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གཏེར་ཆེན་མཆོག་གྱུར་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིག་པོ་གླིང་པ།

gter chen mchog gyur bde chen zhig po gling pa

Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa

Terchen Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa (mchog gyur bde chen zhig po gling pa, 1829–1870) was one of the great tertöns and an emanation of Prince Murub Tsenpo. He was a contemporary of Jamyang Khyentse .....

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བིལ་ཝའི་ལྗོན་བཟང་།

bkra shis bil wa'i ljon bzang

The Excellent Bilva Tree of Auspiciousness

Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö made this prayer in the actual presence of the great offering stūpa of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa at Tsikey Norbuling......

རིས་མེད་ཞལ་གདམས།

ris med zhal gdams

Advice on Non-Sectarianism

In an address to disciples, Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa sets out a vision of nonsectarianism, in which he emphasizes the commonality of traditions and decries the divisiveness that periodically plagues Tib.....

A New Text of Advice by Chokgyur Lingpa

On this Guru Rinpoche day, we are happy to share with you yet another short piece of advice from Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa In this pithy text addressed to the sixth Drigung Chungtsang, Könchok Tenzin Ch.....

Terchen Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa

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མཆོག་གླིང་གི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

mchog gling gi gsol 'debs

Supplication to Chokgyur Lingpa

This prayer to Chokgyur Lingpa was written down by Rikdzin Chögyel Dorjé from a treasure scroll. Rikdzin Chögyel Dorjé had a vision of Guru Rinpoche in which the Guru assured him, “Whoever supplicates.....

སྤྲུལ་པའི་གཏེར་ཆེན།

sprul pa'i gter chen

Aspiration for Chokgyur Lingpa's Activity to Flourish

A short aspiration for the spread and flourishing of the Chokling Tersar lineage, composed by Jamyang Khyensté Wangpo......

མཆོག་གྱུར་གླིང་པའི་མྱུར་འབྱོན་གསོལ་འདེབས།

mchog gyur gling pa'i myur 'byon gsol 'debs

Supplication for Chokgyur Lingpas Swift Return

An aspiration for the swift rebirth of Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche composed by Karmapa Orgyen Trinlé Dorjé......

Chokgyur Lingpa’s Thirty-Seven Treasure Sites

On this day, the 151st anniversary of the parinirvana of Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa, Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of a book featuring precious images and descri.....

New Translation: Advice on Non-Sectarianism

Happy Guru Day! On this Guru Rinpoche day we are delighted to share with you this new translation of a precious piece of advice from the great treasure revealer Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa. This adv.....

སྒོམ་ཚུལ་གྱི་བསླབ་བྱ།

sgom tshul gyi bslab bya

Advice on Meditation

A brief heart advice on meditation by Chokgyur Lingpa......

སྨོན་ལམ།

smon lam

Guru Rinpoche Aspiration Prayer

A brief aspiration prayer to Guru Rinpoche by Chokgyur Lingpa......

རྟེན་འབྲེལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ་ཆོས་བཤད།

rten 'brel gyi snying po chos bshad

A Teaching on The Essence of Dependent Origination

Verses of advice on dependent origination by Chokgyur Lingpa......

དབང་ལུ་ལ་གདམས་པ།

dbang lu la gdams pa

Advice for Wanglu

Chokgyur Lingpa gave this heart advice to his disciple Wanglu......

གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

gu ru rin po che'i gsol 'debs

A Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

A brief four-line prayer invoking Guru Rinpoche composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

སྔགས་འཆང་གསང་སྔགས་ལ་གདམས་པ།

sngags 'chang gsang sngags la gdams pa

Advice for Sang-Ngak

Chokgyur Lingpa gave this short heart advice to his disciple Sang-Ngak......

བུམ་ཐང་བླ་མ་ལ་གདམས་པ།

bum thang bla ma la gdams pa

Advice for Bumthang Lama

Chokgyur Lingpa gave this heart advice to his disciple Bumthang Lama......

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa's parinirvana

On this auspicious day, we'd like to share with you two aspirations for rebirth in the great treasure revealer's pure realm, the Lotus-Covered Realm......

ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

o rgyan rin po che'i gsol 'debs

A Prayer to the Guru of Uddiyana

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at Samye Monastery......

རིག་འཛིན་བླ་མ་ལ་གསོལ་འདེབས།

rig 'dzin bla ma la gsol 'debs

A Prayer to the Vidyadhara Guru

A profound four-line prayer to one's root teacher, composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

ཞལ་གདམས།

zhal gdams

Words of Advice

A call to the practitioners to turn their minds inwardly by Chokgyur Lingpa......

པདྨ་བཛྲའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

padma vajra'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer to Padmavajra

A brief prayer invoking Guru Rinpoche as Padma-Vajra composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

དད་པའི་ཤིང་རྟ།

dad pa'i shing rta

Chariot of Faith

A concise prayer invoking the blessings of Guru Rinpoche composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

སྔགས་འཆང་བགྲེས་པ་དབང་ལྡན་ལ་གདམས་པ།

sngags 'chang bgres pa dbang ldan la gdams pa

Advice for the Elder Mantra Holder Wangden

A piece of heart advice which Chokgyur Lingpa bestowed upon his disciple Wangden......

དཀོན་མཆོག་བསྟན་འཛིན་ལ་གདམས་པ།

dkon mchog bstan 'dzin la gdams pa

Advice for Konchok Tenzin

Chokgyur Lingpa gave this piece of heart advice to his student Könchok Tenzin......

རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་ཐེག་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་ལ་གསོལ་འདེབས།

rgyal dbang karma pa theg mchog rdo rje la gsol 'debs

The Prayer to Gyalwang Karmapa Tekchok Dorje

A short prayer invoking the 14th Gyalwang Karmapa Tekchok Dorjé composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

རོང་ཟོམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བཟང་པོ་ལ་གསོལ་འདེབས།

rong zom chos kyi bzang po la gsol 'debs

A Prayer to Rongdzom Chökyi Zangpo

Chokgyur Lingpa composed this prayer invoking Rongdzom Chökyi Zangpo upon the request of Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé......

དད་ལྡན་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

dad ldan gyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by the Faithful

A short prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciples......

ཀར་ཤོད་དཔལ་བྲོས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

kar shod dpal bros bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Karshö Paldro

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Karshö Paldro.....

ལྷ་བུས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

lha bus bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Lhabu

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Lhabu......

ཀརྨ་རྡོ་རྗེས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

karma rdo rjes bskul ba'i gsol 'debs/

The Prayer Requested by Karma Dorje

A short prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Karma Dorjé......

བདེན་པའི་ཚིག

bden pa'i tshig

Words of Truth

In this piece of heart advice Chokgyur Lingpa encourages his students to cultivate pure perception......

བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

bsod nams rin chen gyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Sonam Rinchen

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Sönam Rinchen......

མགོན་དྲག་ལ་གདམས་པ།

mgon drak la gdams pa

Advice for Göndrak

Chokgyur Lingpa gave this heart advice on recognising the nature of mind to his disciple Göndrak......

སློབ་མ་ལ་གདམས་པ།

slob ma la gdams pa/

Advice for Disciples

A piece of advice bestowed by Chokgyur Lingpa upon his disciples at Khala Rongo......

གསུར་མཆོད་དཀར་དམར།

gsur mchod dkar dmar

White and Red Sur Offerings

The white and red Sur or 'burnt offering' (gsur) revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

གཟིམ་འགགས་དོན་ལྡན་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

gzim 'gags don ldan gyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer requested by Zimgak Donden

Upon the request of Zimgak Dönden, Chokgyur Lingpa composed this prayer invoking the 14th Gyalwang Karmapa Tekchok Dorjé......

སློབ་མས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

slob mas bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by the Disciples

A prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciples......

རིགས་སྔགས་བདུད་འདུལ་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

rigs sngags bdud 'dul gyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Rikngak Dudul

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Rikngak Dudul......

ཨ་མདོ་བརྗེས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

a mdo brjes bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by a Monk from Amdo

Chokgyur Lingpa composed this prayer invoking Guru Rinpoche upon the request of a monk from Amdo......

དཀོན་མཆོག་གིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

dkon mchog gis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Könchok

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his daughter Könchok Paldrön......

༄༅། །བརྒྱུད་འདེབས་བསྡུས་པ་བཞུགས་སོ། །

brgyud 'debs bsdus pa

A Concise Lineage Prayer

Chokgyur Lingpa composed this simple invocation of lineage masters on behalf of one of his students......

མགར་བ་ཚང་གིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

mgar ba tshang gis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by the Gar clan

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of the Gar clan......

རིག་འཛིན་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

rig 'dzin dpal 'byor gyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Rikdzin Paljor

A prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Rikdzin Paljor.....

རིག་འཛིན་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་བསྡུས་པ།

rig 'dzin dpal 'byor gyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs bsdus pa

A Short Prayer Requested by Rikdzin Paljor

A short prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Rikdzin Paljor......

འཁྲི་འདུ་སྟོད་ཀྱི་དད་ལྡན་ལ་གདམས་པ།

'khri 'du stod kyi dad ldan la gdams pa

Advice for the Faithful of Upper Tridu

This piece of heart advice by Chokgyur Lingpa points out the key-points of the spiritual path......

པདྨ་ས་བཅུས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

pad+ma sa bcus bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Pema Sachu

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Pema Sachu......

མཁན་པོ་རིན་ཆེན་དར་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

mkhan po rin chen dar rgyas kyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Khenpo Rinchen Dargye

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple the great Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé......

ཐུགས་ལ་བཞག་དགོས་པའི་ཞལ་གདམས།

thugs la bzhag dgos pa'i zhal gdams

Some Advice to Take to Heart

Pithy words of advice written by Chokgyur Lingpa to his faithful disciples, pointing out common shortcomings faced by practitioners......

རིན་ཆེན་རྡོ་རྗེས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

rin chen rdo rjes bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Rinchen Dorje

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Rinchen Dorjé......

རྨི་ལམ་ལ་བསྩལ་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

A Prayer Bestowed in a Dream

A Prayer Bestowed in a Dream

Chokgyur Lingpa witnessed ḍākinīs reciting this prayer while he was returning from a visionary journey to Zangdokpalri......

ཀརྨ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རབ་བརྟན་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

karma tshul khrims rab brtan gyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Karma Tsultrim Rapten

A short prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Karma Tsultrim Rapten......

ཞལ་གདམས་མདོར་བསྡུས།

zhal gdams mdor bsdus

Advice in Brief

This brief instruction by Chokgyur Lingpa consists of three pieces of advice given by the great masters of the past......

ངག་དབང་རིན་ཆེན་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

ngag dbang rin chen gyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Ngakwang Rinchen

A short prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of Ngawang Rinchen at Yarkyil Residence......

རྗེ་དྲུང་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

rje drung rin po ches bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Jedrung Rinpoche

A short prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of Jedrung Rinpoche at Riwoche monastery......

ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

o rgyan rin po che'i gsol 'debs

A Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche for the pacification of obstacles and the spontaneous fulfilment of all wishes composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

པདྨ་མགོན་པོས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

padma mgon pos bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Pema Gonpo

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple the mantradhara Pema Gönpo......

བླ་མ་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་དང་སྒྲུབ་པ་ཡོན་ཏན་གྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

bla ma chos dbyings dang sgrub pa yon tan gyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by Lama Chöying and the Practitioner Yönten

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciples Lama Chöying and Yönten......

ཉིན་རྫོང་དགེ་བཤེས་ཀྱིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

nyin rdzong dge bshes kyis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs/

The Prayer Requested by the Geshe from Nyingdzong

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple the Geshe from Nyingdzong......

ཡོན་བདག་རྣམས་ལ་གདམས་པ། །

yon bdag rnams la gdams pa

Advice for Patrons of the Dharma

Chokgyur Lingpa gave these instructions on what is to be adopted and abandoned on the path to his patrons......

སྔགས་འཆང་བེ་ཅུ་བུ་རིང་གིས་བསྐུལ་བའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

sngags 'chang be cu bu ring gis bskul ba'i gsol 'debs

The Prayer Requested by the Mantradhara Bechu Buring

A brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple the Mantradhara Bechu Buring......

སྐྱིད་ལུས་ལ་གདམས་པ། །

skyid lus la gdams pa

Advice for Kyilü

A short piece of advice that Chokgyur Lingpa gave near the Yelphuk Cave on the request of a disciple named Kyilü......

དཀོན་མཆོག་དཔལ་སྒྲོན་ལ་གདམས་པ།

dkon mchog dpal sgron la gdams pa

Advice for Könchok Paldrön

Chokgyur Lingpa gave this poetic verse of advice to his daughter Könchok Paldrön. The advice is a play on Könchok, Rare and Supreme, the first part of his daughter's name......

རྣམ་ཀུན་ཕན་བདེ་འབྱུང་པའི་བསླབ་སྟོན།

rnam kun phan bde 'byung pa'i bslab ston

The Source of Permanent Benefit and Bliss

Chokgyur Lingpa gave this oral advice, explaining the source of permanent benefit and bliss, to his retinue and followers in Dzözhol Gyurme Ling......

སྡོམ་པ་གསུམ་གྱི་བསླབ་བྱ།

sdom pa gsum gyi bslab bya/

Advice on the Way to Practice the Three Vows

Chokgyur Lingpa gave the following piece of heart advice on the way to practice the three vows within the mindstream of a single person......

མ་རིག་གཉིད་སྐྲོག

ma rig gnyid skrog

Awakening from the Sleep of Ignorance

A prayer composed by Chokgyur Lingpa upon the request of Lama Rapbjampa Pema Lodrö’s in order to clear away the obstacles to study, reflection, and meditation......

གདམས་ངག་གནད་དྲིལ།

gdams ngag gnad dril

Heart Advice in a Nutshell

When Chokgyur Lingpa and his disciples were seated in meditation in the sacred place of Kyijam Nyida, the great treasure revealer, gave this heart advice which was then noted down......

བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷ་མོ་ལ་གདམས་པ།

bkra shis lha mo la gdams pa

Advice for Tashi Lhamo

A short piece of advice that Chokgyur Lingpa gave at Kela Norbu Phünsum, the future seat of the seat of Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, on the request of a disciple named Tashi Lhamo......

ཆོས་ལམ་དུ་སོང་མ་སོང་ཤེས་པའི་མན་ངག

chos lam du song ma song shes pa'i man ngag

Pithy Advice on How to Check One's Progress on the Path

In this pithy text addressed to the sixth Drigung Chungtsang, Könchok Tenzin Chökyi Lodrö, Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa offers straightforward instructions on how to check one’s progress on the path and dev.....

རིག་འཛིན་ཁྱུང་རྒོད་རྩལ་ལ་གདམས་པ།

rig 'dzin khyung rgod rtsal la gdams pa/

Advice for the Vidyadhara Khyung Götsal

On the request of the Vidyadhara Khyung Götsal, Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa sets out a vision of nonsectarianism, in which he emphasises the commonality of traditions and decries the divisiveness that peri.....

ལྔ་ལྡན་ཉམས་ལེན།

lnga ldan nyams len

The Fivefold Practice

An outline of the fivefold practice of mahāmudrā that is unique to the Drikung Kagyü school: train in bodhicitta, visualize your body as the deity, visualize the guru as the deity, train in the non-co.....

Guru Rinpoche's Birthday

On this very special Guru Rinpoche day which marks the day that Guru Rinpoche took birth, Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you these new translations of three beautiful texts by Chokgyur Dechen.....

The Great Tertön: The Life and Activities of Chokgyur Lingpa

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ཞལ་གདམས།

Advice

Practical and ethical advice from great masters......

མཆོག་གླིང་རང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་བསྟན་ཉིན་བྱེད་འོད་སྣང་།

mchog gling rang rnam rgyal bstan nyin byed 'od snang

Radiant Sunlight of the Victors' Teachings: Chokgyur Lingpa's autobiography

A short autobiography covering the main events in the great Treasure revealer’s life from his birth in 1829 to 1865, five years before he passed away at the age of 42, in 1870......

A Threefold Aspiration for Rebirth in the Copper-Colored Mountain by Chokgyur Lingpa

On this Guru Rinpoche day, we would like to share with you this new translation of Chokgyur Lingpa's Threefold Aspiration for Rebirth in Zangdok Palri, which describes the pure land in terms of ground.....

མོས་གུས་གླུ་དབྱངས།

mos gus glu dbyangs

A Devotional Song

A brief devotional song invoking Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, composed by Chokgyur Lingpa's eldest son, Tersé Gyurmé Tsewang Drakpa......

བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་བའི་དབྱངས་སྙན།

bkra shis 'khyil ba'i dbyangs snyan

The Melody of the Auspiciously Curling Conch

The life-story supplication recounting the life of the Great Tertön Chokgyur Lingpa, composed by Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche......

The Source of Permanent Benefit and Bliss

For the anniversary of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this oral advice, explaining the source of permanent benefit and bliss, which Chokgyur Lingpa gave to his ret.....

བསྟན་རྒྱས་སྨོན་ལམ།

bstan rgyas smon lam

Aspiration for the Spread of the Teachings

An aspiration prayer for the spread of the teachings of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, Jamgön Kongtrul and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and for the flourishing of Neten Monastery......

A Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

An Aspiration Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief aspiration prayer to Guru Rinpoche by Chokgyur Lingpa......

Advice on Meditation

On this Ḍākinī Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this piece of heart advice on meditation by Chokgyur Lingpa......

A Teaching on The Essence of Dependent Origination

On this Guru Rinpoche day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share these verses of advice on dependent origination given by Chokgyur Lingpa......

Advice for Disciples

On this Ḍākinī day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share a piece of advice that Chokgyur Lingpa gave to his disciple at Khala Rongpo......

Advice for Könchok Tenzin

On this Dakini Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share this piece of heart advice which Chokgyur Lingpa gave to his student Könchok Tenzin......

The Prayer to Gyalwang Karmapa Tekchok Dorje

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following prayer invoking the 14th Gyalwang Karmapa Tekchok Dorjé composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

The Prayer to Padma-Vajra

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer invoking Guru Rinpoche as Padma-Vajra composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

A Prayer to the Guru of Uddiyana

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at Samye Monastery......

Advice for Bumthang Lama

On this Ḍākinī day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this piece of heart advice which Chokgyur Lingpa bestowed upon his disciple Bumthang Lama......

Advice for Tashi Lhamo

On this Guru Rinpoche day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share a short piece of advice that Chokgyur Lingpa gave to a disciple named Tashi Lhamo......

Advice for Wanglu

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this piece of heart advice which Chokgyur Lingpa bestowed upon his disciple Wanglu......

Advice for Wangden

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this piece of heart advice which Chokgyur Lingpa bestowed upon his disciple Wangden......

Advice for Sang-Ngak

On this Ḍākinī Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this piece of heart advice which Chokgyur Lingpa bestowed upon his disciple Sang-Ngak......

The Prayer Requested by Lhabu

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Lhabu......

Advice for the Faithful of Upper Tridu

On this Ḍākinī Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this piece of heart advice on the key-points of the spiritual path by Chokgyur Lingpa......

The Prayer Requested by the Gar Clan

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of the Gar clan......

The Prayer Requested by the Faithful

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciples......

The Prayer Requested by Sonam Rinchen

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Sönam Rinchen......

The Prayer Requested by Rinchen Dorje

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Rinchen Dorjé......

A Concise Lineage Prayer

On this Dakini Day, Samye Translations is delighted to share the following simple invocation of lineage masters, which Chokgyur Lingpa composed on behalf of one of his students. This marks the auspici.....

The Prayer Requested by Könchok

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his daughter Könchok Paldrön......

Advice for the Vidyadhara Khyung Götsal

On this Dakini Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share this piece of advice on nonsectarianism which Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa gave upon the request of the Vidyadhara Khyung Götsal......

The Prayer Requested by Pema Sachu

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Pema Sachu......

The Prayer Requested by Ngakwang Rinchen

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Ngakwang Rinchen......

The Prayer Requested by the Monk from Amdo

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of a monk from Amdo......

Words of Truth

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this piece of heart advice in which Chokgyur Lingpa encourages his students to cultivate pure perception......

The Prayer Requested by Karma Dorjé

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Karma Dorjé......

A Further Prayer Requested by Rikdzin Paljor

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Rikdzin Paljor......

The Prayer Requested by Rikdzin Paljor

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Rikdzin Paljor......

The Prayer Requested by Karma Tsultrim Rapten

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Karma Tsultrim Rapten......

The Prayer Requested by Jedrung Rinpoche

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of Jedrung Rinpoche at Riwoche......

The Prayer Requested by Karshö Paldro

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Karshö Paldro......

The Prayer Requested by Rikngak Düdül

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple Rikngak Düdül......

The Prayer Requested by Pema Gonpo

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of the mantradhara Pema Gönpo......

The Prayer Requested by the Geshe from Nyindzong

On this Dakini Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple the Geshe from Nyingdzong......

Heart Advice in a Nutshell

On this Ḍākinī day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this piece of heart advice which Chokgyur Lingpa bestowed upon his disciples in the sacred place of Kyijam Nyida......

A Prayer to Gyalwa Longchenpa

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Gyalwa Longchenpa which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of the great Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé......

The Prayer Requested by Khenpo Rinchen Dargye

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of the great Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé......

The Prayer Requested by the Disciples

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his ordained and lay disciples......

The Prayer requested by Zimgak Dönden

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following prayer invoking the 14th Gyalwang Karmapa Tekchok Dorjé, which Chokgyur Lingpa composed upon the request of Zimgak Dönden.....

The Prayer Requested by the Mantradhara Bechu Buring

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciple the Mantradhara Bechu Buring......

Advice for Göndrak

On this Dakini Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this piece of heart advice on recognising the nature of mind which Chokgyur Lingpa bestowed upon his disciple Göndrak......

The Prayer Requested by Lama Chöying and the Practitioner Yönten

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of his disciples Lama Chöying and Yönten......

Chariot of Faith

Celebrating the 152nd anniversary of the parinirvana of the Great Tertön Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa, Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share this prayer to Guru Rinpoche composed by the Great Tertön him.....

A Prayer Bestowed in a Dream

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche which dakinis recited as Chokgyur Lingpa was returning from a visionary journey to Zangdokp.....

A Prayer to Rongdzom Chökyi Zangpo

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Rongdzom Chökyi Zangpo which Chokgyur Lingpa composed at the request of the great Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé......

Advice for Patrons of the Dharma

On this Guru Rinpoche day, Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you these instructions on what is to be adopted and abandoned on the path which Chokgyur Lingpa gave to his patrons......

The Fivefold Practice

On Tenda Tsechu, the Tenth Day of the Monkey Month, celebrating the Mahaguru’s birth, Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you these instructions on the fivefold practice of mahāmudrā by Chokgyur L.....

Advice on the Way to Practice the Three Vows

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share this piece of heart advice on the way to practice the three vows within the mindstream of a single person by Chokgyur Lingpa......

A Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following brief prayer to Guru Rinpoche for the pacification of obstacles and the spontaneous fulfilment of all wishes composed by .....

Advice in Brief

On this Guru Rinpoche day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this brief instruction by Chokgyur Lingpa which consists of three pieces of advice given by the great masters of the past......

New translation: Some Advice to Take to Heart

On this Ḍākinī day, we are pleased to offer you this new translation of a pithy text of advice written by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, in which he points out the common shortcomings faced by practitioners......

Awakening from the Sleep of Ignorance

On this Dakini Day Samye Translations is pleased to share the following prayer which Chokgyur Lingpa composed upon the request of Lama Rapbjampa Pema Lodrö’s in order to clear away the obstacles to st.....

The Melody of the Auspiciously Curling Conch

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this new edition to our library thanks in large part to the translation work of Rangjung Yeshe Publications: the famous life-story.....

The Essential Amrtia of Profound Meaning

On this Guru Rinpoche Day, Samye Translations is pleased to share our full translation of The Essential Amrita of Profound Meaning......

གསེར་སྐྱེམས་མཆོད་འབུལ།

gser skyems mchod 'bul

Serkyem Offering

A four-line serkyem offering to the guardians of the teachings, composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

A Devotional Song

On this Ḍākinī Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this devotional song composed by Tersé Gyurmé Tsewang Drakpa......

New Translation: Radiant Sunlight of the Victors' Teachings

To celebrate the second Guru Rinpoche day in the anniversary year of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa's parinirvana, we would like to share with you this revised translation of one of Chokgyur Lingpa's rare aut.....

རྒྱལ་བ་ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ལ་གསོལ་འདེབས།

rgyal ba klong chen pa la gsol 'debs

A Prayer to Gyalwa Longchenpa

Chokgyur Lingpa composed this prayer invoking Gyalwa Longchenpa upon the request of Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé......

རྒྱལ་ཀུན་འདུས་གཟུགས།

rgyal kun 'dus gzugs

Supplication to Guru Rinpoche and Yeshé Tsogyel

A short four-line supplication to Guru Rinpoche and Khandro Yeshé Tsogyel composed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

པདྨ་ཐོད་ཕྲེང་ལ་གསོལ་འདེབས

padma thod phreng la gsol 'debs

A Prayer to Pema Totreng Tsel

A profound four-line prayer invoking Guru Rinpoché as Pema Tötreng Tsel, the Mighty Skull-Garlanded Padma, composed by Chokgyur Lingpa......

སེང་ཆེན་ནོར་བུ་དགྲ་འདུལ་གྱི་བསང་མཆོད།

seng chen nor bu dgra 'dul gyi bsang mchod

Cleansing Offering for Sengchen Norbu Dradül

A concise cleansing (sang, bsang) offering for Sengchen Norbu Dradül, popularly knows as King Gesar, written spontaneously by the treasure revealer Chokgyur Lingpa......

མ་ཧཱ་ཀཱ་ལ་བསྡུས་པ།

ma hA kA la bsdus pa

Short Dharmapāla Petition

A short petitionary offering (gsol mchod) to the dharmapālas extracted from the Pema Garwang cycle of practices revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་ལ་ལྔ།

byin rlabs kyi tshogs la lnga

Fivefold Consecration

A brief liturgy for blessing the cleansing water, vajra and bell, kīla, mala, and drum, revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རིའི་སྨོན་ལམ།

zangs mdog dpal ri'i smon lam

Prayer for Rebirth in Zangdok Palri

A four-line prayer to be reborn on the Copper-Colored Mountain of Glory, or Zangdok Palri, in the company of Guru Padmasambhava and his retinue composed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

པདྨ་གར་དབང་གྱི་སྨོན་ལམ།

padma gar dbang gyi smon lam

Pema Garwang Aspiration

This prayer was extracted from The Great Compassionate One, Lotus Lord of the Dance (Tukchen Pema Garwang), one of Chokgyur Lingpa’s treasures......

མཁན་སློབ་ཆོས་གསུམ་དང་ལོ་ཆེན་གསོལ་འདེབས།

mkhen slob chos gsum dang lo chen gsol 'debs

Supplication to the Abbot, the Master, the King and the Translator

A short prayer invoking the Abbot, Master, King and Translator, i.e., Śāntarakṣita, Guru Padmasambhava, Trisong Deutsen, and Vairocana, composed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

དཔག་བསམ་ལྗོན་ཤིང་།

dpag bsam ljon shing

The Wishfulfilling Tree

This life story of Guru Padmasambhava was revealed in 1856 by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa as part of the Sevenfold Cycle of Profundity......

ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རི་རྒྱུ་ལམ་འབྲས་བུ་གསུམ་གྱི་སྨོན་ལམ།

zangs mdog dpal ri rgyu lam 'bras bu gsum gyi smon lam

Threefold Aspiration for Rebirth in Zangdok Palri

A threefold aspiration for rebirth in the Copper-Colored Mountain composed by the great tertön Chokgyur Lingpa from the perspectives of the ground, path, and fruition......

ཞལ་ཆེམས་གསོལ་འདེབས།

zhal chems gsol 'debs

Testament Supplication

This blessed Testament Supplication (zhal chems gsol 'debs) comes from the spiritual life-story of the Master of Uḍḍiyāna revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, The Wishfulfilling Tree......

དུས་གསུམ་སངས་རྒྱས།

dus gsum sangs rgyas

Six Vajra Lines Supplication

Commonly known as the Düsum Sangyé (dus gsum sangs rgyas), this prayer is a key supplication to Guru Padmasambhava......

རྟ་མགྲིན་སྙིང་པོ་དོན་བསྡུས་ཀྱི་བསྒོམ་བཟླས།

rta mgrin snying po don bsdus kyi bsgom bzlas

Concise Meditation and Recitation for Hayagrīva

A concise meditation and recitation for Hayagrīva for the practice of Magnetizing Profundity of Hayagrīva from the Sevenfold Profundity (zab pa skor bdun) revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

ཐུགས་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་བསང་བསྡུས་པ།

thugs sgrub kyi bsang bsdus pa

Concise Tukdrup Cleansing Offering

Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa revealed this Concise Cleansing Offering practice (sangchö, bsang mchod) as part of the famous cycle known as The Guru's Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles......

པདྨ་གཙུག་གཏོར་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་བཞགས་པ།

padma gtsug gtor las byung ba'i bzhags pa

Lotus Uṣṇīṣa Confession

This short confession invoking the thirty-five Buddhas of Confession was revealed as a treasure by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa as part of cycle of The Great Compassionate One, Lotus Uṣṇīṣa......

རྒྱུན་གྱི་བཀོལ་བྱང་།

rgyun gyi bkol byang

Concise Manual for Daily Practice

The concise daily sadhana (rgyun khyer) for The Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles (Lamé Tukdrup Barché Künsel), a joint revelation by Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa.....

བླ་མ་ཡི་དམ།

bla ma yi dam

Swift Activity

A petitionary offering (gsol mchod) to all the main protectors of the Chokling Tersar, commonly called Lama Yidam (bla ma yi dam) after its beginning syllables, composed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

བདེ་བ་ཅན་དུ་སྐྱེ་བའི་སྨོན་ལམ།

bde ba can du skye ba'i smon lam

Aspiration to Take Rebirth in Sukhāvatī

This aspiration to take rebirth in Sukhāvatī was extracted from The Thirteen Oral Instructions revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa from Blazing Jewel at Tsiké Drak, as part of the Wishfulfilling Jewel .....

ཡེ་ཤེས་སྐུ་མཆོག་མ།

ye shes sku mchog ma

Yeshé Kunchokma

An important confession liturgy extracted from the fourth chapter of the Immaculate Confession Tantra (dri med bshags rgyud)......

བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་མ།

bsam pa lhun grub ma

Sampa Lhündrup Supplication

Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa’s revelation of the Sampa Lhündrupma (bsam pa lhun grub ma), a famous prayer to Guru Padmasambhava for the spontaneous fulfillment of wishes, forms the outer section of The Wish.....

བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཏམྦུ་རུའི་དབྱངས་སྙན།

bkra shis tam+bu ru'i dbyangs snyan

Exquisite Melody of the Auspicious Tamboura

Chokgyur Lingpa's first-hand account of the treasure revelations of The Essential Sacred Dharma in Five Cycles (Damchök Nyingpo Khornga ), The Gradual Path of Wisdom Essence (Lamrim Yeshé Nyingpo), an.....

Extract from the Essence Manual of Oral Instructions

Verses and mantras bringing blessings and dispelling obstacles. This passage was extracted from The Essence Manual of Oral Instructions, or Zheldam Nyingjang (zhal gdams snying byang), the root text o.....

ཀུན་འདུས་གུ་རུ་རྗེ་ལ་གསོལ་འདེབས་བྱིན་རླབས་མུ་ཏིག་ཟེགས་མ།

kun 'dus gu ru rje la gsol 'debs byin rlabs mu tig zegs ma

Pearl Droplets of Blessings

A short supplication to Guru Rinpoche as the source of all tantric lineages in Tibet written by the great treasure revealer Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa and extracted from a collection of his supplications .....

གསང་ཐིག་ཕུར་པ།

gsang thig phur pa

Single Mudra Vajrakumara

The Sangtik Phurpa practice belongs to the treasure teachings hidden by Guru Padmasambhava for future disciples. In 1859 on the 8th of August, at the retreat hermitage of Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche at t.....

བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མདོར་བསྡུས།

bla ma'i rnal 'byor mdor bsdus/

Concise Guru Yoga

A simple Guru Yoga centering around the famous Six Vajra Verse Supplication......

རིག་འཛིན་བླ་མའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

rig 'dzin bla ma'i gsol 'debs

Prayer to the Vidyādhara Gurus

This prayer invoking the blessing of the buddhas, bodhisattvas and accomplished practitioners (vidyādharas) of Tibet is taken from the compilation A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplica.....

འཆི་མེད་དཔག་བསམ་ལྗོན་ཤིང་།

'chi med dpag bsam ljon shing

The Wish-fulfilling Tree of Immortality

The Wish-fulfilling Tree of Immortality constitutes the lineage prayer for Extracting the Essence of Immortality (Tukdrup Tsepamé) from the Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles (Lamé Tukd.....

གུ་རུ་བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ཤོག་གཅིག་མ།

gu ru bde ba chen po'i sgrub thabs shog gcig ma

The Single Page Practice of the Guru of Great Bliss

A concise practice of Guru Dewa Chenpo, the Guru of Great Bliss......

ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་དུས་བཞི་མ།

phyogs bcu dus bzhi ma

Vajradhatu Mandala Aspiration

This aspiration prayer was spoken by Guru Padmasambhava while revealing the Vajradhātu-Mandala in the Turquoise Chamber, the shrine room on the second floor of Samyé......

སྐུ་མཆོག་འགྱུར་མེད།

sku mchog 'gyur med

Youthfulness Gained in Vajra-Like Immortality

A general long-life prayer for the holders of the teachings, invoking Guru Rinpoche along with other deities......

བར་ཆད་ལམ་སེལ།

bar chad lam sel

Prayer that Removes Obstacles from the Path (Barché Lamsel)

This famous prayer invoking Guru Urgyen Tötreng Tsal surrounded by his twelve emanations is renowned for its power to eliminate all obstacles on the spiritual path. It forms the outer practice of The .....

གཞན་ཕན་ཤིང་རྟ།

gzhan phan shing rta

Chariot of Altruism

The Dredger of the Lower Realms’ Depths (Ngensong Dongtruk) constitutes the Sambhogakaya practice from the Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles (Lamé Tukdrup Barché Künsel). The sadhana i.....

ཐོ་རངས་མ་རིག་གཉིད་སྐྲོག

tho rangs ma rig gnyid skrog

Awakening from the Sleep of Ignorance

This is the wake-up practice from the Guru's Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles. It is also part of Seed of Supreme Awakening, the extensive preliminary practices for the Dispeller of All Obst.....

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ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱུན་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།

yid bzhin nor bu'i rnal 'byor rgyun gyi snying po

Essential Daily Practice for Tukdrup Yizhin Norbu

The essential daily practice from The Wish-fulfilling Jewel Guru Heart Practice (Lamé Tukdrup Yizhin Norbu), as revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa and transcribed by Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo......

པདྨའི་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱུད་བཀླག་ཐབས།

padma'i snying po'i rgyud bklag thabs

Recitation Guide for the Lotus Essence Tantra

The Lotus Essence Tantra was revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa as part of the cycle associated with Pema Jungné, one of Guru Rinpoche's twelve emanations. Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo then composed this a.....

ཟབ་ཏིག་སྒྲོལ་ཆོག

zab tig sgrol chog

The Profound Essence of Tārā

“The Essence of the Two Accumulations: The Ritual for the Elaborate and Condensed Outer Practice from the Mind Treasure Cycle The Profound Essence of Tārā” or simply Zabtik Drolchok, “The Profound Ess.....

གསང་ཐིག་རྡོར་སེམས།

gsang thig rdor sems

Single Mudra Vajrasattva

In the secret mantra tradition, Buddha Vajrasattva is considered the source of all mandalas and the embodiment of all Buddha families. Most commonly Vajrasattva is practiced as a way to cleanse all ne.....

རྒྱུན་གྱི་ལུས་སྦྱིན་མདོར་བསྡུས།

rgyun gyi lus sbyin mdor bsdus

Concise Liturgy for Giving the Body

A concise liturgy for the practice of Chöd (‘Severance’) based on the teachings of Dechen Gyalpo, one of the twelve emanations of the Dispeller of All Obstacles. Khenpo Karma Rinchen Dargyé added supp.....

ཟབ་ཏིག་སྒྲོལ་ཆོག་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར།

zab tig sgrol chog rgyun khyer

Daily Practice of Zaptik Drolchok

A condensed version of the famous Zaptik Drolchok practice arranged by Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche for daily recitation......

གསང་ཐིག་རྡོར་སེམས་ཚོགས་མཆོད།

gsang thig rdor sems tshogs mchod

Single Mudra Vajrasattva Feast Offering

The feast offering for the Sādhana for the Single Mudrā Vajrasattva......

ཚོགས་མཆོད་ཕྲིན་ལས་བཅུད་ཐིག

tshogs mchod phrin las bcud thig

Essential Bindu of Activity

A feast offering arranged by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Tayé for the Chokling Tersar practice of Sangtik Purba, the Single Mudra Vajrakumāra......

ཟབ་ཏིག་སྒྲོལ་མའི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་བསྡུས་པ།

zab tig sgrol ma'i rgyun khyer bsdus pa

Condensed Daily Practice of Zaptik Drolchok

A condensed daily practice of Zaptik Drolchok arranged by Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche......

པདྨ་བཀོད་པའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སྨོན་ལམ་བསྡུས་པ།

padma bkod pa'i zhing khams smon lam bsdus pa

Concise Aspiration for Rebirth in the Lotus-Covered Realm

A concise aspirations for rebirth in the Lotus-Covered pure realm of Chokgyur Lingpa, arranged by Phakchok Rinpoché at the request of several students......

The Parinirvana of Kyabjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche

With the passing of Kyapje Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, our mandala is left without its central figure—a precious incarnation of Chokgyur Dechen Shigpo Lingpa, who was both our guide and source for the a.....

མཁྱེན་ཀོང་མཆོག་རིགས་གསུམ་མགོན་པོ་་གསོལ་འདེབས།

mkhyen kong mchog rigs gsum mgon po gsol 'debs

Supplication to the Three Family Lords

Three verses of supplication to Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Tayé, Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, and Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo respectively, written by Khyentsé Wangpo at Jamgön Kongtrül's request......

སྨན་གྱི་བླ་མའི་ཆོ་ག་ཉུང་ངུར་བསྡུས་པ་གཞན་ཕན་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཟེགས་མ།

sman gyi bla ma'i cho ga nyung ngur bsdus pa gshan phan bdud rtsi'i zegs ma

A Drop of Amrita for the Benefit of Others

A concise sadhana composed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa's son, Tersey Gyurmé Tsewang Drakpa, for accomplishing the Medicine Buddha, Guru of Healers......

བྱིན་རླབས་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཨུཏྤལ།

byin rlabs bdud rtsi'i ut+pala

Blessed Amrita of Blue Lotus

A lesser known prayer to the lineage of Zaptik Drolchok, the practice of Green Tārā which was revealed as a mind terma by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

Extracting the Elixir of Great Bliss

On this Dakini Day, Samye Translations is delighted to share the following Guru Dewa Chenpo practice revealed by Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa and arranged by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé......

The Wish-Fulfilling Tree

On this Guru Rinpoche day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this revised translation of the The Wish-fulfilling Tree, Chokgyur Lingpa's famous biography of Guru Padmasambhava......

གཏེར་སྲས་འགྱུར་མེད་ཚེ་དབང་གྲགས་པ།

gter sras 'gyur med tshe dbang grags pa

Tersé Gyurmé Tsewang Drakpa

Gyurmé Tsewang Drakpa ('gyur med tshe dbang grags pa), alias Wangchuk Dorjé (dbyang phyug rdo rje), an emanation of King Jah, was the great tertön Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa’s eldest son......

Guru Dewa Chenpo, the Guru of Great Bliss

On this Guru Rinpoche day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this concise practice of Guru Dewa Chenpo, the Guru of Great Bliss, revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa......

Exquisite Melody of the Auspicious Tamboura

On this Guru Rinpoche Day Samye Translations is pleased to share Chokgyur Lingpa's first-hand account of the treasure revelations of at Chimé Karmo Taktsang and Sengé Yumtsho in Kham in 1866......

རྡོར་སེམས་སྐང་བཤགས་ཞབས་བརྟན། །

rdor sems skang bshags zhabs brtan

Mending Samayas for the Longevity of the Gurus

Kyapgön Phakchok Rinpoche composed this addendum to the famous Youthfulness Gained in Vajra-like Immortality by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa. This four-line verse and mantra invoke Vajrasattva, requesting t.....

ཀུན་དགའི་ཐིག་ལེ།

kun dga'i thig le

Sphere of Universal Joy

An aspiration for taking rebirth in the Lotus-Covered Realm, or Pema Köpé Zhingkham (padma bkod pa'i zhing khams), the pureland of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, composed by Jamgön Kongtrül Rinpoché at the r.....

དམ་རྫས་མྱོང་གྲོལ་ཕྲིན་ལས་རོལ་པ་དང་༔ མཐོང་གྲོལ་སྐུ་ཚབ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས༔

dam rdzas myong grol phrin las rol pa dang mthong grol sku tshab rnam gnyis kyi lo rgyus

The Display of Awakened Activity: the Samaya Substances that Liberate Upon Taste and the History of the Two Statues that Liberate Upon Sight

This treasure text revealed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo tells the history and benefits as recorded by Khandro Yeshé Tsogyal of the treasure substances and the most sacred statues of Guru Padmasambhava—.....

News from Samye Translations

The final months of the Water Tiger Year (2022-23) brought Samye Translations into a crescendo of activity, with round-the-clock writing, editing, and design from our international team of researchers.....

མཆོག་གླིང་གཏེར་སྲས་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ།

mchog gling gter sras sprul sku

Chokling Tersé Tulku

Chokling Tersé Tulku (mchog gling gter sras sprul sku), was an incarnation of Chokgyur Lingpa's son, Gyurmé Tsewang Drakpa, and the brother of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's root teacher Samten Gyatso. One o.....

བདེ་ཆེན་བཅུད་འདྲེན།

bde chen bcud 'dren

Extracting the Elixir of Great Bliss

As part of the Three Roots of the Sevenfold Cycle of Profundity Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa revealed the following practice of Guru Dewa Chenpo. Supplementing the root treasure text with further prayers, .....

Sangtik Dorsem

On this Ḍākinī Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this new edition to our library thanks in large part to the translation work of Rangjung Yeshe Publications: Sangtik Dorsem, the profound.....

Sangtik Phurpa

On this Ḍākinī Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this new edition to our library thanks in large part to the translation work of Rangjung Yeshe Publications: Sangtik Phurpa, the profound.....

New translation: A Supplication to the Three Family Lords

On this new moon day, we are delighted to share with you a newly translated supplication to the three family lords Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Tayé, Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, and Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo. This.....

A new look for Lhasey Lotsawa

It is with great joy, and after many months of dedicated work, that we are announcing the launch of our new Lhasey Lotsawa website. This launch auspiciously takes place on Vesak, the festival celebrat.....

Zaptik Drolchok

On this Dakini Day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this new edition to our library thanks in large part to the translation work of Rangjung Yeshe Publications: the famous practice of Zapti.....

དམ་འཛིན་རྣམ་འཕྲུལ།

dam 'dzin rnam 'phrul

Brilliant Sunlight of Threefold Devotion

A supplication to the Chokling Tersar lineage masters......

The Samaya Substances that Liberate Upon Taste and the History of the Two Statues that Liberate Upon Sight

On this Guru Rinpoche day Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this new translation of the treasure text revealed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo detailing the history and benefits of the treasure s.....

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྩི་ཀེ་མཆོག་གླིང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs rje rtsi ke mchog gling rin po che

Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche

Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Mingyur Dewey Dorje (1953-2020), born in 1953 as the second son of Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, was recognized and enthroned as the 4th authentic incarnation of the great 19th .....

A short Medicine Buddha sadhana

On this Medicine Buddha day, we are delighted to share with you a new addition to our library: the revised translation of "A Drop of Amrita for the Benefit of Others, A Concise Ritual for Venerating a.....

འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་དབང་པོ།

'jam byangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po

Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo

Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo ('jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po, 1820–1892), was a major treasure revealer—the last of the Five Sovereign Tertöns—and one of the most eminent masters of the nineteenth ce.....

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

skyabs rje sprul sku o rgyan rin po che'i gsol 'debs

A Prayer to Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

A four line prayer invoking Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, composed by Kyapjé Düdjom Rinpoche......

A Prayer to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All

On this Guru Rinpoche day, Lhasey Lotsawa is pleased to share with you this new translation of a short prayer to Guru Rinpoche as the source of all tantric lineages in Tibet. This beautiful text by Ch.....

མཁན་པོ་ཀརྨ་རིན་ཆེན་དར་རྒྱས།

mkhan po karma rin chen dar rgyas

Khenpo Karma Rinchen Dargyé

Karma Rinchen Dargyé (b. 1835), also known as Karmé Khenpo, was recognized at an early age as the reincarnation of a Kagyü lineage master whose seat was Karma Monastery in Kham. He was known to observ.....

སྐྱབས་མགོན་འཕགས་མཆོག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs mgon 'phags mchog rin po che

Kyapgön Phakchok Rinpoche

Kyapgön Phakchok Rinpoche (skyabs mgon 'phags mchog rin po che, b. 1981) is the first son of Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche. He is a holder of both the family and Dharma lineage of the New Treasures .....

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ལྟུང་བཤགས།

byang chub sems dpa'i ltung bshags

The Bodhisattvas' Confession of Downfalls

A popular Nyingma version of the famous Bodhisattvas’ Confession of Downfalls, also known as the Sutra of the Three Heaps (phung po gsum pa’i mdo), invoking the thirty-five buddhas of confession as a .....

Confession and Praise on the Full Moon of Sagadawa

Today on Saga Dawa Düchen, the 'Festival of Vaishakha', the full moon (15th day) of the fourth Tibetan lunar month, we celebrate Buddha Śākyamuni’s enlightenment at Bodhgaya at the age of thirty-five,.....

The Great Tertön: Revised Edition

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A Revised Translation of the Lotus Essence Tantra

On this auspicious Medicine Buddha day we would like to share with you Lhasey Lotsawa’s new translation of “The Lotus Essence Tantra.“ This profound and yet pithy tantra was praised by Jamyang Khyents.....

མཆོག་གླིང་གཏེར་གསར་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས།

mchog gling gter gsar brgyud 'debs

Chokling Tersar Lineage Supplications

A compilation of four line supplications to the main lineage holders of the Chokling Tersar......

གསང་ཐིག་ཕུར་པའི་བརྒྱུད་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

gsang thig phur pa'i brgyud pa'i gsol 'debs

Lineage Supplication for Single Mudra Vajrakumara

A lineage supplication for the yidam practice of the Single Mudra Vajrakumāra (Sangtik Purpa)......

Following in Your Footsteps: The Lotus-Born Guru in Nepal

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དྲང་སྲོང་བདེན་ཚིག

drang srong bden tshig

The Great Sage's Words of Truth

An aspiration for the swift rebirth of Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche composed by Karmapa Trinlé Thayé Dorjé......

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་གནས་བརྟན་མཆོག་གླིང་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཞབས་བརྟན།

skyabs rje gnas brtan mchog gling rin po che'i zhabs brten

Long Life Prayer for Kyapjé Neten Chokling Rinpoche

A long life prayer for Kyapjé Neten Chokling Rinpoche composed by Kyapjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche for the name Rikzin Gyurmé Dorjé given to Neten Chokling Rinpoche's at his enthronement by His Holiness.....

Following in Your Footsteps: The Lotus-Born Guru in Tibet

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ཐུགས་སྒྲུབ་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས།

thugs sgrub yid bzhin nor bu brgyud 'debs

Lineage Supplication for the Wishfulfilling Jewel Guru Heart Practice

The lineage supplication for the Wishfulfilling Jewel Guru Heart Practice, Spontaneous Fulfillment of Wishes......

ཨུཏྤ་ལའི་ཕྲེང་བ།

ut+pa la'i phreng ba

Garland of Utpala Flowers

A supplication to the lineage masters of the Zaptik Drolchok, the Profound Essence of Tārā......

སྨན་ཆོག་ཕན་བདེའི་བུམ་བཟང་གི་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས།

sman chog phan bde'i bum bzang gi brgyud 'debs

Lineage Supplication for Medicine Buddha Ritual

The lineage supplication for the Chokling Tersar Medicine Buddha Ritual entitled “Excellent Vase of Benefit and Bliss.”.....

དངོས་གྲུབ་དཔལ་སྟེར།

dngos grub dpal ster

Glorious Bestower of Siddhis

A lineage prayer for the The Guru's Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles (Lamé Tukdrup Barché Künsel), composed by Jamgön Kongtrül at his hermitage of Tsadra Rinchen Drak......

ཚོགས་གཉིས་སྤྲིན་ཕུང་།

tshogs gnyis sprin phung

Cloudbanks of the Two Accumulations

A short gathering offering (tsok, tshogs) including the Six Vajra Lines Supplication which can be practiced with any guru sadhana composed by Tersé Tulku......

བླ་མ་རྒྱང་འབོད།

bla ma rgyang 'bod

Calling the Gurus From Afar

A piercing supplication to the gurus of all lineages, written by the great Rimé (ecumenical) master, Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé......

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡང་སྲིད་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཞབས་བརྟན།

skyabs rje sprul sku o rgyan yang srid rin po che'i zhabs brtan

Long Life Supplication for Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche

A long life supplication for Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche composed by Kyapjé Trulzhik Rinpoche......

སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བླ་སྒྲུབ་བསྡུས་པ།

sprul sku O rgyan rin po che bla sgrub bsdus pa

A Concise Guru Yoga to Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

A concise guru yoga to Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche composed by his son, the Fourth Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche......

བཀྲ་ཤིས་པའི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ།

bkra shis pa'i tshigs su bcad pa

Verses of Auspiciousness

A collection of verses of auspiciousness by various authors, which can be chanted at any time but are often chanted at the end of a practice......

དད་པའི་གསོས་འདེབས།

dad pa'i gsos 'debs

To Nourish Faith

A brief account of the wisdom deeds of Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoché (1920–1996) freely spoken by Kyapjé Chökyi Nyima Rinpoché upon the repeated request by the khenpos, tulkus, vajra masters, and senio.....

སྒོམ་ཆོག

sgom chog

Chants for the Meditation Session

Chants for the opening and close of meditation sessions, arranged by Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoché......

ཐུགས་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་སྔོན་འགྲོ་བསྡུས་པ།

thugs sgrub kyi sngon 'gro bsdus pa

Concise Tukdrup Preliminaries

The concise liturgy for the preliminary practices, or Ngöndro (sngon 'gro), from the Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles (Lamé Tukdrup Barché Künsel) arranged by Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rin.....

འཆི་མེད་བཅུད་འདྲེན།

'chi med bcud 'dren

Extracting the Essence of Immortality

Extracting the Essence of Immortality constitutes the Dharmakaya practice from the Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles (Lamé Tukdrup Barché Künsel). The sadhana is a powerful method for .....

སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་རྒྱན་གྱི་རོལ་མོ།

sgyu 'phrul rgyan gyi rol mo

Music to Adorn the Illusory Display

This commentary by Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche (1813–1899), preserved in The Treasury of Extensive Teachings (rgya chen bka’ mdzod) presents a clear Nyingma perspective on the practice of gaṇacakra. The .....