' PAG ME KYI DRUB T'AB DE CHEN NYUR LAM SHUG SO

The Swift Path to Great Bliss

A Method for Attaining Amitabha
ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

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' PAG ME LA CH'AG TS'L LOTo Buddha Amitabha I bow down.

As to this method for attaining Amitabha, first take refuge and generate the enlightened attitude then practice the following visualization and recitation: .

CH NAM T'AM CHE TONG PA'I NGANG All phenomena are of the nature of emptiness;

KN KY'AB TSE WA'I NYING JE GOM I shall meditate on all encompassing loving compassion.

TONG NYI NYING JE DE YI NGANG Within this state of empty compassion,

NANG SI DE CHEN SHING GI in the centre of the universe of appearance and possibility, the buddha realm of Great Bliss,

PE DA'I DEN LA RANG RIG HRIH on a throne of lotus and moon disc is my own pure awareness as the syllable HRIH

DE LE ' 'TR DN NYI DRUB and light streaming from this accomplishes the twofold goal 1.

YONG GYUR DAG NYI CHOM DEN 'DE Perfectly transformed it becomes the Transcendent and Victorious Lord,

NANG WA TA' YE KU DOG MAR Amitabha (Limitless Light), his body red in colour,

1. My own and that of others.


SHL CHIG CH'AG NYI NYAM SHAG TENG with one face and two hands in the gesture of meditation,

LHUNG ZE D TSI GANG WA NAM upon which he holds a begging-bowl filled with nectar.

SHAB NYI MIN 'GYUR KYIL TRUNG SHUG He is seated with his two legs folded in unmoving vajra-posture

CH G NAM SUM KU LA DZE and the three Dharma robes beautifully adorn his enlightened body

TS'N DANG PE JE YONG SU DZOG which is utterly perfect in all marks and characteristics,

SANG GYE KU NGA'I DAG NYI CHOG a supreme embodiment of all five buddha bodies.

NANG LA RANG ZHIN ME PA YI In the heart-centre of this appearance utterly devoid of any real nature,

T'UG KAR DA TENG HRIH MAR POR upon a moon disc there is a red syllable HRIH

NGAG KYI YE SU KOR WA LE and, from the mantra's clockwise spinning around this,

' 'TR DE SHEG T'AM CHE KYANG light streams forth to all sugatas, wherever they are,

GOM PA TA BUR CHEN DRANG TIM and I imagine that it invites them and they dissolve into me.

DZA HUNG BAM HOH

NGAG LE ' 'TR DN NYI JE Light streaming from the mantra fulfills the twofold goal,


ZUG NANG DAG PA ' PAG ME purified bodily appearance becomes Amitabha,

DRA DRAG NYING PO NGAG KYI DRA the essence of sound becomes the reverberation of mantra

TOG TS'OG DAG PA YE SHE NGA and the host of ordinary forms now purified are the five aspects of primordial awareness.

DE WA CHEN PO'I NGANG NE DA In this state of great bliss, I recite.

With three hundred thousand recitations of the eleven-syllable root mantra OM AMIDHEWA AYU SIDDHI HUNG HRIH, you will attain accomplishment.

Then dissolve the divine form into the non-conceptual state. At the end you should recite prayers of dedication and aspiration. It will pacify untimely death in this lifetime and later you will seize hold of the liberation path of great bliss, so put it into practice, fortunate ones. SAMAYA.

Gyalwang Thubten Gyamtso decoded this from the yellow scroll of the revealed treasure of Lerab Lingpa.
(md12)