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Namchoe Medicine Buddha Sadhana
From the Sky Dharma, Which is a Mind Treasure, An Ornament of the Clear
Expanse of Mind, Comes a Ritual of Menla Called A Stream of Lapis Lazuli
It is denitely necessary to receive the empowerment and reading transmission for this practice.
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Namo. Maha Bekandzeya. If they are available, arrange in front of a Menla thangka as many
peaceful offerings as you can, such as a mandala and so forth; in this way the accumulations
are completed. If these are not available, it is enough to make mental offerings while imagin-
ing the front visualization in the skynothing else is needed. Since this is the anuttara, the
practitioner need not refrain from meat and alcohol nor perform the rituals of purication,
such as taking the blessing of pure water. It is denitely necessary, however, to receive the
empowerment and reading transmission for this practice, as it belongs to the anuttara tradi-
tion. Since it belongs to the Nyingma tradition, the self and frontal visualizations are simulta-
neously generated; it is not necessary to create them separately. As it is a chanted medita-
tion of the Nyingma, your mind should meditate on the meaning of the words.
The Supplication
NAMO BEKHADZE MAHA RADZAYE
SONAM YONTEN GYATSOI TERNGA ZHING
You are endowed with an oceanic treasury of qualities and merit;
SAMGYI MIKHYAB THUKJEI JINLAB KYI
By the blessing of your inconceivable compassion
DOWI DUKNGAL DUNGWA ZHIZE PA
You calm the suffering and torment of sentient beings.
BENDUR YAYI WODLA SOLWA DEB
I supplicate you, Light of Lapis Lazuli.
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SHINTU SERNA DRAKPOE RABCHING PE
Those bound by very intense greed
YIDAK NESU KYEWI KYEWO YI
Are born in the hungry ghost realm.
KHYOTSEN THOENA MIRKYE JINPA GA
If they hear your name, they are said to be born human and take delight in generosity.
CHOMDEN MENGYI LALA SOLWA DEB
I supplicate you, victorious Menla.
TSULTHRIM CHALDANG ZHENLA SHETSON PE
Violating morality and abusing others,
NYALWAR KYEWI DOWA DIDAK GI
Beings are born in the hell realms.
KHYOTSEN THOENA THORI KYEWAR SUNG
Hearing your name, they are said to be born in the higher realms.
MENGYI GYALPO DELA SOLWA DEB
I supplicate you, King of Medicine.
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GANGDAK YENDANG THRAMA DUMA YI
Whoever by repeated dissension and slander
RABTU JECHING LUESOK THRALWA DAK
Creates serious schisms and takes life,
KHYOTSEN THOENA DEDAK TSEMI NUE
Hearing your name, they cannot harm others.
MENGYI GYALPO DELA SOLWA DEB
I supplicate you, King of Medicine
TSENLEK SERZANG DIME NANGWA DANG
Excellent Name, Appearance of Stainless Fine Gold,
NYANGEN MECHOK PALDANG CHOEDAK YANG
Glorious Supreme One Free of Misery, Resounding Dharma Melody,
NGONKHYEN GYALPO DAYANG GYALPO DANG
King of Direct Knowledge, King of Melody,
SHAKKYI GYALPO NAMLA SOLWA DEB
And King of Shakyas, I supplicate you all.
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JAMPAL KHYABDOL CHAKNA DORJE ZIN
Manjushri, Kyabdrl, Vajrapani,
TSANGWANG GYAJIN CHOKZHI GYALPO ZHI
Brahma, Indra, the four Kings of the four directions,
NODJIN DEPON CHENPO CHUNYI SOK
The twelve great Yaksha chiefs, and so forth,
KYILKHOR YONGSU ZOKLA SOLWA DEB
I supplicate you, entire and perfect mandala.
DEZHIN SHEKPA DUNGYI MONLAM DO
The Sutra of the Seven Tathagatas Aspirations,
MENGYI LHAYI DODE NYIDANG NI
And the Sutra of the Medicine Buddha,
KHENCHEN ZHIWA TSOEZE ZHUNGLA SOK
The treatise by the great abbot Shantarakshita, and so forth,
DAMCHOE LEKBAM TSHOKLA SOLWA DEB
I supplicate all the volumes of the genuine dharma,
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BODHI SATO THRISONG DEUTSEN SOK
Bodhisattva Shantarakshita, Trisong Deutsen, and others,
LOPEN GYALLON JANGCHUP SEMPA DANG
Translators, scholars, kings, ministers, Bodhisattvas,
GYUPI LAMA DAMPA THAMCHE DANG
And all genuine lamas of the lineage,
CHOEKYI WANGCHUK SOKLA SOLWA DEB
Powerful One of the Dharma, and others, I supplicate you.
DETAR SOLWA TABPI JINLAB KYI
Through the blessing of this supplication,
NEKAP NEDANG JIKPA NATSOK ZHI
May diverse temporal diseases and dangers of this life be stilled.
CHITSE NGENSONG JIKPA KUNZHI NE
At death, may all fear of the lower realms be calmed.
DEWA CHENDU KYEWAR JINGYI LOB
Grant your blessing that afterwards we are born in Sukhavati.
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Going for Refuge and Generating Bodhicitta
NAMO KONCHOK SUMDANG TSAWA SUM
Homage. To the sources of refuge, the three jewels
KYABNE NAMLA KYABSU CHI
And the three roots, I go for refuge.
DOKUN SANGGYE LAGOD CHIR
To establish all beings in buddhahood,
JANGCHUB CHOKTU SEMKYE DO
I awaken a mind of supreme enlightenment.
(Repeat Three Times)
Blessing the Offering Materials
KADAK LONGNE TULPA YI
From the expanse of primordial purity emanate
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NAMSA GANGWI CHOPI TRIN
Clouds of offerings lling the earth and sky
MENDAL GYALSI LHAMOR CHE
With mandalas, articles of possessions, and goddesses.
ZEME GYURCHIK PUZA HO
May they never be exhausted. PU ZA HO.
DOKUN DEDEN DUKNGAL DAL
May all beings be happy and free of suffering.
DELE NYAMME TANGNYOM SHOK
May their happiness not diminish. May they abide in equanimity.
Visualization
OM SOBHAWA SHUDDHA SARWA DHARMA SOBHAWA
SHUDDHO HAM
TONGPA NYIDU GYUR
Everything turns into emptiness.
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TONGPI NGANGLE TONGSUM DI TANA DUKGI PHODRANG DU
GYURPI NAN DU SENGGEI THRI PEDA SOSOI TENGDU
From the depth of emptiness, this triple universe becomes The exquisite palace,
where on lion thrones, each with a lotus and moon disk on top
RANGNYI DANG DUNKYE KYI TSOWOI SABON HUNG THINGGA LE
Appear deep blue HUNGs, the seed syllable of myself and the main gure visualized
in the front,
MENLA KUDOK BE DURYA TABU WODZER THROWI KUCHEN
CHOEGOE SUMGI LUBPA
From which, arises Menla, his body the color of lapis lazuli and radiating light. He
is clothed in the three dharma robes.
CHAKYE CHOKJIN AHRU RADANG
His right hand in the mudra of supreme generosity holds an arura.
YON NYAMZHAG LHUNGZE ZINPA
His left hand in the meditation mudra holds a begging bowl.
TSENPE DZOKSHING DORJE KYILTRUNG GI ZHUKPA
With the major and minor marks complete, he sits in the vajra posture.
KHYEPAR DU DUNKYE KYI DABMA NAMLA THUBWANG LASOK
PI SANGGYE DUNDANG CHOE PUTI
In particular, on the lotus petals of the front visualization Are the seven Buddhas,
Shakyamuni and the others, and dharma texts.
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DEGYAB SEMPA CHUDUK
Around them are the sixteen Bodhisattvas,
DEGYAB JIKTEN KYONGWA CHUDANG DEPON CHUNYI SOSOI
KHORDANG CHEPA
Around them are the ten protectors of the world, And the twelve great chiefs with
their respective retinues.
GO ZHILA GYALPO CHENPO ZHIDANG CHEPI NESUM YIGE
SUMDANG THUK KI HUNGLE WODZER THROEPE
The four Great Kings are at the four gates. From the three syllables in their three
places and the HUNG in their hearts,
SHARCHOK KYI SANGGYE SOSOI ZHINGKHAM NE YESHE PA
PAKTU MEPA CHEN DRANGNE DAKDUN NAMLA THIMPAR GYUR
Lights radiate, invoking from their own eastern buddha realms, countless Wisdom
deities which dissolve into myself and the one visualized in front.
The Invocation
HUNG MENLA CHEGYE LHATSOK MALUE NAM
HUNG. The eight Menla companions and all deities without exception
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NEDIR CHENDREN JINCHEN WABTU SOL
I invite here to this place. Kindly rain upon us your great blessings.
KALDEN DEDEN DAKLA WANGCHOK KUR
Bestow the supreme empowerment on those who are worthy and faithful.
LOKDEN TSEYI BARCHE SALDU SOL
Dispel false guides and obstacles to long life.
NAMO MAHA BEKHAZE SAPARI WARA BENZAR SAMAYA ZAZA
(The Invocation Mantra)
BENZAR SAMAYA TIKTRA LHEN
OM HUNG TAM HRI AH
(Seed Syllables of the Five Buddhas-Families)
AHBHI KHENTSA HUNG
(Request for Empowerment)
The Offerings
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HUNG METOK DUKPOE MARME DI
HUNG. Flowers, incense, lights, scents,
ZHALZE ROLMO LASOK PA
Food, music and so forth;
ZUGDA DIRO REKJA CHOE
Forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, and all dharmas,
DAKGI LHALA CHOPA BUL
I offer to the deities.
DAKCHAK TSOKNYI ZOKPAR SHOK
May we perfect the two accumulations.
ARGHAM PADAM PUPE DHUPE AHLOKE GENDHE NEWIDE
SHABDA RUPA SHABDA GENDE RASA PARSHE TATITSA
HUNG
The Eight Auspicious Substances Offerings
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HUNG TASHI TSOWO ZEGYE DE
HUNG. The eight foremost auspicious substances,
TSOCHOK GYALPO YUNGKAR SOK
The best royal white mustard seed, and the others,
DAKGI LHALA CHOEPA BUL
I offer to the deity.
TSOKNYI YONGSU ZOKPAR SHOK
May the two accumulations be perfected.
MANGALAM ARTHA SIDDHI HUNG
The Eight Auspicious Symbols Offerings
HUNG TASHI TSOWO TAKGYE DE
HUNG. The eight foremost auspicious symbols,
TSOCHOK GYALPO BUMPA SOK
The peerless royal vase and all others,
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DAKGI LHALA CHOPA BUL
I offer to the deity.
SEMCHEN TSOKNYI ZOKPAR SHOK
May sentient beings perfect the two accumulations.
MANGALAM KUMBHA HUNG
The Seven Precious Articles Offerings
HUNG DOYON TSAWA RINCHEN DUN
HUNG. The foremost desirable qualities, the seven precious articles,
TSOCHOK GYALPO NORBU SOK
The most excellent royal one, the jewel, and the others,
DAKGI LHALA CHOPA BUL
I offer to the deity.
DAKNI TSOKNYI ZOKPAR SHOK
May I perfect the two accumulations.
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OM MANI RATNA HUNG
Mount Meru and other Offerings
HUNG KUNGYI TSOWO RIRAB LING
HUNG. The foremost of all, Mount Meru
RIRAB LINGZHI LINGTREN CHE
With its four continents and subcontinents
DAKGI LHALA CHOPA BUL
I offer to the deity.
TSOKNYI YONGSU DZOKPAR SHOK
May the two accumulations be perfected.
OM RATNA MANDALA HUNG
Practice of Washing
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HUNG DAKGI DIDEN DICHAB KYI
HUNG. With scented water
DESHEK KULA KUTHRU SOL
I bathe the sugatas body.
LHALA DIMA MINGA YANG
Although the deity is awless,
DIKDIB DAKPI TENDEL GYI
This creates the auspicious connection for purifying all wrongs and obscurations.
OM SARWA TATHA GATA AHBI KE KATE SAMAYA SHIRIYE
HUNG
HUNG REKAR JAMDI DENPA YI
HUNG. With a scented, soft white cloth
GYALWI KUNYI CHIWAR GYI
I dry the Victors body.
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LHALA DIMA MINGA YANG
Though your body is awless,
DUKNGAL DALWI TENDEL GYI
This creates the auspicious connection for freedom from suffering.
OM KAYA BISHO DHANI HUNG
HUNG NAZA ZEDEN NGURMIK DI
HUNG. With these beautiful saffron robes
GYALWI KULA SOLWAR GYI
I clothe the victors body.
KULA SILWA MINGA YANG
Although your body is never cold,
TAKDANG PHELWI TENDEL GYIThis creates the auspicious connection for vitality to ourish.
OM BENZA WETA AH HUNG
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The Homage
HUNG KUDOK BEDUR YAYI RIWO DAHUNG. Your body is like a mountain, the color of lapis lazuli.
DOWA SEMCHEN NEKYI DUKNGAL SEL
You dispel the suffering of illness in sentient beings.
JANGCHUB SEMPA GYEKYI KHORGYI KHOR
Surrounded by a retinue of eight bodhisattvas,
RINCHEN MENZIN LHALA CHAKTSHAL TOD
Holder of Medicine, precious deity, I praise and prostrate to you.
TSENLEK RINDA SERZANG NYANGEN ME
Excellent Name, Precious Moon, Fine Gold, Free of Misery,
CHOEDAK GYATSO CHOELO SHAKYA THUB
Resounding Dharma Ocean, Dharma Mind, Shakyamuni,
DAMPI CHOEDANG SEMPA CHUDUK SOK
The genuine dharma, the sixteen bodhisattvas and others,
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KONCHOK RINCHEN SUMLA CHAKTSAL TOD
To the precious three jewels, I offer praise and prostrate.
TSANGDANG GYAJIN GYALCHEN CHOKKYONG CHU
To Brahma, Indra, the Great Kings, the Protectors of the Ten Directions,
NODJIN DEPON CHUNYI YOKDANG CHE
The twelve Yaksha chiefs and all their assistants,
LHAMI MENGYI RIKZIN DANGSONG TSOK
Vidyadharas and rishis of medicine, divine and human,
DUTSI MENGYI LHALA CHAKTSAL TOD
To the deities of ambrosial medicine, I offer praise and prostrate.
Visualization for Recitation
DAKDUN THUKKAR HUNGLA NGAKTRENG GI KORWAR GYUR
The HUNG in the heart of the self and front visualizations is surrounded by the
mantra garland.
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Through radiating many-colored light rays, offerings are made to Menla in the pure
realm appearing in the east as the color of lapis lazuli. These lights invoke his mindstream, whence Menlas bodies, large and small, his speech as the mantra garland, his
mind as the hand symbols of the arura and the begging bowl lled with amrita, all falling
like rain, dissolve into myself and the front visualization.
TEYATA OM BEKHAZE BEKHAZE MAHA BEKHAZE RAZA
SAMU GATE SOHA
(Repeat as much as possible)
The Long Mantra
TEYATA GUME GUME AIMINI MIHI MATI MATI SAPTA
TATHA GATA SAMA DAYA DHICHI TE
AHTI MATE PALE PAPAM SHODHA NI SARWA PAPAM
NASHA YA MAMA BUDDHE BUDDHO TAME AUME KUME
BUDDHA CHETA PARI SHODA NI DHAMENI DHAME MERU
MERU MERU SHIKHARE
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SARWA AHKA LA MIRTAYU NIBHA RANI BUDDHE SU BUDDHE
BUDDHA AHDHI CHANA AHDHI CHITE NA
RAKCHAN TUME SARWA DEWA SAME AHSAME SAMANA
HAREN TUME SARWA BUDDHA BODHI SATO NAM
SHAME SHAME TASHA MENTU ME SARWA AITAYU PADA
BABE THAYA PURANI PURANI PURA YAME
SARWA AHSHAYA BEDURYA PATI BHASE SARWA PAPAM
CHAYAM KARI SO HA
(Repeat as much as possible and then at the end:)
Dedication and Auspiciousness
DIKTUNG KUNSHAK GEWA JANGCHUB NGO
I confess all wrongs and downfalls and dedicate all virtue to awakening.
NEDON DUKNGAL DALWI TASHI SHOK
May there be the auspiciousness of freedom from sickness, harmful spirits, and
suffering.
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A Prayer to Return Back and Dissolution
JIKTEN PANAM RANGNE BENZAR MUThe worldly ones return to their own places. BENZA MU.
YESHE DAMTSIK LHANAM DAKLA THIM
The jnana and samaya sattvas dissolve into me,
KADAK KUNZANG LONGDU AEMAHO
And I dissolve into the expanse of all goodness, primordial purity. E MA HO.
Dedication
GEWA DIYI NYURDU DAG
By this merit may I swiftly
DESHEK MENLA DUBGYUR NE
Achieve the state of Medicine Buddha.
DOWA CHIGKYANG MALUE PA
And lead all living beings, without exception,
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DEYI SALA GODPAR SHOG
Into that enlightened state.
Prayer for Auspiciousness
THUKJE KUNLA NYOMPI CHOMDEN DE
Bhagavan, who is compassionate equally to all beings,
TSENTSAM THOEPE NGENDOI DUKNGAL SEL
The very hearing of whose name pacies the three lower states
DUKSUM NESEL SANGGYE MENGYI LA
Medicine Buddha, who eliminates the illnesses of the three poisons
BENDUR YAYI WODKYI TASHI SHOK
May there be the goodness of the Vaidurya Light
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This ornament that is a mind treasure was compiled from the Sky-Dharma and arranged by
Raga Asya. If there are contradictions, I confess them before the deity. Through this virtue,
may all sentient beings, once freed from sickness, swiftly attain the level of Menla. Though
the sutra rituals, may all sentient beings, once freed from sickness, swiftly attain the level
of Menla. Though the sutra rituals have the practice of washing [which is not done here], as
this is a higher practice, found at the end of the [supreme] yoga tantra, there is no contra-diction. If you take this as your regular practice, the benets are the following. If you are
ordained, your discipline will be maintained; though there might be an occasion when it is
not, having puried this obscuration, you will not fall into the lower realms. Having puried
the negative karma of being born as a hell being, a hungry ghost, or an animal, you will not
take such a birth. Even if you do, immediately liberated, you will take a felicitous rebirth
in a higher realm, and gradually attain awakening. In this life as well, you will easily obtain
food and clothing and not be harmed by disease, negative spirits, sorcery, or the punish-
ments of rulers. You will be protected and guarded by Vajrapani, Brahma, the Great Kings
of the four directions, and the twelve great Yaksha chiefs each with their 700,000 assis-
tants. You will be freed from all harm: from the eighteen kinds of untimely death, the harm
of enemies, carnivorous beasts, and so forth.
All your wishes will be fully realized, and so forth. In the two more extensive sutras of
Menla, the benets are said to be inconceivable. In the great monastic centers, such asJang Damring Pelkhor Chde, and their philosophical colleges, where the scholars nd
fault with most dharma and are difcult to satisfy, only this Menla ritual for prolonging life
and clearing away the obscurations of death has spread widely. The ritual to be performed
before the Jowo in Lhasa, Tibets Bodhgaya, and before the Great Awakened One at
Samye is this ritual of Menla. You should trust that within any of the new and the ancient
transmissions, the sutras and the tantras, nothing is more benecial than Menla. There are
many extensive and concise versions; this one has few words and the full meaning. Since
it belongs to anuttara yoga, rituals of purication are not needed. Since the offerings are
mental, it is all right not to offer tormas. Everyone should practice this. SHUBHAM DZA-
YENTU.
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Dedication of Merits
SONAM DIYI THAMCHED ZIGPA NYIDBy this merit, may all beings gain omniscience,
THOBNE NYEPI DANAM PHAMJE CHING
And may they defeat all the enemies of negative forces.
CHEGA NACHI WALONG TRUGPA YI
From the turbulent waves of birth, old age, sickness and death,
SIDPI TSOLE DOKUN DOLWAR SHOG
From the ocean of existence, may all beings be liberated!
The Short Menla Practice
HUNG KUDOK BEDUR YAYI RIWO DA
HUNG. Your body the color of a mountain of lapis lazuli,
DOWA SEMCHEN NECHI DUNGAL SEL
You dispel suffering of disease from all sentient beings.
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JANGCHUB SEMPA JEKYI KORJI KOR
Your retinue of eight bodhisattvas surrounds you
RINCHEN MENZIN LHALA CHATSAL TOD
I praise and pay homage to the Deity Who Holds the Precious Medicine.
TEYATA OM BEKHAZE BEKHAZE MAHA BEKHAZE RAZA
SAMU GATE SOHA
SEMCHEN NEPA JINYED PA
May the many sentient beings who are sick
NYURTU NELE TARJUR CHIK
Quickly be freed from sickness
DOWI NENAM MALUE PA
And may all the sicknesses of beings
TAKTU JUNGWA MEPAR SHOK
Never arise again.
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The Shorter Menla Practice
CHOMDENDE DEZHIN SHEKPA DACHOMPA YANGDAKPAR
ZOKPI SANGGYE MENGYILA BEDURYA WODKYI GYALPOLA
CHAKTSALLO
To you, Bhagavan, Tathagata, Arhat, perfect and fully Awakened Menla, king of
Lapis Lazuli Light, I offer prostrations.
The Hundred Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva
OM BENZAR SATO SAMAYA MANU PALAYA
BENZAR SATO TENOPA TIGTRA DRIDHO MEBHAWA
SUTO KHAYO MEBHAWA SUPO KHAYO MEBAWA
AHNU RAGTO MEBHAWA SARWA SIDDHI METRA YATSA
SARWA KARMA SUTSA ME TSITAM SHIRIYAM KURU HUNG
HA HA HA HA HO BHAGAWEN SARWA TATHAGATA
BENZAR MAME MUNTSA BENZI BHAWA
MAHA SAMAYA SATO AH
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Long Life Prayer for Gemang Rinpoche
JIGMED THEGCHOG TENPI SHINGTA CHE
The fearless hoister of the Dharma banner of the Great Vehicle
KUNZANG PEMI THUKSE BERO NGOY
The lotus-like prince of Dharma, emanation of Samantabhadra;
TSEWANG RIGZIN NYEPE SHEDRUP LE
The Vidyadhara with perfect achievement of Knowledge and Conduct;
SHENPHEN THRINLE THAYE ZHABTEN SOLMay you live for a long time to benet countless sentient beings!
(Auspicious prayer by His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche)
SARVA MANGA LAM
May All Be Auspicious!
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