Lamrim Prayers eBook

By FPMT

Lamrim Prayers – glance meditations on the graduated path, includes Calling the Lama from Afar, The Foundation of All Good Qualities, The Three Principles of the Path, Practicing Guru Devotion with the Nine Attitudes and A Glance Meditation on All the Points of the Lamrim. Included in Essential Buddhist Prayers, Volume 1, 2006, FPMT WWW.

2010 Edition

• Language: English
• Publisher: FPMT
• Release date: Apr 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463444825

FPMT

The FPMT is an organization devoted to preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha and based on that experience spreading the Dharma to sentient beings. We provide integrated education through which people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility and service. We are committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founder, Lama Thubten Yeshe and our spiritual director, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.

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Technical Note

Comments by the compiler or editor are contained in instruction boxes. For example:

Recite these two verses three times.

Instructions or advice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche are marked by the symbol ❖. For example:

❖ Then recite the following verses and meditate on the guru entering your heart.

Italics and a small font size indicate instructions and comments found in the Tibetan text that are not meant to be recited. Words in square brackets have been added by the translator for clarification. For example:

This is how to correctly follow the virtuous friend, [the root of the path to full enlightenment].

Calling the Guru from Afar

A Tormented Wail, Quickly Drawing Forth

the Blessing of the Guru, the Inseparable Three Kayas

(Extensive Version)

LA MA KHYEN / LA MA KHYEN / LA MA KHYEN

Guru, think of me. Guru, think of me. Guru, think of me.

SANG GYÄ KÜN GYI YE SHE DE CHHEN CHHÖ KUR RO CHIG

DE NYI DRIN CHÄN LA MA KÜN GYI RANG ZHIN THAR THUG

LA MA CHHÖ KYI KU LA NYING NÄ SÖL WA DEB SO

DI CHHI BAR DO KÜN TU DRÄL ME JE SU ZUNG SHIG

The transcendental wisdom of all buddhas, one taste in the great bliss dharmakaya,

Is itself the ultimate nature of all kind gurus.

I beseech you, guru, dharmakaya,

Please guide me always without separation, in this life, future lives, and the bardo.

YE SHE GYU MÄI RANG NANG GYÄL WA YÄN LAG DÜN DÄN

DE NYI DRIN CHÄN LA MA KÜN GYI TRÜL ZHI THAR THUG

LA MA LONG CHÖ DZOG KUR NYING NÄ SÖL WA DEB SO

DI CHHI BAR DO KÜN TU DRÄL ME JE SU ZUNG SHIG

Wisdom's own illusory appearance, the conqueror with seven branches,

Is itself the ultimate basis of emanation of all kind gurus.

I beseech you, guru, sambhogakaya,

Please guide me always without separation, in this life, future lives, and the bardo.

JI NYE DÜL JÄI KHAM ZHIN NA TSHOG TRÜL PÄI RÖL GAR

DE NYI DRIN CHÄN LA MA LONG CHÖ DZOG KÜI NAM GYUR

LA MA TRÜL PÄI KU LA NYING NÄ SÖL WA DEB SO

DI CHHI BAR DO KÜN TU DRÄL ME JE SU ZUNG SHIG

The play of various emanations, suiting the dispositions of the many to be subdued,

Is itself the behavior of the sambhogakaya of the kind gurus.

I beseech you, guru, nirmanakaya,

Please guide me always without separation, in this life, future lives, and the bardo.

KU SUM YER ME RÖL PA LA MÄI ZUG SU SHAR WA

DE NYI DRIN CHÄN LA MA KÜN GYI NGO WO CHIG NYI

KU SUM YER ME LA MAR NYING NÄ SÖL WA DEB SO

DI CHHI BAR DO KÜN TU DRÄL ME JE SU ZUNG SHIG

The play of the inseparable three kayas, appearing in the form of the guru,

Is itself one with the very essence of all kind gurus.

I beseech you, guru, the inseparable three kayas,

Please