Aspiration Prayer from “On Entering

the City of Vaiśālī”

Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of
the Great Trichiliocosm”
&
Noble Maitreya’s King of Aspirations

Drikung Dharmakirti Edition

North Carolina
March 2024
Extracted from The Mahāsūtra “On Entering the City
of Vaiśālī”

He in whom all attachment and greed

Are conquered, all de lement gone,
His mind at peace without harmful inten —
He will bring you well-being.

He who leads all worldly beings

To tread the path of liberation,
The teacher of all dharma —
He will bring you well-being.

The teacher, support of wandering beings,

Who, for the sake of every living creature,
Brings them all to master happines —
He will bring you well-being.

The protector who, with thoughts of love

For all these beings, sustains them always
Just as he would his only chil —
He will bring you well-being.

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 He who in saṃsāra has been
For all saṃsāric beings a support,
An island, and a frien —
He will bring you well-being.

He who has laid bare all phenomena,

Who is pure and free from deception,
Whose words are pure, whose very acts are
purit —
He will bring you well-being.

This great hero who, by taking birth,

With perfection attained his purpose
And accomplished all his goals—
He will bring you well-being.

He whose birth, when this whole earth

With all its forests shook and trembled,
Brought joy for every living creatur —
He will bring you well-being.

He who caused, on the seat of awakening,

The earth to quake in all six ways
And Māra to feel despai —

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He will bring you well-being.

He who, turning the wheel of the Dharma,

Pronounced the Truths of the Noble Ones
And was extolled as a sage, the Mun —
He will bring you well-being.

The alluring one who defeated

All the extremists with the Dharma
And brought all assemblies under his in uenc —
He will bring you well-being.

May the Buddha bring you well-being;

May Śakra and the gods bestow well-being;
And may well-being from the bhūtas, too,
Be provided to you always.

By the Buddha’s merit and power

And the wishes of the gods,
May whatever goal you seek
This very day be accomplished.

Two-legged beings, be well.

Four-legged beings, be well.

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When you set out, be well;
And when you return, be well.

Be well in the daytime; be well in the night;

Be well at midday, too.
May all of you be always well;
May all of you know no evil.

Surrounded by a thousand gods,

The Buddha has arrive —
So, you with hateful thoughts, disperse!
And you whose nature is compassion, stay.

By the power of the true words of the buddhas,

Pratyekabuddhas, arhats, and those being trained,
Those who do harm to the world
Should be gone from this city.

All sentient beings, all living creatures,

All bhūtas, and every one of yo —
May you have nothing but happiness.
May you all be free from illness.
May you all see what is good.
May all of you know no evil.

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May whatever bhūtas are assembled here,
All those who live upon the earth or in the sky,
Act always lovingly for human beings
And practice Dharma day and night.

Translated by Bhaiṣajyavastu Translation Team for 84000.co

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The Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great
Trichiliocosm”

Homage to the Three Jewels!

In this world or beyond there is nothing —

Not even a precious gem in the higher realms —
That equals the Thus-Gone One, the god of gods,
The supreme among humans.
Thus, he is called the most precious gem.
By this truth may there be well-being here!

There is nothing at all comparable to the Dharma

Of uncompounded, quiescent ambrosia —
The uncompounded ambrosia of extinction and
dispassion
Discerned by the Sage of the Śākyas through his
knowledge.
Thus, it is called the most precious gem.
By this truth may there be well-being here!

There is nothing comparable to the absorption

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That perceives the vajra-like, nondual path —
The manifestation, in due order, of what is most
desired,
The permanent accomplishment of the teacher’s
absolute practice.
Thus, it is called the most precious gem.
By this truth may there be well-being here!

The eight great kinds of person praised

And called the four pairs,
Extolled as “venerable” by the Thus-Gone One,
The incomparable person, the Great Sage,
Yield great fruits when o ered to,
Like seeds planted in a fertile el —
This is called the most precious gem of the
Saṅgha.
By this truth may there be well-being here!

Since those who strive with rm resolve

And enter Gautama’s teaching
Gain access to ambrosia,
Remove darkness, and attain nirvāṇa,
They are called the most precious gem of the
Saṅgha.

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By this truth may there be well-being here!

As soon as they connect with this vision,

Belief in the transitory collection,
Ethical discipline in the form of extreme austerity,
And doubt are simultaneously cast o ,
And they see the truths of the noble ones.
Thus, they are called the most precious gem of the
Saṅgha.
By this truth may there be well-being here!

With body, speech, or mind

They never produce the threefold evil deeds,
And even when they suddenly do, they do not
conceal them,
And in that way, their view is not tainted with
grasping.
Thus, they are called the most precious gem of the
Saṅgha.
By this truth may there be well-being here!

Just as a threshold beam planted in the ground

Is unmoved by winds from the four directions,
So are the members of the Saṅgha of noble ones,

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 Who have insight into the highest path of the
noble ones.
Thus, they are called the most precious gem of the
Saṅgha.
By this truth may there be well-being here!

Those who cultivate with profound wisdom

The eloquently taught truths of the noble ones
And consider giving away even their own bodies
Never encounter the eight perils.
Thus, they are called the most precious gem of the
Saṅgha.
By this truth may there be well-being here!

Just as a ame extinguished by the wind

Cannot be taken up and counted,
So do the o spring of the buddhas
Become indemonstrable
Once they have discarded all fetters.
Thus, they are called the most precious gem of the
Saṅgha.
By this truth may there be well-being here!

May all sentient beings, moving or still, be well

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 here!
And may they pay homage to the Buddha,
The supreme teacher, venerated by gods and
humans!
May there be well-being here today!

May all sentient beings, moving or still, be well

here!
May they pay homage to the Dharma,
The peaceful dispassion venerated by gods and
humans!
May there be well-being here today!

May all sentient beings, moving or still, be well

here!
May they pay homage to the Saṅgha,
The supreme assembly venerated by gods and
humans!
May there be well-being here today!

May all sentient beings, moving or still,

Be well here!
May whatever bhūtas are assembled here,
All those who dwell upon the earth or in the sky,

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Act always lovingly toward all creatures
And practice Dharma day and night!

By the truth that the Victorious One, having

vanquished his foes,
Spoke truthfully, without falsehood,
May there be well-being here,
And may all be delivered from grave perils!

By the majesty of all the buddhas,

The majesty of the pratyekabuddhas,
The powers of the arhats,
And all the secret mantra-holders,

By the wisdom of Śāriputra,

The supernatural power of Maudgalyāyana,
The vision of Aniruddha,
And the ascetic practices of Kāśyapa;

By the previous attainments of Kauṇḍinya,

The learning of Ānanda,
The benevolence of Brahmā,
And the supremacy of Śatakratu;
By the territories of the guardians of the world,

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The power of Maheśvara,
The might of the generals,
And the supernatural splendor of Hārīt —

Through their might and majesty,

May poison be removed from me!

Translated by by James Gentry for the Dharmachakra

Translation Committee for 84000.co

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 ༄༅། ། མས་པ ་ ན་ལམ།
Maitreya’s Aspiration

་གར་ ད་ ། ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ན་ ་ཛ། ད་ ད་ ། འཕགས་པ་ མས་པ ་ ན་

ལམ་ ་ ལ་ །
gya gar ké du/ arya mai tri pra ni dhana ra dza/
bö ké du/ pak pa jam pé mön lam gyi gyel po/

In the language of India: ārya-maitrī-

praṇidhānarāja. In the language of Tibet: pakpa
champé mönlam gyi gyalpo. In the English
language: The Noble Maitreya’s King of
Aspirations

སངས་ ས་དང་ ང་ བ་ མས་དཔའ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ ག་འཚལ་ ། །

sang gyé dang jang chup sem pa tam ché la chak
tsel lo/

Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas!

ན་དགའ་ ་ ་ ར་ ང་ བ་ མས་དཔའ་ མས་དཔའ་ ན་ ་ མས་པས་ ན་ ང་

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གྱི
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སྐ
རྒྱ
བྱ
བོ
དུ
པོ
ཇི
ཨཱ
ལྟ
བྱ
འི
རྻ
སྨོ
ཆུ
བྱ
མཻ
ཏྲཱི
ཆུ
སེ
པྲ
སེ
ཎི
དྷཱ
རཱ
བོ
སེ
སྐ
དུ
ཕྱ
ཆེ
པོ
བྱ
ལོ
བྱ
སྔོ
འི
སྨོ
བྱ
 བ་ མས་དཔ ་ ད་པ་ ད་པ ་ ། ན་ལན་ག མ་མཚན་ལན་ག མ་ ་ ་ ས་
ག་པ་ག ག་ ་གཟར་ནས་ ས་ ་གཡས་པ ་ ་ང་ས་ལ་བ གས་ ། ཐལ་ ་ ར་
ནས་སངས་ ས་ཐམས་ཅད་མ ན་ ་ ས་ ་ ག་འ ་ ད་ ས་ ན་ལམ་བཏབ་ ། །
kün gawo ji tar jang chup sem pa sem pa chen po
jam pé ngön jang chup sem pé ché pa chö pé tsé
nyin len sum tsen len sum du la gö trak pa chik tu
zar né pü mo yé pé lha nga sa la tsuk té/ tel mo jar
né sang gyé tam ché ngön du jé té tsik di ké ché
mön lam tap bo/

Ānanda, in the past, when the bodhisattva

mahāsattva Maitreya was engaged in the
bodhisattva practices, he would drape his
upper robes over one shoulder, bend his right
knee to the ground, and join his palms
together, three times a day and three times a
night. He would then concentrate on all the
buddhas and make the following aspiration:

སངས་ ས་ ན་ལ་ ག་འཚལ་ ། ། ང་ ང་ ་ ག་ ན་པ་ ། ། ང་ བ་ མས་

དཔའ་ མས་དང་ཡང༌། །ཉན་ ས་ མས་ལ་ ག་འཚལ་ ། །
sang gyé kün la chak tsel lo/ drang song lha mik
den pa yi/ jang chup sem pa nam dang yang/
nyen tö nam la chak tsel lo/
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ཅི
རྒྱ
ཀུ
ཏུ
འི
སྤྱ
ཕྱ
སྤྱོ
པུ
ཐོ
ངོ
ལོ
འི
མོ
དུ
ཚེ
རྣ
བྱ
ཉི
དྲ
ཏེ
སྲོ
ཚི
ཕྱ
འི
ལྷ
ལྷ
སུ
མི
དི
སྐ
ལྡ
ལོ
ཅེ
ཙུ
སྨོ
ཡི
ཏེ
སུ
བྱ
ཆུ
དུ
བླ
མོ
སེ
བོ
གོ
སྦྱ
 Homage to all buddhas!
Homage to the bodhisattvas
Who possess the divine vision of seers,
And homage to the hearers as well.

ངན་འ ་ལས་ ་བ ག་བ ད་ ང༌། །མ ་ ས་ལམ་ ་རབ་ ན་ལ། ། ་ ་ ད་

པར་འ ན་བ ད་པ། ། ང་ བ་ མས་ལ་ ག་འཚལ་ ། །
ngen dro lé ni dok gyi ching/ to ri lam ni rap tön
la/ ga shi mé par dren gyi pa/ jang chup sem la
chak tsel lo/

Homage to bodhicitta, the heart of awakening,

That keeps the lower realms at bay,
That shows us the way to the higher realms,
And leads us to a state beyond ageing and death.

མས་ ་དབང་ ་ ར་པས་ན། །བདག་ ས་ ག་པ་ ་བ ས་པ། ། སངས་ ས་

ན་ ར་མ ས་ནས་ ། །བདག་ ས་ ་དག་བཤགས་པར་བ ། །
sem kyi wang du gyur pé na/ dak gi dik pa chi gyi
pa/ sang gyé chen ngar chi né su/ dak gi dé dak
shak par gyi/

I go before the awakened ones

To confess any and all misdeeds
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སེ
སྤྱ
སྔ
གྲོ
དྲེ
ཀྱི
ཆི
གྱི
ནི
དུ
ཟློ
གྱུ
སུ
བྱ
གྱི
ཆུ
ཅི
སེ
གི
དེ
ཐོ
གི
ཕྱ
རི
སྡི
ནི
ཅི
ལོ
གྱི
སྟོ
གྱི
རྒ
ཤི
མེ
རྒྱ
 That I may have committed
While under the sway of mind.

གང་ལས་ མ་པ་ག མ་གང་ ས། །བ ད་ནམས་ གས་ ་བ ད་པ་ ། །བདག་ ་

ན་མ ན་ས་ ན་ ། །བདག་ ་ ང་ བ་ ་ཟད་ ག །
gang lé nam pa sum gang gi/ sö nam tsok ni kyé
pa dé/ dak gi kün khyen sa bön té/ dak gi jang
chup mi zé shok/

May all merit accrued

Through the three kinds of actions
Become a seed for my omniscience
And inexhaustible awakening.

གས་བ ་དག་ ་ ང་ཁམས་ ། །སངས་ ས་མ ད་པ་གང་ ང་བ། ། སངས་

ས་མ ན་པས་ ་རང་བ། ། ་ལ་བདག་ ་ ་རང་ ༌། །
chok chu dak gi zhing kham su/ sang gyé chö pa
gang jungwa/ sang gyé khyen pé yi rangwa/ dé la
dak ni yi rang ngo/

The buddhas are aware and rejoice in any o ering

Made to the awakened ones
Throughout the buddha elds of the ten
directions,
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བོ
གི
ཡི
ཏེ
ཞི
སུ
གི
དེ
སུ
གི
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ནི
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 And so do I too rejoice.

ག་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་བཤགས་པར་བ ། །བ ད་ནམས་ ན་ལ་ ་རང་ ༌། །སངས་

ས་ ན་ལ་ ག་འཚལ་ལ། ། བདག་ ་ ་ ས་མ ག་ བ་ ག །
dik pa tam ché shak par gyi/ sö nam kün la yi rang
ngo/ sang gyé kün la chak tsel la/ dak ni yé shé
chok top shok/

I hereby confess all negative actions.

I hereby rejoice in everything meritorious.
I hereby pay homage to all buddhas.
May I attain the supreme wisdom state.

གས་བ ་དག་ ་ གས་ མས་ན། །ས་བ ་དག་ལ་གནས་པ་ ། ། ང་ བ་

མས་དཔའ་ ང་ བ་མ ག །འཚང་ ་བ ད་པར་བ ལ་མ་འ བས། །
chok chu dak gi chok nam na/ sa chu dak la né pa
yi/ jang chup sem pa jang chup chok/ tsang gya
gyi par kül ma dep/

I exhort each and every bodhisattva

Dwelling in the ten directions
And upon the ten bodhisattva levels
To awaken now to supreme enlightenment.

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སྡི
རྒྱ
ཕྱོ
སེ
ཀུ
ཅུ
ཕྱ
བྱ
གི
ཆུ
ཕྱོ
ཆོ
རྣ
གྱི
རྒྱ
ནི
ཡེ
སོ
གྱི
ཅུ
ཤེ
ཆོ
སྐུ
ཀུ
ཐོ
ཤོ
ཡི
ཡི
དེ
ངོ
བྱ
ཆུ
 ང་ བ་དམ་པར་སངས་ ས་ ང༌། ། ་དང་བཅས་པ ་བ ད་བ ལ་ནས། ། ག་
ཆགས་ ན་ལ་ ན་ ད་ ། ། ས་ ་འ ར་ ་བ ར་ ར་ ག །
jang chup dam par sang gyé shing/ dé dang ché pé
dü tül né/ sok chak kün la men lé du/ chö kyi khor
lo kor gyur chik/

And, as they awaken to sublime enlightenment,

May they turn the wheel of Dharma
So as to tame the demons and all their hordes,
And bring bene t to every living being.

ས་ ་ ན་ ་ ་ ས་ ། ། ག་བ ལ་ མས་ཅན་ཐར་བ ད་ ག །བ ལ་པ་ ་

བ་བསམ་ཡས་ ། ། ས་ ན་མཛད་ ང་བ གས་ ར་ ག །
chö nga chen pö dra yi ni/ duk ngel sem chen tar
gyi shok/ kel pa jewa sam yé su/ chö tön dzé
ching zhuk gyur chik/

May the beat of the great drum of Dharma

Free beings from their su ering.
For unimaginable billions of eons,
May the awakened ones teach Dharma and
remain.

འ ད་པ ་འདམ་ ་ ང་ ར་ ང༌། ། ད་པ ་ ད་ ས་དམ་བ ངས་པ། །འ ང་བ་

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པོ
འི
སྨ
སུ
སྒྲ
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ཡི
སླ
བྱི
ཆོ
གྱུ
དུ
ནི
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ཤི
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ཅི
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སྡེ
ཁོ
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སེ
ལོ
སྲ
བུ
སྐོ
གྱུ
གྱུ
འི
ཅི
ཅི
དུ
གྱི
ཅི
ཏུ
ཤོ
སྐ
ཆི
སྲོ
བྱེ
 ན་ ས་བ ངས་བདག་ལ། ། ང་ག ས་མ ག་ མས་གཟིགས་ ་ག ལ། །
dö pé dam du jing gyur ching/ sé pé sé bü dam
ching pa/ chingwa kün gyi ching dak la/ kang nyi
chok nam zik su söl/

I beg you, best of humans,

Look upon us drowning in the mud of desires,
Bound by the ropes of craving,
And in other ways absolutely trapped.

མས་ ་ ་མར་ ར་པ་ལ། །སངས་ ས་ མས་ ་ ད་ ་མཛད། ། མས་ཅན་

མས་ལ་ མས་ གས་ ན། ། ད་པ ་མ ་ལས་ ལ་བར་ ག །
sem kyi dri mar gyur pa la/ sang gyé nam ni mö
mi dzé/ sem chen nam la jam tuk den/ si pé tso lé
drölwar shok/

May the buddhas not level criticism

Against those of impure minds.
Instead, may they give love to beings
And free them from the ocean of existence!

གས་པ ་སངས་ ས་གང་བ གས་དང༌། །གང་དག་འདས་དང་མ་ ན་པ། ། ་དག་

ས་ ་བདག་ བ་ ང༌། ། ང་ བ་ ད་པ་ ད་ ར་ ག །
dzok pé sang gyé gang zhuk dang/ gang dak dé
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ཀུ
སེ
རྣ
རྫོ
རྗེ
གྱི
སུ
ཀྱི
འི
བྱ
དྲི
ཅི
སློ
ཐུ
གྱུ
རྒྱ
ཅི
ལྡ
བྱ
ཞུ
ཆུ
རྐ
སྲི
སྤྱ
རྒྱ
ཉི
འི
སྤྱོ
རྣ
ཚོ
ཆོ
གྱུ
ནི
རྣ
སྒྲོ
ཅི
སྨོ
མི
ཤོ
སུ
བྱོ
སེ
སོ
དེ
 dang ma jön pa/ dé dak jé su dak lop ching/ jang
chup ché pa chö gyur chik/

May I train in the likeness

Of the perfectly awakened buddhas
Of the present, past, and future,
And uphold the bodhisattva conduct.

ཕ་ ལ་ ན་ ག་ གས་བ ས་ནས། །འ ་ ག་ མས་ཅན་མཐར་བ ད་ ག །

མ ན་ ས་ ག་ ་མ ན་བ ས་ནས། ། ་ ད་ ང་ བ་ ག་ ར་ ག །
pa röl chin druk dzok gyi né/ dro druk sem chen
tar gyi shok/ ngön shé druk po ngön gyi né/ la mé
jang chup rek gyur chik/

May I bring to completion the six perfections

And lead, to the end, the six classes of beings.
May I manifest at last the six super-knowledges
And reach the unsurpassed state of awakening.

མ་ ས་པ་དང་ ་འ ང་དང༌། །རང་བ ན་མ་མ ས་གནས་མ་མ ས། ། མ་ ག་མ་

མ ས་ད ས་མ་མ ས། ། ང་པ ་ ས་ ་ གས་པར་ ག །
ma kyé pa dang mi jung dang/ rang zhin ma chi
né ma chi/ nam rik ma chi ngö ma chi/ tong pé
chö ni tok par shok/
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ངོ
ཆི
རོ
སྐྱེ
ཤེ
ཕྱི
ངོ
དྲུ
དྲུ
མི
པོ
རྫོ
ཆི
བྱུ
ངོ
གྱི
གྱི
སྟོ
འི
ཆོ
ཞི
བླ
གྲོ
ནི
མེ
རྟོ
དྲུ
ཆི
བྱ
སེ
ཆུ
ཤོ
རེ
གྱུ
ཆི
ཅི
གྱི
རྣ
ཤོ
རི
 May I realize the truth of emptiness
In which all is birthless and non-arising,
Without intrinsic nature, without location,
With neither mental process nor substance.

སངས་ ས་ ང་ ང་ ན་ ་ ར། ། མས་ཅན་མ་མ ས་ ག་མ་མ ས། །གང་ཟག་

མ་མ ས་ག ་མ་མ ས། །བདག་མ་མ ས་པ ་ ས་ ག་ ག །
sang gyé drang song chen po tar/ sem chen ma
chi sok ma chi/ gang zak ma chi so ma chi/ dak
ma chi pé chö tok shok/

Just like the great sage, the Buddha himself,

May I realize the truth of sel essness
In which beings do not exist, nor any living
things,
Nor an individual, nor any kind of person.

བདག་འ ན་བདག་ ར་འ ན་པ་ ། །ད ས་ ་ ན་ལ་ ་གནས་པར། ། མས་ཅན་

ན་ལ་ཕན་ ད་ ། ། ར་ ་མ་མ ས་ ན་ག ང་ ག །
dandzin dak gir dzin pa yi/ ngö po kün la mi né
par/ sem chen kün la pen lé du/ ser na ma chi jin
tong shok/

May I practice generosity free from stinginess

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ཀུ
ཆི
རྒྱ
ཛི
སླ
དྲ
སོ
དུ
སྲོ
གི
ཆེ
ཆི
སེ
པོ
ཛི
སྣ
ལྟ
ཡི
ཆི
སེ
སྦྱི
ཆི
ངོ
པོ
ཏོ
fl
འི
ཀུ
ཤོ
ཆོ
ཆི
རྟོ
མི
སྲོ
ཤོ
ཆི
སེ
 Without entertaining any notion of substantiality,
Nor any belief in the self nor egoistical clinging,
So that the bene t may reach all beings.

ད ས་ ་ད ས་ ར་མ་མ ས་པས། །བདག་ ་ ངས་ ད་ ན་ བ་ ག །ད ས་

་ཐམས་ཅད་ མ་འ ག་པ ། ། ན་པ ་ཕ་ ལ་ ན་ གས་ ག །
ngö po ngö por ma chi pé/ dak gi long chö lhün
drup shok/ ngö po tam ché nam jik pé/ jin pé pa
röl chin dzok shok/

Since material things do not exist concretely,

May all my needs be spontaneously met.
Since all material things are subject to decay,
May I master the perfection of generosity.

མས་ ་ ལ་ མས་ ན་ ད་ ང༌། ། ལ་ མས་ མ་པར་དག་དང་ ན། ། མ་

མས་ ད་པ ་ ལ་ མས་ ས། ། ལ་ མས་ཕ་ ལ་ ན་ གས་ ག །
trim kyi tsül trim kyön mé ching/ tsül trim nam
par dak dang den/ lom sem mé pé tsül trim kyi/
tsül trim pa röl chin dzok shok/

With discipline completely awless,

Discipline that is perfectly pure,
And discipline devoid of arrogance,
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པོ
ཁྲི
སེ
ངོ
པོ
ཀྱི
མེ
ཚུ
ངོ
རྣ
འི
ཁྲི
པོ
ཚུ
ཇི
ཁྲི
སྐྱོ
ཆི
འི
མེ
fi
ཀྱི
ཅི
སྦྱི
ཚུ
འི
ཚུ
ཁྲི
རོ
ཁྲི
གི
fl
ལོ
ཕྱི
རྣ
རོ
རྫོ
སྤྱོ
ཕྱི
ལྷུ
ཤོ
རྫོ
གྲུ
ཤོ
ཤོ
ལྡ
རློ
ངོ
 May I master the perfection of discipline.
སའམ་ཡང་ན་ འམ་ ། ། ང་ ་ཁམས་ ར་ ་གནས་ ང༌། །བ ད་པའམ་ ་བ་
མ་མ ས་པར། །བ ད་པ ་ཕ་ ལ་ ན་ གས་ ག །
sam yang na chuam mé/ lung gi kham tar mi né
shing/ zö pam trowa ma chi par/ zö pé pa röl chin
dzok shok/

With absence of anger––in other words, with

patience,
Akin to how the earth, water, and re elements,
And the wind element as well, dwell not
anywhere,
May I complete the perfection of patience.

བ ན་འ ས་བ མས་པ ་བ ན་འ ས་ ས། །བ ན་ ་ ་ ་མ་མ ས་ ང༌། །

བས་དང་ ན་པ ་ ས་ མས་ ས། །བ ན་འ ས་ཕ་ ལ་ ན་ གས་ ག །
tsön drü tsam pé tsön drü kyi/ ten tro lé lo ma chi
shing/ top dang den pé lü sem kyi/ tsön drü pa röl
chin dzok shok/

With persistent application of diligence

May I be ever joyful and free from laziness,
And with strength in both body and mind
May I complete the perfection of diligence.
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སྟོ
རྩོ
ཆི
གྲུ
ལྡ
ཆུ
རྩ
འི
ལུ
ཟོ
མེ
འི
སེ
འི
རླུ
རྩོ
རོ
གི
ཀྱི
གྲུ
ཕྱི
ཀྱི
རྫོ
ལྟ
རྩོ
མི
ཤོ
གྲུ
རྟ
སྤྲོ
ཤི
རོ
fi
ལེ
ལོ
ཕྱི
རྫོ
ཟོ
ཆི
ཤོ
ཤི
ཁྲོ
 ་མ་ ་ ་ ང་འ ན་དང༌། །དཔའ་བར་འ ་བ ་ ང་འ ན་དང༌། ། ་ ་ ་ ་ ང་
འ ན་ ས། །བསམ་གཏན་ཕ་ ལ་ ན་ གས་ ག །
gyu ma ta bü ting dzin dang/ pawar drowé ting
dzin dang/ dor jé ta bü ting dzin gyi/ sam ten pa
röl chin dzok shok/

With illusion-like meditative concentration,

And bravery-inspiring meditative concentration,
And vajra-like meditative concentration,
May I master the perfection of meditation.

མ་པར་ཐར་པ ་ ་ག མ་དང༌། ། ས་ག མ་མཉམ་པ་ ད་དང་ཡང༌། ། ག་

ག མ་མ ན་ མ་བ ས་པ་ ས། ། ས་རབ་ཕ་ ལ་ ན་ གས་ ག །
nam par tar pé go sum dang/ dü sum nyam pa nyi
dang yang/ rik sum ngön sum gyi pa yi/ shé rap
pa röl chin dzok shok/

Acting with the three gates of liberation,

With the equality of the three times,
And the threefold knowledge,
May I master the perfection of wisdom.

སངས་ ས་ ན་ ས་བ གས་པ་དང༌། ། ད་དང་གཟི་བ ད་འབར་བ་དང༌། ། ང་

བ་ མས་དཔ ་བ ན་འ ས་ ས། །བདག་ ་བསམ་པ་ གས་ ར་ ག །
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སྒྱུ
རྣ
ཆུ
ཛི
སུ
སེ
ལྟ
གྱི
རྒྱ
བུ
ངོ
འི
ཀུ
ཏི
སུ
འི
འི
གྱི
སྒོ
ཛི
རྩོ
གྱི
སུ
སྔ
གྲུ
ཡི
རོ
ཀྱི
ཕྱི
དུ
ཤེ
རྫོ
འོ
སུ
གྲོ
ཤོ
གི
འི
རོ
ཏི
ཕྱི
ཛི
རྗི
ཉི
རྫོ
རྫོ
ཤོ
གྱུ
རྡོ
རྗེ
ཅི
ལྟ
རི
བུ
བྱ
འི
ཏི
 sang gyé kün gyi ngak pa dang/ ö dang zi ji barwa
dang/ jang chup sem pé tsön drü kyi/ dak gi sam
pa dzok gyur chik/

May I be praised by all buddhas

As I beam with light and splendour,
And with the diligence of a bodhisattva
May all my aims be accomplished.

་ ར་ ད་པ་ ད་ ད་ ང༌། ། མས་པ་ གས་དང་ ན་པ་ ས། །ཕ་ ལ་ ན་ ག་

གས་བ ས་ནས། །ས་བ ་ ་ལ་རབ་ ་གནས། །
dé tar ché pa chö jé ching/ jam pa drak dang den
pa yi/ pa röl chin druk dzok gyi né/ sa chu po la
rap tu né/

As I engage in this very conduct,

May I, the one known as Maitreya,
Bring to completion the six perfections
And reach the ten bodhisattva levels.

འ ་ནས་ ་འ ས་ ར་མ་ཐག །དགའ་ ན་ ས་ནས་ ད་དགའ་བར། ། ར་ ་

མས་མ ན་མ ས་ ས་ནས། ། ང་ བ་ ང་བ ན་ བ་པར་ ག །
di né shi pö gyur ma tak/ gan den kyé né yi

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དེ
རྫོ
བྱ
དི
ལྟ
སྤྱ
ཤི
གྱི
གོ
ཕོ
སྤྱོ
ཉེ
བྱེ
གྱུ
བྱ
ཅི
ཅུ
པོ
བྱ
བྱ
ཆུ
ལྡ
ཏུ
གྲ
ལུ
སྐྱེ
སྟ
ལྡ
ཡི
ཐོ
ཡི
ཤོ
རོ
མྱུ
ཕྱི
དུ
དྲུ
gawar/ nyur du jam gön nyé jé né/ jang chup lung
ten top par shok/

At the very moment I pass away,

May I joyfully take rebirth in Tuṣita Heaven
And, swiftly delighting the Lord Maitreya,
Receive his prophecy of my awakening.

Translated by Lowell Cook for Samye Translations.

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