Tibetan Buddhist Institute

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Flinders Park, SA. 5025

Australia

Daily Prayers

Refuge

I go for refuge until I am enlightened,
To the Buddha, the Dharma and the Supreme Assembly
By the merit of generosity and other good deeds, may I achieve
Buddhahood for the benefit of all migrating beings.

Four Immeasurables

May all sentient beings have happiness and the cause of happiness.
May all sentient beings be free from suffering and the cause of suffering.
May all sentient beings not be separated from the happiness that is without suffering.
May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free of attachment and hatred for those held close and distant.

Seven Limbs

I bow down prostrate to all the Buddha's and ayra beings.
And make each and every offering, those actually arranged and those mentally transformed.
I confess all negativities and transgressions collected since beginningless time
And rejoice in the virtues of ordinary beings and aryas.
I dedicate the merits of myself and others to the great great enlightlightenment
Please remain supremely until cyclic existence is emptied
And turn the wheel of Dharma for the sake of migrators.

Mandala Offering

This ground, anointed with incense and strewn with flowers,
Adorned with Mount Meru, the four continents, sun and moon,
I offer, visualized as a Buddha realm.
May all migrators enjoy this completely pure realm.

 

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 A Falling Nectar Shower of Immortality

A Prayer of Supplication for the Long Life of
Venerable Khensur Losang Thubten Rinpoche

SVASTI

May she, the lovely one-that fair and youthful coming-into-being
Of the nectar spring of all the countless Conquerors’ enlightened deeds;
May she, the sublime goddess-the giver of life,
Ever shelter you within the sacred radiance of her blessing.

rab-jam gyal-kun trin-lä du-tsii-chi
jo-geg lang-tshor min-pä yi-ong-ma
tshe-jin lhag-pä lha-mo jin-lab-kyi
nang-wa dam-pä lha-mo kyong-war-dzö

Within your fragrant hundred-petalled wondrous wisdom
Lies the pollen of the Subduer’s words,
And the full bloom of analytic skills discriminating the essence of his doctrine.
O glorious spiritual master, please, please live long.

mä-jung lo-drö sang-po dab-gya-pa
thub-sung drang-sii nying-pö chu-chhag-shing
ten-pä de-nyi je-pä nam-chö-tsal
rab-gyä pal-dan lama shab-tan-shog

Your orb of vast listening to traditions of teachings is full;
Its hundred thousand white lights of immaculate morality
Serving to unfold lunar flowers within the minds of the fortunate.
O peerless propounding moon, please, please live long.

shung-lug mang-thö kyil-hor yong-dzog-shing
nam-dag tshul-trim ö-kar bum-pa-chan
kal-sang yi-kyi kun-da shä-pä-nyen
tshung-me ma-wä da-wa shab-tan-shog

Opening wide with thousands of incise reasonings
The jewel-treasury of assertions and thoughts of Tibetan and Indian masters,
Ingeniously you string successive necklaces of their pearls,
Generating joy within those of clear minds.
O supreme spiritual friend, please, please live long.

phag-bö khä-pä she-gong nor-bu-dzö
ma-mä rig-tshul tong-gi leg-chhe-te
lo-sal ga-kye mu-tig do-shal-treng
pel-khä shä-nyen chhog-tu shab-tan-shog

By the blessings of the three secrets of the countless Conquerors,
And by the clarified essence of all that moves and is still, the mundane and that beyond,
Maturing into bearers of life immortal,
May you remain in an immutable realm, unmoving and invincible.

rab-jam gyal-wä sang-sum jin-lab-dang
khor-dä tan-yo dang-chü ma-lü-pa
mi-shig sog-gi sang-su nyer-min-nä
shom-dral tag-pä kham-su tan-gyur-chig

May all those faults of myself and others,
Such as breaches of devotion, lack of faith and wrong conception,
Created out of unconcern and obscuration, be purified,
And may the wonderful fortune to be satiated by the nectar taste of your guiding instructions never lessen.

dag-sog mong-dang bag-me wang-gyur-pä
tshul-shin ma-ten me-dä log-tog-sog
nong-pa kun-jang dam-ngag du-tsi-rö
tshim-pä kal-sang nyam-pa më-gyur-chig

By the seas of infallible Conquerors’ blessings,
By the power of the sphere of reality’s truth-the unity of appearance and emptiness,
And by the profound strength of my own pure faith,
May the purposes of this prayer be instantly fulfilled with effortless ease.

lu-më gyal-wa gya-tsho jin-lab-dang
nang-tong sung-jug chhö-ying dhen-pä-thhu
dag-chag lhag-sam dag-pä nü-tob-kyi
mon-pä don-di de-lag drub-gyur-chig

 

This prayer of supplication for the long life of Sera Je Tre Hor Geshe Kangurwa Khensur Losang Thubten Rinpoche, possessor of extensive listening, was composed by myself, Trijang Trulku, having the title, Junior Tutor to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The need for this prayer was made known to me through requests accompanied with offering scarves and precious gifts by his many disciples along with the students of Sera Tre Hor. (It was translated into English by Gelong Jampa Gendun during the southern summer of 1991).

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