Billowing Coulds of Blessing
Guru Yoga for the 3rd Jamgon Kontrul Rinpoche
Renouncing samsara and recognizing the glorious lama as the Buddha,
With intense devotion and complete trust in whatever he does,
Take refuge and engender bodhicitta.
NAMO GURU.
RANG NYI DO MAY LHAR SEL CHI TSUK TU
Namo Guru. We ourselves appear as the primordial deity and on the top of our head,
PE DAY DEN LA MA DOR JE CHANG
On a lotus and moon seat is the Lama Vajradhara,
TSEN PAI PEL BAR NAM SUM CHO GO DZE
Radiant with all the marks of a Buddha. Arrayed in the three Dharma robes,
RAB DZE PEN ZHU WANG TAK CHI TSUK CHANG
He wears a beautiful pandita's hat as a sign of the empowerments he has received.
CHAK NYI DOR JE DRIL BU NOL THAB DZIN
His two hands, holding bell and dorje, are crossed before his heart.
DREN PAY DUNG SEL GYEL KUN SANG SUM GYI
Simply recalling him clears away all anguish. He appears as the spontaneous embodiment
DOR JE SUM GYI NGO WOR LHUN GYI DRUB
Of the vajra body, speech, and mind of all Buddhas.
The Seven Branch Prayer
OG MIN CHO YING PHO DRANG NE
Residing in the Akanistha palace of the dharmadhatu,
KU SUM DU DREL ME PA YI
Inseparable from the three kayas,
RANG RIK NGO WO LA MA LA
Is the lama, the awareness of our own true nature.
RANG NGO SHE PAI CHAK GI DU
The recognition of this nature is my prostration to you.
PANG LANG DREL WAY CHO PA BUL
I make offerings without concepts of giving or receiving.
DIK TUNG KYE ME LONG DU SHAK
I purify in the great unborn expanse all negative actions and breaking of vows,
LO DE CHEN POR JE YI RANG
And rejoice in the complete transcendence of mind.
JO DREL CHO KHOR KOR WAR KUL
Please turn the wheel of inexpressible Dharma.
PHO GYUR DREL WAR ZHUG SOL DEB
I pray that you remain in your unchanging nature.
GE TSOK MIK ME CHEN POR NGO
Without reference point, I dedicate all accumulations of virtue.
Prayer to the Lama
CHOK DU GYEL WAY KU SUNG THUK KYI JIN
You embody the blessings of the body, speech, and mind of the Buddhas from all times and places.
CHIK DU RIK DANG KYIL KHOR GYA TSOY DAK
You are the master of an ocean of mandalas and the five kinds of wisdoms.
NAM NANG GYEL WAY YE SHE GYU MAY GAR
You are the dance of illusion, wisdom emanation of Buddha Vairocana.
DREN CHOK PEL DEN LA MAR SOL WA DEB
I pray to you, glorious lama, supreme thought.
Mantra Recitation
OM AH BEDZA GURU MATI DHARMA SINGHA SARWA SIDDHI HUNG
GU RUI KU YI NE NE OZER TSOK
A flood of lights radiates from the [three places of the] guru's body
RIM DANG CHIK CHAR DAK GI GO SUM ZHUK
And enters into mine, successively and then all at once.
DRIB ZHI DAK CHING WANG ZHI YE SHE THOB
This purifies the four obscurations and I receive the wisdom of the four empowerments,
KU ZHI NGO DU CHE PAY KAL DEN GYUR
Becoming capable of actualizing the four kayas.
OM AH HUNG Om Ah Hung.
[These syllables function as during an empowerment]
KYE KYE KE PA JIK TEN MIK
Oh learned one, you are the all-seeing guide of this world.
DOR JE CHEN ZHAB LA MA JE
Noble vajra lama,
LE NGEN KHOR WAR KHYAM PA YI
We wander in samsara through the power of negative karma;
DAK SOK DRO LA TSE WAY GONG
Think with compassion of us all--
CHIN GYI LOB SHIK RIN PO CHE
Rinpoche, please give us your blessing.
SI LE NGE JUNG DRAK PO YI
Completely weary of samsara,
DI TO DUN MA LO THONG SHING
May I be able to let go of all expectations for this worldly life.
NYE KA DEL JOR RIN CHEN LU
Having this precious human body, along with leisure and resources so difficult to attain,
DON DANG DEN PA DRUB PAR SHOK
May I use it meaningfully.
WEN PAY RI NGOK NYAM GA WAR
In the solitude of a pleasant mountainside,
CHO GYE CHING WAY GYA LE DROL
May I be freed from the trap of the eight worldly values.
RANG DROL GU YANG DAM CHO KYI
Self-liberated, spacious, the epitome of genuine Dharma,
YANG TSE LO DE CHAK GYA CHE
And transcending the mind--this is Mahamudra.
MI GOM DON DANG MIN DREL ZHING
Without effort to meditate and not separate from this reality,
RANG BAB NE LUK NGON GYUR NE
Actualizing the true nature of the mind settled into itself,
NYI DANG YER ME CHEN PO DZO
In this way please make me completely inseparable from you.
GU RU GYE PAY DI KE SUNG
Joyfully, the guru then instructs:
DA TAY RANG RIK THA DREL GYI
"Awareness of this very moment, free of all extremes,
THA MEL SHE SHE PA ZO ME DU
Is the ordinary mind; abide here in a calm and relaxed way,
MA CHO LHUK PAR TSEN GYI ZHOK
Without acting and without adding anything else.
TSOK DRUK YUL GYI NANG. WA DI
In relating to these appearances--the objects of the six consciousnesses--
PANG LANG CHE CHO DZIN ZHEN BOR
Abandon taking and rejecting, grasping and clinging, all contrivance.
SEL TONG KYE ME NYAM NYI LONG
Recognize naturally arising, pristine awareness, which is unborn,
RANG JUNG RIK PA KHYEN YANG TSEL
The vast expanse of equanimity, this clarity and emptiness inseparable.
YE SHE ZHEN DU MA TSOL WAR
Do not search for wisdom elsewhere,
RANG. SHAR RANG DROL E MA HO
For it is self-arising and self-liberating. How wondrous!"
ZHE PAY NGO TRO TSEL NE. KYANG
Having given these pointing out instructions,
KYE PA CHEN PO RANG LA THIM
The lama joyfully dissolves into me.
LA MA RANG SEM NANG WAY CHA
He is the luminous aspect of my own mind.
YIN LA YIN PAR SHE PA YI
In knowing this is so,
GU RUY THUK DANG RANG GI SEM
I recognize that the guru's mind and mine
YER ME YE NE DU DREL ME
Have never been separate, never involved in meeting and parting.
DON GYI LA MA RANG ZHEL JEL
This itself is seeing the very face of the ultimate lama.
GE TSOK DRO KUN LA ME KYI
I dedicate whatever merit has been accumulated so that all sentient beings
CHANG CHUB DAM PA THOB CHIR NGO
May attain unexcelled, genuine enlightenment.
DE CHEN DOR JEY SEM DRUB TE.
Through accomplishing the great blissful vajra mind,
PEL DEN LA MAY SA THOB SHOK.
May I attain the state of the glorious lama.
Lama Thinley Gyamtso from the family of the great Dharma king requested this practice, and as a gesture of not rejecting it, the one who is called bodhisattva Jamgon Tulku, Peldan Khyentse Ozer, Ngakwang Chokyi Nyima, wrote this in a room above the main temple of Dowolung Tsurphu. May it serve a good purpose. The practice was transformed by the 3rd Jamgon Kongtrul, Karma Lodro Chokyi Senge, into one where his name in Sanskrit is included in the mantra, and so it is filled with blessing. This translation was made by Ringu Tulku and Michele Martin during May of 1992, in Sikkim.
Also included in this section of the Web site is a life story written by the Ven. Bokar Tulku Rinpoche called "A Brief Biography of H.E. the 3rd Jamgon Kontrul Rinpoche," as well as a shorter biography of Rinpoche that includes links to his teachings on this site.
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