I have known Erick Tsiknopoulos since 2005, at which time he studied Tibetan Language under me. Erick has persevered in his studies of higher Buddhist learning and foreign languages over the years, without pause. He has translated a large number of both canonical and non-canonical documents, and has worked under many of the important Dharma … Continue reading »
The Exalted Lapis Light Dhārani that Generates the Power of the Tathāgata’s Meditative Absorption [“The Concise Medicine (Buddha) Sūtra”] In the Indian Language [Sanskrit]: Ārya Tathāgata Vaidūrya Prabha Nāma Bala Dhana Samādhi Dhārani In the Tibetan Language: Phakpa Dezhinshekpay Tingngedzin gyi Top Kyeypa Baiduryay Ö cheyjaway Zung (‘phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa’i ting nge … Continue reading »
The Best Places to Study Tibetan in India: The Ratings By Erick Tsiknopoulos Please note: These ratings are mainly for studying Tibetan language, not for higher Tibetan/Buddhist studies. That is a different story, which I will address in a later article. This article is mainly aimed at students who are in their first to second … Continue reading »
The Sūtra on the Three Trainings In the Indian Language [Sanskrit]: Shiksha Traya nama Sūtra In the Tibetan Language: Lappa Sum gyi Do zheyjawa In the English Language: The Sūtra known as “The Three Trainings” ADORATION TO ALL BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS. Thus have I heard: At one time, the Transcendent and Accomplished Conqueror was wandering … Continue reading »
The Teaching on the Eleven Contemplations Sūtra In the Indian Language [Sanskrit]: Ārya Samjñāna Ekadasha Nirdesha Sūtra In the Tibetan Language: Phakpa Dushey Chuchik Tenpay Do (phags pa ‘du shes bcu gcig bstan pa’i mdo) In the English Language: The Exalted Teaching on the Eleven Contemplations Sūtra ADORATION TO THE THREE JEWELS. Thus have … Continue reading »
The Three Kāyas Sūtra In the Indian Language [Sanskrit]: Ārya Trikāya nāma Mahāyana Sūtra In the Tibetan Language: Phakpa Ku Sum zheyjaway Thekpachhenpo’i Do ['phags pa sku gsum zhes bya ba'i theg pa chen po'i mdo] In the English Language: The Mahāyana Sūtra known as “The Exalted Three Kāyas” ADORATION TO ALL BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS. Thus … Continue reading »
OM PADMO USHNÎSHA VIMALE HÛM PHAT It is taught in the Sûtra of Essence of the Earth’s Ten Wheels That any individual who sees, hears, remembers, or touches This king of supreme dhâranîs with twelve syllables, Will purify the karmas of immediate retribution and block the doors to unfortunate transmigrations. Translated by Erick Tsiknopoulos.
The One-Page Prayer: A Prayer to Khunu Lama Rinpoche Composed by Khunu Lama Rinpoche Himself THUP-TEN DRI-MA-MEY-PA DÜ-TSI’I PEL O Splendor of the ambrosial nectar of the Sage’s stainless Teachings, LEK-PAR TAM-PA DAM-PA DU MAY ZHAP At the feet of many well-versed sublime beings, GO SUM GÜ-PA TSUK-GI-GYEN ZHIN TEN With respect of the … Continue reading »
An Aspiration for Enlightenment by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche ZAP ZHI TRÖ-DREL Ö-SEL DÜ-MA-JAY Profound, peaceful, free from fabrications, luminous, unconditioned: DÜ-TSI TA-BU’I CHHÖ-NYI DÖN TOK NAY May the actual state of the ambrosia-like true nature of things be realized, GANG-LA-GANG-DÜL T’HAP-KHAY CHÖ-PA YII And, with conduct of skillful means that trains in any way … Continue reading »
Advice to the People of Dzagyel Sershul by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche I, this monk, am of the nature of illusion, I, this monk, do not have true existence. I have no self-clinging that thinks “this is my home”, I have no grasping that thinks “I must go to this place”. Until the ocean of … Continue reading »
A Prayer to Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche Composed for his students by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche JIK-MEY TSÖ CHAY TSOM-PAY TER LA WANG Master over a treasury of fearless debate, exposition, and composition, P’HUN-TS’HOK LAP-PA SUM GYI YÖN-TEN DZOK Replete with the good qualities of an excellent abundance of the three trainings, PAK-YAY P’HEN-DEY JUNG-NAY … Continue reading »
A Supplication to Milarepa By Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche OM ĀH HŪM: NGÖN-GAY ZHING ZHUK GYEL-WA MI-KYÖ-PA OM ĀH HŪM: Abiding in the pure-land of Deep Joy, you are the Victor Akshobhya, SIL-JONG DRO NGOR SHEY-NYEN CHHOK TU NANG In response to the beings of the Cool Country, you appeared as the supreme spiritual friend, … Continue reading »
A Supplication to the Root Guru By Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche DÜ SUM GYEL-WAY T’HRIN-LAY GAR Dance of the enlightened activity of the Victors of the three times, MA-LÜ DRO KÜN DREN-PAY PEL Glorious one who guides all beings without exception, DRIN-CHHEN TSA-WAY LA-MA KYE O supremely kind Root Guru: DAK GYÜ JIN-GYII-LAP TU SÖL … Continue reading »
The Dhārani of Yellow Jambhala from the Guhyāsamaja SER-NAY LAY KYI ME YII DUNG-WA DAK Those who are scorched by the fire of the karma of stinginess, KYE-WA KYE-WAR KHYÖ LA KYAP SU CHHI Go for refuge to you in lifetime after lifetime; RIN-CHHEN TER GYI DÜ-TSI’I CHHAP GYÜN GYII With the cleansing stream … Continue reading »
The Dhārani of Yellow Jambhala’s Chief Form NOR GYI WANG-CHHUK RIN-CHHEN TER NGA ZHING All-mighty sovereign of wealth, you hold dominion over a treasury of precious things, NÖ-JIN NOR CHHANG MANG-PO KÜN GYI JE You are lord of all the many yakshas who wield riches, JANG-CHHOK KYONG-WAY GÖN-PO DZAMBHA-LA The guardian who protects the northern … Continue reading »
The Dhārani of the Three Protectors of Beings NGEN-SONG JONG GYEL KÜN-RIK NAM-NANG-DZAY Conqueror who purifies the lower realms, all-knowing Vairochana, DE-DEN ZHING GI GÖN-PO Ö-PAK-MEY Lord of the blissful field, Amitābha, DUK-SUM NAY SEL SANG-GYAY MEN GYI LA Eliminator of the sickness of the three poisons, Buddha Bhaishajyaguru: DRO-WAY GÖN-PO SUM LA GÜ CHHAK … Continue reading »
The Six-Syllable Dhārani of Avalokiteshvara: The Practice from Jowo Atīsha’s Tradition KYÖN GYII MA GÖ KUN-DOK KAR Unstained by faults, your body the color white, DZOK SANG-GYAY KYII Ü LA GYEN A perfect Buddha adorning your head, T’HUK-JE CHEN GYII DRO LA ZIK You gaze upon beings with your eye of compassion: CHEN-RAY-ZIK LA SÖL-WA-DEP … Continue reading »
The Name-Recitation of Medicine Buddha T’HUK-JE KÜN LA NYOM-PAY CHOM-DEN-DAY Bhagavān who is equal towards all in his compassion, TS’HEN TSAM T’HÖ-PAY NGEN-DRO’I DUK-NGEL SEL Merely hearing your name dispels the suffering of the lower realms, DUK SUM NAY SEL SANG-GYAY MEN GYI LA You clear away the sicknesses of the three poisons, Buddha Medicine … Continue reading »
The Name-Recitation of the Protector Amitābha LU-MEY KÖN-CHHOK SUM GYI NGO-WO NYI The very essence of the infallible Three Jewels, NGEN-SONG JIK LAY DRÖL-WAY PA-WO TE The hero who liberates from the suffering of the lower realms, DAK-PAY ZHING DU DRÖ-PAY DE-PÖN CHHOK The supreme pilot for traveling to the pure fields: GÖN-PO Ö-PAK-MEY … Continue reading »
The Name-Dhārani of Je Tsongkhapa PEL-DEN TSA-WAY LA-MA RIN-PO-CHHE Glorious root guru, precious one, DAK GI CHI-WOR PAY-DAY TENG ZHUK LA As you rest on a lotus and moon above the crown of my head, KA-DRIN-CHHEN-PO’I GO NAY JEY-ZUNG TE Look after me with your great kindness, KU SUNG T’HUK KYII NGÖ-DRUP TSEL DU … Continue reading »
SEEKING EXPERIENCED TIBETAN TRANSLATORS The Sugatagarbha Translation Group, the translators of all the translations on this site, are seeking experienced translators to add to our team. Currently, the Group consists of Erick Tsiknopoulos and Mike Dickman. We are seeking an additional one or two translators. The work will mainly be review translation work, reviewing first … Continue reading »
Download the PDF of this prayer at the link below: Swift Rebirth Prayer for Khalkha Jetsun Dampa Rinpoche by HHDL – PDF (4) ༄༅།། མྱུར་བྱོན་གསོལ་འདེབས། The Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of the 9th Khalkha Jetsün Dampa Rinpoche by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso སྨྲ་བ་ཟླ་མེད་སྟོན་མཆོག་ཉི་མའི་གཉེན༎ M’A-WA DA-MEY TÖN-CHHOK NYI-MAY NYEN May the … Continue reading »
The Dhāranī of Thirteen Chakras ADORATION TO THE BHAGAVAN, THE TATHĀGATA, THE ARHAT, THE PERFECTLY COMPLETE BUDDHA SHĀKYAMUNI! TADYATHĀ: OM MUNI MUNI MAHĀ MUNAYE SVĀHĀ Grant your blessings that I along with my retinue be guarded, protected, and concealed, I pray! Liberate us from all evil demons, I pray! DURU DURU CHAKRA/ VAJRAYA VAJRAYA CHAKRA/ … Continue reading »
Download the PDF at the link below: Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche Long-Life Prayer by Khenchen Lama Rinpoche A Long Life Prayer for Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche by Khenchen Lama Pelgyepa Dorje Rinpoche ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། ། EMAHO How marvelous! འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་བླ་མ་རྗེ། ། JAM-YANG KHYEN-PAY WANG-CHHUK LA-MA JÈ Gentle and melodious, powerful lord of understanding, master guru, བརྩེ་ཆེན་འགྲོ་ཁམས་སྐྱོང་བའི་སྤྲུལ་པའི་གར། … Continue reading »
A Longing Prayer to Mañjushrī by Ju Mipham Rinpoche Compassionate sovereign possessing the ten strengths, greatly loving, The sole wisdom body of all the Victors, who has brought the ten powers to culmination, O hero Mañjushrī: Consider and think of downtrodden me! This was composed on the 14th day of the 10th month of … Continue reading »
Condensed Verses for the Four Immeasurables by Ju Mipham Rinpoche SEM-CHEN DÉ DEN DUK-NGEL DREL May sentient beings have happiness and be free from suffering. TAK-TU DÉ-NYAM LA NAY SHOK May they always abide in blissful equanimity. These are condensed verses for the Four Immeasurables. By Mipham. Translated from Tibetan by Erick … Continue reading »
Offering Clouds that Please the Vidyādharas: A Prayer for the Spread of the Early Translation Teachings by Ju Mipham Rinpoche DO-NGAK CHHÖ-TS’HUL TS’HANG LA MA-NOR ZHING May the Early Translation Teachings: The unerring complete Dharma approach of sūtra and tantra, KHAY SHING DRÜP NYEY RIK-DZIN GYÜ‘-PAY SRÖL The tradition of the vidyādhara lineage which accomplishes … Continue reading »
A Short Method for Reciting Samantabhadra’s Prayer for Excellent Conduct by Dzongsar Khyentse Chӧkyi Lodrӧ Rinpoche In the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Supreme Assembly, I go for refuge from now until enlightenment. By the merit of my practice of generosity and so on, May I attain buddhahood in order to benefit beings. Recite … Continue reading »
The Prayer to the Three Great Stupas of Nepal by Dudjom Rinpoche, Jikdrel Yeshe Dorje At the summit of Ox Horn Mountain in Nepal, a place of intense accomplishment, The blessings and relics of the past Victorious Ones manifested: To the amazing Self-Arisen Stupa Renowned as Swayambunath [P'akpa Shingkün], I pray. When Shakyamuni … Continue reading »
The Benefits of Circumambulations Concerning the benefits of circumambulating the supports for worship and stūpas which are representations of the Sugata’s enlightened body, speech, and mind, in the Verses of Circumambulating Stūpas, it says: What are the benefits of circumambulating The stūpas of the Protector of the Universe? As for that, … Continue reading »
Download the PDF at the link below: Swift Rebirth Prayer for Dungsay Thinley Norbu Rinpoche by Khenchen Lama Pelgyepa Dorje Rinpoche ༄༅། ། གདུང་སྲས་འཇིགས་མེད་ཚེ་དབང་ཕྲིན་ལས་ནོར་བུའི་ཡང་སྲིད་ མྱུར་བྱོན་གསོལ་འདེབས། ། The Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of Dungsay Jikme Tsewang Thinley Norbu Rinpoche by Khenchen Lama Pelgyepa Dorje Rinpoche ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། ། EMAHO! – How Marvelous! ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ཀ་དག་གཉུག་མའི་གཞལ་ཡས་ནས། ། CHHÖ-YING KA-DAK … Continue reading »
View and download the PDF at the link below: Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of Dungsay Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, by Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of Dungsay Thinley Norbu Rinpoche by the 10th Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche Playful dance of the pristine awareness of all the Victors and their Heirs In all directions … Continue reading »
Sunlight Blessings That Cure the Longing of Remembrance A Biography of the Omniscient Khunu Mahāsattva, Tenzin Gyeltsen [Khunu Lama Rinpoche] By Lamchen Gyalpo Rinpoche Translated from Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos and Mike Dickman View the PDF by clicking on the link below: Sunlight Blessings That Cure the Longing of Remembrance – PDF
མཁས་གྲུབ་ར་ག་ཨསྻས་མཛས་པའི་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་རྨོངས་པ་མུན་སེལ་བླ་མ་པདྨ་འཕྲིན་ལས་ལ་སྩལ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། Clearing Away the Darkness of Delusion A Mañjushrī Sadhana by Khaydrub Raga Asya [Karma Chakme] Conferred on Pema Thrinlay [Refuge and Bodhichitta:] ན་མོ། NAMO Homage! དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་འདུས་བླ་མ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་ལ། KÖN-CHHOK SUM DÜ LA-MA JAM-PEL LA In Guru Mañjushrī , embodiment of the Three Jewels, དུས་རྣམས་རྟག་ཏུ་བདག་ནི་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། DÜ NAM TAK TU DAK NI KYAB SU CHHI I constantly … Continue reading »
The Lamp of Pristine Wisdom: A Commentary on the Mañjushrī Sadhana ‘Clearing Away the Darkness of Delusion’ By the 10th Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche Translated by Erick Tsiknopoulos and Mike Dickman. Sole embodiment of the treasure of qualities of the primordial awareness of all Victorious Ones, Greatest of all miraculous displays, Hero who … Continue reading »
གསལ་འདེབས་མེ་ཏོག་དཀར་པོ། ། The White Flower Prayer ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། ། E MA HO སྙིང་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོས་འགྲོ་ཀུན་ཕ་མར་གཟིགས། ། NYING-JE-CHEN-PÖ DRO KÜN P’HA-MAR ZIG With your great compassion, you view all beings as your parents, ཤེས་རབ་ཆེན་པོས་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཇི་བཞིན་གཟིགས། ། SHEY-RAB-CHHEN-PÖ CHHÖ-NYI’ JI-ZHIN ZIG With your great wisdom, you behold the nature of phenomena just as it is, རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་བླ་མ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས། ། DZOG-PA-CHHEN-PO’I LA-MA CHEN-RAY-ZIG Guru … Continue reading »
༄༅། །གསོལ་འདེབས་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཕ་ལམ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། ། The Prayer of the Unchanging Vajra Diamond ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། ། E MA HO སྟོང་ཉིད་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ངང་ལས་མ་གཡོས་བཞིན། ། TONG-NYI’ CHHÖ-YING NGANG LAY MA YÖ ZHIN While unwavering from within the continuity of emptiness, the basic space of phenomena, ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོས་སྤྱན་རས་འགྲོ་ལ་གཟིགས། ། T’HUG-JE-CHHEN-PÖ CHEN-RAY DRO LA ZIG With your vast compassion you behold beings with your observing eyes, … Continue reading »
སྒྲོལ་མའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་པ་མྱུར་སྐྱོབ། ། Quick Protection from Fear: A Prayer to Tāra By Jamgön Ju Mipham Rinpoche I ཨོཾ། ཕྱག་འཚལ་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཏྰ་རེ་ལྷ་མོ། ། OM: CHHAG-TS’HÄL JE-TSÜN TĀ-RE LHA-MO OM: I pay homage to you, Illustrious One, goddess of TĀRE, ཏུཏྟྰ་རེ་ཞེས་གདུང་བ་ཀུན་སྐྱོབ། ། TUTTĀRE ZHEY DUNG-WA KÜN KYOB Saying TUTTĀRE, you protect from all anguish, ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཐོགས་མེད་ཏུ་རེ་དཔའ་མོས། ། T’HUG-JE T’HOG-MEY’ TURE PAMÖ … Continue reading »
The Long Life Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama Written by His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche སྟོང་ཉིད་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཟུང་དུ་འཇུག་པའི་ལམ། TONG-NYI’ NYING-JE ZUNG-DU-JUG-PAY LAM You who clarifies the path of emptiness and compassion as an integral unity །ཆེས་ཆེར་གསལ་མཛད་གངས་ཅན་བསྟན་འགྲོའི་མགོན། CHHE-CHHER SEL-DZAY GANG-CHEN TEN-DRO’I GON Ever more greatly, protector of the Land of Snows, the Teachings, and beings, །སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཡིས། … Continue reading »
A Dispelling Obstacles from the Path Prayer by Khenchen Lama Pelgyepa Dorje Rinpoche བར་ཆད་ལམ་སེལ་ཞིག ། ཨེ་མ་ཧོ༔ ཕྱི་ལྟར་གནས་མཆོག་ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རི་ནས། །སྐྱབས་གཅིག་བླ་མ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་། །བཟོད་མེད་གདུང་ཤུགས་དྲག་པོས་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། །ཕྱི་ཡི་བར་ཆད་འབྱུང་བཞིའི་གཡོ་འཁྲུག་བཟློག །ཕུང་པོ་འོད་ལུས་གྲོལ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །ནང་ལྟར་སྙིང་དབུས་ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རི་ནས། །འོད་ལྔའི་རང་མདངས་བླ་མ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་། །རིག་པ་ཚད་ཕེབས་ངང་ནས་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། །ནང་གི་བར་ཆད་སེམས་ཀྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་སོལ། །འཁྲུལ་རྟོག་ཆོས་སྐུར་གྲོལ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །གསང་བ་ཀ་དག་ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རི་ནས། །ལྷན་གྲུབ་འགགས་མེད་བླ་མ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་། །གདོད་ནས་འཕོ་འགྱུར་བྲལ་བས་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། །གསང་བའི་བར་ཆད་སེམས་དང་སེམས་བྱུང་གྲོལ། །ཆོས་ཟད་དགོངས་པ་རྟོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། ། ཤྲྰིས་སོ། ། ཨོཾ་་ཛྙྰ་ན་གུ་རུ་བཛྲ་སིདྡྷི་ཧྰུཾ། ། A Dispelling Obstacles from the Path Prayer by Khenchen Lama Rinpoche E MA HO ༔ Outwardly, from the supreme … Continue reading »
A Praise and Prayer for Erick Tsiknopoulos (Sherab Zangpo) by Khenchen Lama Pelgyepa Dorje Rinpoche ཨེ་མ་ཧོཿ ཨེ་རིག་སྟོང་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤིང་།།ཝཾ་རིག་སྣང་བའི་ཀུན་བཟང་བདེ་ལེགས་་པོ། ། །ཟུང་འཇུག་སྤྲུལ་་པའི་ལོ་ཙྰ་གཞན་ཕན་ཅན།།རྟེན་འབྲེལ་་དམ་པའི་གྲོགས་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་བགྱི། །བསྟན་དང་འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་ཆེན་འགྲུབ་པར་ཤོག།ཅེས་པའང་ཅི་དྲན་དུ་ཤྲྰི་སྨྱོན་པས་སྨོན་པ་དོན་དང་ལྡན་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག ། ཨེ་མ་ཧོཿ EMAHO How marvelous! ཨེ་རིག་སྟོང་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤིང། E-RIK TONG-PAY SHE-RAB TRA-SHII SHING The auspiciousness of E, the discerning wisdom of awareness-emptiness, །ཝཾ་རིག་སྣང་བའི་ཀུན་བཟང་བདེ་ལེགས་པོ། ། VAM RIK-NANG-WAY KÜN-ZANG DE-LEK PO And the good fortune of VAM, the total excellence of awareness-appearance: … Continue reading »
The Condensed Hindrance-Repelling Ritual By Jamgön Ju Mipham Rinpoche MA-WAY SENG-GE DAK GYÜ JIN-GYI-LOP Lion of Speech, bless my mental continuum! SI KEK T’HEN TAY-NGEN GYUR DU SOL Please obliterate all spirit harm, hindrances, bad omens, and negative signs! GYAL-PO’I CHAY-PA PHAY KYI JIK-PA LA SOK Punishment by kings, the fears of opponents and … Continue reading »
The Condensed Ritual for Repelling Gossiping Enemies By Karma Chakme RANG-NYI T’HUK-JE-CHHEN-PO’I T’HUK-KA NAY Ö-ZER JANG-GU T’HRÖ-PAY TAM NGEN MI-KHA T’HAM-CHAY DOK PAR GYUR From the heart-center of myself as the Great Compassionate One [Avalokiteshvara], there radiates green rays of light, which cast away all negative rumors and gossip. OM MANI PADME HUNG HRIH … Continue reading »
Ganapati’s Exalted Heart-Dhārani In the Indian Language [Sanskrit]: Ārya Ganapati Hridāya In the Tibetan Language: Phakpa Tsokdakpo’i Zung In the English Language: The Exalted Ganapati’s Heart-Dhārani HOMAGE TO ALL THE BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS! Thus have I heard: at one time, the Transcendent and Accomplished Conqueror was in Rajagriha, on Vulture’s Peak Mountain, abiding together in … Continue reading »
The Exalted Manibhadra’s Dhārani In the Indian Language (Sanskrit): Ārya Manibhadra Nāma Dhārani In the Tibetan Language: Phakpa Norbu Zangpo’i Zung Zheyjawa In the English Language: The Dhārani of the Exalted Manibhadra HOMAGE TO THE THREE JEWELS! Thus have I heard: at one time, the Transcendent and Accomplished Conqueror was abiding in Shravasti in … Continue reading »
The Root Verses of the Three Principle Aspects of the Path (lam gyi gtso bo rnam gsum gyi rtsa ba bzhugs so) by Lama Je Tsongkhapa HOMAGE TO THE VENERABLE LORD GURUS! The heart-meaning of all the sublime speech of the Victorious One, The path praised by the holy Bodhisattva Heirs, The stepping-stone for … Continue reading »
A Prayer for the Long Life of the Guru by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö OM SVASTI OM: May it be auspicious! NGAK LA WANG GYUR SHEY-JA T’HAM-CHAY KHYEN Master over speech, you understand all fields of knowledge, LOB-ZANG GYEL-WAY RING-LUK NYIN-MOR JEY Of excellent intellect, you illuminate the tradition of the Victorious One, GANG-CHEN … Continue reading »
Advice on Friends by Dza Patrul Rinpoche A Good Friend Induces Good Habits If you rely on a friend with knowledge, your intellect will increase. If you rely on a friend with compassion, you will give birth to bodhichitta. If you rely on a friend with contentment, your desires will decrease. If you rely … Continue reading »
The Bodhicharyāvatāra: Entering into the Conduct of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva In the Indian Language (Sanskrit): Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra In the Tibetan Language: Jangchhubsempa’i Choepa la Jukpa (byang chub sems dpa’i spyod pa la ‘jug pa) In the English Language: Entering into the Conduct of the Bodhisattva Chapter One: An Explanation of the Benefits of Bodhichitta ADORATION TO … Continue reading »
