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class="issn-line"><span class="txt">ISSN 2753-4812</span></div> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="leftcol"> <div id="leftcol-nav"><div style="height:262px"></div></div> </div> <div class="sepcol"></div> <div class="maincol">  <div id="content" class="clearfix"> <h1>Prayers Series</h1>  <div class="categories"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/prayers/">Prayers</a> </div>  <p id="lang-list"> <a href="/topics/prayers/">English</a><small> (244)</small> | <a href="/de/topics/prayers/">Deutsch</a><small> (10)</small> | <a href="/es/topics/prayers/">Español</a><small> (24)</small> | <a href="/fr/topics/prayers/">Français</a><small> (42)</small> | <a href="/it/topics/prayers/">Italiano</a><small> (4)</small> | <a href="/nl/topics/prayers/">Nederlands</a><small> (3)</small> | <a href="/pt/topics/prayers/">Português</a><small> (7)</small> | <a href="/zh/topics/prayers/">中文</a><small> (17)</small> | <a href="/bo/topics/prayers/"><span class="TibetanInlineEnglish">བོད་ཡིག</span></a><small> (244)</small> </p> <div id="image-plus-mobe"></div>  <div id="maintext"> </div> <div class="top-blurb"><p>A selection of prayers or supplications (Skt. <em>adhyeṣaṇa;</em> Tib. <em>gsol 'debs</em>):</p> </div> <div class="subheadings"> <h4>Adzom Drukpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-adzom-drukpa">The Ambrosia of Blessings: A Prayer to the Vidyādhara of Unparalleled Kindness, Drodül Pawo Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-adzom-drukpa">A brief prayer to the Nyingtik master Adzom Drukpa Drodül Pawo Dorje (1842–1924), who was one of Jamyang Khyentse's most important Dzogchen teachers.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">17 Jan 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Amitābha</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/amitabha-prayer">Prayer to Buddha Amitābha</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/">Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/amitabha-prayer">A four-line prayer to Amitābha, the Buddha of Boundless Light, aspiring to take rebirth in his blissful paradise of Sukhāvatī.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/amitabha">Amitābha</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sukhavati-aspiration">Sukhāvatī Aspirations</a> <span class="left">5 Feb 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Amitāyus</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/amitayus-prayer">Prayer to Amitāyus</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/amitayus-prayer">Jamyang Khyentse composed these verses of prayer to Amitāyus after completing the recitation for the Iron Tree longevity practice (<em>tshe sgrub lcags sdong ma</em>), which is part of the Northern Treasures.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/amitayus">Amitāyus</a> <span class="left">18 Jul 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-gyaltsab/prayer-to-amitayus">A Prayer to Amitāyus</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-gyaltsab/">Shechen Gyaltsab Gyurme Pema Namgyal</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-gyaltsab/prayer-to-amitayus">A four-line supplication of Amitāyus, the Buddha of Boundless Life, requesting the bestowal of supreme and indestructible longevity.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/amitayus">Amitāyus</a> <span class="left">10 Jun 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Apang Tertön</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/prayer-to-choying-dorje">A Prayer to Chöying Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/">Apang Tertön</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/prayer-to-choying-dorje">A short supplication of Apang Tertön Chöying Dorje, invoking him as an emanation of both Guru Padmasambhava and Thangtong Gyalpo.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">10 Jun 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/short-prayer-to-choying-dorje">A Short Prayer to Chöying Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/">Apang Tertön</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/short-prayer-to-choying-dorje">A four-line supplication of Apang Tertön Chöying Dorje, alias Trinlé Lingpa, written by the master himself.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">10 Jun 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Atiśa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/gyalse-shenpen-taye/brief-sukhavati-aspiration">Brief Sukhāvatī Aspiration</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/gyalse-shenpen-taye/">Gyalse Shenpen Thaye</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/gyalse-shenpen-taye/brief-sukhavati-aspiration">Two verses: the first a prayer to Atiśa as an emanation of Padmasambhava and the second an aspiration for rebirth in the pure land of great bliss.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/amitabha">Amitābha</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sukhavati-aspiration">Sukhāvatī Aspirations</a> <span class="left">19 Feb 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/short-prayer-to-atisha">Short Prayer to Atiśa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/short-prayer-to-atisha">A short four-line prayer to Atiśa composed in October 1956 on the master’s anniversary.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">10 Dec 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Avalokiteśvara</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/avalokiteshvara-prayer">Prayer to Avalokiteśvara</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/">Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/avalokiteshvara-prayer">A simple two-verse prayer to Avalokiteśvara written at the request of a disciple from Washul, Amdo.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/avalokiteshvara">Avalokiteśvara</a> <span class="left">5 Feb 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/vision-prayer-to-avalokiteshvara">The Vision: A Prayer to Ārya Avalokiteśvara</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/">Jigme Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/vision-prayer-to-avalokiteshvara">In 1758, one year after the first, principal revelation of Dukngal Rangdrol, Jigme Lingpa had a vision of Avalokiteśvara, the Great Compassionate One, in standing posture and extending to the far reaches of the eastern sky. Following this, he tells us in his autobiography, "tears of devotion welled up" and he composed this prayer.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/avalokiteshvara">Avalokiteśvara</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dukngal-rangdrol">Dukngal Rangdrol</a> <span class="left">23 Mar 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/nyoshul-lungtok/prayer-to-avalokiteshvara">Prayer to Avalokiteśvara</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/nyoshul-lungtok/">Nyoshul Lungtok</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/nyoshul-lungtok/prayer-to-avalokiteshvara">This brief prayer to Avalokiteśvara, combined with the famous mantra <em>oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ</em>, is a heartfelt request for blessings and inspiration, so that all obstacles to the path may be overcome and bodhisattva activity may be accomplished.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/avalokiteshvara">Avalokiteśvara</a> <span class="left">10 Sep 2015</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/thangtong-gyalpo/bhikshu-padma-karpo-prayer-to-avalokiteshvara">Vajra Speech of the Prayer to Noble Avalokiteśvara from the Great Siddha Thangtong Gyalpo's Lifetime as Bhikṣu Padma Karpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> recalled by <a href="/tibetan-masters/thangtong-gyalpo/">Thangtong Gyalpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/thangtong-gyalpo/bhikshu-padma-karpo-prayer-to-avalokiteshvara">Thangtong Gyalpo recalled this supplication to Noble Avalokiteśvara from the devotional practices of a previous lifetime as the bhikṣu Padma Karpo.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/avalokiteshvara">Avalokiteśvara</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/rinchen-terdzo">Rinchen Terdzö</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/compendium-of-sadhanas">Compendium of Sādhanas</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/damngak-dzo">Damngak Dzö</a> <span class="left">17 Apr 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Bardos</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenchen-ngawang-palzang/prayer-this-life-next-bardo">Prayer for this Life, the Next and the Bardos</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenchen-ngawang-palzang/">Khenchen Ngawang Palzang</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenchen-ngawang-palzang/prayer-this-life-next-bardo">A four-verse prayer to attain realization and enlightenment either in the present lifetime or during the intermediate states of dying, dharmatā or becoming.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dying-bardos">Dying & the Bardos</a> <span class="left">21 Jul 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Buddha Śākyamuni</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/supplication-to-buddha-with-sixteen-arhats">Supplication to Lord Buddha together with the Sixteen Arhats</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/supplication-to-buddha-with-sixteen-arhats">A simple four-line prayer to Buddha Śākyamuni and a retinue of the sixteen elders.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sixteen-arhats">Sixteen Arhats</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/buddha-shakyamuni">Buddha Śākyamuni</a> <span class="left">12 Mar 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/sovereign-of-dharma-prayer">Prayer to the Sovereign of Dharma and Retinue</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/">Mipham Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/sovereign-of-dharma-prayer">This eight-line prayer to the Buddha, Eight Great Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Arhats was written at the end of the Fire Sheep year (early 1908).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/buddha-shakyamuni">Buddha Śākyamuni</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sixteen-arhats">Sixteen Arhats</a> <span class="left">18 Mar 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Butön Rinchen Drup</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/short-prayer-to-buton">Prayer to Butön Rinpoche</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/short-prayer-to-buton">A short, four-line prayer to Butön Rinchen Drup (1290–1364), which Khyentse Rinpoche composed on the basis of a dream experience.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">10 Dec 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-konchok">Prayer for Könchok</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-konchok">This short prayer to Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, which incorporates and plays upon the syllables of his names, was composed at the request of his daughter Könchok Paldrön (<em>dkon mchog dpal sgron</em>).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">7 Aug 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-rikngak-dudul">Prayer for Rikngak Düdül</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-rikngak-dudul">An eight-line prayer to Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa himself and his line of previous incarnations.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">7 Aug 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/three-name-prayer">Three-Name Prayer to Chokgyur Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/three-name-prayer">This short prayer to Chokgyur Lingpa invokes the great tertön by means of three different names: Chokgyur Lingpa, Dechen Lingpa, and Zhikpo Lingpa.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/chokling-tersar">Chokling Tersar</a> <span class="left">6 Jan 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/auspicious-spiral-chokgyur-lingpa-prayer">The Melody of the Auspicious Spiralled Conch: A Prayer Based on the Liberation Life of the Great Emanated Tertön Chokgyur Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/">Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/auspicious-spiral-chokgyur-lingpa-prayer">Jamgön Kongtrul’s biographical prayer to Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa (1829–1870) details the master's life and legacy, especially his <em>terma</em> revelations and accomplishments. The text is included within the Rinchen Terdzö collection.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/rinchen-terdzo">Rinchen Terdzö</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/khyentse-kabab">Khyentse Kabab</a> <span class="left">18 Jan 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/chokgyur-lingpa-prayer">Prayer to Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/chokgyur-lingpa-prayer">Composed at the request of Chokgyur Lingpa's consort some time after his passing in 1870, this supplication in six verses is a means of invoking the great treasure-revealer's blessings.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">5 Feb 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/tsewang-drakpa/devotional-song">A Devotional Song</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/tsewang-drakpa/">Tsewang Drakpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/tsewang-drakpa/devotional-song">A brief prayer invoking Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, composed by the great tertön's eldest son, Tersé Gyurme Tsewang Drakpa.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">2 May 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Clear Light</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/prayer-to-recognize-clear-light-in-dreams">Essence and Embodiment of All the Buddhas</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/">Dudjom Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/prayer-to-recognize-clear-light-in-dreams">A short prayer to the guru requesting his or her blessings in order to master the practice of recognizing clear light within the dream state.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sleep-dream">Sleep and Dream</a> <span class="left">9 Dec 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/clear-light-prayer">Prayer for the Dawning of Clear Light</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/clear-light-prayer">A short prayer to inspire the recognition of clear light or luminosity (<em>'od gsal</em>), especially during dream yoga as a preparation for the dawning of luminosity in the <em>bardo</em> or intermediate state.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Oct 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Confession</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/prayer-to-recognize-own-faults">A Prayer to Recognize My Own Faults and Keep in Mind the Objects of Refuge</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/">Dudjom Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/prayer-to-recognize-own-faults">As Dudjom Rinpoche himself explains, this is simultaneously a supplication, confession, and aspiration prayer. It involves the invocation of one's gurus, contemplation and confession of one's faults, and aspiration to overcome such flaws and realise the nature of the guru.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/confession">Confession</a> <span class="left">29 Nov 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Ḍākinīs</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/light-of-compassion-dakinis-prayer">Light of Compassion: A Prayer to the Wisdom Ḍākinīs</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/light-of-compassion-dakinis-prayer">A prayer to invoke various wisdom ḍākinīs, including Yeshe Tsogyal, Tārā and Vajravārāhī, in order to request their blessings and aid.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">29 May 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/prayer-to-dilgo-khyentse">A Prayer to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/prayer-to-dilgo-khyentse">A four-line supplication to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche composed by the master himself at the request of Pegyal Lingpa (1924–1988).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">6 Jul 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/dilgo-khyentse-supplication">A Prayer to Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/">Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/dilgo-khyentse-supplication">Rabjam Rinpoche adapted the text of 'A Short Remembrance of, and Prayer to My Master, the Wish-Fulfilling Jewel entitled, A Lament of Faith,' which was composed by Khenpo Chimé Rigdzin and addressed to Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok (1933–2004), in order to create this moving supplication to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">4 Jan 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/do-khyentse/hook-which-invokes-blessings">The Hook Which Invokes the Blessings: A Supplication to the Life and Liberation of Rigdzin Jalü Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/do-khyentse/">Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/do-khyentse/hook-which-invokes-blessings">This biographical prayer to Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje was written by the master himself at the request of a king (<em>sa dbang</em>), most likely Namkha Lhundrup of Trokyap.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <span class="left">24 Dec 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Drukpa Kunley</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/adeu-rinpoche/drukpa-kunley-prayer">Prayer to Drukpa Kunley</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/adeu-rinpoche/">Adeu Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/adeu-rinpoche/drukpa-kunley-prayer">A short supplication of the 'crazy' adept Drukpa Kunley (1455–1529) composed at the request of Tupten Chödzin (Peter Galambos).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">4 Nov 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Dudjom Lingpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-lingpa/prayer">A Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-lingpa/">Dudjom Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-lingpa/prayer">A seven-line supplication combined with an aspiration, which Dudjom Lingpa composed spontaneously at the request of Tsultrim Gyatso.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">27 Apr 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-lingpa/dudjom-lingpa-prayer">A Prayer to Dudjom Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-lingpa/">Dudjom Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-lingpa/dudjom-lingpa-prayer">Dudjom Lingpa composed this four-line prayer to himself, which emphasizes his Dzogchen realization, at the request of a student named Dorje Namgyal.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">27 Apr 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Dzogchen</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dzogchen-pema-rigdzin/dzogchen-prayer">A Dzogchen Tögal Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dzogchen-pema-rigdzin/">Dzogchen Pema Rigdzin</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dzogchen-pema-rigdzin/dzogchen-prayer">This short prayer invokes the figures of the Dzogchen lineage from Buddha Samantabhadra onwards, including the peaceful and wrathful deities, calling upon them all to grant their inspiration and blessing, so that the practitioner might perfect the four visions and attain the rainbow body.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dzogchen">Dzogchen</a> <span class="left">1 Dec 2017</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/supplication-to-realize-the-profound">A Supplication to Realize the Profound</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/supplication-to-realize-the-profound">A short prayer written at the request of Thinley Norbu Rinpoche (1931–2011).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">20 Sep 2016</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/vima-nyingtik-prayer">Prayer from the Vima Nyingtik</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/">Longchen Rabjam</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/vima-nyingtik-prayer">This popular supplication, said to derive from the Vima Nyingtik, appears in a number of liturgies, including Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo's <em>Direct Path to the Primordial (gdod ma'i gseng lam)</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/vima-nyingtik">Vima Nyingtik</a> <span class="left">1 Apr 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/constant-flow-nectar-prayer">The Constant Flow of Nectar Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/">Longchen Rabjam</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/constant-flow-nectar-prayer">This invocation, drawn from the Khandro Yangtik collection, includes additional verses for some of the masters who followed Longchenpa in the lineage: Chökyi Drakpa, Nyima Özer, Kunga Gyaltsen, and Chöying Drakpa.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/khandro-yangtik">Khandro Yangtik</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dzogchen">Dzogchen</a> <span class="left">26 Sep 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/ablaze-in-perfect-splendour">The Pure Three Kāyas Ablaze in Perfect Splendour: A Prayer Based on the Meaning of the Great Perfection</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/">Longchen Rabjam</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/ablaze-in-perfect-splendour">This prayer invokes the blessings of all the three-kāya gurus, <em>yidam</em> deities, ḍākinīs and dharmapālas to inspire recognition of the ultimate nature of the Great Perfection (<em>Dzogpachenpo</em>), which Longchenpa describes in evocative detail.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dzogchen">Dzogchen</a> <span class="left">13 Feb 2017</span> </div> </div> <h4>Eight Mahāsiddhas</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dolpopa-sherab-gyaltsen/praise-of-eight-siddhas">In Praise of the Eight Siddhas</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dolpopa-sherab-gyaltsen/">Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dolpopa-sherab-gyaltsen/praise-of-eight-siddhas">This prayer by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen is addressed to eight of the most famous Indian mahāsiddhas: Nāgārjuna, Indrabhūti, Ḍombī Heruka, Saraha, Ghaṇṭapa, Kukkurīpā, Luipa, and Padmavajra.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">19 Jul 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Eighty-Four Mahāsiddhas</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jedrung-jampa-jungne/streams-of-sapphire-prayer">Streams of Sapphire: A Prayer to the Eighty-Four Mahāsiddhas</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jedrung-jampa-jungne/">Jedrung Jampa Jungné</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jedrung-jampa-jungne/streams-of-sapphire-prayer">Following a vision of the ḍākinī Kadalī, Jedrung Jampa Jungné composed this prayer that invokes all eighty-four Mahāsiddhas and accompanies the guru yoga sādhana known as <em>Luminous Bindu</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">1 Dec 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Fifteenth Karmapa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/fifteenth-karmapa-prayer">Bestower of Supreme Twofold Attainment: A Prayer to the Great Fifteenth Karmapa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/fifteenth-karmapa-prayer">A seven-verse supplication to the Fifteenth Karmapa, Khakhyab Dorje (1871–1922), composed at the behest of Akhar Choktrul Tupten Jampal Dorje.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">5 Oct 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Fourteenth Dalai Lama</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fourteenth-dalai-lama/prayer-to-his-holiness-dalai-lama-tongnyi-nyingje">Prayer for the Fulfilment of Aspirations</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fourteenth-dalai-lama/">Fourteenth Dalai Lama</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fourteenth-dalai-lama/prayer-to-his-holiness-dalai-lama-tongnyi-nyingje">This four-line text, which was requested by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, is both a panegyric on His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and a prayer for the fulfilment of his aspirations.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">24 Jun 2015</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/lodi-gyari-rinpoche/prayer-his-holiness-dalai-lama">Prayer to His Holiness the Dalai Lama</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/lodi-gyari-rinpoche/">Lodi Gyari Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/lodi-gyari-rinpoche/prayer-his-holiness-dalai-lama">Lodi Gyari Rinpoche, who was the Dalai Lama's special envoy in Washington DC for many years, composed this short prayer to His Holiness in 2006.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">4 Jan 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Fourteenth Karmapa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-fourteenth-karmapa-tekchok-dorje">Prayer to Fourteenth Karmapa, Tekchok Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-fourteenth-karmapa-tekchok-dorje">A two-verse prayer addressed to the Fourteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Tekchok Dorje (1797–1867) to dispel outer and inner obstacles and bestow common and supreme siddhis.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">30 Sep 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-fourteenth-karmapa">Prayer to Gyalwang Karmapa Tekchok Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-fourteenth-karmapa">A two-verse prayer addressed to the Fourteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Tekchok Dorje (1797–1867) to dispel obstacles and bestow accomplishment.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">7 Aug 2024</span> </div> </div> <h4>Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/final-aspiration">Prayer of Aspiration</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/">Gatön Ngawang Lekpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/final-aspiration">As he was approaching death, Gatön Ngawang Lekpa composed this four-line prayer to Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe (1397–1470) requesting his assistance in order to reach the pureland of Sukhāvatī.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sukhavati-aspiration">Sukhāvatī Aspirations</a> <span class="left">20 Jan 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Gatön Ngawang Lekpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dezhung-tulku-ajam/prayer-to-ngawang-lekpa">Prayer to Lekpa Rinpoche</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dezhung-tulku-ajam/">Dezhung Tulku Ajam</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dezhung-tulku-ajam/prayer-to-ngawang-lekpa">Dezhung Tulku Ajam's three-verse supplication to his root teacher, Gatön Ngawang Lekpa (1864–1941), includes a prayer for the master's long life and the flourishing of his activity.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">18 Jan 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/prayer-gaton-ngawang-lekpa">Prayer to Gatön Ngawang Lekpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/">Gatön Ngawang Lekpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/prayer-gaton-ngawang-lekpa">A four-line prayer composed by the master himself at the request of the monks of Dezhung Monastery.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">29 Dec 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>General</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chatral-rinpoche/essence-of-all-the-buddhas">Essence of All the Buddhas of Past, Present and Future</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chatral-rinpoche/">Chatral Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chatral-rinpoche/essence-of-all-the-buddhas">These verses to be recited at the beginning of every session, which invoke the blessings of the guru, were copied from notes in Rinpoche's own hand.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">22 Dec 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-vidyadhara-gurus">A Prayer to the Vidyādhara Gurus</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-vidyadhara-gurus">This prayer invoking the blessing of the buddhas, bodhisattvas and accomplished practitioners (vidyādharas) of Tibet is taken from the compilation <em>A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">27 Jul 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/brief-prayer">Brief Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/brief-prayer">A four-line prayer for uniting with the guru and realizing the three kāyas, extracted from the compilation <em>A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">2 Jul 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-disciples">Prayer for Disciples</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-disciples">A prayer to Guru Padmasambhava and the lineage masters, composed by Chokgyur Lingpa at the request of his ordained and lay disciples, taken from the compilation <em>A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">13 May 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-karma-dorje">Prayer for Karma Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-karma-dorje">A four-line prayer to Guru Padmasambhava, composed by Chokgyur Lingpa at the request of a disciple named Karma Dorje, taken from the compilation <em>A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">13 May 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-lama-choying">Prayer for Lama Chöying and Yönten</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-lama-choying">A devotional song for invoking the inspiration and blessings of the guru composed by Chokgyur Lingpa at the request of his disciples Lama Chöying and Yönten.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">24 Jun 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-rigdzin-paljor">Prayer for Rigdzin Paljor</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-rigdzin-paljor">A prayer to the Buddhas of the five families, Guru Padmasambhava and the lineage masters, composed by Chokgyur Lingpa at the request of a disciple named Rigdzin Paljor, taken from the compilation <em>A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">13 May 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-amdo-monk">Prayer for a Monk from Amdo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-for-amdo-monk">A six-line prayer, composed at the request of an unnamed monk from Amdo, from the compilation <em>A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">2 Jul 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/short-prayer-for-rigdzin-paljor">Short Prayer for Rigdzin Paljor</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/short-prayer-for-rigdzin-paljor">A prayer to Guru Padmasambhava and the lineage masters, composed by Chokgyur Lingpa at the request of a disciple named Rigdzin Paljor, taken from the compilation <em>A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">13 May 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/prayer-to-padma-longchenpa-jigme-lingpa">Prayer to Padmasambhava, Longchenpa and Jigme Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/">Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/prayer-to-padma-longchenpa-jigme-lingpa">A four-line prayer to Guru Padmasambhava, Longchen Rabjam and Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/guru-rinpoche-prayers">Guru Rinpoche Prayers</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/guru-padmasambhava">Guru Padmasambhava</a> <span class="left">5 Feb 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer">Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/">Fifteenth Karmapa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer">A simple prayer for the elimination of obstacles and the fulfilment of positive aspirations.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">2 Dec 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fourth-dodrupchen-rinpoche/prayer-to-guru">Prayer to the Guru</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fourth-dodrupchen-rinpoche/">Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fourth-dodrupchen-rinpoche/prayer-to-guru">A four-line prayer to the ultimate guru, one's own non-conceptual awareness.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">1 Feb 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fourth-dodrupchen-jalu-dorje/prayer-to-guru">Guru Padmasambhava, Master of the Land of Snows</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fourth-dodrupchen-jalu-dorje/">Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Jalü Dorje</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fourth-dodrupchen-jalu-dorje/prayer-to-guru">One of the few surviving texts by Rigdzin Jalü Dorje, this is an invocation of the guru's blessings and an aspiration to escape saṃsāra and enter the ultimate sphere of the guru's wisdom.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">17 Mar 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fourth-dodrupchen-jalu-dorje/prison-prayer">Prayer Composed in Xining Prison</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fourth-dodrupchen-jalu-dorje/">Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Jalü Dorje</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fourth-dodrupchen-jalu-dorje/prison-prayer">It is said that Dodrupchen Jalü Dorje composed this prayer after a Han Chinese prisoner, whom he had been teaching in secret, attained the rainbow body.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">7 Dec 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/anguished-prayer-buddhas-bodhisattvas">Anguished Prayer to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/anguished-prayer-buddhas-bodhisattvas">In this undated prayer, Jamyang Khyentse calls upon the buddhas and bodhisattvas to help overcomed negative tendencies of body, speech and mind and progress along the path to awakening.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">1 Jul 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/great-pangs-of-devotion-prayer">Great Pangs of Devotion: A Prayer to the Gurus and Three Roots in General and Especially the Two Thartsé Khenchen Vajradhara Brothers and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/great-pangs-of-devotion-prayer">Composed in 1958, this prayer invokes the Three Roots in general and three gurus in particular: the two great Thartsé khenpo brothers, Jampa Kunga Tendzin (1776–1862) and Jampa Naljor Jampal Zangpo (1789–1864), and their student, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">8 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo-kongtrul-chokyi-lodro">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Jamgön Kongtrul and Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo-kongtrul-chokyi-lodro">This prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Jamgön Kongtrul and Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö was written for Jamyang Sonam, prince of Yönru in Lithang.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">5 Feb 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-supreme-deities">Prayer to the Supreme Deities</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-supreme-deities">Written in Darjeeling in 1958, this supplication is addressed to Guru Padmasambhava, Tārā (in two forms), Vajrakīlaya and Mahākāla.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">31 Jan 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jokyab-pema-trinle-nyingpo/words-jamyang-khyentse">Words of Jamyang Khyentse</a></div> <div class="attrib"> recorded by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jokyab-pema-trinle-nyingpo/">Jokyab Pema Trinlé Nyingpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jokyab-pema-trinle-nyingpo/words-jamyang-khyentse">This four-line supplication to the root and lineage gurus is included among the writings of Jokyab Pema Trinlé Nyingpo but attributed to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">2 Nov 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/lobzang-chokyi-gyaltsen/prayer-for-lobzang-chodzin">Prayer for Lobzang Chödzin, Dharma Practitioner of Changra</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/lobzang-chokyi-gyaltsen/">Lobzang Chökyi Gyaltsen</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/lobzang-chokyi-gyaltsen/prayer-for-lobzang-chodzin">This five-verse prayer, composed for a female practitioner named Lobzang Chödzin, is included in the recent 53-volume anthology known as the <em>Ḍākinīs' Great Dharma Treasury</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">13 Mar 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/lama-yangtik-prayer">Prayer from the Lama Yangtik</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/">Longchen Rabjam</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/lama-yangtik-prayer">This popular prayer is extracted from <em>Ocean of Siddhis: The Stages of Guru Service (bla ma'i rim pa dngos grub rgya mtsho)</em>, which is part of the Lama Yangtik.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/lama-yangtik">Lama Yangtik</a> <span class="left">28 Mar 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/three-prayers-from-earth-pig">Three Prayers from the Earth Pig Year</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/">Mipham Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/three-prayers-from-earth-pig">Three prayers—a petition for the purification of impairments and breakages of samaya, a brief supplication to Mañjuśrī, and an appeal to the Three Roots—all composed in the Earth Pig year, i.e., 1899/1900.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">6 Feb 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/patrul-rinpoche/katok-kubum-prayer">Prayer to Śāntideva and Dam, Tsang and Jam of Katok</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/patrul-rinpoche/">Patrul Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/patrul-rinpoche/katok-kubum-prayer">A short prayer composed while circumambulating stūpas dedicated to the early masters of Katok Monastery.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">20 Aug 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shabkar/happiness-wellbeing-prayer">Prayer for Happiness and Well-Being Throughout the Land</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shabkar/">Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shabkar/happiness-wellbeing-prayer">An appeal to the guru and Three Roots to grant their blessings, thereby ensuring happiness, peace and prosperity throughout the land.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/aspiration-prayers">Aspiration Prayers</a> <span class="left">13 Feb 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/potent-nectar-of-accomplishment">The Potent Nectar of Accomplishment: A Prayer and Supplication to the Vidyādhara Gurus of the Three Lineages</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/">Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/potent-nectar-of-accomplishment">Rabjam Rinpoche composed this prayer and aspiration in October 2020, at the request of Ven. Lungrik Nyima, after completing the textual arrangements for several of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's mind treasures (<em>dgongs gter</em>).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">4 Jan 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/tai-situ-rinpoche/wish-fulfilling-king-prayer">The Wish-Fulfilling King of Great Might: A Universally Beneficial Prayer, Aspiration, and Supplication to the Three Jewels and Three Roots</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/tai-situ-rinpoche/">Tai Situ Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/tai-situ-rinpoche/wish-fulfilling-king-prayer">Brief verses of prayer invoking Buddha Śākyamuni, Prajñāpāramitā, Avalokiteśvara, Guru Padmasambhava, Vajrasattva, and the protector Bernakchen, together with their mantras, composed for daily recitation or use on special occasions.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/aspiration-prayers">Aspiration Prayers</a> <span class="left">5 Dec 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/yukhok-chatralwa/synthesis-prayer">Prayer That Synthesizes the Blessed Speech of Several Learned and Accomplished Masters</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/yukhok-chatralwa/">Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/yukhok-chatralwa/synthesis-prayer">The author draws upon a variety of sources to compose this plea for the guru's blessings as a means of deepening renunciation, compassion, devotion and realization.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">28 Nov 2024</span> </div> </div> <h4>Gesar</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/gesar-descent-of-blessings">Descent of the Compassionate Blessings of King Gesar, Great Lion of this World</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/">Mipham Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/gesar-descent-of-blessings">A short prayer calling upon Gesar to shower down his inspiration and blessings.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/gesar">Gesar</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/descent-of-blessings">Descent of Blessings</a> <span class="left">18 Apr 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/daily-prayer-to-gesar">The Spontaneous Fulfilment of Wishes: A Daily Prayer to Gesar, King of the Dralas</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/">Mipham Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/daily-prayer-to-gesar">This daily prayer to Gesar includes elements of invocation, offering, and supplication related to the four types of activity—pacifying, enriching, magnetizing and wrathful subjugation.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/gesar">Gesar</a> <span class="left">17 Aug 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Gorampa Sonam Senge</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gorampa">The Treasure of Wisdom Illumination: A Prayer to the Omniscient Sun of the Teachings Sonam Senge</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gorampa">Jamyang Khyentse composed this ten-verse prayer to the famed Sakya scholar Gorampa Sonam Senge following an auspicious dream some time in 1952 or 1953.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">18 Dec 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Götsang Gönpo Dorje</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gotsangpa-gonpo-dorje">The Tamboura of Devotion: A Prayer to Götsang Gönpo Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gotsangpa-gonpo-dorje">Composed at the behest of Lama Yeshe Lhundrup, this short prayer invokes the blessings of Götsangpa Gönpo Dorje (1189–1258), founder of the Upper Drukpa branch of the Drukpa Kagyü school.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">22 Jan 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Gyaltsen Tsemö Pung Gyen</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/gyaltsen-tsemo-pung-gyen">Prayer to Gyaltsen Tsemö Pung Gyen</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/">Karma Chakme</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/gyaltsen-tsemo-pung-gyen">A short prayer to Dhvajāgrakeyūra (<em>rgyal mtshan rtse mo'i dpung rgyan</em>), a female deity whose <em>dhāraṇī</em> is particularly treasured as a method for enhancing windhorse (<em>rlung rta</em>).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/gyaltsen-tsemo-pung-gyen">Gyaltsen Tsemö Pung Gyen</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/lungta">Lungta</a> <span class="left">30 Mar 2013</span> </div> </div> <h4>Gyalwa Yangönpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gyalwa-yangonpa">The Liberating Guide: A Prayer to Gyalwa Yangönpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gyalwa-yangonpa">Jamyang Khyentse composed this brief prayer to the famed Drukpa Kagyü adept Yangönpa Gyaltsen Pal (1213–1258) following what he describes as a 'minor visionary experience'.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">26 Jan 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Gyarong Khandro</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/gyarong-khandro/wisdom-dakini-prayer">The Prayer of the Wisdom Ḍākinī’s Symbolic Song</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/gyarong-khandro/">Gyarong Khandro</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/gyarong-khandro/wisdom-dakini-prayer">This description of a vision in which Gyarong Khandro Dechen Wangmo met hosts of ḍākinīs is included in the recently compiled anthology known as <em>Ḍākinīs' Great Dharma Treasury</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/termas">Termas</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">14 Aug 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gyarong-khandro">Prayer to Gyarong Khandro Dechen Wangmo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gyarong-khandro">This prayer to the extraordinary Gyarong Khandro Dechen Wangmo, who was considered to be an emanation of Mandāravā, was written by Jamyang Khyentse at the request of Khandro Tsering Chödrön (1929–2011).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">28 Apr 2015</span> </div> </div> <h4>Gyurme Tsewang Gyatso</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gyurme-tsewang-gyatso">Prayer to Gyurme Tsewang Gyatso</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gyurme-tsewang-gyatso">A three-verse supplication to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö's father and teacher Gyurme Tsewang Gyatso, who is also known as Chimé Nangdzé Dorje.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">25 Oct 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/two-prayers-gyurme-tsewang-gyatso-jkw">The Yearning Song that Swiftly Inspires Compassion: A Prayer to the Vajradhara Gurus, the Gentle Protectors</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/two-prayers-gyurme-tsewang-gyatso-jkw">Two prayers: one addressed to Gyurme Tsewang Gyatso (alias Chimé Nangdze Dorje) and one to invoke the blessings of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">13 Dec 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Jamgön Kongtrul</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/prayer-to-kongtrul-lodro-taye">Prayer to Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/">Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/prayer-to-kongtrul-lodro-taye">Jamgön Kongtrul composed this four-line supplication to himself at the request of a monk named Tsoknyi Dorje.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">30 Mar 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/melodious-speech-of-samantabhadra">The Melodious Speech of Samantabhadra: A Prayer to the Glorious Master Jamgön Kongtrul Thaye</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/">Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/melodious-speech-of-samantabhadra">This prayer to Jamgön Kongtrul was composed by the master himself at the request of one of his disciples. It contains references to his life and the qualities he considers important, such as—to adopt the words of the text—the pure perception, with which he upheld all Buddha's teachings impartially.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/rinchen-terdzo">Rinchen Terdzö</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/khyentse-kabab">Khyentse Kabab</a> <span class="left">25 Jun 2015</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-jamgon-kongtrul">Prayer to Jamgön Kongtrul</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-jamgon-kongtrul">A four-line prayer to Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé (1813–1899) that is commonly recited as part of longer supplications to the lineage.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">10 Feb 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Jampa Kunga Tendzin</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-jampa-kunga-tendzin">The Swift Infusion of Blessings: A Prayer to the Omnipresent Lord Vajradhara Jampa Kunga Tendzin</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-jampa-kunga-tendzin">An eight-verse supplication to Thartse Khenchen Jampa Kunga Tendzin (1776–1862), who was an important teacher of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">25 Oct 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Jamyang Gyaltsen</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-on-occasion-of-gorampa-transmission">Prayer on the Occasion of the Reading Transmission for the Omniscient King of Dharma's Thirteen-Volume Collected Writings</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-on-occasion-of-gorampa-transmission">This prayer to Jamyang Gyaltsen occurs twice in the latest version of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö's collected writings. The colophon to this second occurrence provides the circumstances of its composition: when Jamgyal gave the reading transmission for his new 13-volume edition of Gorampa Sonam Senge's writings at the Dragang retreat centre.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">11 Dec 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Jamyang Khyenrab Tayé</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-jamyang-khyenrab-taye">The Fresh Utpala: A Prayer to the Great Learned Teacher and Vajra-Holder Jamyang Khyenrab Tayé</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-jamyang-khyenrab-taye">This prayer is the only known source for key biographical information about Jamyang Khyenrab Tayé (1862–1937), a master from whom Jamyang Khyentse received the Kālacakra empowerment and other teachings.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <span class="left">28 Jan 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/jamyang-khyentse-biographical-prayer">The Quintessence of Marvellous Nectar: A Prayer Based on the Liberational Life of the Gentle Protector Guru</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/jamyang-khyentse-biographical-prayer">This short prayer based on the life and liberation of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (1893–1959) was composed by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in the presence of the master's reliquary.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <span class="left">10 Feb 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/swift-bestowal-prayer-to-jamyang-chokyi-lodro">The Swift Bestowal of Blessings: A Prayer to the Glorious Protector Guru</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/swift-bestowal-prayer-to-jamyang-chokyi-lodro">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche adapted the words of a long-life prayer he had previously composed in order to create this supplication, which incorporates the name Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö into three of its four verses.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">24 Sep 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/prayer-to-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/">Dudjom Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/prayer-to-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">Dudjom Rinpoche adapted the words of an earlier long-life prayer to create this two-verse supplication to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (1893–1959).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">30 Dec 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/bestower-supreme-blessings-prayer-to-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">Bestower of Supreme Blessings: A Prayer to the Supreme All-Knowing Emanation</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/">Gatön Ngawang Lekpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/bestower-supreme-blessings-prayer-to-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">This nine-verse composition is both a supplication to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (1893–1959) and a prayer for his long life.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">20 Jan 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/billowing-clouds-faith-prayer-to-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">Billowing Clouds of Faith: A Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/billowing-clouds-faith-prayer-to-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">This three-verse prayer incorporates the syllables of two of the master's own names, Jamyang Chökyi Lodrö and Tsuklak Lungrik Nyima Mawé Sengé.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">22 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-yakze-tsewang-gyurme">Prayer Composed for Yakzé Tsewang Gyurme</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-yakze-tsewang-gyurme">A two-verse prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö composed by the master himself at the request of Yakzé Tsewang Gyurme.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">9 Feb 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-written-for-lama-chodrak">Prayer Written for Lama Chödrak</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-written-for-lama-chodrak">This two-verse supplication, composed by Jamyang Khyentse himself at the behest of a certain Lama Chödrak, invokes the master's inspiration and blessings as a means to realize the view of the Great Perfection.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">9 Feb 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-devoted-disciple">Prayer for a Devoted Disciple</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-devoted-disciple">A four-line prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö composed by the master himself at the request of an unnamed discipline.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-devoted-diligent-ngawang-sherab">Prayer for the Devoted and Diligent Ngawang Sherab</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-devoted-diligent-ngawang-sherab">A four-line prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö composed by the master himself at the request of a discipline named Ngawang Sherab.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">A two-verse invocation of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö composed by the master himself at the request of two disciples.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">8 Nov 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khyentse-chokyi-lodro">This prayer, composed at the request of a physician, invokes Jamyang Khyentse as a manifestation of Khyentse Wangpo and requests his inspiration and blessing to realize the true nature of mind.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">8 Nov 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-khangsar-tulku">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Composed for Khangsar Tulku</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-khangsar-tulku">A four-line prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö composed by the master himself at the behest of Khangsar Tulku.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">22 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-khedrup-chodar">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Composed for Khedrup Chödar</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-khedrup-chodar">A four-line prayer composed by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö himself, which incorporates the syllables of his name.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">22 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-lama-lodro">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Composed for Lama Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-lama-lodro">A four-line prayer composed by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö himself at the behest of Lama Lodrö.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">22 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-ngawang-lobzang">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Composed for Ngawang Lobzang</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-ngawang-lobzang">A three-verse prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö composed by the master himself at the request of someone called Ngawang Lobzang.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-ngawang-sherab">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Composed for Ngawang Sherab</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-ngawang-sherab">A three-verse prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö composed at the request of Ngawang Sherab.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-written-for-lama-lodro">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Written for Lama Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-written-for-lama-lodro">A four-line prayer composed by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö himself at the behest of Lama Lodrö. The text includes an alternative fourth line for transforming the prayer into a long-life supplication.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">22 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo-and-chokyi-lodro">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo-and-chokyi-lodro">This three-verse invocation of both Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and his reincarnation Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö was composed by the latter at the request of a woman called Rigdzin Lhamo.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">9 Feb 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-tekchok-dorje">Prayer to Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö for Tekchok Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-tekchok-dorje">A four-line prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö composed by the master himself at the behest of Tekchok Dorje.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">22 Nov 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/four-line-khyentse-wangpo-prayer">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/">Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/four-line-khyentse-wangpo-prayer">This four-line prayer is commonly recited as part of longer invocations of the lineage.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">31 Mar 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/melodious-sound-prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo">The Melodious Sound of Gathering Auspiciousness: A Prayer Based on the Liberational Life of the Omniscient Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/">Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/melodious-sound-prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo">Jamgön Kongtrul composed this biographical prayer <em>(rnam thar gsol 'debs)</em> to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo by extracting verses from a longer prayer to the masters of the Shangpa Kagyü lineage. For this edition, which is found in the Rinchen Terdzö, Jamyang Khyense Chökyi Lodrö composed three additional verses that refer to Khyentse Wangpo's parinirvāṇa and rebirth.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/rinchen-terdzo">Rinchen Terdzö</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/khyentse-kabab">Khyentse Kabab</a> <span class="left">11 Jan 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo">Prayer to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo">A simple two-verse supplication prayer composed by the master himself, with the first verse elaborating on the literal meaning of his name.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">18 Mar 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/katok-situ-chokyi-gyatso/short-khyentse-wangpo-prayer">A Short Prayer Based on the Life and Liberation of the All-Knowing, All-Seeing Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/katok-situ-chokyi-gyatso/">Katok Situ Chökyi Gyatso</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/katok-situ-chokyi-gyatso/short-khyentse-wangpo-prayer">This short biographical prayer (<em>rnam thar gsol 'debs</em>) to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892) is drawn from the collection of texts known as <em>The Whispered Transmission of Thangtong Gyalpo (thang stong snyan brgyud)</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <span class="left">17 Jan 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Jatsön Nyingpo</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jatson-nyingpo/prayer-to-rigdzin-jatson-nyingpo">Prayer to Rigdzin Jatsön Nyingpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jatson-nyingpo/">Jatsön Nyingpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jatson-nyingpo/prayer-to-rigdzin-jatson-nyingpo">A four-verse prayer to Jatsön Nyingpo for daily recitation. It was composed by the master himself.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/rinchen-terdzo">Rinchen Terdzö</a> <span class="left">24 Sep 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Jigme Lingpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-jigme-lingpa">Devotion That Pierces the Heart: A Prayer to the Omniscient Jigme Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-jigme-lingpa">Jamyang Khyentse composed this prayer to the great revealer of the Longchen Nyingtik when he passed through the master's place of residence, the Yarlung Valley, during his first trip to central Tibet in 1925.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">22 Apr 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/prayer-recalling-life-and-liberation">A Prayer Recalling the Life and Liberation of the Great Perfection Adept Rangjung Dorje (‘Naturally Arisen Vajra’), Jigme Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/">Jigme Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/prayer-recalling-life-and-liberation">Jigme Lingpa wrote this prayer recalling his own life and liberation at the request of the First Dodrupchen, Jigme Trinlé Özer (1745–1821). The prayer includes a summary of his previous lives, as well as his most important accomplishments and qualities, when—as he puts it—he emphasized the positive.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/longchen-nyingtik">Longchen Nyingtik</a> <span class="left">26 Oct 2017</span> </div> </div> <h4>Jowo Rinpoche</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/jowo-rinpoche-prayer">A Prayer to Jowo Rinpoche Combined with Aspirations and a Means to Receive the Four Empowerments</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/">Jigme Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/jowo-rinpoche-prayer">Jigme Lingpa wrote this prayer for a student who was accumulating prayers before the famous Jowo Rinpoche statue in the Jokhang temple in Lhasa. It is not only a prayer to Śākyamuni Buddha, but also a means to receive the four empowerments: vase, secret, wisdom-knowledge, and the supreme empowerment of great rays of light.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/pilgrimage">Pilgrimage</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tibet">Tibet</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/empowerment">Empowerment</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/rinchen-terdzo">Rinchen Terdzö</a> <span class="left">14 Nov 2017</span> </div> </div> <h4>Kagyü</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-kagyu-masters">Prayer to the Kagyü Masters</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-kagyu-masters">A prayer to invoke the blessings of the masters of the Kagyü lineage, especially the Karmapa incarnations beginning with Düsum Khyenpa (1110–1193).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/kagyu">Kagyü</a> <span class="left">20 Mar 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Karmapas</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-glorious-karmapa">A Prayer to the Glorious Karmapa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/">Fifteenth Karmapa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-glorious-karmapa">A simple two-verse prayer composed at the request of a disciple named Karma Chödrup Senggé.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">12 Aug 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-root-guru">A Prayer to the Root Guru</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/">Fifteenth Karmapa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-root-guru">A four-line supplication composed at the request of a disciple named Karma Damchö Paldzom.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">12 Aug 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-successive-karmapas">A Prayer to the Successive Incarnations of the Karmapa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/">Fifteenth Karmapa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-successive-karmapas">This four-line supplication was composed at the request of Karma Tsewang Rabten.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">12 Aug 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-khyakhyab-dorje">Prayer to Karmapa Khakhyab Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/">Fifteenth Karmapa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-khyakhyab-dorje">A simple, four-line prayer to the Fifteenth Karmapa composed by the master himself at the request of one of his disciples.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">21 Jan 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-karmapa-incarnations">The Honey of Devotion: A Prayer to the Garland of Glorious Karmapa Incarnations</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-karmapa-incarnations">A prayer to the Karmapas from the first incarnation, Düsum Khyenpa (1110–1193), through to the fifteenth, Khakhyab Dorje (1870/71–1921/22).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/kagyu">Kagyü</a> <span class="left">23 Mar 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Karsé Kongtrul</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-karse-kongtrul">Prayer to Karma Palden Khyentse</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-karse-kongtrul">A short supplication to Karse Kongtrul Khyentse Özer (1904–c.1953), who was a reincarnation of Jamgön Kongtrul and son of the Fifteenth Karmapa.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">8 Nov 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Khandro Tsering Chödrön</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/prayer-to-khandro-tsering-chodron">Prayer to Khandro Tsering Chödrön</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/prayer-to-khandro-tsering-chodron">Khyentse Rinpoche composed this four-line prayer to Khandro Tsering Chödrön, which incorporates the syllables of her name, out of single-pointed devotion.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">21 Sep 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khandro-tsering-chodron">Prayer to Khandro Tsering Chödrön</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khandro-tsering-chodron">A four-line prayer to Khandro Tsering Chödrön (1929–2011), which identifies her as an emanation of Shelkar Dorje Tso.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">9 Feb 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/orgyen-tobgyal-rinpoche/prayer-khandro-tsering-chodron">Prayer to Khandro Tsering Chödrön</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/orgyen-tobgyal-rinpoche/">Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/orgyen-tobgyal-rinpoche/prayer-khandro-tsering-chodron">Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche composed this prayer to the great ḍākinī Tsering Chödrön, spiritual consort of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, shortly after her passing in 2011.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">5 Jun 2011</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/tarthang-tulku/prayer-to-khandro">Prayer to Khandro Tsering Chödrön</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/tarthang-tulku/">Tarthang Tulku</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/tarthang-tulku/prayer-to-khandro">Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, one of the pioneers of Tibetan Buddhism in America, composed this short prayer to Khandro Tsering Chödrön, the spiritual wife of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, shortly after her parinirvāṇa in 2011.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">27 Apr 2015</span> </div> </div> <h4>Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/prayer-to-khenchen-jigme-phuntsok">Prayer to Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/">Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/prayer-to-khenchen-jigme-phuntsok">The most famous four-line prayer to Khenchen, which he himself composed.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">2 Feb 2018</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/sunlight-of-blessings">The Sunlight of Blessings: A Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/">Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/sunlight-of-blessings">This devotional prayer to invoke the blessings of the guru is one of Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok's best known compositions. It was written in 1987 at Mount Wutai (Wutai Shan) at the request of an elderly disciple, Lama Rigdön.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Feb 2018</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-chime-rigdzin/lament-of-faith">A Lament of Faith: A Short Remembrance of, and Prayer to, My Guru, the Wish-Fulfilling Jewel</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-chime-rigdzin/">Khenpo Chime Rigdzin</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-chime-rigdzin/lament-of-faith">This celebrated prayer extols the benefits of guru devotion in general and praises the qualities of Khenchen Jikme Puntsok Rinpoche (1933–2004) in particular, invoking his inspiration and blessings as a means to progress along the path.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">7 Feb 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Khenpo Akhyuk</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-akhyuk-lungtok-gyaltsen/prayer-to-akhyuk-rinpoche">A Prayer to the Precious Teacher of Incomparable Kindness, Jamyang Lungtok Gyaltsen</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-akhyuk-lungtok-gyaltsen/">Khenpo Akhyuk Lungtok Gyaltsen</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-akhyuk-lungtok-gyaltsen/prayer-to-akhyuk-rinpoche">Khenpo Akhyuk Rinpoche says that he composed this prayer to himself in order to increase the pure perception of his disciples. In it he lists some of his previous incarnations: the mahāshiddha Śāntipa, Drokmi Palgyi Yeshe, Langdro Lotsāwa, Gyalwa Chokyang, Longchen Rabjam, and Longsal Nyingpo (1625–1692).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">29 Feb 2016</span> </div> </div> <h4>Khenpo Munsel</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-munsel/prayer-to-khenpo-munsel-cared-for-all-lives">A Prayer to Be Cared for by the Lama in All Lives to Come</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-munsel/">Khenpo Munsel</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-munsel/prayer-to-khenpo-munsel-cared-for-all-lives">This eight-line supplication of Khenpo Munsel was composed by the master himself at the request of his disciples.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">30 Jun 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Khenpo Ngawang Palzang</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khenpo-ngakchung">Prayer to Khenpo Ngawang Palzang</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khenpo-ngakchung">A short, two-verse supplication to the famed Dzogchen master Khenchen Ngawang Palzang (1879–1941) alias Khenpo Ngakchung, from whom Jamyang Khyentse received teachings.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">19 Oct 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Khenpo Sodargye</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/yangthang-rinpoche/khenpo-sodargye-blessings-prayer">The Blossoming of Devotion: A Prayer to Receive the Blessings of Khenpo Sodargye</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/yangthang-rinpoche/">Yangthang Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/yangthang-rinpoche/khenpo-sodargye-blessings-prayer">An invocation of Khenpo Sodargye (b. 1962) that includes verses of prayer to his teacher Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok (1933–2004) and the latter's previous incarnation Nanam Dorje Dudjom.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Aug 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-chime-rigdzin/beautiful-adornment-of-faith-prayer-tsultrim-lodro">Beautiful Adornment of Faith: A Prayer to the Sublime Khenchen Tsultrim Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-chime-rigdzin/">Khenpo Chime Rigdzin</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-chime-rigdzin/beautiful-adornment-of-faith-prayer-tsultrim-lodro">This poetic supplication to one of Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok's most illustrious disciples, Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö (b. 1962), highlights his erudition, vegetarianism and widespread teaching activity.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/long-life-prayers">Long-Life Prayers</a> <span class="left">21 Mar 2024</span> </div> </div> <h4>Khyen Kong Chok Sum</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo-kongtrul-chokling">Prayer to Khyentse Wangpo, Kongtrul and Chokgyur Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-khyentse-wangpo-kongtrul-chokling">A four-line prayer to invoke the blessings of the three great masters Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye and Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/nonsectarianism">Nonsectarianism</a> <span class="left">22 Jun 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-khyentse-kongtrul-chokling">Prayer to Khyentse Wangpo, Kongtrul and Chokgyur Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-khyentse-kongtrul-chokling">Verses of supplication to Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé, Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, which Khyentse Wangpo composed at Jamgön Kongtrul's behest.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/nonsectarianism">Nonsectarianism</a> <span class="left">10 Oct 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Lamrim</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/tsongkhapa/foundation-of-all-qualities">The Foundation of All Qualities</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/tsongkhapa/">Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/tsongkhapa/foundation-of-all-qualities">This concise prayer of just fourteen stanzas encapsulates the entire teaching of the graduated path (Tib. <em>lamrim</em>) to enlightenment, including both sūtra and tantra.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/lamrim">Lamrim</a> <span class="left">13 Jul 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Longchen Rabjam</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-longchenpa">Prayer to Gyalwa Longchenpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-longchenpa">This seven-line prayer to Longchen Rabjam (1308–1364) was composed at the request of Karme Khenpo Rinchen Dargye (b. 1835).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">3 Jul 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/longchenpa-prayer-by-mipham-adapted">Prayer to Longchenpa (Adapted from the Words of Mipham Rinpoche)</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/longchenpa-prayer-by-mipham-adapted">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche composed this 16-line prayer to the great Dzogchen master Longchen Rabjam (1308–1363) based on the writings of Ju Mipham.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">26 Jan 2016</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/cloud-messenger-prayer-longchen-rabjam">The Cloud Messenger: A Song of Prayer to the Omniscient Guru</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/cloud-messenger-prayer-longchen-rabjam">This song of devotion, composed on the master's anniversary in 1950, emphasizes the ultimate nature of Longchen Rabjam, according to which he does not exist externally but in the nature of one's own mind.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/songs-and-poems">Songs and Poems</a> <span class="left">26 May 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/sweet-call-kalavinka-omniscient-longchen-rabjam">The Sweet Call of the Kalaviṅka: A Song Evoking the Omniscient King of Dharma</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/sweet-call-kalavinka-omniscient-longchen-rabjam">Jamyang Khyentse composed this poetic, devotional invocation of the great Dzogchen master Longchen Rabjam (1308–1364) in 1934.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/songs-and-poems">Songs and Poems</a> <span class="left">27 May 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/nyoshul-khenpo-jamyang-dorje/longchenpa-prayer-adapted">Prayer to the Omniscient Longchen Rabjam</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/nyoshul-khenpo-jamyang-dorje/">Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/nyoshul-khenpo-jamyang-dorje/longchenpa-prayer-adapted">Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche added a line to this popular invocation of Longchen Rabjam, transforming it into a prayer to realize the natural state, which is the true nature of the mind.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">15 Nov 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Loter Wangpo</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-root-guru-loter-wangpo">Prayer to My Root Guru, Jamyang Loter Wangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-root-guru-loter-wangpo">A short, three-verse supplication to Jamyang Loter Wangpo (1847–1914), which Jamyang Khyentse composed spontaneously when recalling his guru.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Oct 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/recitable-prayer-to-root-guru-loter-wangpo">Regularly Recitable Prayer to the Root Guru, Loter Wangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/recitable-prayer-to-root-guru-loter-wangpo">A short prayer to Jamyang Loter Wangpo (1847–1914), which Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö composed in order to reinvigorate devotion.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Oct 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Machik Labdrön</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/patrul-rinpoche/machik-labdron-prayer">Prayer to Machik Labdrön</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/patrul-rinpoche/">Patrul Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/patrul-rinpoche/machik-labdron-prayer">A short supplication in three verses addressed to the Mother Prajñāpāramitā, Krodhakālī, and the great Machik Labdrön.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/chod">Chöd</a> <span class="left">21 Aug 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Magnetizing</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/adeu-rinpoche/wangdu-prayer">Magnetizing (Wangdü) Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/adeu-rinpoche/">Adeu Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/adeu-rinpoche/wangdu-prayer">A brief prayer for magnetizing or bringing under one’s control (<em>dbang du sdud pa</em>), which invokes many of the deities associated with this form of activity.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/magnetizing">Magnetizing</a> <span class="left">2 Nov 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/great-cloud-blessings">Wangdü: The Great Cloud of Blessings—The Prayer Which Magnetizes All That Appears and Exists</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/">Mipham Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/great-cloud-blessings">This prayer of magnetizing (<em>dbang du bsdud pa</em>) all appearance and existence, which Ju Mipham wrote in 1879, focuses on nine deities associated with magnetizing: Padmasambhava in the form of Padmarāja or Pema Gyalpo (<em>padma rgyal po</em>), Vajradharma (<em>rdo rje chos</em>), Amitābha, Avalokiteśvara in the form of Padmapāṇi, Hayagrīva, Guhyajñāna, Vajravārāhī, Kurukullā and the King of Desire (<em>'dod pa'i rgyal po</em>). It was made popular in recent years by the late Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/magnetizing">Magnetizing</a> </div> </div> <h4>Mandāravā</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/samten-lingpa/prayer-lives-and-liberation-of-mandarava">A Prayer Recounting the Lives and Liberation of the Exalted Ḍākinī Mandāravā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> revealed by <a href="/tibetan-masters/samten-lingpa/">Samten Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/samten-lingpa/prayer-lives-and-liberation-of-mandarava">This prayer, which recounts Mandāravā’s lives and liberation, forms the 37th chapter of Samten Lingpa’s famous <em>terma</em> biography of Princess Mandāravā.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/termas">Termas</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">4 Aug 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Mañjuśrī</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/prayer-to-manjushri">A Prayer to Mañjuśrī</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/">Apang Tertön</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/prayer-to-manjushri">An invocation and supplication of Mañjuśrī together with other deities of the three kāyas and figures from the Dzogchen lineage including Apang Tertön (alias Trinlé Lingpa) himself.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/manjushri">Mañjuśrī</a> <span class="left">10 Jun 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-bhagavan-manjughosha">Prayer to Bhagavān Mañjughoṣa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-bhagavan-manjughosha">A four-line supplication to Mañjuśrī invoking his power to dispel ignorance and grant courageous eloquence (<em>pratibhāna</em>) and intelligence.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/manjushri">Mañjuśrī</a> <span class="left">23 Jun 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/prayer-lion-speech">Prayer to the Lion of Speech</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/">Karma Chakme</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/prayer-lion-speech">This prayer to Buddha Amitābha, Mañjuśrī the 'Lion of Speech' (<em>smra ba'i seng ge</em>) and the goddess Sarasvatī was composed by Karma Chakmé for his own daily practice. It includes a series of aspirations related to wisdom and intelligence.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/manjushri">Mañjuśrī</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sarasvati">Sarasvatī</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/compendium-of-sadhanas">Compendium of Sādhanas</a> <span class="left">3 May 2008</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/air-con-prayer-to-manjuvajra">Prayer That Emanated from an Air Conditioner</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/">Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/air-con-prayer-to-manjuvajra">Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok wrote this prayer to Mañjuśrī in June 1990 when he heard it repeatedly in the droning of an air conditioner in New Delhi.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/manjushri">Mañjuśrī</a> <span class="left">30 Nov 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/prayer-manjushri-gang-tse-dak">Prayer to Mañjuśrī</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/">Mipham Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/prayer-manjushri-gang-tse-dak">One of many four-line prayers to Mañjuśrī that Mipham Rinpoche composed, this one invokes the deity's glorious powers of speech.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/manjushri">Mañjuśrī</a> <span class="left">25 Jun 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-gyaltsab/prayer-to-manjughosha">A Prayer to Mañjughoṣa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-gyaltsab/">Shechen Gyaltsab Gyurme Pema Namgyal</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-gyaltsab/prayer-to-manjughosha">A brief, four-line supplication of Mañjuśrī requesting his bestowal of a prodigious intellect.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/manjushri">Mañjuśrī</a> <span class="left">10 Jun 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Marpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-marpa-consort-heirs">Prayer to Lord Marpa, Consort and Heirs</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-marpa-consort-heirs">This prayer invokes the great translator Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, together with his wife Dakmema, his physical heir Darma Dodé and his foremost spiritual heir Milarepa. Jamyang Khyentse composed the text while on a visit to the site of Marpa's estate in Lhodrak, most likely in 1956.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">27 Jan 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-marpa-lotsawa">Song of Devotion: A Prayer to Lord Marpa Lotsāwa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-marpa-lotsawa">This prayer was composed in 1940, following a visionary encounter with the great translator and forefather of the Kagyü tradition and the surge of devotion that this vision inspired.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">25 Feb 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Marpa, Milarepa & Gampopa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-marpa-mila-dakpo">The Melody of Complete Accomplishment: A Prayer to Those Praised as Ornaments of the Practice Lineage</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-marpa-mila-dakpo">Jamyang Khyentse says that he wrote this four-verse prayer to the founders of the practice lineage, i.e., Marpa Lotsāwa, Milarepa and Gampopa, in the first month of the Wood Ox year (1865) following a dream.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/kagyu">Kagyü</a> <span class="left">1 Nov 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Milarepa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/milarepa-supplication">Supplication to Milarepa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/milarepa-supplication">A three-verse prayer to Milarepa, which arose, the author says, out of his oceanic faith for the great yogin.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">17 Mar 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/song-prayer-to-milarepa">Song of Prayer to Milarepa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/song-prayer-to-milarepa">Jamyang Khyentse says that he composed this song of invocation and prayer out of sadness. In it, he calls upon the great yogin to help him overcome his failings and turn his mind towards the Dharma.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/songs-and-poems">Songs and Poems</a> <span class="left">12 Oct 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-milarepa">The Hook of Compassion: A Prayer to Jetsün Shepa Dorje (Milarepa)</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-milarepa">Composed on Milarepa's anniversary in 1952, this eight-verse prayer lauds the great yogin for his accomplishment of the transcendent perfections (<em>pāramitā</em>) and other qualities.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">13 Jun 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/milarepa-supplication">The Burgeoning of Compassion: A Supplication to the Illustrious Zhepa Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/">Sera Khandro</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/milarepa-supplication">A prayer invoking Milarepa's inspiration and guidance in order to master the practice and realize the dharmakāya nature within this life or take birth in the paradise of Khecarā and bring benefit to others.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">15 Mar 2024</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shakya-shri/milarepa-supplication">Supplication to Lord Mila Shepa Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shakya-shri/">Shakya Shri</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shakya-shri/milarepa-supplication">An elaborate practice of supplication or prayer to the great poet-yogi Milarepa, preceded by practices for taking refuge and generating bodhicitta.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/guru-yoga">Guru Yoga</a> <span class="left">19 Dec 2016</span> </div> </div> <h4>Ngawang Samten Lodrö</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/ngawang-samten-lodro-prayer">Prayer to Ngawang Samten Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/ngawang-samten-lodro-prayer">A two-verse supplication to Ngawang Samten Lodrö, which incorporates the syllables of his full name, Ngawang Samten Lodrö Nyengyü Tenpai Gyaltsen Palzangpo.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">19 Dec 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/samten-lodro-prayer">The Swift Infusion of Blessings: A Lament and Prayer to Invoke the Wisdom Mind of Khenchen Vāgindra on the Occasion of His Passing into the Great Peace of the Dharmadhātu</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/samten-lodro-prayer">Jamyang Khyentse composed this lament and invocation of his teacher Ngawang Samten Lodrö following the master's passing in 1931.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/swift-rebirth-prayers">Swift Rebirth Prayers</a> <span class="left">26 Nov 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-ngorchen-kunga-zangpo">Prayer to Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-ngorchen-kunga-zangpo">Jamyang Khyentse composed this seven-verse prayer to Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo (1382–1456) in Darjeeling on the morning of the master's anniversary in June 1958.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">31 Jan 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Nonsectarianism</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/treasury-of-blessings-prayer">The Treasury of Blessings: A Prayer to Recall the Sublime Masters who Showed Great Kindness to the Land of Snows</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/treasury-of-blessings-prayer">A non-sectarian prayer invoking many of the greatest luminaries in Tibetan Buddhist history, from King Trisong Detsen and the twenty-five disciples of Guru Padmasambhava down to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgön Kongtrul.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/nonsectarianism">Nonsectarianism</a> <span class="left">26 Aug 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Nyala Pema Dündul</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/nyala-pema-dundul/prayer-to-nyala-pema-duddul">Prayer to Nyala Pema Dündul</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/nyala-pema-dundul/">Nyala Pema Dündul</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/nyala-pema-dundul/prayer-to-nyala-pema-duddul">Nyala Pema Dündul composed this prayer to himself at the request of his disciples. It is a plea to receive his inspiration and blessings in order to follow in his footsteps and perfect the practice of Dzogpachenpo.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dzogchen">Dzogchen</a> <span class="left">17 Jan 2007</span> </div> </div> <h4>Pakmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/yelpa-yeshe-tsek/pakmodrupa-prayer">Prayer Praising the Kāyas of Lord Pakmodrupa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/yelpa-yeshe-tsek/">Yelpa Yeshe Tsek</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/yelpa-yeshe-tsek/pakmodrupa-prayer">The author pays tribute to his teacher Pakmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo (1110–1170) by highlighting the significance of his name, describing how he embodies the three kāyas and identifying some of his special qualities.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/praise">Praise</a> <span class="left">4 Sep 2024</span> </div> </div> <h4>Parṇaśavarī</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-lingpa/parnashavari-prayer">A Prayer to Parṇaśavarī</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-lingpa/">Dudjom Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-lingpa/parnashavari-prayer">A simple supplication to the goddess Parṇaśavarī (or Parṇaśabarī, <em>lo gyon ma</em>) calling upon her to pacify and eliminate the suffering brought about by sickness and disease.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/parnashavari">Parṇaśavarī</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dudjom-tersar">Dudjom Tersar</a> <span class="left">26 Apr 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/parnashavari-prayer">A Prayer to the Goddess Parṇaśavarī</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/">Karma Chakme</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/parnashavari-prayer">Karma Chakmé composed this five-verse prayer to Parṇaśavarī (or Parṇaśabarī, <em>lo gyon ma</em>) on the basis of a vision of the goddess, which he experienced when performing a fire offering.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/parnashavari">Parṇaśavarī</a> <span class="left">6 Jul 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Patrul Rinpoche</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/prayer-to-patrul-orgyen-jigme-chokyi-wangpo">Prayer to Orgyen Jigme Chökyi Wangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/">Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/prayer-to-patrul-orgyen-jigme-chokyi-wangpo">This five-line supplication to Patrul Orgyen Jigme Chökyi Wangpo (1808–1887) is taken from the prayers section of Jamgön Kongtrul's collected writings.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">29 Mar 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-patrul">Nectar of Lunar Crystal: A Prayer to Orgyen Chökyi Wangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-patrul">Jamyang Khyentse composed this invocation of Dza Patrul Rinpoche (1808–1887) on an anniversary of the master's parinirvāṇa, which falls on the eighteenth day of the fourth Tibetan month.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">4 May 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-patrul">Prayer to Chökyi Wangpo, the Bodhisattva and Tamer of Beings</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-patrul">Jamyang Khyentse wrote this twelve-line prayer to Patrul Rinpoche during the festival of Chökhor Düchen in 1860. The text identifies Patrul as an emanation of Śāntideva and the early Dzogchen adept Aro Yeshe Jungne, and praises his qualities of renunciation, bodhicitta and wisdom.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">13 Sep 2017</span> </div> </div> <h4>Pegyal Lingpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-pegyal-lingpa">Prayer to Tertön Pegyal Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-pegyal-lingpa">This two-verse prayer to the tertön Pegyal Lingpa (1924–1988) was composed in Darjeeling, most likely in 1958.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">2 Dec 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Prayers to Previous Incarnations</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-I/beautiful-garland-successive-lives-prayer">Beautiful Garland of Flowers: A Brief Prayer to the Successive Incarnations of Dzogchenpa Changchub Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-I/">Dodrupchen Jigme Trinle Özer</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-I/beautiful-garland-successive-lives-prayer">This prayer to the chain of successive emanations (<em>skye phreng gsol 'debs</em>) of the First Dodrupchen was written by the master himself and includes a verse that famously prophesies his subsequent incarnation as Jigme Puntsok Jungné (1824–1863).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">16 Mar 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/beautiful-garland-udumbara-flowers">The Beautiful Garland of Uḍumbara Flowers: A Prayer to the Previous Incarnations of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/beautiful-garland-udumbara-flowers">Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö himself composed this prayer to the 'garland' of his own previous incarnations (<em>skye phreng gsol 'debs</em>), from the Buddha Mañjuśrī down to his immediate predecessor, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">4 May 2006</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/moons-illusory-reflection">The Moon’s Illusory Reflection to Gladden the Devoted: A Prayer to the Successive Rebirths</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/moons-illusory-reflection">This longer prayer to Jamyang Khyentse's successive rebirths was composed in 1952 for Dongna Tulku, who requested a long version of the prayer known as <em>Beautiful Garland of Uḍumbara Flowers</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">9 Dec 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-trungpa-incarnations">Waves in A Sea of Devotion: A Prayer to the Garland of Zurmang Trungpa Rinpoche Incarnations</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-trungpa-incarnations">A supplication to the successive Trungpa (<em>drung pa</em>) incarnations of Zurmang Monastery, up to and including Jamyang Khyentse's own teacher, Karma Chökyi Nyinché (c. 1879–1938), who was the Tenth Trungpa, and a prayer for the longevity of his immediate reincarnation, Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">10 Sep 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/prayer-invoking-previous-incarnations">Prayer to Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa Invoking His Previous Incarnations</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/">Jigme Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/prayer-invoking-previous-incarnations">Jigme Lingpa wrote this prayer at the request of his students. It invokes many of his previous incarnations, beginning with the primordial Buddha Samantabhadra.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/longchen-nyingtik">Longchen Nyingtik</a> <span class="left">27 Oct 2017</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/dzogchen-rinpoche-prayer">Prayer to the Garland of Rebirths of the Dzogchenpas of Eastern Tibet</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/">Jigme Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/dzogchen-rinpoche-prayer">Jigme Lingpa wrote this prayer to the Dzogchen Rinpoches and their previous incarnations at the request of his disciple Jigme Ngotsar (b. 1763).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">26 Nov 2017</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/prayer-to-chain-of-rebirths">Prayer to the Chain of Rebirths</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/">Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-jigme-phuntsok/prayer-to-chain-of-rebirths">In this short prayer, written at the insistence of his disciples, Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok lists his own previous incarnations according to a prophecy by Apang Tertön Pawo Chöying Dorje (1895–1945).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">2 Feb 2018</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenchen-ngawang-palzang/brief-succession-of-lives-prayer">Brief Succession of Lives Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenchen-ngawang-palzang/">Khenchen Ngawang Palzang</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenchen-ngawang-palzang/brief-succession-of-lives-prayer">A three-verse prayer to the great Khenpo Ngawang Palzang—here referred to as Dorje Zijitsal—listing some of his previous incarnations and invoking his blessings.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">6 Apr 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/ngawang-tenzin-norbu/prayer-to-lives-trulshik">Prayer to the Successive Lives of the Great Trulshik 'Destroyer of Delusion'</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/ngawang-tenzin-norbu/">Ngawang Tenzin Norbu</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/ngawang-tenzin-norbu/prayer-to-lives-trulshik">A short prayer to the previous incarnations of the famous <em>tertön</em> Trulshik Dongak Lingpa (1862–1922), who was also known as Kunzang Tongdrol Dorje.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">5 Jun 2018</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/cloud-banks-of-blessings">Cloud Banks of Blessings: A Brief Prayer to the Garland of Successive Rebirths</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/">Sera Khandro</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/cloud-banks-of-blessings">A prayer to Sera Khandro's successive incarnations including Red Vetala (Rolang Marmo), Shelkar Dorje Tso, Kunga Buma, and Changchub Chödrön.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">23 Jul 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/hook-of-compassion">The Hook of Compassion: A Prayer to the Garland of Successive Rebirths</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/">Sera Khandro</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/hook-of-compassion">This prayer to Sera Khandro's successive incarnations is one of several such texts to be found in her collected writings.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">22 Jul 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shabkar/garland-of-rebirths-prayer">Short Prayer to Shabkar’s Various Incarnations</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shabkar/">Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shabkar/garland-of-rebirths-prayer">A prayer to Shabkar identifying his previous incarnations, including Avalokiteśvara, Milarepa, Gyalse Tokme Zangpo and Thangtong Gyalpo, composed at the request of a noblewoman named Drolma Kyidzom.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Feb 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/shechen-rabjam-incarnations-supplication">The Lotus of Faith: A Supplication to the Successive Lives of Shechen Rabjam</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/">Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/shechen-rabjam-incarnations-supplication">Rabjam Rinpoche composed this prayer to the various masters in his own incarnation line at the request of Tulku Kunga, who had transcribed the list of names from a handwritten note by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">21 Mar 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/trulshik-rinpoche/record-of-successive-incarnations">A Record of the Successive Incarnations</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/trulshik-rinpoche/">Trulshik Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/trulshik-rinpoche/record-of-successive-incarnations">Written in verse, this is a list of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche's previous incarnations and a prayer to receive their inspiration and blessing.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">5 Jun 2018</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/trulshik-rinpoche/gateway-for-the-faithful">Gateway for the Faithful: A Supplication Recalling the Lives and Liberation of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/trulshik-rinpoche/">Trulshik Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/trulshik-rinpoche/gateway-for-the-faithful">A supplication prayer that recalls Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche's thirty previous incarnations and their major accomplishments, as well as the master's own life and future emanations.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <span class="left">5 Jun 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Raudracakrin</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-gangshar/prayer-to-pacify-conflict">Prayer to Pacify Military Conflict</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-gangshar/">Khenpo Gangshar</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-gangshar/prayer-to-pacify-conflict">This four-line prayer for pacifying war and conflict is addressed to Raudracakrin (<em>drag po'i 'khor lo can</em>), the last in the line of legendary Dharma Kings of Shambhala.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">19 Feb 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Rendawa Zhönnu Lodrö</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/tsongkhapa/prayer-to-rendawa-shonnu-lodro">Prayer to Rendawa Zhönnu Lodrö</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/tsongkhapa/">Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/tsongkhapa/prayer-to-rendawa-shonnu-lodro">Tsongkhapa composed this five-line verse in honour of his teacher Rendawa Zhönnu Lodrö (who then in turn adapted it into the famous Miktséma prayer to Tsongkhapa himself).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">11 Jul 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-rongzom">Prayer to Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/prayer-to-rongzom">This four-line prayer to the great scholar Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo was composed by Chokgyur Lingpa at the request of Karme Khenpo Rinchen Dargye.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">7 Aug 2024</span> </div> </div> <h4>Sakya</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/ngor-aspiration">Aspiration to Follow the Gurus of the Ngor Tradition</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/ngor-aspiration">A brief invocation of the abbots of Ngor, from Kunga Zangpo (1382–1456) through to Könchok Lhundrup (1497–1557), followed by an aspiration to emulate their conduct and realization.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sakya">Sakya</a> <span class="left">17 Aug 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/sakya-invocation">Invocation for the Flourishing of the Sakya Teachings</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/sakya-invocation">An invocation of deities associated with magnetizing and enriching for the sake of the teachings in general and the Sakya teachings in particular.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sakya">Sakya</a> <span class="left">28 Jul 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-sakya-scholars">Prayer to the Supremely Learned Holders of the Glorious Sakya Teachings</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-sakya-scholars">A prayer to six master scholars from the Sakya tradition: Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo (1382–1456), Dzongpa Kunga Namgyal (1432–1496), Yaktön Sangye Pal (1350–1414), Rongtön Sheja Kunrig (1367–1449), Gorampa Sonam Senge (1429–1489) and Śākya Chokden (1428–1507).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sakya">Sakya</a> <span class="left">11 Dec 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-sakya-gurus-deities">Prayer to Root and Lineage Masters, and the Assembly of Deity, Ḍākinīs and Dharma Protectors of the Sakya Lineage</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-sakya-gurus-deities">A two-verse prayer to all the gurus and deities of the Sakya tradition, invoking their inspiration and blessings to follow the path in the present and future lives.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sakya">Sakya</a> <span class="left">20 Jan 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Sakya Paṇḍita</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/prayer-sakya-pandita-manjughosha-guru">Prayer to the Mañjughoṣa Guru, Sakya Paṇḍita</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/">Gatön Ngawang Lekpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/gaton-ngawang-lekpa/prayer-sakya-pandita-manjughosha-guru">According to his biography, Gatön Ngawang Lekpa recited this prayer to Sakya Paṇḍita together with the famous four-line Shejama (<em>shes bya ma</em>) prayer that he accumulated 4,300,000 times while performing prostrations.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">19 Jan 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-shenga/prayer-to-invoke-sakya-pandita">Prayer to Invoke the Wisdom Mind of the Gentle Protector Sakya Paṇḍita</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-shenga/">Khenpo Shenga</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-shenga/prayer-to-invoke-sakya-pandita">A supplication to the great Sakya scholar and patriarch Kunga Gyaltsen (1182–1251) calling upon him to assist beings of the degenerate age, especially practitioners of the Dharma. Shenpen Nangwa composed the text while visiting the Sakya monastery of Lhundrup Teng in Derge, also known as Derge Gonchen.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">14 Dec 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Śāntarakṣita</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-shantarakshita">The Tree of Awakening: A Prayer to the Great Abbot Śāntarakṣita</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-shantarakshita">Jamyang Khyentse composed this prayer as part of a series of supplications addressed to the Dharma King Tri Songdetsen, Guru Padmasambhava, and Abbot Śāntarakṣita (<em>mkhan slob chos gsum</em>) as well as the future king of Shambhala, Raudracakrin, all written at the behest of the Sixth Dzogchen Rinpoche and a lama from Dzogchen Monastery called Pema Düdül.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">30 Apr 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Sarasvatī</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/do-dasel-wangmo/sarasvati-prayer">The Brightly Smiling Lotus: A Prayer to Sarasvatī</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/do-dasel-wangmo/">Do Dasel Wangmo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/do-dasel-wangmo/sarasvati-prayer">A four-verse prayer to Sarasvatī in which each line begins with a repeated word for the sake of emphasis, an example of epizeuxis.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sarasvati">Sarasvatī</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">8 Mar 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Sé Pakchok Dorje</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-se-pakchok-dorje">Prayer to Sé Pakchok Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-se-pakchok-dorje">A prayer to Sé Pakchok Dorje, the mind emanation of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892) and one of the six sons of Tokden Śākya Śrī (1853–1919), invoking his inspiration and blessings in order to perfect the path of Dzogchen.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">26 Oct 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Sera Khandro</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/brief-prayer-to-sera-khandro">A Brief Prayer to Sera Khandro</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/">Sera Khandro</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/brief-prayer-to-sera-khandro">The treasure-revealer Sera Khandro Dekyong Wangmo wrote this short, six-line prayer to herself for the sake of her followers.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">29 May 2015</span> </div> </div> <h4>Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shabkar/swift-infusion-blessings-prayer">The Swift Infusion of Blessings: A Prayer to the Guru</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shabkar/">Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shabkar/swift-infusion-blessings-prayer">This supplication to Shabkar himself, invoking the blessings of his body, speech and mind, was composed at Mount Kailash.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">13 Feb 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Shakya Shri</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/shakya-shri/shower-of-blessings">The Shower of Blessings: A Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/shakya-shri/">Shakya Shri</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/shakya-shri/shower-of-blessings">A devotional prayer to the guru Shakya Shri for inspiration and blessings to realize the Great Perfection.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">19 Jul 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Shechen Kongtrul</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-tsondru/prayer-to-shechen-kongtrul-as-vajrasattva">Prayer to Shechen Kongtrul as Vajrasattva</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-tsondru/">Khenpo Tsöndrü</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/khenpo-tsondru/prayer-to-shechen-kongtrul-as-vajrasattva">Khenpo wrote this prayer to his root teacher Shechen Kongtrul Pema Drimé Lekpé Lodrö in 1959 in Yolmo, Nepal, shortly after fleeing Tibet.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">12 Feb 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Smṛtijñānakīrti</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/prayer-to-smritijnanakirti">Prayer to Smṛtijñānakīrti</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/">Mipham Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/prayer-to-smritijnanakirti">A four-line prayer to the famous 11th-century paṇḍita and translator who travelled to eastern Tibet.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">17 Feb 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Tārā</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/alak-zenkar-pema-ngodrup-rolwe-dorje/tara-prayer">A Prayer to Tārā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/alak-zenkar-pema-ngodrup-rolwe-dorje/">Alak Zenkar Pema Ngödrup Rolwe Dorje</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/alak-zenkar-pema-ngodrup-rolwe-dorje/tara-prayer">A short, eight-line prayer to Tārā in the recognition that she and her twenty-one forms are none other than pure awareness and its manifestations.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">31 Jan 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/indian-masters/atisha/prayer-to-tara">Prayer to Ārya Tārā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/indian-masters/atisha/">Atiśa Dīpaṃkara</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/indian-masters/atisha/prayer-to-tara">It is said that Atiśa spoke this prayer to the goddess Tārā during a life-threatening storm on his journey across the ocean to meet the master Serlingpa. Tārā, who is renowned for the swiftness with which she protects living beings from fear and danger, appeared directly and rescued Atiśa and his fellow travellers from peril.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">27 May 2015</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/choying-tobden-dorje/tara-supplication">A Concise Supplication to the Most Noble Tārā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/choying-tobden-dorje/">Chöying Tobden Dorje</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/choying-tobden-dorje/tara-supplication">A brief prayer to noble Tārā requesting protection from fear and the fulfilment of aspirations.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">10 Apr 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/tara-prayer">Prayer to Ārya Tārā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/">Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/tara-prayer">A simple, four-line supplication to Tārā requesting her protection from fear and suffering in this life, the next and the bardo state.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">20 Apr 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/drikung-kyobpa-jikten-sumgon/sevenfold-tara-refuge-supplication">Prayer to Tārā: A Sevenfold Supplication for Protection</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/drikung-kyobpa-jikten-sumgon/">Drikung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/drikung-kyobpa-jikten-sumgon/sevenfold-tara-refuge-supplication">Jigten Gönpo composed these seven verses of supplication following a visionary experience in which he saw seven different forms of Tārā. The prayer became known as the 'sevenfold refuge' (<em>skyabs bdun ma</em>), and is renowned for the extraordinary blessings it conveys.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">23 Apr 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dromton-gyalwe-jungne/tara-prayer">Prayer to Ārya Tārā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dromton-gyalwe-jungne/">Dromtön Gyalwe Jungne</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dromton-gyalwe-jungne/tara-prayer">This short prayer to White Tārā is included in the praises to the Three Deities of Long Life (<em>tshe lha rnam gsum</em>) compiled by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and included in the Compendium of Sādhanas.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/compendium-of-sadhanas">Compendium of Sādhanas</a> <span class="left">6 Nov 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/short-tara-prayer">A Short Supplication to Tārā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/">Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamgon-kongtrul/short-tara-prayer">A brief six-line supplication to the guru, indivisible from Ārya Tāra, mother of all the buddhas, written at the behest of Jampal Tendar and other devoted disciples.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">20 May 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-tara-averting-obstructive-circumstances">Averting Obstructive Circumstances: A Prayer to Tārā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-tara-averting-obstructive-circumstances">This prayer to Tārā, written in 1936, calls upon her aid to overcome various obstacles, including threats of danger, poverty, depleted vital energy and harmful forces.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">1 Dec 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-tara-eliminator-of-suffering">Eliminator of Suffering: A Prayer to the Venerable and Exalted Tārā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-tara-eliminator-of-suffering">One of several prayers to Tārā by Jamyang Khyentse, this one was written in Darjeeling during the holy month of Saga Dawa in either 1957 or (more likely) 1958.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">30 Nov 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/four-line-prayer-to-white-tara">Prayer to Noble White Tārā</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/four-line-prayer-to-white-tara">A short, four-line supplication of White Tārā, Wish-Fulfilling Jewel, who overcomes death and bestows longevity and wisdom.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">23 Jun 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jetsun-drakpa-gyaltsen/tara-prayer-jetsun-chomden">Prayer to Jetsün Tārā for the Fulfilment of Wishes</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jetsun-drakpa-gyaltsen/">Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jetsun-drakpa-gyaltsen/tara-prayer-jetsun-chomden">Extracted from Drakpa Gyaltsen's <em>Four-Maṇḍala Prayer to Tārā</em> (<em>sgrol ma'i gsol 'debs maN+Dal bzhi pa</em>).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/sakya-kabum">Sakya Kabum</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/compendium-of-sadhanas">Compendium of Sādhanas</a> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/tara-prayer-with-root-mantra">Prayer to Tārā, Combined with Her Mantra</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/">Mipham Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham/tara-prayer-with-root-mantra">This four-line verse of homage to noble Tārā is also a prayer that incorporates the syllables of her root mantra: <em>oṃ tāre tuttāre ture svāhā</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <span class="left">4 Jul 2018</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/tara-prayer-from-magical-letters">A Supplication to Noble Tārā, The Wish-Fulfilling Cornucopia</a></div> <div class="attrib"> revealed by <a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/">Sera Khandro</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/tara-prayer-from-magical-letters">A short, two-verse prayer to noble Tārā in her twenty-one emanations, composed (or revealed) in response to a request from a monk-physican named Samten.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/tara">Tārā</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">8 Jun 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Tertön Sogyal</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/drime-osal-lingpa/seeds-faith-prayer">The Seeds of Faith, A Prayer to the Vidyādhara and Great Tertön Lerab Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/drime-osal-lingpa/">Drimé Ösal Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/drime-osal-lingpa/seeds-faith-prayer">This biographical prayer (<em>rnam thar gsol 'debs</em>) to Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa was written by fellow tertön, Drimé Ösal Lingpa, at the request of the latter's son, Pema Wangchuk.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biographical-prayers">Biographical Prayers</a> <span class="left">14 Dec 2005</span> </div> </div> <h4>Thangtong Gyalpo</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-thangtong-gyalpo">Prayer to Thangtong Gyalpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-thangtong-gyalpo">Khyentse Wangpo composed this five-verse supplication prayer to Thangtong Gyalpo at the request of the Eighth Sangye Nyentrul Rinpoche by combining and supplementing previous prayers.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">14 Jun 2018</span> </div> </div> <h4>Three Deities of Long Life</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/melody-of-deathless-vajra-prayer">The Melody of the Deathless Vajra: Imploring the Three Deities of Immortal Life to Fulfil Wishes and Grant Attainment</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/melody-of-deathless-vajra-prayer">Jamyang Khyentse says he composed this prayer to the three deities of long life—Tārā, Amitāyus and Vijayā—after completing the recitation of Chimé Pakmé Nyingtik during his thirty-third year, i.e., in or around 1925.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/three-long-life-deities">Three Deities of Long Life</a> <span class="left">19 Jul 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Three Roots</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/three-roots-prayer">Prayer to the Three Roots</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/">Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/three-roots-prayer">A general prayer to the Three Roots from the compilation <em>A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters</em>.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">1 Oct 2024</span> </div> </div> <h4>Tri Songdetsen</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-tri-songdetsen">Great Drum of the Devas: A Prayer to the Dharma King Tri Songdetsen</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-tri-songdetsen">Jamyang Khyentse composed this prayer as part of a series of supplications addressed to the Abbot Śāntarakṣita, Guru Padmasambhava, the Dharma King Tri Songdetsen (<em>mkhan slob chos gsum</em>) as well as the future king of Shambhala, Raudracakrin, all written at the behest of the Sixth Dzogchen Rinpoche and a lama from Dzogchen Monastery called Pema Düdül.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">18 Feb 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Tsarchen Losal Gyatso</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/short-prayer-to-tsarchen">Prayer to Tsarchen Losal Gyatso</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/short-prayer-to-tsarchen">A four-line supplication to Tsarchen Losal Gyatso (1502–1567) composed in 1956.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">1 Sep 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-tsarchen-dorje-chang">The Revelling Ocean of Blessings: A Prayer to Tsarchen Dorje Chang</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-tsarchen-dorje-chang">Jamyang Khyentse composed this supplication before the master's reliquary at Dar Drangmoché in 1956.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">31 Aug 2021</span> </div> </div> <h4>Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/tsongkhapa-prayer">The Sweet Melody of Devotion: A Prayer to the Great Omniscient Lord Tsongkhapa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/tsongkhapa-prayer">Jamyang Khyentse composed this prayer in seventeen verses on Tsongkhapa's anniversary in December 1931.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">29 Jan 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Tsultrim Zangpo</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/tsultrim-zangpo-prayer">Prayer to the Supreme Lord of Siddhas Tsultrim Zangpo</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/tsultrim-zangpo-prayer">A prayer to Tsultrim Zangpo, whose Prayer of the Six Syllables, was rediscovered as a treasure by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/avalokiteshvara">Avalokiteśvara</a> <span class="left">25 Oct 2022</span> </div> </div> <h4>Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/prayer-to-tulku-urgyen-rinpoche">A Prayer to Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/">Dudjom Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/prayer-to-tulku-urgyen-rinpoche">Dudjom Rinpoche composed this four-line supplication after he received the empowerments and transmissions for the <em>Three Sections of the Great Perfection</em> (<em>rdzogs chen sde gsum</em>) from Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in Lhasa.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">17 Mar 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Vajrakīlaya</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/do-dasel-wangmo/vajrakilaya-prayer">Prayer for Liberating Obstacles into Space</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/do-dasel-wangmo/">Do Dasel Wangmo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/do-dasel-wangmo/vajrakilaya-prayer">A four-line supplication to Vajrakīlaya, the wrathful embodiment of enlightened activity.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/vajrakilaya">Vajrakīlaya</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/dakini-treasury">Ḍākinī Treasury</a> <span class="left">16 Dec 2023</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/gyarong-khandro/vajrakilaya-prayer">Rain of Accomplishments: A Vajrakīlaya Prayer</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/gyarong-khandro/">Gyarong Khandro</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/gyarong-khandro/vajrakilaya-prayer">A prayer for <em>Tsogyal's Whispered Transmission of Kīla</em> (<em>mtsho rgyal snyan brgyud phur pa</em>), which was revealed by Gyarong Khandro, together with Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö and Khandro Tsering Chödrön, from the Zadü (<em>gza' bdud</em>) cave at Khyungdrak Dorjei Yangdzong in the Water Snake year (1953), and then transmitted by Jamyang Khyentse to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in the Wood Sheep year (1955).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/vajrakilaya">Vajrakīlaya</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/termas">Termas</a> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/terton-sogyal/falling-rain-of-blessings-prayer">The Falling Rain of Blessings: A Prayer of Inspiration</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/terton-sogyal/">Tertön Sogyal</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/terton-sogyal/falling-rain-of-blessings-prayer">For this prayer from the Vajrakīlaya cycle known as <em>Yang Zab Nyingpo</em> (Deepest Heart-Essence), the practitioner assumes the form of the deity Vajrakīlaya and prays to Guru Padmākara and consort, who are visualized above the head.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/vajrakilaya">Vajrakīlaya</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/descent-of-blessings">Descent of Blessings</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/termas">Termas</a> <span class="left">3 May 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/terton-sogyal/summoning-of-blessings">The Summoning of Blessings Which Brings Them Swift and Fast</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/terton-sogyal/">Tertön Sogyal</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/terton-sogyal/summoning-of-blessings">From the Vajrakīlaya cycle known as <em>Yang Zab Nyingpo</em> (Deepest Heart-Essence), this is the descent of blessings (<em>byin 'bebs</em>).</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/vajrakilaya">Vajrakīlaya</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/descent-of-blessings">Descent of Blessings</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/termas">Termas</a> <span class="left">4 May 2019</span> </div> </div> <h4>Vimalamitra</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-vimalamitra">Prayer to the Great Paṇḍita Vimalamitra</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-vimalamitra">A short, four-line prayer to Vimalamitra, the great paṇḍita and Dzogchen master.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">25 Jul 2019</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-vimalamitra-chetsun-nyingtik">Prayer to Vimalamitra</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-vimalamitra-chetsun-nyingtik">This six-line supplication is extracted from the main sādhana of Chetsün Nyingtik, one of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo's most important revelations.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/chetsun-nyingtik">Chetsün Nyingtik</a> <span class="left">27 Dec 2023</span> </div> </div> <h4>Virūpa</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-virupa">Prayer to the Siddha Virūpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/prayer-to-virupa">A short, four-line prayer to invoke the blessings of the great adept Virūpa.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">23 Jan 2020</span> </div> </div> <h4>Yeshe Tsogyal</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/prayer-to-yumka-tsogyal">A Prayer to Yumka Tsogyal</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/">Apang Tertön</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/apang-terton/prayer-to-yumka-tsogyal">A supplication to the ḍākinī, who is the Great Mother on the dharmakāya level, Vajravārāhī on the sambhogakāya, and Yeshe Tsogyal on the nirmāṇakāya.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">29 Apr 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/yeshe-tsogyal-prayer">Prayer to Yeshe Tsogyal</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/">Dudjom Rinpoche</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/yeshe-tsogyal-prayer">A four-line prayer to Yeshe Tsogyal.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">24 Dec 2022</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-yeshe-tsogyal">A Prayer to Khandro Yeshé Tsogyal</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/">Fifteenth Karmapa</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/fifteenth-karmapa/prayer-to-yeshe-tsogyal">A short prayer invoking Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal in order to dispel obstacles and fulfil wishes.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">17 Apr 2020</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-lady-yeshe-tsogyal">A Prayer to Lady Yeshe Tsogyal, the Mother</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-lady-yeshe-tsogyal">Composed in 1946, this supplication to Yeshe Tsogyal identifies her as the universal mother and queen of ḍākinīs and calls upon her assistance to transform one's subtle channels, wind-energies and essences and attain the state of deathlessness.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">29 Apr 2021</span> </div> </div> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-yeshe-tsogyal">Prayer to Yeshe Tsogyal</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/">Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-yeshe-tsogyal">A short, four-line prayer to Yeshe Tsogyal, "the foremost of ḍākinīs" and "Great Bliss Queen".</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <span class="left">29 May 2013</span> </div> </div> <h4>Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal</h4> <div class="text-card"> <div><a class="title" href="/tibetan-masters/mipham-tenpai-nyima/zhabdrung-prayer-jikten-wangchuk">Prayer to Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal</a></div> <div class="attrib"> by <a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham-tenpai-nyima/">Mipham Tenpai Nyima</a> </div> <div class="blurb"><a href="/tibetan-masters/mipham-tenpai-nyima/zhabdrung-prayer-jikten-wangchuk">This famous three-verse prayer to Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal is said to have been composed by the master’s father, Mipham Tenpai Nyima.</a></div> <div class="tags clearfix"> <a class="tag-circle" 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