Sofia Ösel Wangmo, Prayers and Songs

= REFUGE =

NAMO LA MA DE SHEG DÜ PAI KU

NAMO In the lama who is the embodiment of the Sugatas,

KON CHOG SUM GYI RANG ZHIN LA

of the nature of the Three Jewels,

DAG DANG DRO DRUG SEM CHEN NAM

I, together with the beings of the six realms,

CHANG CHUB BAR DU KYAB SU CHI

take refuge until our enlightenment. (Repeat three times)

= BODHICITTA =

SEM KYED DRO WA KUN DON TU

For the sake of all beings, I generate bodhicitta and

LA MA SANGYE DRUB NEI NI

Cultivate the realization of the Guru, Buddha.

GANG LA GANG DUL TRIN LEI KYI

By means of enlightened activity I shall train each being according to their needs.

DRO WA DROL WAR DAM CHA O

And I vow to liberate the world. (Repeat three times)

= TEN LINES (FOR ACCRUING MERIT AND KNOWLEDGE) =

LAMA YIDAM KHANDRO SHEG

Guru, personal deities, and dakinis please come forth

NYI DA PEMA'I DEN LA ZHUG

And be seated on the sun, moon and lotus seat.

LU NGAG YID SUM GÜ CHAG TSAL

With my body, speech and mind I reverently pay homage.

CHI NANG SANG WA'I CHOD PA BUL

I make outer, inner and secret offerings.

NYAM CHAG DIG DRIB T'HOL ZHING SHAG

I acknowledge and disclose my degenerate and broken samayas, vices, and obscurations.

SANG NGAG DRUB LA JEI YI RANG

I rejoice in the practice of secret Mantrayana.

MIN DROL SANG NGAG CHÖ KHOR KOR

Please turn the wheel of dharma of secret Mantrayana, which matures and liberates.

NYA NGEN MI DA SHUG SOL DEB

I pray, do not pass into nirvana but remain.

NYING PO SEM CHEN DON DU NGÖ

I dedicate the essence for sentient beings.

YANG DAG DORJEI DON TOG SHOG

May we realize the perfect vajra nature.

= SEVEN-LINE PRAYER =

HUNG ORGYEN YUL GYI NUP JANG TSAM HUNG

In the northwest frontier of Oddiyana,

PEMA GE SAR DONG PO LA

In the heart of a lotus

YAM TSEN CHOG GI NGÖ DRUP NYEY

Sits the one renowned as Padmasambhava,

PEMA JUNG NEY ZHEY SU DRAK

Who achieved the wondrous supreme siddhi,

KHOR DU KHAN DRO MANG PÖ KOR

And is surrounded by a host of many dakinis.

KYED KYI JE SU DAK DRUP KYI

Following in your footsteps, I devote myself to practice.

JIN GYI LAP CHIR SHEK SU SÖL

Please come forth and bestow your blessings.

GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG

(Recite the vajra guru mantra as much as you wish.)

= VAJRA GURU MANTRA =

OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM

= TOTRENG TSAL MANTRA =

OṂ ĀḤ HŪṂ VAJRA GURU PADMA TÖTRENG TSÄL VAJRA SAMAYAJAḤ SIDDHI PHALA HŪṂ

= THE FOUR EMPOWERMENTS =

LA MAI NEE SUM YI GE DRU SUM LEY

Rays of white, red and deep blue light emerge

Ö ZER KAR MAR TING SUM CHUNG NEE SU

From the three seed syllables in the lama’s three places.

RANG GI NEY SUM TIM PEE GO SUM GYI

Dissolving into my three places,

DRIB CHANG KU SUNG TUK KYI DOR JER GYUR

They purify the obscurations of my body, speech and mind; and transform them into the vajra body, speech and mind.

TAR NI LA MA KOR CHEY OD DU SHU

Finally, the lama and assembly dissolve into light.

KAR MAR TIK LE HUNG GI TSAN PA RU

As a white and red bindu marked with HUNG,

RANG GI NYING GAR TIM PEY LA MAI TUK

They dissolve into my heart,

RANG SEM YER MED LHAN KYE CHOO KUR NEE

And the lama’s mind and my mind indivisible remain as the connate dharmakaya.

AH AH

With these words look upon your own face of the great original dharmakaya, your own mind-itself, which primordially transcends modifications, rejection and acceptance. Again, look at all illusion-like appearances as being of the nature of the lama, and by dedicating your virtue and uttering auspicious words apply them to happiness and goodness.

On the eighth day of the waxing moon in the month of Droshin of the year called "Taming All," that is, the seventh month of the Fire Female Pig Year [1887] this arose from the lake of the mind of Mipham Nampar Gyalwa, one who prays that he serves Guru Pema in all his lifetimes. May there be virtue!

= DEDICATION OF MERIT =

GE WA DI YI NYUR DU DAK

By this virtue

ORGYEN LA MA DRUB GYUR NEE

May I swiftly realize the Oddiyana Lama,

DRO WA CHIK KHYANG MA LU PA

And may I bring all beings without exception

DE YI SA LA GOD PAR SHOK

To that state of realisation.

= FOUR IMMEASURABLES =

SEM CHEN THAM CHED DE WA DANG DE WAI GYU DANG DEN PAR GYUR CHIG

May all beings have happiness and the cause of happiness.

DUG NGAL DANG DUG NGAL GYI GYU DANG DRAL WAR GYUR CHIG

May they be free from suffering and the cause of suffering.

DUG NGAL MED PAI DE BA DAM PA DANG MI DRAL BAR GYUR CHIG

May they never be separated from the perfect happiness of no suffering.

NYE RING CHAG DANG NYI DANG DRAL WAI TANG NYOM TSHE MED PA LA NE PAR GYUR CHIG

May they remain in boundless equanimity, free from both attachment and aversion to those close and distant.

= THE HUNDRED-SYLLABLE MANTRA OF VAJRASATTVA =

OM

Syllable of the most supreme exclamation of praise.

BENZAR SATO SA MA YA

Vajrasattva’s Samaya

MA NU PA LA YA BENZAR SATO

O Vajrasattva, protect the samaya.

TE NO PA TISHTHA DRI DHO ME BHA WA

May you remain firm in me.

SU TO KA YO ME BHA WA

Grant me complete satisfaction.

SU PO KA YO ME BHA WA

Grow within me (increase the positive within me).

ANU RAKTO ME BHA WA

Be loving towards me.

SARVA SIDDHI ME PRA YATSA

Grant me all the accomplishments,

SARVA KARMA SU TSA ME

As well as all the activities.

TSITTAM SHRE YAM KU RU

Make my mind virtuous.

HUNG

Syllable of the heart essence, the seed syllable of Vajrasattva.

HA HA HA HA

Syllables of the four immeasurables, the four empowerments, the four joys, and the four kāyas.

HO

Syllable of joyous laughter in them.

BHA GA WAN SARVA TA THA GA TA

Bhagawan, who embodies all the Vajra Tathāgatas,

BENZRA MA ME MUNTSA

Do not abandon me.

BENZRI BHA WA

Grant me realization of the vajra nature.

MA HA SA MA YA SATO

O great Samayasattva,

AH

Make me one with you.

Syllable of uniting in non-duality.

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To meditate on Vajrasattva is the same as to meditate upon all the Buddhas. His hundred-syllable mantra is the quintessence of all mantras.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Vajrasattva’s mantra is a powerful purification prayer that invokes the mindstreams of all the Buddhas. Khenpo Sherab Sangpo suggests that his students recite this mantra 21 times or more each day.