Tibetan Prayer – Thongdrol

The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas. 11 to 20 Stanzas

lingpa — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:59:05 +0000

The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to make a genuine exchange
Of one’s own happiness and wellbeing for all the sufferings of others.
Since all misery comes from seeking happiness for oneself alone,
Whilst perfect buddhahood is born from the wish for others’ good.

Even if others, in the grips of great desire, should steal,
Or encourage others to take away, all the wealth that I possess,
To dedicate to them entirely my body, possessions and all my merits
From the past, present and future— this is the practice of all the bodhisattvas.

Even if others should seek to cut off my head,
Though I’ve done them not the slightest wrong,
To take upon myself, out of compassion,
All the harms they have amassed—this is the practice of all the bodhisattvas.

Even if others should declare before the world
All manner of unpleasant things about me,
To speak only of their qualities in return,
With a mind that’s filled with love—this is the practice of all the bodhisattvas.

Even if others should expose my hidden faults or deride me
When speaking amidst great gatherings of many people,
To conceive of them as spiritual friends and to bow
Before them in respect—this is the practice of all the bodhisattvas.

Even if others whom I have cared for like children of my own
Should turn upon me and treat me as an enemy,
To regard them only with special fondness and affection,
As a mother would her ailing child—this is the practice of all the bodhisattvas.

Even if others, equal or inferior to me in status,
Should, out of arrogance, disparage me,
To honour them, as I would my teacher,
By bowing down my head before them—this is the practice of all the bodhisattvas.

Even though I may be destitute and despised by all,
Beset with terrible illness and plagued by evil spirits,
Still to take upon myself all beings’ ills and harmful actions,
Without ever losing heart—this is the practice of all the bodhisattvas.

Even though I may be famous and revered by all,
And as rich as Vaiśravaṇa, the god of wealth himself,
To see the futility of all the glory and riches of this world
And to remain without conceit—this is the practice of all the bodhisattvas.

The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to subdue the mind
With the forces of loving kindness and compassion.
For unless the real adversary—my own anger—is defeated,
Outer enemies, though I may conquer them, will continue to appear.

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The Heart Sutra | ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ། ། | Sherab Nyingpo

lingpa — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:19:00 +0000

༄༅། །བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ། །

The Sūtra of the Heart of Transcendent Wisdom by Gyalwang Karmapa

ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ། ། | The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo The Heart Sūtra or Sherap Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is one of the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly among the most widely used and chanted sutra-s in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wisdom. The followers of Mahāyāna Buddhism consider it as sacred literature that falls within the category of the words of the Buddha. Thus, it is placed within the Perfection of Wisdom (ཤེར་ཕྱིན་) section of the Kagyur (བཀའ་འགྱུར་) canon. According to the sūtra itself, the Heart Sūtra was taught by the Buddha while he was on Vulture Peak, Rajagṛha, with his monastic and bodhisattva followers. The Buddha entered a meditative state called Profound Illumination and through his power made Śāriputra query Avalokiteśvara about how a person engages in the practice of Perfection of Wisdom. The main sūtra is constituted of the response that Avalokiteśvara gives Śāriputra, instructing how a son or daughter of a noble family should view everything as empty (སྟོང་པར་རྣམ་པར་བལྟ་བར་བྱ་) including form, sensation, feelings, volitions, consciousness, the six sense faculties, the six sense fields, the six consciousnesses, the twelve links of dependent origination, and the four noble truths. He puts this in the formulaic phrase: form is emptiness, emptiness is form, emptiness is no other than form, and form is no other than emptiness.

The Heart Sutra | ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ། ། | Sherab Nyingpo (PDF format)

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Sampa Lhundrup | བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ། | Guru Rinpoche

lingpa — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:18:00 +0000

Sampa Lhundrup | བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ།| The Supplication Spontaneous Fulfillment of Wishes | Guru Rinpoche

Sampa Lhundrupma (Tib. བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་མ་།,) The Prayer to Guru Rinpoche That Spontaneously Fulfills All Wishes, is a prayer that forms the seventh chapter of Le’u Dünma. It was given to the prince Mutri Tsenpo, the King of Gungthang, and son of King Trisong Detsen, by Padmasambhava as he was leaving for the land of the rakshasa ogres in the southwest. In this prayer, thirteen emanations of Guru Rinpoche are mentioned: Guru Chemchok, against war Guru Padma, King of Healing, against illness Guru Mighty King of Wealth Gods, against famine & deprivation Guru Powerful King of Yidams, for the transmission of the terma treasures Guru King Who Fulfils the Hopes of the Practitioner, for travel Guru Sovereign of the Warrior Gings, for protection against wild animals Guru Victorious Master over the Four Elements, against disruption in the elements Guru Mighty Exorciser of Evil Spirits, against robbery Guru Vajra Armour, against assailants Guru Purifier of the Pain of Rebirth, for the moment of death Guru Conqueror over the Delusion of the Bardo, for the bardo Guru Dispeller of the Suffering of Dying, against mental distress Guru Refuge of the Six Classes of Beings, against suffering in the world at large.

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The generosity of the priceless gift of Dharma, the foundation for the other five Paramitas.

– Thongdrol

Sampa Lhundrup | བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ། | Guru Rinpoche (PDF format)

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