Supplication to the King of the Sakyas

Supplication to the King of the Sakyas

༄༅།  །ཤཱཀྱའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་པ་བཞུགས་སོ།  ། Supplication to the King of the Śākyas These fifteen verses of supplication to the King of the Śākya clan were written by the glorious Sakya Pandita in the Lhasa shrine. * Multiple versions are available to download.

Bodhisattva Vow

Bodhisattva Vow

༄༅།  །སྨོན་འཇུག་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ལེན་ཚུལ།  ། Bodhisattva Vow The Bodhisattva Vow – recited to renew, revive, and recall our commitment. Terms of Use This is a free publication and work may be copied or printed for fair use, but only with full attribution, and

Three Heap Sutra and General Confession

Three Heap Sutra and General Confession

༄༅།  །ཕུང་པོ་གསུམ་པའི་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ།  ། &  ༄༅།  །སྤྱི་བཤགས་བཞུག་སོ།  ། Three Heap Sutra and General Confession The Three Heap Sutra (Skt. Trīskhandhadharmasūtra; Wyl. phung po gsum pa’i mdo) is a Mahāyāna confession sutra with homage to the thirty-five buddhas of confession, confession, and

Refuge, Bodhicitta and Four Immeasurable Anthology

Refuge, Bodhicitta and Four Immeasurable Anthology

༄༅།   །སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དང་ཚད་མེད་བཞི་ནི།   ། Refuge, Bodhicitta and Four Immeasurable Anthology An anthology of various translations of the Mahāyāna Buddhist Refuge and Enlightenment Thought prayer composed by Atisha followed by the very well known contemplation on the Four Immeasurables in four lines. Terms of

Three Long Life Deities

Three Long Life Deities

༄༅།   །ཚེ་ལྷ་རྣམ་གསུམ་གྱི་གཟུངས་སྔགས་བཞུགས་སོ།   ། The Dhāraṇī of the Three Long Life Deities Together with Praise and Supplication The prayer to the Three Long Life Deities invokes the blessings of Buddha Amitāyus, Uṣṇīṣavijayā, and White Tārā through supplication, dhāraṇī, and dedication to extend the

The Twelve Deeds of Lord Buddha

The Twelve Deeds of Lord Buddha

༄༅།   །མཛད་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བསྟོད་པ་བཞུགས་སོ།   ། The Twelve Deeds of Lord Buddha Although the Buddha performed countless innumerable deeds for the benefit of beings, this popular and widely common prayer — ascribed to Ārya Nāgārjuna —  recounts twelve of those most historical and