Bliss,
།སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཅན་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། Just as it really is—
[68] And who teaches it to beings like us,
Beings gone wrong in the days of dark,
།ཐུབ་པའི་ཉི་མ་དུས་ཀྱིས་ནུབ་གྱུར་ཏེ། Beings most difficult to control,
།མགོན་སྐྱབས་མེད་པའི་འགྲོ་བ་མང་པོ་ལ།
Beings who could not be tamed
By countless Buddhas who have come before.
།རྒྱལ་བའི་མཛད་པ་ཉེ་བར་སྒྲུབ་མཛད་པའི། [68]
།སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཅན་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། The time has reached us [68]
When the sun of the Able One
[67] Has sunk below the horizon;
Sangye drangme junpe matulway,
Marung dulkay nyikdu drowa la, And there are many living creatures
Deshek lamsang jishin tunpa yi, Who have no one to turn to,
Kyabgun tukje chen la sulwandeb. No one who can protect them.
[68] And so I make this supplication
Tuppay nyima du kyi nupgyur te, To my compassionate Shelter and Savior,
Gunkyab mepay drowa mangpo la, To the One who takes up
Gyalway dzepa nyewar drup dzepay, The deeds of the Buddhas.
Kyabgun tukje chen la sulwandeb.
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[69] [69]
།དུས་གསུམ་ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་རྒྱལ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལས།
I make this supplication [69]
To my compassionate Shelter and Savior;
།གང་གི་བ་སྤུའི་བུ་ག་གཅིག་ཙམ་ཡང་། To the one who has been praised
As the highest Garden where I can plant
།བདག་ཅག་བསོད་ནམས་ཞིང་དུ་ལེགས་བསྔགས་པའི། The goodness of my virtue—
།སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཅན་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། For it is said that to honor
[70] But a single pore of Your body
།བདེ་གཤེགས་སྐུ་གསུམ་རྒྱན་གྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ནི། Is a higher good than paying respect
To every single victorious Buddha
།ཐབས་མཁས་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་དྲ་བའི་འཇོ་སྒེག་ལས། Of each of the three times,
And in every corner of the universe.
།ཐ་མལ་ཚུལ་གྱིས་འགྲོ་བ་འདྲེན་མཛད་པའི། [70]
།སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཅན་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། The assemblies of Angels who wear [70]
As jewels the three bodies of the Ones
[69] Who Have Gone to Bliss
Dusum chokchuy Gyalwa tamche le,
Gang gi bapuy buga chik tsam yang, Assume a seductive dance,
Dakchak sunam shing du lek ngakpay, They send forth an illusion
Kyabgun tukje chen la sulwandeb. Born of Their skillful means,
[70] And then suddenly You are here,
Deshek ku sum gyen gyi korlo ni, Guiding all the creatures of this world
Tapke gyutrul draway jogek le, In the guise of a normal human being—
Tamel tsul gyi drowa dren dzepay,
Kyabgun tukje chen la sulwandeb. And so I make my supplication
To my compassionate Shelter and Savior.
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[71] [71]
།ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་ཕུང་ཁམས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ཡན་ལག་རྣམས། I make my supplication [71]
To my Lama supreme—
།བདེ་གཤེགས་རིག་ལྔ་ཡབ་ཡུམ་སེམས་དཔའ་དང་། All the Three Supreme,
Wrapped in a single person.
།ཁྲོ་བོའི་དབང་པོའི་རང་བཞིན་མཆོག་གསུམ་གྱི།
།བདག་ཉིད་བླ་མ་མཆོག་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། The very parts of Your being—
Your heaps, Your categories,
And the gateways of Your senses,
[72] Along with all Your limbs—
།ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཡེ་ཤེས་རོལ་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི།
Are actually made of the Buddhas
Of all five families, kings and queens,
།དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་འཁོར་ལོ་བྱེ་བའི་བདག་ཉིད་དེ། As well as all the bodhisattvas,
And the Lords of the Angry Angels.
།རིགས་བརྒྱའི་ཁྱབ་བདག་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན་པའི་གཙོ།
།ཟུང་འཇུག་དང་པོའི་མགོན་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། [72]
I make supplication to my Savior, [72]
The first Savior of them all,
[71] Savior of the Union of the Two,
Kyu kyi pung kam kyeche yenlak nam,
Deshek Rik Nga Yab-Yum sempa dang, King of all of those
Trowoy Wangpoy rangshin Chok Sum gyi, Who are Holders of the Diamond,
Daknyi Lama chok la sulwandeb. Lord of the hundred families
Of the world of secrets,
[72]
Kunkyen yeshe rulpa le jungway, Single being inside of whom
Kyilnkor korlo jeway daknyi de, Reside a billion masses
Rikgyay kyabdak Dorje Dzinpay tso, Of Angels of the hidden worlds
Sungjuk dangpoy gun la sulwandeb.
Born of the cosmic play
Of the wisdom of omniscience.
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[73] [73]
།སྒྲིབ་མེད་ལྷན་སྐྱེས་དགའ་བའི་རོལ་པ་དང་། To You I make my supplication, [73]
For in reality You are nothing less
།དབྱེར་མེད་བརྟན་གཡོ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་ཀུན་གྱི་བདག Than total excellence,
The Wish for enlightenment
།ཐོག་མ་མཐའ་བྲལ་ཀུན་བཟང་དོན་དམ་གྱི། In its ultimate form;
།བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དངོས་ཁྱོད་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། Never-ending, never-beginning,
Lord of all, existing in all,
[74]
Indivisible from all the worlds there are,
།ཅེས་ཕྱི་ནང་གསང་བ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་བརྗོད་པའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་གསོལ་བ་ And all that move upon them—
འདེབས་ཤིང་ཁྱད་པར་དུ།
Indivisible from the play
Of simultaneous bliss
Free of every obstruction.
[73] [74]
Dribme hlen-kye gaway rulpa dang, Make supplication thus to your Lord, by focusing [74]
Yerme tenyo kunkyap kun gyi dak, your mind upon Them single-pointedly, and
Tokma tadrel kunsang dundam gyi, expressing all the fine qualities They embody: those
Jangchub sem ngu kyu la sulwandeb. which are outer, inner, secret, and suchness itself.
You must especially speak the following lines—
[74]
(Che chi nang sangwa dekona nyi kyi yunten jupay
go-ne tsechik tu sulwandeb shing kyepar du,)
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[75] [75]
You are my Lama [75]
།ཁྱོད་ནི་བླ་མ་ཁྱོད་ནི་ཡི་དམ་ཁྱོད་ནི་མཁའ་འགྲོ་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་སྟེ། You are my Close Angel
You are my Angel of the Sky
།དེང་ནས་བཟུང་སྟེ་བྱང་ཆུབ་བར་དུ་ཁྱོད་མིན་སྐྱབས་གཞན་མི་འཚོལ་བས། You are my Dharma Protector;
།འདི་དང་བར་དོ་ཕྱི་མའི་མཐར་ཡང་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ལྕགས་ཀྱུས་གཟུང་མཛོད་ལ། I seek no other shelter at all
།སྲིད་ཞིའི་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཀུན་སྩོལ་གཏན་གྱི་གྲོགས་མཛོད་བར་ From this moment on to the day
That I reach my final enlightenment;
གཅོད་སྲུངས།
Reach out, snare me with the hook
Of Your heart’s compassion,
However far away I am,
In this life or the next,
Or in the time between.
[75]
Kyu ni Lama, Kyu ni Yidam, Kyu ni Kandro Chu- Save me from the terror
kyong te, Of this suffering life;
Deng ne sung te Jangchub bar du Kyu min kyab Save me from the terror
shen mi tsulwe, Of a lower peace;
Di dang bardo chimay tar yang tukjey chakkyu
sungdzu la, Grant me all attainments,
Sishiy jikdrul ngudrup kuntsul ten gyi drokdzu Stay forever at my side,
barchu sung. Protect me from every obstacle.
(3x) (3x)
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[76] [76]
I repeat the words three times, [76]
།དེ་ལྟར་ལན་གསུམ་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པའི་མཐུས། And because of the power of my prayer
།བླ་མའི་སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་གནས་རྣམས་ལས། Rays of light burst forth from the places
Upon my Lama’s holy form
།བདུད་རྩི་འོད་ཟེར་དཀར་དམར་མཐིང་ཁ་གསུམ། Which relate to Their sacred deeds,
Their sacred words, and sacred thoughts.
།རིམ་དང་ཅིག་ཅར་བྱུང་ནས་བདག་ཉིད་ཀྱི།
།གནས་གསུམ་རིམ་དང་ཅིག་ཅར་ཐིམ་པ་ལས། The light comes forth with the nectar
Of deathlessness and sinks into my body,
།སྒྲིབ་བཞི་དག་ཅིང་རྣམ་དག་དབང་བཞི་ཐོབ། Into the same three places on me,
Both in three different stages and as one.
།སྐུ་བཞི་ཐོབ་ཅིང་བླ་མ་གཉིས་པ་ཞིག
I am cleaned of the four kinds of obstacles,
།དགྱེས་བཞིན་ཐིམས་པས་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབས་པར་བསམ། And receive four pure empowerments,
As well as the four holy bodies.
[76]
Detar len sum sulwa tappay tu, I watch as a copy of my Lama
Lamay ku sung tuk kyi ne nam le, Comes with joy and sinks into me,
Dutsi u-ser kar mar tingka sum, Granting blessing to my being.
Rim dang chikchar jung ne daknyi kyi,
Ne sum rim dang chikchar timpa le,
Drip shi dak ching namdak wang shi tob,
Ku shi tob ching Lama nyipa shik,
Gyeshin timpe jin gyi lappar sam.
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[77] [77]
We next recite special lines which have the combined [77]
དེ་ནས་སླར་ཡང་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་པའི་ཕྱིར་དང་ཐུགས་རྗེ་བསྐུལ་བའི་ཕྱིར་དང་འདོད་བྱའི་ effect of bestowing upon us our Lama’s blessings;
དོན་ལ་སྨོན་ཅིང་། ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་ལ་བློ་སྦྱོང་བ་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ་བྱ་བའི་ཚུལ་ནི་འདི་ calling upon the compassion of Their holy heart;
ལྟར། praying for all we wish for; and developing the
good heart of the path of the greater way:
[78]
[78]
།ཞིང་མཆོག་དམ་པ་རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་ལ། Thus I have made offering [78]
།མཆོད་ཅིང་གུས་པས་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པའི་མཐུས། To my holy Lama,
And in devotion made to You
།བདེ་ལེགས་རྩ་བ་མགོན་པོ་ཁྱོད་ཉིད་ཀྱིས། My supplication too—
།དགྱེས་བཞིན་རྗེས་སུ་འཛིན་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Planted these within the highest
Garden that there is,
Highest of all Gardens.
[77]
(De ne lar-yang jin gyi lappay chir dang tukje You, and You alone, my Savior
kulway chir dang dujay don la mun ching, tekpa Are the very root of every
chenpoy lam la lo jongwa hlenchik tu jaway tsul ni Happiness and good for me;
di tar,) Through the power of the deeds then
That I’ve done here may You grant
[78] With joy the blessing that You keep me
Shingchok dampa jetsun Lama la, With You ever after.
Chu ching gu-pe sulwa tappay tu,
Delek tsawa gunpo kyu-nyi kyi,
Gyeshin jesu dzinpar jin gyi lob.
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[79]
[79]
།ལན་གཅིག་ཙམ་ཞིག་རྙེད་པའི་དལ་འབྱོར་འདི། This is the one and only time [79]
That I will ever find
།རྙེད་དཀའ་མྱུར་དུ་འཇིག་པའི་ཚུལ་རྟོགས་ནས། Spiritual leisure and fortune
Such as this;
།དོན་མེད་ཚེ་འདིའི་བྱ་བས་མི་གཡེང་བར།
།དོན་ལྡན་སྙིང་པོ་ལེན་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Bless me to see
How difficult it was to obtain,
[80] And how quickly it is destroyed;
།ངན་སོང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་འབར་བའི་མེས་འཇིགས་ནས། Bless me to avoid becoming distracted
།སྙིང་ནས་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ལ་སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་ཞིང་། By the meaningless business of this life—
Bless me to take the essence of life,
།སྡིག་སྤོང་དགེ་ཚོགས་མཐའ་དག་བསྒྲུབ་པ་ལ། Bless me to give it some meaning.
།བརྩོན་པ་ལྷུར་ལེན་བྱེད་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། [80]
Bless me to take heartfelt refuge [80]
[79] In the Three both rare and supreme
Lenchik tsamshik nyepay delnjor di, For the fear I feel for the fire
Nyeka nyurdu jikpay tsul tok ne, Of the pain of the lower realms.
Dunme tsendiy ja-we miyengwar,
Dunden nyinpo lenpar jin gyi lob. Bless me to throw myself
Into giving up every negative deed,
[80] And accomplishing every good.
Ngen-song duk-ngel barway me jik ne,
Nying ne Konchok Sum la kyamdro shing,
Dikpong getsok tadak druppa la,
Tsunpa hlurlen jepar jin gyi lob.
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[81] [81]
།ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་རྦ་ཀློང་དྲག་ཏུ་འཁྲུག Tossed on the mountainous waves [81]
Of my karma and harmful emotions,
།སྡུག་བསྔལ་གསུམ་གྱི་ཆུ་སྲིན་མང་པོས་གཙེས། Ripped by the razor teeth
།མཐའ་མེད་འཇིགས་རུང་སྲིད་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོ་ལས། Of the sharks of the three sufferings,
།ཐར་འདོད་ཤུགས་དྲག་སྐྱེ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། I beg Your blessing please
To come to a fierce desire
[82]
To escape from this ocean of pain,
This infinite sea of fear.
།བཟོད་དཀའ་བཙོན་ར་འདྲ་བའི་འཁོར་བ་འདི།
།དགའ་བའི་ཚལ་ལྟར་མཐོང་བའི་བློ་སྤངས་ནས། [82]
Bless me to relinquish the vision [82]
།བསླབ་གསུམ་འཕགས་པའི་ནོར་གྱི་མཛོད་བཟུང་སྟེ། Of the unbearable prison of this cycle
།ཐར་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་འཛིན་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། As a garden of earthly delights;
Bless me to find the treasure
[81] Of the jewels of the realized,
Le dang nyon-mong balong draktu truk, All three of the higher trainings;
Duk-ngel sum gyi chusin mangpu tse,
Ta-me jikrung sitso chenpo le, Bless me to take up the banner
Tarndu shukdrak kyewar jin gyi lob. Of highest victory,
The victory of freedom.
[82]
Suka tsunra draway korwa di,
Gaway tseltar tongway lo pang ne,
Labsum pakpay nor gyi dzusung te,
Tarpay gyeltsen dzinpar jin gyi lob.
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[83] [83]
།ཉམ་ཐག་འགྲོ་བ་འདི་ཀུན་བདག་གི་མ། Bless me to contemplate [83]
།ཡང་ཡང་དྲིན་གྱིས་བསྐྱངས་པའི་ཚུལ་བསམས་ནས།
How each of these tortured beings
Has been my very own mother,
།སྡུག་པའི་བུ་ལ་བརྩེ་བའི་མ་བཞིན་དུ། And paid me every form of kindness,
།བཅོས་མིན་སྙིང་རྗེ་སྐྱེ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས།
Over and over again.
Bless me to develop sincere
Compassion for each of them—
[84] A love like that of a mother
།སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཕྲ་མོ་ཙམ་ཡང་མི་འདོད་ཅིང་། For a cherished child in pain.
།བདེ་ལ་ནམ་ཡང་ཆོག་ཤེས་མེད་པར་ནི། [84]
།བདག་དང་གཞན་ལ་ཁྱད་པར་ཡོད་མིན་ཞེས། Bless me to develop joy [84]
།གཞན་བདེ་དགའ་བ་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས།
In the happiness of others,
Recognizing that both myself
[83] And others are in no way different:
Nyamtak drowa di kun dak gi ma,
Yang-yang drin gyi kyangpay tsul sam ne, None of us wants even the slightest
Dukpay bu la tseway ma shindu, Form of suffering—
Chumin nyingje kyewar jin gyi lob. None of us ever feels as if
We have enough happiness.
[84]
Duk-ngel tramo tsam yang mindu ching,
De la namyang chokshe mepar ni,
Dak dang shen la kyepar yumin she,
Shende gawa kyepar jin gyi lob.
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[85] [85]
།རང་ཉིད་གཅེས་པར་འཛིན་པའི་གཅོང་ནད་འདི། Bless me to see that this chronic disease [85]
Of taking care of myself
།མི་འདོད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྐྱེད་པའི་རྒྱུར་མཐོང་ནས། Is a road to all the misery
This very act seeks to avoid.
།ལེ་ལན་བདས་ལ་ཁོན་དུ་བཟུང་བྱས་ཏེ།
།བདག་འཛིན་གདོན་ཆེན་འཇོམས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Bless me to put the blame
Where it really lies,
[86] And reach a bitter hatred
For it; bless me
།མ་རྣམས་གཅེས་བཟུང་བདེ་ལ་འགོད་པའི་བློ།
To destroy the mighty
།མཐའ་ཡས་ཡོན་ཏན་འབྱུང་བའི་སྒོར་མཐོང་ནས། Devil of my tendency
།འགྲོ་བ་འདི་དག་བདག་གི་དགྲར་ལངས་ཀྱང་། To watch out only for myself.
།སྲོག་ལས་གཅེས་པར་འཛིན་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། [86]
Bless me to see that cherishing [86]
[85] All these Mother beings
Rang-nyi chepar dzinpay chongne di, And the wish to see them all
Mindu duk-ngel kyepay gyur tong ne, Reach every form of happiness
Lelen de la kundu sungje te,
Dakdzin dunchen jompar jin gyi lob. Is the door that leads to
Infinite numbers
[86] Of perfect personal qualities.
Ma nam chesung de la gupay lo,
Ta-ye yunten jungway gor tong ne, Bless me then to love them all
Drowa didak dak gi drar lang kyang, More than my own life,
Sok le chepar dzinpar jin gyi lob. Even if every one of them
Should suddenly think me their enemy.
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[87]
[87]
།མདོར་ན་བྱིས་པ་རང་དོན་ཁོ་ན་དང་། Bless me then to reach the ability [87]
To see myself and others equal,
།ཐུབ་དབང་གཞན་དོན་འབའ་ཞིག་མཛད་པ་ཡི། And to exchange them for myself
།སྐྱོན་དང་ཡོན་ཏན་དབྱེ་བ་རྟོགས་པའི་བློས། In a state of mind, to sum it all up,
།བདག་གཞན་མཉམ་བརྗེ་ནུས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Where I finally grasp the difference:
[88] The problems that come from acting
As infants do, thinking only of themselves;
།རང་ཉིད་གཅེས་འཛིན་རྒུད་པ་ཀུན་གྱི་སྒོ།
།མ་རྣམས་གཅེས་འཛིན་ཡོན་ཏན་ཀུན་གྱི་གཞི། And the good that comes from acting
As the Lords of the Able do,
།དེ་ཕྱིར་བདག་གཞན་བརྗེ་བའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ལ། Thinking only of what others need.
།ཉམས་ལེན་སྙིང་པོར་བྱེད་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། [88]
Cherishing myself [88]
[87] Is the door to every
Dor na jipa rangdun kona dang, Trouble that there is;
Tubwang shendun bashik dzepa yi,
Kyun dang yunten yewa tokpay lu, Cherishing my Mothers
Dakshen nyamje nupar jin gyi lob. Is the foundation
Of every quality I could have;
[88]
Rang-nyi chendzin gupa kun gyi go, Bless me then that this deep practice
Ma nam chendzin yunten kun gyi shi, Of exchanging others for myself
Dechir dakshen jeway nelnjor la, Might become the very heart
Nyamlen nyingpor jepar jin gyi lob. Of my daily path.
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[89] [89]
And so bless me my Holy Lama, [89]
།དེས་ན་རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཅན། Bless me, Lama of Compassion,
།མ་གྱུར་འགྲོ་བའི་སྡིག་སྒྲིབ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན། That every living being there is
May find every kind of happiness:
།མ་ལུས་ད་ལྟ་བདག་ལ་སྨིན་པ་དང་།
།བདག་གི་བདེ་དགེ་གཞན་ལ་བཏང་བ་ཡིས།
Let all the evil deeds and obstacles,
Let all the pain that ever comes
།འགྲོ་ཀུན་བདེ་དང་ལྡན་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། To every living being,
Every one of them my Mother,
[90] Come and ripen upon myself,
Ripen upon me now,
།སྣོད་བཅུད་སྡིག་པའི་འབྲས་བུས་ཡོངས་གང་སྟེ།
And let any goodness I ever do,
།མི་འདོད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཆར་ལྟར་བབས་གྱུར་ཀྱང་། And all my happiness,
།ལས་ངན་འབྲས་བུ་ཟད་པའི་རྒྱུར་མཐོང་ནས། Be sent away to others.
།རྐྱེན་ངན་ལམ་དུ་ལོངས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། [90]
This world and every being [90]
Who lives upon this world
[89] Are filled with the results
De na jetsun Lama tukje chen, Of every wrong ever done—
Ma-gyur droway dikdrip duk-ngel kun, Let a shower of suffering fall,
Malu data dak la minpa dang, Of things I never wanted.
Dak gi de-ge shen la tangwa yi,
Dro kun de dang denpar jin gyi lob. Bless me to see it all as a way
That all the fruits of my own bad deeds
[90] Might finally be exhausted—
Nuchu dikpay drebu yong-gang te,
Mindu duk-ngel chartar bapgyur kyang, Bless me to learn to turn every problem
Le-ngen drebu sepay gyur tong ne, That ever comes to me
Kyen-ngen lam du longpar jin gyi lob. Into a path that takes me further.
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In brief, bless me that I learn to change [91]
།མདོར་ན་བཟང་ངན་སྣང་བ་ཅི་ཤར་ཡང་། Everything that appears to me,
།ཆོས་ཀུན་སྙིང་པོ་སྟོབས་ལྔའི་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱིས། Whether it be good or bad,
།བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་གཉིས་འཕེལ་བའི་ལམ་བསྒྱུར་ཏེ། Into a path for increasing
The two forms of the Wish
།ཡི
[92]
ད་བདེ་འབའ་ཞིག་བསྒོམ་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། For enlightenment,
།སྦྱོར་བ་བཞི་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ཐབས་མཁས་ཀྱིས། Through practicing the five powers,
Essence of all the Dharma there is,
།འཕྲལ་ལ་གང་ཐུག་སྒོམ་ལ་སྦྱོར་བ་དང་། And experience then only joy.
།བློ་སྦྱོང་དམ་ཚིག་བསླབ་བྱའི་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱིས། [92]
Bless me that I may learn the [92]
།དལ་འབྱོར་དོན་ཆེན་བྱེད་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Skillful means of all four practices,
Where I turn everything
That I ever encounter
[91] From hour to hour
Dor na sang-ngen nangwa chi shar yang, Into something for me
Chu kun nyingpo top ngay nyamlen gyi, To meditate upon.
Jangchub sem nyi pelway lam gyur te,
Yi-de bashik gompar jin gyi lob. Bless me that I bring great meaning
To this life of leisure and fortune
[92] Using the teachings to practice
Jorwa shi dang denpay tapke kyi,
Trel la gang tuk gom la jorwa dang, Developing the good heart,
Lojong damtsik labjay nyamlen gyi, All the various commitments,
Delnjor dunchen jepar jin gyi lob. And the different kinds of trainings.
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Bless me to use the mystic machine [93]
།གཏོང་ལེན་རླུང་ལ་བསྐྱོན་པའི་འཕྲུལ་འདེགས་ཅན། Of giving and taking
།བྱམས་དང་སྙིང་རྗེ་ལྷག་པའི་བསམ་པ་ཡིས། Riding on the breath—
།འགྲོ་རྣམས་སྲིད་མཚོ་ཆེ་ལས་སྒྲོལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། Love, and compassion,
And the willingness
།བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཉིད་བྱོངས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། To free all beings myself—
[94]
།དུས་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་བགྲོད་གཅིག་ལམ། To practice that one thought,
The Wish for enlightenment,
།རྣམ་དག་རྒྱལ་སྲས་སྡོམ་པས་རྒྱུད་བསྡམས་ཤིང་། To free every living being
From this vast sea of suffering.
།ཐེག་མཆོག་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་གསུམ་གྱི་ཉམས་ལེན་ལ།
།བརྩོན་པ་ལྷུར་ལེན་བྱེད་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། [94]
Bless me to restrain my heart [94]
With pure vows of the daughters and sons
[93] Of the victorious Buddhas,
Tonglen lung la kyunpay trulndek chen,
Jam dang nyingje hlakpay sampa yi, For these are the one road traveled
Dro nam sitso che le drulway chir, By every conquering Buddha
Jangchub sem-nyi jongpar jin gyi lob. In the time before, and now,
And all there is to come.
[94]
Dusum Gyalwa kun gyi druchik lam, Bless me to devote myself
Namdak gyelse dompe gyu dam shing, To the practice of all three forms
Tekchok tsultrim sum gyi nyamlen la, Of the morality of the highest way.
Tsunpa hlurlen jepar jin gyi lob.
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Bless me to master [95]
།ལུས་དང་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་དུས་གསུམ་དགེ་ཚོགས་བཅས། The perfection of giving,
།སེམས་ཅན་རང་རང་འདོད་པའི་དངོས་བསྒྱུར་ཏེ། Using the private advices
།ཆགས་མེད་གཏོང་སེམས་སྤེལ་བའི་མན་ངག་གིས། For increasing thoughts of generosity
Free of any possessiveness,
།སྦྱིན་པའི་ཕར་ཕྱིན་རྫོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། By changing my own body,
[96]
And all the things I own,
།སོ་ཐར་བྱང་སེམས་གསང་སྔགས་སྡོམ་པ་ཡི། And all the good I’ve ever done,
།བཅས་མཚམས་སྲོག་གི་ཕྱིར་ཡང་མི་གཏང་ཞིང་།
Or do now or will ever do,
།དགེ་ཆོས་སྡུད་དང་སེམས་ཅན་དོན་སྒྲུབ་པའི། Into each and every thing
That every single living being
།ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཕར་ཕྱིན་རྫོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Hopes to have for themselves.
[96]
Bless me to master [96]
[95] The perfection of an ethical life,
Lu dang longchu dusum ge-tsok che, Where even at the cost of my life
Semchen rang-rang dupay ngu gyur te,
Chakme tongsem pelway men-ngak gi, I never cross the line
Jinpay parchin dzokpar jin gyi lob. Of a vow, whether it be
One of those of individual freedom,
[96] Or of the bodhisattva,
Sotar jangsem sang-ngak dompa yi, Or of the secret word;
Chetsam sok gi chir yang mitang shing,
Gechu du dang semchen dun druppay, And where I gather within me virtue,
Tsultrim parchin dzokpar jin gyi lob. Where I accomplish the goals of beings.
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།ཁམས་གསུམ་སྐྱེ་དགུ་མ་ལུས་ཁྲོས་གྱུར་ཏེ། Bless me to master [97]
The perfection of avoiding anger,
།གཤེ་ཞིང་མཚང་འབྲུ་བསྡིགས་ཤིང་སྲོག་གཅོད་ཀྱང་། To the point where I would never
།མི་འཁྲུགས་གནོད་ལན་ཕན་པ་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་པའི། Feel upset at all if every living being
In all the three realms of being
།བཟོ
[98]
ད་པའི་ཕར་ཕྱིན་རྫོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Became angered at me,
།སེམས་ཅན་རེ་རེའི་ཕྱིར་ཡང་མནར་མེད་པའི། And spoke harshly to me,
And criticized me, and threatened me,
།མེ་ནང་བསྐལ་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོར་གནས་དགོས་ཀྱང་། Or even took my life;
།སྙིང་རྗེས་མི་སྐྱོ་བྱང་ཆུབ་མཆོག་བརྩོན་པའི། Bless me to reach the point
Where my reaction to them
།བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཕར་ཕྱིན་རྫོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Would be to want to help them.
[98]
[97] Bless me to master [98]
Kam sum kyegu malu tru gyur te, The perfection of joyful effort,
She shing tsangdru dik shing sokchu kyang, Where I would strive
Mitruk nulen penpa drup jepay, For supreme enlightenment
Supay parchin dzokpar jin gyi lob.
And out of compassion
[98] Never become discouraged,
Semchen rerey chir yang nar mepay, Even if I had to remain
Me nang kelpa gyatsor negu kyang,
Nyingje mi-kyo jangchub chok tsunpay, For infinite eons in the flames
Tsundru parchin dzokpar jin gyi lob. Of the lowest realms of hell
For each of the infinite beings there are.
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Bless me to master [99]
།བྱིང་རྒོད་རྣམ་པར་གཡེང་བའི་སྐྱོན་སྤངས་ནས། The perfection of meditation,
།ཆོས་ཀུན་བདེན་པས་སྟོང་པའི་གནས་ལུགས་ལ། Where I am able to stay one-pointed
།རྩེ་གཅིག་མཉམ་པར་འཇོག་པའི་ཏིང་འཛིན་གྱིས། In a balanced meditation
།བསམ་གཏན་ཕར་ཕྱིན་རྫོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Upon the nature of all things—
[100] The fact that every object there is
།དེ་ཉིད་སོ་སོར་རྟོག་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱིས། Is devoid of any reality—
།དྲངས་པའི་ཤིན་སྦྱངས་བདེ་ཆེན་དང་འབྲེལ་བ། Without a moment’s distraction
In dullness or wandering.
།དོན་དམ་མཉམ་གཞག་ནམ་མཁའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱིས།
[100]
།ཤེས་རབ་ཕར་ཕྱིན་རྫོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Bless me to master [100]
The perfection of wisdom,
[99] Where I can stay within
Jing-gu nampar yengway kyun pang ne,
Chu kun denpe tongpay neluk la, That deep meditation on space,
Tsechik nyampar jokpay tingdzin gyi, On the ultimate, combined with a state
Samten parchin dzokpar jin gyi lob. Of greatest bliss—
[100] With a sense of practiced ease
De-nyi sosor tokpay sherab kyi, Brought on by the state of wisdom
Drangpay shinjang dechen dang drelwa, Which explores the meaning of suchness.
Dundam nyamshak namkay nelnjor gyi,
Sherab parchin dzokpar jin gyi lob.
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།ཕྱི་ནང་ཆོས་རྣམས་སྒྱུ་མ་རྨི་ལམ་དང་། Bless me to master [101]
That single-pointed meditation
།དྭངས་པའི་མཚོ་ནང་ཟླ་གཟུགས་ཇི་བཞིན་དུ། Upon the illusion,
།སྣང་ཡང་བདེན་པར་མེད་པའི་ཚུལ་རྟོགས་ནས།
Where I realize
།སྒྱུ་མའི་ཏིང་འཛིན་རྫོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། How things can appear,
And yet still not be real:
[102] How all things, both outer and inner,
།འཁོར་འདས་རང་བཞིན་རྡུལ་ཙམ་མེད་པ་དང་། Are like an illusion, a dream—
Like a moon that floats
།རྒྱུ་འབྲས་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་བསླུ་བ་མེད་པ་གཉིས། Upon a crystal lake.
།ཕན་ཚུན་འགལ་མེད་གྲོགས་སུ་འཆར་བ་ཡི།
[102]
།ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་དགོངས་དོན་རྟོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Bless me to come [102]
To a realization
Of what Arya Nagarjuna really meant:
[101]
Chi-nang chu nam gyuma milam dang, Of how all the things
Dangpay tso nang dasuk jishin du, In both the cycle and beyond it
Nang yang denpar mepay tsul tok ne, Could possess not even an atom
Gyumay tingdzin dzokpar jin gyi lob.
Of something which was their own,
[102] And yet still exhibit without fail
Kornde rangshin dultsam mepa dang, A dependence of cause and effect,
Gyundre tendrel luwa mepa nyi,
Pentsun gelme droksu charwa yi, Each of these two qualities
Ludrup gongdun tokpar jin gyi lob. Dependent upon the other,
In perfect harmony,
Without the slightest contradiction.
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[103] Bless me that after all this [103]
།དེ་ནས་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན་པའི་དེད་དཔོན་གྱི། I travel—by the kindness
Of the captain of the ship,
།དྲིན་ལས་རྒྱུད་སྡེ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་མཇིངས་བརྒལ་ཏེ།
Of my Holder of the Diamond—
།དངོས་གྲུབ་རྩ་བ་དམ་ཚིག་སྡོམ་པ་རྣམས། Across the ocean of endless depths,
།སྲོག་ལས་གཅེས་པར་འཛིན་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། The teachings of the secret way.
[104] Bless me that I come to cherish,
Even more than my life,
།སྐྱེ་ཤི་བར་དོ་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ་གསུམ་དུ། The secret pledges and vows,
།སྒྱུར་བའི་རིམ་པ་དང་པོའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱིས། The root of every attainment.
།ཐ་མལ་སྣང་ཞེན་དྲི་མ་ཀུན་སྦྱངས་ཏེ། [104]
།གང་སྣང་ལྷ་སྐུར་འཆར་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས།
Bless me to reach the point [104]
Where I am able to master
The deep practice of the first
Of the two stages:
Where I can transform
[103] Birth, and death, and the inbetween
De ne Dorje Dzinpay Depun gyi, Into a Buddha’s three holy bodies—
Drin le gyu-de gyatsoy jing gel te,
Ngudrup tsawa damtsik dompa nam, Where I am able to clean myself
Sok le chepar dzinpar jin gyi lob. Of every stench of the tendency
To see the things around me
[104] As something normal:
Kye shi bardo Gyalway kusum du,
Gyurway rimpa dangpoy nelnjor gyi, Where every single thing
Tamel nangshen drima kun jang te, In the world around me
Gang-nang hlakur charwar jin gyi lob. Strikes me as just another piece
Of my Angel’s holy body.
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[105]
[105]
།སྙིང་ཁའི་འདབ་བརྒྱད་དྷཱུ་ཏཱིའི་དབུས་དག་ཏུ། Bless me to attain [105]
In this very life the path
།མགོན་ཁྱོད་ཞབས་སེན་བཀོད་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བ། Of the Union of the Two:
།འོད་གསལ་སྒྱུ་ལུས་ཟུང་དུ་འཇུག་པའི་ལམ། Of clear light joined
With the body of illusion,
།ཚེ་འདིར་མངོན་དུ་འགྱུར་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Which shall come to me
[106] When You, my Savior,
།ལམ་སྣ་མ་ཟིན་འཆི་བའི་དུས་བྱེད་ན། Set Your lotus feet
At the center of the channel
།བཙན་ཐབས་སངས་རྒྱས་བླ་མའི་འཕོ་བ་ནི། Of the dance,
།སྟོབས་ལྔ་ཡང་དག་སྦྱར་བའི་གདམས་ངག་གིས། Inside that place
།དག་པའི་ཞིང་དུ་བགྲོད་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Where the eight petals
Of the heart meet together.
[105] [106]
Nyingkay dabgye dhutiy udak tu, [106]
Gun-kyu shabsen kupa le jungwa,
U-sel gyulu sungdu jukpay lam,
Tsendir ngundu gyurwar jin gyi lob.
[106]
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[107]
[107] Bless me in brief, my Savior, [107]
།མདོར་ན་སྐྱེ་ཞིང་སྐྱེ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ། That in all my lives to come
You might take me after You;
།མགོན་པོ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་འབྲལ་མེད་རྗེས་བཟུང་ནས།
Never let us ever be parted,
།སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་གསང་བ་ཀུན་འཛིན་པའི། Let me be that one daughter, one son,
།སྲས་ཀྱི་ཐུ་བོར་འགྱུར་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། Who stays within Your heart—
[108]
The one who upholds every secret
།མགོན་ཁྱོད་གང་དུ་མངོན་པར་སངས་རྒྱས་པའི། Of Your holy deeds, and words, and
thoughts.
།འཁོར་གྱི་ཐོག་མ་ཉིད་དུ་བདག་གྱུར་ཏེ།
།གནས་སྐབས་མཐར་ཐུག་དགོས་འདོད་མ་ལུས་པ། [108]
Wherever it is, my Savior, [108]
།འབད་མེད་ལྷུན་གྱིས་གྲུབ་པའི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྩོལ། That You might decide to manifest
Yourself becoming enlightened,
[107]
Dor na kye shing kyewa tamche du, I ask that You allow me
Gunpo kyu kyi drelme jesung ne, To be there in the very front
Ku sung tuk kyi sangwa kun dzinpay Of all who there surround You;
Se kyi tuwor gyurwar jin gyi lob.
May I win the joyful fortune
Of seeing each and every dream I have,
[108] Each and every thing I need—
Gun kyu gangdu ngunpar sangyepay,
Kor gyi tokma nyi du dak gyur te, Both here and now and ultimately,
Nekap tartuk gudu malupa, Come true without the slightest effort,
Be-me hlun gyi druppay trashi tsul. Simply on its own.
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[109] [109]
Because of this my supplication, [109]
།དེ་ལྟར་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པས་བླ་མ་མཆོག My Lama supreme in joy descends
།བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་དགྱེས་བཞིན་སྤྱི་བོར་བྱོན། To the tip of my head,
In order to grant these blessings.
།སླར་ཡང་སྙིང་ཁའི་པདྨའི་ཟེའུ་འབྲུ་ལ།
I beg You now to return
།ཞབས་སེན་འོད་ཆགས་བརྟན་པར་བཞུགས་སུ་གསོལ། And keep those holy feet,
Shining in light, planted here
[110]
Deep within the lotus petals
།དེ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཚུལ་གྱིས་བླ་མ་དང་ལྷག་པའི་ལྷ་དང་རང་གི་སེམས་གསུམ་ངོ་བོ་དབྱེར་མེད་ That lie within my heart,
དུ་བྱས་ཏེ། སྤྱོད་ལམ་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ་གང་སྣང་བདེ་སྟོང་གི་རང་བཞིན་ལྷ་དང་ལྷ་མོའི་རྣམ་
Nevermore to leave.
རོལ་ཏུ་བལྟ་བ་སོགས་བསྐྱེད་རྫོགས་ཟུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་དང་།
[110]
Create thus an indivisible union of your Lama, [110]
[109] and the divine Angel that you love above all others,
Detar sulwa tappe Lama chok, and the inside of your own heart. Go forth from
Jin gyi lap chir gyeshin chiwor jon, this ritual and maintain a deep practice where you
Laryang nyingkay pemoy seundru la, combine the two—the stage of creation, and that of
Shabsen uchak tenpar shuk su sul. completion—in every part of your day, in activities
such as where you see everything that appears to
[110] you during the entire day as the play of man and
(De tabuy tsul gyi Lama dang hlakpay Hla dang woman Angels: as nothing less than ecstasy and
rang gi sem sum ngowo yerme du je te, chulam emptiness.
tamche du gang-nang detong gi rangshin Hla dang
Hlamoy namrul tu tawa sok kyedzok sungdrel gyi
nelnjor dang,)
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[111] [111]
Those of you who have already trained your hearts [111]
ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའམ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བློ་སྦྱོང་གི་གནད་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་པ་ལ་བློ་སྦྱོང་བ་ in all the crucial points of the steps of the path, or in
རྣམས་ཡ་མ་བྲལ་བའི་ཉམས་ལེན་ལ་བརྩོན་པར་བྱ་ཞིང་། མཇུག་ཏུ་དགེ་བ་རྣམས་ the instructions of the greater way for developing a
བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་སོགས་པ་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རྒྱས་འདེབས་ཤིང་། good heart, must now make fierce efforts to practice
them, never apart from any of them. Seal your
[112] virtuous deeds at the end with a prayer, such as the
Prayer for the Deeds of Samanta Bhadra.
།མདོར་བསྡུ་ན།
།འདི་ལྟར་བགྱིས་པའི་རྣམ་དཀར་དགེ་བ་ཡང་། [112]
།དུས་གསུམ་བདེ་གཤེགས་སྲས་བཅས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། To do this in a summary way, recite then the [112]
following:
།མཛད་པ་སྨོན་ལམ་མ་ལུས་བསྒྲུབ་པ་དང་།
།ལུང་རྟོགས་དམ་ཆོས་འཛིན་པའི་རྒྱུ་རུ་བསྔོ། I take all the pure white virtue
That I’ve created through this practice
And dedicate it to serve as a cause
[111]
(Lam gyi rimpa-am tekpa chenpo lojong gi ne For all the holy deeds and prayers
yongsu dzokpa la lo jongwa nam ya madrelway Of each and every Buddha Gone to Bliss,
nyamlen la tsunpar ja shing, juk tu gewa nam And every one of Their sons and daughters,
Sangpo Chupa lasokpa munlam gyi gyendep
shing,) In the past, or now, or the future,
To come true as They do wish it.
[112]
(Dor du na,) I dedicate this virtue also as a cause
Ditar gyipay namkar gewa yang, That the holy Dharma,
Dusum Deshek se che tamche kyi, Both in its physical form and as realizations,
Dzepa munlam malu druppa dang, Remains always in this world.
Lungtok damchu dzinpay gyu ru ngo.
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[113]
།དེ་ཡི་མཐུ་ལས་ཚེ་རབས་ཀུན་ཏུ་བདག [113]
By the power of this goodness [113]
།ཐེག་མཆོག་འཁོར་ལོ་བཞི་དང་མི་འབྲལ་ཞིང་། May I never live apart
From the four circles of
།ངེས་འབྱུང་བྱང་སེམས་ཡང་དག་ལྟ་བ་དང་། The greater way;
།རིམ་གཉིས་ལམ་གྱི་བགྲོད་པ་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཤོག May I come to the final end
[114] Of my journey on the path
།ཅེས་བསྔོ་བ་དང་སྨོན་ལམ་བྱ་ཞིང་། མན་ངག་གི་གནད་འགའ་ཞིག་ཞལ་ལས་ Of renunciation,
The Wish for enlightenment,
ཀྱང་ཤེས་པར་བྱའོ།། And a pure view of reality—
[115] As well as both the stages.
དེ་ལྟར་ཞག་རེ་བཞིན་རྒྱུན་གྱི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་དུ་བྱས་ན་མདོ་སྔགས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོ་
ཉམས་སུ་བླངས་པར་འགྱུར་ཞིང་། འདི་ཕྱིའི་ལེགས་ཚོགས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རྩ་བ་ [114]
Perform thus final acts of dedication and prayer. [114]
བརྟན་པར་འགྱུར་བ་ཡིན་ནོ།། There are a few crucial points of this instruction
that you will need to learn directly from your
[113] Lama’s own lips.
De yi tu le tserab kun tu dak,
Tekchok korlo shi dang mindrel shing, [115]
Ngenjung jangsem yangdak tawa dang, If you make this Offering to Lamas a regular deep [115]
Rim nyi lam gyi drupa tarchin shok. practice that you do every day, you will be carrying
out the heart instruction of every open and secret
[114] teaching. You will plant firm roots for the most
(Che ngowa dang munlam ja shing, men-ngak gi wonderful things to come to you, both in this life
ne gashik shel le kyang shepar jao.) and the beyond.
[115]
(Detar shak re shin gyun gyi nelnjor du je na do-
ngak tamche kyi nyingpo nyamsu langpar gyur
shing, di chiy lektsok tamche kyi tsawa tenpar
gyurwa yin no.)
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[116] [116]
And thus it is done. [116]
སྨྲས་པ།
།མདོ་རྒྱུད་དམ་པའི་མན་ངག་འོ་མའི་མཚོ། I took an ocean of milk—
The highest spiritual advices
།རྣམ་དཔྱོད་ས་འཛིན་དབང་པོས་བསྲུབས་པ་ལས། From both the open and secret teachings—
།སྔོན་མེད་ལེགས་བཤད་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཀེ་ལ་ཤ། And stirred it with powerful
Thoughts of analysis,
།སྐལ་བཟང་ལེགས་བྲིས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཉེར་འཚོར་གྲུབ། Equal to the Lord of Mountains.
[117] I thus produced
A true Lake Kailash
།གང་འདི་གུས་ལྡན་སློབ་མ་མཐའ་དག་གི Of the nectar of deathlessness:
།སྙིང་མུན་མ་ལུས་སེལ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་དང་། Words of fine explanation
།འཇིག་རྟེན་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདས་པའི་དགེ་ལེགས་ནི། Of the like never seen before;
And I pray it should serve
།མཐའ་དག་མྱུར་དུ་འགུགས་པའི་ལྕགས་ཀྱུའང་ཡིན།
As sustenance for masses
Of those exquisitely rendered
Beings of highest fortune.
[116]
(Mepa, [117]
It is a lamp which dispels [117]
Do-gyu dampay men-ngak omay tso, Every inch of darkness
Namchu sandzin wangpu suppa le, Within the heart
Ngunme lekshe dutsiy kelasha,
Kelsang lekdri tsok kyi nyer-tsor drup.) Of each and every disciple
Who possesses
Thoughts of perfect honor.
[117]
(Gang di gunden lobma tadak gi, It is an iron hook
Nying-mun malu selway drunme dang, Which speeds forth and returns
Jikten jikten depay gelek ni, With every form
Tadak nyurdu gukpay chak kyu-ang yin.) Of what is good
Here within the world,
And beyond the world as well.
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[118]
[118] See here all the virtue [118]
།ཚུལ་འདིར་འབད་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་དགེ་བའི་ཚོགས། That I’ve accomplished in my efforts
To compose this practice for you:
།ཟླ་ལྟར་དཀར་བ་གང་ཞིག་ཐོབ་པ་དེ།
།དགེ་ལེགས་རྩ་བ་དམ་པའི་མགོན་རྣམས་ཀྱིས། Virtue of purest white,
།འགྲོ་ཀུན་རྗེས་སུ་འཛིན་པའི་རྒྱུ་རུ་བསྔོ། Like the full moon’s radiant light.
[119] I dedicate it now as a cause
།ཞེས་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པའི་ཆོ་ག་འདི་ནི་འདུལ་བ་འཛིན་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་དང་། བློ་བཟང་ To see those highest Protectors,
The very root of every goodness,
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་འདི་ལྟ་བུ་ཞིག་དགོས་ཅེས་ཡང་ཡང་བསྐུལ་བ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས།
Take within Their care
Every living being there is.
[118] [119]
(Tsulndir be le jungway geway tsok, This then is The Rite for the Offering to Lamas, [119]
Datar karwa gangshik toppa de, which I have composed at the behest of two of my
Gelek tsawa dampay gun nam kyi, disciples: the great Keeper of the Discipline, Chukyi
Dro kun jesu dzinpay gyu ru ngo.) Drakpa, and Lobsang Puntsok, both of whom
repeatedly requested me for a work such as this.
[119]
(She Lama Chupay Choga di ni dulwa dzinpa
Chukyi Drakpa dang, Lobsang Puntsok nyi kyi di
tabu shik gu che yang-yang kulwa la ten ne,)
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[120] [120]
ཤཱཀྱའི་དགེ་སློང་བློ་བཟང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱིས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་གླིང་གིས་མཛད་པའི་བླ་མ་ And so I—the Shakya monk named Lobsang [120]
Chukyi Gyeltsen [His Holiness the First Panchen
མཆོད་པ་དང་། དཔང་ལོ་ཆེན་པོས་མཛད་པའི་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པ་དང་། ས་སྐྱ་པའི་ Lama]—have composed the rite, basing it upon
དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ཆེན་པོ་དུ་མས་མཛད་པའི་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པ་དང་། ཐམས་ཅད་ earlier pieces: the Offering to Lamas by Drupchen
མཁྱེན་པ་དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོས་མཛད་པའི་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པ་དང་། མཁས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་མཁན་ Ling; the Offering to Lamas by Panglo Chenpo;
the works on offering to Lamas written by a great
པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པའི་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པ་དང་། many eminent spiritual guides of the Sakya
tradition; the Offering to Lamas by His Holiness
[121]
the Second Dalai Lama, the omniscient Gendun
གཞན་ཡང་གྲུབ་མཐའ་སོ་སོའི་བླ་མ་མཆོག་དམན་དུ་མས་མཛད་པའི་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པ་མང་པོ་ Gyatso; and the Offering to Lamas by the wise
ཞིག་མཐོང་ཞིང་། བརྗོད་བྱའི་དོན་རྣམས་ཁོང་དུ་ཆུད་པར་བྱས་ཏེ་ལེགས་པའི་ཆ་ཐམས་ and accomplished Khen Rinpoche, Sangye Yeshe.
ཅད་ལེགས་པར་བསྡུས་ནས། [121]
I have in addition studied a great number of [121]
[120] other works on offering to Lamas composed by
(Shakyay gelong Lobsang Chukyi Gyeltsen gyi teachers—both greater and lesser—of a variety of
Drupchen Ling gi dzepay Lama Chupa dang, traditions. I have come to a complete grasp of all
Panglo Chenpu dzepay Lama Chupa dang, of these writings, and incorporated all of the best
Sakyapay geway she-nyen chenpo du-me dzepay parts of them carefully into the present ritual.
Lama Chupa dang, Tamche Kyenpa Gendun
Gyatsu dzepay Lama Chupa dang, kedrup chenpo
Kenpo Rinpoche Sangye Yeshe kyi dzepay Lama
Chupa dang,)
[121]
(Shen yang drupta sosoy Lama chokmen du-me
dzepay Lama Chupa mangpo shik tong shing, jujay
dun nam kongdu chupar je te lekpay cha tamche
lekpar du ne,)
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Lama Chupa The Offering to Lamas
[122] [122]
I strove as well to keep the present text easily [122]
མདོ་རྒྱུད་དམ་པའི་མན་ངག་ཇི་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན་དུ་ཚིག་སྦྱོར་སྤངས་ཏེ་གོ་བདེ་བར། understandable, adhering to the advices of the
highest instructions of both the open and secret
ཆོས་གྲྭ་ཆེན་པོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོའི་གཟིམས་ཁང་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཐོན་པོའི་ཡང་ཐོག་ཏུ་
teachings, and avoiding any flowery composition.
སྦྱར་བའོ།། The work has been completed in the added
second level of the “High Banner of Victory,”
[123] my sleeping quarters in the great monastery of
Trashi Hlunpo.
།།འདི་དང་ཕྱག་ཆེན་འགྲེལ་པ་ཡང་། རབ་འབྱམས་སྨྲ་བ་ཆོས་གྲགས་ཀྱིས་
བསྒྲུབས་པའི་དགེ་བས་ཕ་མ་གཉིས་མྱུར་དུ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐོབ་པར་ཤོག །། [123]
That teacher of myriad scriptures, Chudrak, [123]
helped me make this work—and also my
commentary upon the Great Seal of the
[122]
Mahamudra—available to others. I pray that, by
(Do-gyu dampay men-ngak jitawa shindu tsikjor
this goodness, his father and mother may quickly
pang te go dewar, chudra chenpo Trashi Hlunpoy
come to attain the state of enlightenment.
simkang Gyeltsen Tonpoy yangtok tu jarwao.)
[123]
(Di dang Chakchen Drelpa yang, rabjam mawa
Chudrak kyi druppay ge-we pama nyi nyurdu
Sangye toppar shok.)
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