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Advice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

For the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal

March 2020

TranscribedfromthevideorecordingbyVen.JoanNicell,KopanMonastery,March2020.

©FPMTInc.,2020

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Advice for the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Introduction

Mymostdear,mostprecious,mostkind,wish-fulfillingones,myfathersandmothers,brothersandsisters,studentsandfriends,everybody,

Atthistimethereisabigchange.It’satime,averyimportanttime,ofdiscovery,adiscoveryofthetruthofsuffering.

IheardthatduringtheFirstWorldWarthattherehappenedakindofinfluenza,adisease,epidemicdisease. So many millions, five million? Fifty millions people died, minimum. Fifty millions peopleminimum, died. That happened, butwe can’t say before, a long time ago, [what happened]. Thentherehappeneddifferentonesatdifferenttimes.Somenumberofyearsago,SARShappened,butIthink it didn’t spreadmuch.OurDharma center, ABC in Singapore, invited themonkswho do theMostSecretHayagrivapujainSeraJey,ourcollege.Theyinvitedthosemonkswhoarespecializedindoingthepuja,andthenalsoLowerTantraCollege[monks].Theydid,Ithink,TsogKong,MostSecretHayagrivaTsogOffering,theextensiveone.Thentheydid,Ithink,awrathfulfirepujaandthenIdon’tknowwhatelse,butmanyothers.RightafterthattheSARSstopped.ThepujawasdonetostoptheSARS. It was sponsored by our center, FPMT center, ABC. So that happened. So this time, thishappened—coronavirus.

Whenyou lookat the life…Well, it started fromChina, fromthisparticularcity,Wuhan.Thennowdiseasehappened inmanyothercountries,Spain, Italy,Korea, Japan. In somecountries, it ismuchmore.AswellasinAmerica.Yousee,now,peoplegetveryscared;ofcourse,non-Buddhists,yes,butevenusordinaryBuddhistpeople.ButwhatIthoughtstrangeis[thatyouarestillscared]whenyouhaveheardBuddhadharma,thefourseals,theview,Buddhistview.

[Thefirstsealis:]

ཟག་བཅས་ཐམས་ཅད་*ག་བ+ལ་བ། །

ZAG CHÄ THAM CHÄ DUG NGÄL WA Allcontaminatedphenomenaarethenatureofsuffering.

“Contaminatedphenomena,”liketheaggregatesandsoforth,thecontaminatedaggregates,“arethenatureofsuffering.”Itisaveryimportantsubject,theviewofBuddhism.Then:

[Thesecondsealis:]

LamaZopaRinpoche'sAdvicefortheCoronavirusDisease(COVID-19)KopanMonastery,Nepal,March2020

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འ0ས་1ས་ཐམས་ཅད་མི་3ག་པ། །

DÜ CHÄ THAM CHÄ MI TAG PA Allcausativephenomenaarethenatureofimpermanence.

“All causative phenomena are the nature of impermanence.” “The nature of impermanence.” IalreadymentionedDüchäthamchämitagpa.

[Thethirdsealis:]

[ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་8ོང་ཞིང་བདག་མེད་པ། །

CHHÖ THAM CHÄ TONG ZHING DAG ME PA] Allexistentsareemptyandno-self.

“Theexistentsareemptyandno-self.”Thosewhohavestudied,youunderstand[this].

Itistheverybeginningadvice,teaching,forhowtocontrolthemind.Therootofallthesuffering,theoceansofsufferingofsamsaracomefromthethreepoisonousminds,attachment,anger,ignorance.Then,ofcourse,ofcoursethen,theroot,theotherone,isself-cherishingthought,selfishmind.Itisfromwhereall themisfortune, all theobstacles, everything, comes topracticeDharma, toachieveenlightenment,tobenefitothersentientbeingsandthentoobtainevenyourownhappiness.

Itissaid,asmanypeoplehaveheardBodhisattvacharyavatara,asyouknowinBodhicharyavatara[itsays]:

DAG ZHÄN JE WA MA JÄ NA Ifyoudon’texchangeyourselfandothers,

DZOG SANG NYI DU MIN GYUR WÄ Buddhahoodcannotbeachieved.

KHOR WA NA YANG DE WA ME Evenwhileyouareinsamsara,thereisnohappiness.

JIG TEN PHA RÖL PHAR ZHOG GI Leaveasideobtainingthehappinessoffuturelives,

TSHE DII DÖN YANG DRUB MI GYUR Eventhehappinessofthislifecannotbeobtained.1

Oh,that.ThatiswhatonthebasisoftheBuddha’steachings,thenShantidevaadvised,saidthis.But,ofcourse,thatisyourownexperience.Youcanexpandthatfromyourownexperience.“Exchangingoneselfforothers, ifthat isnotdone,enlightenmentcannotbeachieved.”“Buddhahoodcannotbeachieved.”“Eveninsamsara,”“Whileyouareinsamsara,thereisnohappiness.”“Leaveasidefuture

1ThisverseseemstobeavariationofBodhisattvacharyavatara,v.8.131.


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lives, obtaining the happiness of future lives, even the happiness of this life cannot be obtained.”That’s very clear. People,many business people,many people, somany,wow,wow, somany, thehappinessesof this life theywanttoaccomplish, theywanttoachieve,butsomuchproblems.Youhavetofacesoooooomanyproblems,bah,bah,bah,thewholelife.Wheredoesitcomefrom?Itallcomesfromtheself-cherishingthought.Itisveryclear.

Then,cherishingothers,ultimategoodheart,bodhichitta,ofcourse.Butevenifyoudon'thavethat…But, of course, that, then, is the root. It iswhatmakespossible the rootof thepath.Whatmakespossible to achieve enlightenment, to cease all the obscurations, all themistakes ofmind, and tocompletealltherealizationsisthat.Then, ifyouhavebodhichitta,thenyoucancausehappinesstonumberless sentientbeingsup toenlightenment.This life, future life,up toenlightenment,all thatcanbesuccessful.Evenifyouhaveageneralgoodheart,evenifyoudon'thaveultimatebodhichittabutyouhaveagoodheart,youcancausesomanysentientbeings,insectsandpeople,somany,youcancausehappiness.Youcanhelp;itisunbelievable.Somuchofyoursuccesscanbeachieved.Okay?Likethat.

Then, the other one is, of course, dagdzin marigpa, the ignorance holding the I as truly existent,existingfromitsownside,existingbyitself,or,byusingthelanguagethateverydayweuse,therealI.Inreality, frombeginninglessrebirthsthe Iexists inmerename, inmerename.So it ismost,most,mostunbelievablysubtlewhatitis.It’slike…ComparedtotherealIthatappearsandwebelievefrombeginninglessrebirths,comparingtothat,itislike—itisnotthattheIdoesn’texist,butitislikethat!Butitislikethat.

So, you have to understand. I’m just introducing this to ordinary people like me who don'tunderstand.Sowearediscussingit.

Okay.Sowehavetounderstand.NotGodcreatedthat,notBuddhacreatedthat,ourmindcreatedthat,therootofsamsara,therootoftheoceansofsamsaricsuffering.Thesufferingsyoudon'tknowthatitissufferingandthesufferingsyouknowyoudon'tlike,allthatcamefromthat.Soourmindhasbeen creating what is just a superstition, a wrong belief. So it is very strange. With that wrongconcept,thewrongconceptofI,thenthatistheroot.Fromthat,thenyoucreate—I’mjusttalkinginashort way—the oceans of samsaric suffering, the oceans of hell suffering, oceans of hungry ghostsufferings, oceans of animal suffering, oceans of human being, sura and asura, intermediate statebeing.Bah,bah,bah.Lamakhyen,lamakhyen.Bah,bah,bah.Soitisreally,really,really,reallyfunny.It is really, really, really funny. Funny, if you think, if youdiscover. Ifwedon't analyze, ifwedon'tanalyze,don'tcheck,likescience.Nowthisisinnerscience,notouterbutinnerscience,checkingupby themind, realizing that themostdangerous,most harmfulwrong concept is the creatorof theoceans of samsaric sufferings. Bah, bah, bah. The suffering is the suffering of pain and all thepleasures, samsaric pleasures, are in the nature of the suffering of change. That’s why it cannotcontinue, itcannotdevelop, thatpleasure,whereasDharmahappiness,happinesswithbodhichitta,renunciation,emptiness, justwithout talkingevenabout tantra, thosehappiness theycandevelop.


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Whenyouachieveenlightenment,youhavecompletedthehappinessofDharma.Youcan’tdothatwiththesamsarichappiness.Why?Becausesamsarichappinessisthenatureofsuffering.Becauseofthat. It’s like on a sword or on a knife there is honey, so you lick it and then you experience thesweetness, yes, but then it cuts your tongue. Or then the flies, butterflies [moths], different flies,whenthereisthelightofafire,thentheytrytogetinsideit.Eventhoughitishot,theycanfeelitishot,butstilltheytrytogoinside.Thelightoftheflame,theytrytoreallygoin.Sotheyhaveatotallywronghallucinatedappearanceofsomethingmostamazing,somethingmostbeautiful,somethingtoreallygetinside,thenyouwillbeblissedoutorsomething.I’mjustmakingitintowords.That’swhythosedifferentflies,bigandsmall,trytogetinside.Theytrytogetinside,butoncetheygetinside,theygetburned.Theydon'tknow;itistotallyopposite,completelyopposite,whatappearstothemandwhatitis.Solikethat,orthefliesgetinsidethecandlewax,thecandle,thentheyfalldown.Theydropinthecandlewax,oranoillamp,orthingslikethat.Bah,bah,bah.Likethat,theycouldnotfly.Eveniftheydidn’tburnbuttheydroppedinthewax.Ithappenslikethat.

Peoplewhoarefishing,theyhaveaworm,afishingwormtied[onahook].Thewirewentthroughthebody, thenyouput that in thewater. Itmovesof course, then from far the fish can see there isawormthere.(Rinpocheshowshowitwiggles)Theywanttotrytoeatthat.Withsomuchdesire,theyruntoeatit.Butthenwhathappens?Itwasn’tlikethat.Itistotallyagainstwhattheywish.Theygetcaught.Theirmouthgetscaughtbythewire,thehook.Bah,bah,bah.Then,lamakhyen,whatpain.Theygetcaught.Thenwithaknifeyoucleanoutsidethehairs [scales], thenyoucut it inhalf.Bah,bah,bah.Lamakhyen,lamakhyen,whatsuffering,whatsuffering.

Thepleasuresofsamsara,howtheyarethenatureofsuffering,oh,islikethis.Itistotallydeceiving,bah,bah,bah, likethisexampleIgave, justafewexamples. It isverygoodtousetheexamplesformeditation[ofhowtheyare]deceiving.Bah,bah,bah,bah,bah,bah.

Then from there, so much attachment. [But] nothing is definite, always it changes. Because thediseasehappened,thegovernmentchanges,soallthebusinesspeoplechanges,businessgoesdown.Somanychanges,nothingisdefinite.

Then how much we enjoy them, we never get satisfaction, as Lama Tsongkhapa said in theFoundationofAllGoodQualities.Bah,bah,bah.Those twoare themainsufferings.Bah,bah,bah.Lamakhyen,lamakhyen.Sothensomethingwhichiswrong,thenyoucontinue,continue,continue.Then after some time, it gets exploded, then huge suffering. You don't realize that the nature ofsamsaraissuffering,thatwhichissuffering,allthesethings.

WhatamIsaying?

Then,thethird[suffering]isthepervasivecompoundingsuffering,kyabpadujekyidugngal.Thetwoother sufferings, the sufferingofpainand sufferingof change, gyurwaidugngal,dugngalgyi dugngalandgyurwaidugngal,camefromthethird,pervasivecompoundingsuffering,kyabpadujekyidug ngal. These aggregates are completely under the control of delusion and karma, so they are


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pervadedbysuffering,asHisHolinessalwaysexplains.Thentheseaggregatesarethecontaminatedseedofdelusionandkarma.Fromthatseed,delusionarisesagainandthesufferingofthislifeandthesuffering of future lives arises from that again—from these aggregates, these contaminatedaggregates. Therefore, in the life the most, the most, the most, the most important meditationinvolvesthemostimportantpracticethelifetolivein,thelifetofollow,whereyourmindshouldlive,isbodhichittaandemptiness.These twoare the foundationofall tantra, thequickpath toachieveenlightenment.

Okay,thatisenough.Thatisenoughjustforanintroduction.

Meditation on Death is the Foundation

As Imentionedbefore, this is the foundation, almost the first teaching, instruction,or advice, [theone] about impermanence-death, chiwamitagpa. Not only is death definite… Imean except for ahallucinatedperson,butmostpeople,ofcourse,[know],“Iwilldie,”butalwaysthereisthethought,“Iwillliveforaverylongtime.”Evenifyourfamilydies,yourbrotherdiesbycancer,bythat,bythis;evenifaroundyoupeopleyouknowaredyinggradually,orsometimestogether,butyouneverthinkofyourdeath,thatyouaregoingtodie.Nobodysays,“Iwon’tdieforever,”intheworld.Idon'tthink[anyonesaysthat]exceptifthemindishallucinated,over-hallucinated.

That,deathisdefinite,andwhenthedeathwilloccurisindefinite.Death—todaythebodyislikethisbuttomorrowyoucannotsay.Itcanbeonthefirewoodburningthebodybythistimetomorrow;soyoucan’treallysay.Theactualtimeofdeathisindefinite.Thatistheverybasic,verybeginning,verybasic teaching. We have been hearing for however long you have been hearing teachings of theBuddha, for however many years you have been a Buddhist, that the actual time of death… TheBuddhasaid,intheformof,heappearedintheordinaryaspectofaguru,thengaveyoutheteaching,“Theactualtimeofdeathisindefinite.”Youhearditsomuch,youhearditsomuch,butitwasnotlikethis,withthisdiseasehappening,peopledying,sotherewasnotthisfear.Therewasnotthisusefulfear.Itisvery,verystrange.WhattheBuddhasaid…Allthethree-timebuddhas,thenumberlesspast,present,andfuturebuddhasofthetendirections,manifestedintheguru, intheordinaryaspectoftheguru,sothatyoucanseethem,soyouseetheholypersonandreceiveteachings,allthat—learnthe alphabet and the commentaries, the lungs, and you can receive the pratimoksha, bodhisattva,tantravows,initiationsandcommentaries,lungs,instructions,commentariesontantra—sothatyoucanmakeyourmindsoclosetoenlightenment,bah,bah,bah,yes, ifyoucorrectlypractice.All thetimeyouarebeing taught, it is taught, it is said in the teachings,but that,kindof—formeand forcommongeneralpeoplelikeme—thatisleftout.Itiskindoflikeitisnottakenseriously;thatislikesortofnormal talk.But then thediseasehappened,what thecountry talksabout, thenyouare soscared,soscared. Ifthedoctorsays,“Youhavecancer,”oh,youaresoscared,terriblyscared.Bah,bah, bah. But when the Buddha, when the guru, always gives you this teaching, the basic


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introduction,thebasicmeditation[thatdeathisdefiniteandthetimeofdeathisuncertain]tocontrolyourmind—ignorance,anger,attachment,allthedelusions—andtocontrolthenegativekarma,andtoallowalltherealizationsofthegraduatedpathofalowercapablebeing,thegraduatedpathofamiddlecapablebeing,andthegraduatedpathofahighercapablebeing,allthatuptoenlightenment,toallow inyourmind,but themeditationwhichdoesthat,which isvery important,but that isnottakenasimportant,asserious.Soitisverystrange.Ifthedoctorsaysit,thenitbecomessoserious.Ifthedoctorsaysit.Butiftheguru,theBuddha,[saysit],itisnottakenupwitheffort;onlyifthedoctorsaysit,then,iftheworldorthecountrysaysit.Itisverykindofveryinteresting.Itiskindofsilly.Silly.

Now, ifyouhadtakenwhat theBuddhasaid,what thegurusays, soseriously,oh, thenyouwouldpracticeDharmacontinuously.Youwouldneverwaste [your time]dayandnight.Youwouldneverwasteevenonehour innegativekarma, increatingnegativekarma,thecauseofthe lowerrealms.Youwouldn’t spendyour life in that,notevenonehour.YouwouldpracticeDharmacontinuously,thenyouwouldachieverealizationsyearbyyear,forexample.Likethatwouldhappenifyouweretotake as seriouswhat is said in the lamrim,what is said in the teachings, in the base of the tantrateachings,thesutrateachings.

Lama Tsongkhapa said… It is difficult to remember the words. Themeaning is the perfect humanrebirth,which isdifficulttofindagain,thenimpermanence-death,andkarma, ifyoudorealizethis,theneverythinghappens.Thenallthefollowingrealizationshappen.Wedidn’tget…[People]likeme,wedidn’tgetdonethis.Thisverybasicthingisleftout.Wedidn’ttakeitseriously,sothentherestoftherealizationsuptoenlightenmentdon'thappen.Thatmeansifyoudiscover[thefirstteachings],ifyourealizethem,thenalltherestoftherealizationshappenwithoutdifficulty.Theyhappeneasily.Itsaysthatinthelamrim,Ithink.

Oral Transmission of Vajra Armor Protection Wheel Short Practice

[video00.36]Okay.Now,nowforyourselftonotgetthediseaseandthedisease,ifyoudidgetit,torecoverfromthat,thenVajraArmoristhemantratoreciteeveryday.Onemalayoucanrecite;thatiscommon.Itisunbelievablyimportant,thatone.SoI’mgoingtodothat.

Manypeoplebecomegreathealersbyrecitingthismantra.Eveniftheydon'tknowthebasiclamrimorDharma,theydon'tknowmuch,butmanybecomegreathealers.Therearemany.Theyareabletohealmanypeople,somanypeople.Ofcourse,thenyouhavefaith inthemantra,thepowerofthemantra.

I’mgoingtodothelungofthis.IreceivedthelungofthismantrafromKyabjeTrulshikRinpoche,HisHolinesstheDalaiLama’sguru.HetookinitiationfromRinpoche.[KyabjeTrulshikRinpoche]isvery,veryqualified,aperfectlyqualifiedguruofsutraandtantraintheworld,inthisworld.IreceivedthislungfromRinpocheinKathmandu.I’mgoingtoreadthis.


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“I go for refuge to Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha until I achieve enlightenment.” And, “Due to themeritsofhavingdonecharityandsoforth,practicedthesixparamitas,listenedtoteachings,”bythethree-timemerits collected byme, three-timemerits, past, present, and future, three-timemeritscollectedbynumberlesssentientbeings,andthethree-timemeritscollectedbynumberlessbuddhas,“may I achieve the total cessation ofmistakes ofmind and the completion of all the realizations,buddhahood,inordertobenefitall…”“Benefit”meanstofreefromtheoceansofsamsaricsufferingsthe numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless humanbeings,numberlesssurabeings,numberlessasurabeings,numberless intermediatestatebeings, tofree them from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to enlightenment. Benefit forsentient beings means that. “Therefore, I’m going to listen to the lung.” You can think like that.However, at least [listen] to help the sentient beings. You are just one; sentient beings arenumberless.Soitismuchmorewisetocausenumberlesssentientbeings[tobefreefromsuffering].Just don't think only of yourself, because it is mentioned in the Buddha’s teachings and you candiscoverthatallthesufferingscamefromwhere?TheycamefromtheI,cherishingtheI.Then,allthehappiness from beginningless rebirths, now, and future happiness, including enlightenment,everything,camefromothers,cherishingothers.“Therefore,I’mgoingtolistentotheteaching,thelung,forthebenefitofothers.”

NowI’mgoingtodothelung.

Vajra Armor Protection Wheel Short Practice

(RinpochegivestheoraltransmissionofthefollowingversesinTibetan)

རང་ཉིད་>ག་?ོར་མཐིང་ནག་Aམས། ། ?ོ་Bེ་Cལ་ཞགས་འཛEན་པ་ཡི། ། G་ལ་0ར་Hོད་དཔལ་ཆས་Iོགས། ། ཞབས་Jང་པད་ཉིར་འདོར་8བས་བKད། ། RANG NYI CHHAG DOR THING NAG NGAM

IbecometheveryferociousdarkblueVajrapani,DOR JE DRÜL ZHAG DZIN PA YI

Holdingavajraandasnakelasso.KU LA DUR THRÖ PÄL CHHÄ DZOG

Myholybodyiscompletewiththegloriousornamentsofthecharnelgrounds,ZHAB ZUNG PÄ NYIR DOR TAB DRÄ

AndIstandwithmytwofeetstretchedoutonalotusandsun.

ཡེ་ཤེས་མེ་དMང་Nོང་0་བOགས། ། G་ལས་མེ་Pང་Qགྖས་Sགི་དང་། །


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ཕག་ནག་Uང་མེ་བཙན་0ག་ག ི། ངན་Wངས་སེར་Uང་འXབས་Yར་འZོས། ། ནད་རིམས་གདོན་བགེགས་བWག་པར་བསམ། ། YE SHE ME PUNG LONG DU ZHUG

Iabideamidstablazingtranscendentalwisdomfire.KU LÄ ME KHYUNG CHAG DIG DANG

Frommyholybodyfiregarudas,ironscorpions,PHAG NAG LUNG ME TSÄN DUG GI

Blackpigs,wind,fire,andthenoxiousvaporsofpoisonNGÄN LUNG SER LUNG TSHUB TAR THRÖ

Areemittedlikeviolentwindsandhailstorms,NÄ RIM DÖN GEG LAG PAR SAM

Destroyingalldisease,epidemics,spiritharms,andinterferers.

Thismantra…This text is copied fromwhat I received fromKyabjeTrulshikRinpoche. In the lung IreceivedfromKyabjeTrulshikRinpoche, ithasHŪṂVAJRAPHAṬ.SonormallyOṂPADMAŚHAVARIPHAṬ, it starts like that. But theone I received fromRinpochehas the three syllablesHŪṂVAJRAPHAṬ. So it is okay, you can recite it like that. Don’tworry aboutwasting time [when reciting thelongerversion]!Wewaste…LikeImyself,ordinaryus,someofus,wewastethewholelifegossiping,bydoingsomanyuselessthingsinthelife,whichisonlynegativekarma,thecausetobereborninthelowerrealms.Soactuallyifwethinkofthekarma,thatisreallyfrightening,mostfrightening,sad.

(Rinpocherecitesthemantrafourtimes)

༄༅། །]ྃ༌བ`༌ཕཊ༔ ༀ༌པdྨ༌ཤ༌ཝ༌རི༌ཕཊ༔ ནན༌པར༌ཤིག༔ g༌ག༌ནན༔ ཏijཱ༔ སl༌བི༌རི༌ཏ༔ ཧ༌ན༌ཧ༌ན༔ བ`n༌ན༌རཀྵ༌རཀྵ༌pq༌r༔

HŪṂ VAJRA PHAṬ / OṂ PADMAŚHAVARI PHAṬ / NÄN PAR SHIG / NĀGANAN / TADYATHĀ / SARVAVIRITA / HANA HANA / VAJRENA RAKṢHA RAKṢHA SVĀHĀ

Recitethisasmanytimesaspossible.

Thenafterthatitsays,“Recitethisasmuchaspossible.”Usuallyyoureciteonemala.

Attheendoftherecitation,[blowon]watertoblessit.Then,drinkandanointyourselfwithit.

Then,“Attheendofthesession,youcanblowthemantraonabottleofwater,orajarofwater,orwhatever.”Then,“Youblowon thewater, thenyoudrink it.”Eitheryoudrink itorgive it tootherpeople,othersickpeople,todrink.Orforinfectionsonthebody,thenyouapplyit.Youcanblowoncream,butter,likethat,thenyoucanapplyittoinfections,anything,harmoutsidethebody.

Inyourdailypractice,blowintoyournostrils.


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Then, normally after you finish reciting the mantra, you blow in the nose. That means like this(Rinpocheputshispalminfrontofhismouthandblowsthreetimesintoitwithhislowerlipupturnedsothattheairgoesupintothenose).Youkeepyourhanduplikethis,thenyoublow.(Rinpocheblowsagainwithhislowerlipupturned)Ithelpsthebreathtogointhenose.

Attheconclusionofthesession,thinkthatalldiseaseandspiritharmsaretotallydestroyed.

Thenwhenyoudothat,[thinkthat]allthediseasesandspiritharms,everything,donotexisteveninname.Theyaretotallyceased.Thinkthat.

Then,abideforawhileinthestateofmeditationontheactualmodeofexistence[emptiness],beyondwhatistobeprotectedandwhatprotects[conventionaltruth].Whileempty,onearisesagainasthedeity’sholybody.

Then yourself, [the one]who is protecting; your action of protecting; and yourself, your body andmind,whatistobeprotected,allthree,whatappearedreal,donotexist.Theyaretotallyempty.Youplaceyourmindinemptinessforawhile.Then,whileyouareinemptiness,youariseintothedeity.Itcouldbeyourowndeity,whatyoupractice.

Then,makededicationprayersandprayersofauspiciousness.

Thenyoudothededication,dedicationprayer.

ཞེས་པ་འདིའང་ཡང་Hོས་s་tབས་uང་བའི་འཁོར་ལོ་ནས་wན་འxེར་0་yངས་པ་8ེ་ཛཉ་ནས་སོ།་

ThistextwasextractedbyJñanafromTheMostWrathfulChakraofProtectingtheRootAttainmentforthepurposeofuseindailypractice.

ThisistakenfromtheProtectionWheel.Itistakenfromthat,thispiece.Itisshowingthereferences.

Thededication,Iaddedhere:

[བདག་དང་གཞན་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་དང་སངས་zས་ཐམས་ཅད་{ིས་0ས་ག|མ་0་་བསགས་པའི་དགེ་བའི་s་བ་བ3ེན་ནས་བདག་ཉིད་

སེམས་ཅན་|ས་མཐོང་ཐོས་}ན་པ་དང་རེག་པ་ཙམ་~ིས་{ང་འKོས་བ་ཀན་~ི་རེ་བ་གང་ཡིན་པ་མཐའ་དག་ཡོངས་|་Iོགས་པར་1ེ་པ་ལ་ཡིད་

བཞིན་~ིས་ནོར་དང་དཔག་བསམ་ཤིང་བཞིན་0་ཡོང་བར་ཤོག DAG DANG ZHÄN SEM CHÄN THAM CHÄ DANG SANG GYÄ THAM CHÄ KYI DÜ SUM DU SAG PÄI GE WÄI TSA WA LA TEN NÄ

Duetoallthemeritscollectedinthepast,present,andfuturebymyself,othersentientbeings,andallbuddhas,

DAG NYI SEM CHÄM SU THONG THÖ DRÄN PA DANG REG PA TSAM GYI KYANG Byanysentientbeingevenjustseeingme,hearingme,rememberingme,ortouchingme,

DRO WA KÜN GYI RE WA GANG YIN PA THA DAG YONG SU DZOG PARJE PA LA MayIcompleteallthehopesofalltransmigratingbeingswithouteffort,

YI ZHIN GYI NOR DANG PAG SAM SHING DU YONG WAR SHOG Likeawish-grantingjewelandawish-grantingtree.]


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“Duetothemeritscollectedinthepast,present,andfuturebymyself,byothersentientbeings,”itmeanseverysentientbeing—hell,hungryghost,animal,humanbeing,suraandasura.Then,“allthebuddhas”; there are numberless buddhas. It becomes, by putting them together, unbelievable. Itbecomesmostpowerful.Bah,bah,bah.“Duetothesemerits,anysentientbeingwhoseesme,whohearsme,”mynameor voice, “who remembersme, touchesme,” sawmyphotos, dreamsofme,“even just by that, may all the hopes of sentient beings be completed without effort.” (Rinpochesnapshisfingers)“Mayitbecomemuchmorethanawish-grantingjewelandawish-grantingtree.”Thatmeanstoceasetheoceansofsamsaricsuffering.

།ེ་བ་ཐོག་མེད་ནས་བསགས་པའི་Sིག་ིབ་ཐམས་ཅད་ད་ཅིག་ཉིད་དེར་དག་ནས་བདག་པས་གཞན་གཅེས་པའི་1ང་བ་{ི་སེམས་wད་ལ་ེ་

བ་དང་། འོད་གསལ་>ག་z་ཆེན་པོ་བདེ་yག་་wད་ལ་ེ་ནས་y་མེད་Iོགས་1ང་གི་གོ་འཕང་ར་0་ཐོབ་པར་ཤོག

KYE WA THOG ME NÄ SAG PÄI DIG DRIB THAM CHÄ KÄ CHIG NYI DER DAG NÄ Mayalltheirnegativekarmasandobscurationscollectedfrombeginninglessrebirthsbe

purifiedinthatveryinstant.DAG PÄ ZHÄN CHE PÄI JANG CHHUB KYI SEM GYÜ LA KYE WA DANG

Maybodhichitta,whichcherishesothersmorethanoneself,begeneratedintheirmentalcontinuum.

Ö SÄL CHHAG GYA CHHEN PO DE LAG TU GYÜ LA KYE NÄ Througheasilygeneratingthemahamudraclearlightintheirminds,

LA ME DZOG JANG GI GO PHANG NYUR DU THOB PAR SHOG Maytheyquicklyachievethestateofhighest,completebuddhahood.

Andthenegativekarmascollectedfrombeginninglessrebirthstogetpurifiedjustinthattime,andtogeneratebodhichittacherishingothersmorethanoneself,andtoachievebuddhahood,thestateofcessation of all the mistakes of mind and the completion of all the qualities, the realizations, toachievethatquickly.

Then,thisiswhatLamaTsongkhapasaid,“Inshort…”

མདོར་ན་བཤེས་གཉེན་དམ་པ་མཉེས་1ས་ནས། །

བ་པའི་དགོངས་པ་ེད་པའི་མང་ཐོས་{ི། །

tབ་པའི་1་བ་ལེགས་པས་མཐར་>ིང་ནས། །

zལ་པའི་བ8ན་པ་>ོགས་བར་zས་1ེད་ཤོག ། DOR NA SHE NYEN DAM PA NYE JÄ NÄ

Inshort,bypleasingtheholyvirtuousfriend,THUB PÄI GONG PA NYE PÄI MANG THÖ KYI

MayIcompletewelltheactivitiesofaccomplishing


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DRUB PÄI JA WA LEG PÄ THAR CHHIN NÄ MuchlisteningthathasfoundtheviewoftheMightyOne,

GYÄL WÄI TÄN PA CHHOG CHUR GYÄ JE SHOG AndthenspreadtheteachingsoftheVictoriousOneinthetendirections.

“In short, by pleasing the holy virtuous friend,” “bymany listenings having found the view of theMightyOne,”theBuddha,“andthencompletewelltheactivitiesorpractices,mayIincrease,spread,theteachingsoftheVictoriousOneinthetendirections.”

Okay.

“Swift Fulfillment of Wishes in Dependence on the Great Jetsun Tsongkhapa”

[video00:56]Thereisanotherprayertopacifytheepidemicdisease,particularlythat.ThisprayerwascomposedbyKyabjeSerkongDorjeChang.HebecameageshewithTrehorKyorponRinpoche,agreatlama from Drepung. Then after that, he went into a solitary place to do retreat with so muchhardships.Purposely,somuchhardships,hedidretreatafterhe finishedstudyingsutraandtantra.Actually he was highly respected by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, His Holiness the Thirteenth DalaiLama. Serkong Dorje Chang completed the path to enlightenment. On the basis of lamrim, hecompleted the tantric path, themaha-anuttara yoga tantric path. Hewas incredible, yes, SerkongDorjeChang.Hewrotethisprayer.SothatisaccordingtomyMickeyMouseobservation,itcameoutpowerful,good,toreciteittostopintheworldtheepidemicdisease.Ididn’treceivethelungofthisbutI’mgoingtoreadit.

Swift Fulfillment of Wishes in Dependence on the Great Jetsun Tsongkhapa

(RinpochegivestheoraltransmissionofeachverseinTibetanandthenreadstheEnglishtranslation)

0ས་ག|མ་zལ་ན་མxེན་བsེའི་རང་གJགས་མཆོག། ག|མ་ན་ར་ིག་འཛEན་པའི་གར་རོལ་པ།། G་་ཡེ་ཤེས་ན་བ་ཆོས་{ི་G།། Bེ་བན་yོ་བཟང་Kགས་པ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། བསམ་པ་ར་0་འབ་པར་1ིན་~ིས་Wོབས།།

ThisismakingaprayertoLamaTsongkhapa,whoisManjushri,Vajrapani,Chenrezig.

Supremeembodimentofthewisdomandcompassionofallthevictoriousonesofthethreetimes

Manifestingasamonkwearingthethreesaffronrobes—


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Thespontaneousexaltedwisdomdharmakayapossessingthefivebodies—Toyou,JetsunLozangDragpa,Imakerequest:Pleaseblessmethatmywishesbeswiftlyfulfilled.

Secondone:

རང་བཞིན་གདོད་ནས་དག་པའི་འོད་གསལ་བ།། མ་འགགས་རང་sལ་ལོངས་ོད་Iོགས་པའི་G།། G་གས་Jང་0་འག་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་ཆེ།། Bེ་བན་yོ་བཟང་Kགས་པ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། བསམ་པ་ར་0་འབ་པར་1ིན་~ིས་Wོབས།།

Withanatureofprimordiallypureclearlight,Uninterruptednaturalexpressionofthecompletesambhogakaya,Greatbeingwhounifiesbodyandmind,2Toyou,JetsunLozangDragpa,Imakerequest:Pleaseblessmethatmywishesbeswiftlyfulfilled.

Third:

ནམ་མཁའི་ཁམས་མཉམ་མཐའ་ཡས་འKོ་བ་ལ།། གང་ལ་གང་འཚམ་དེ་ལ་དེར་འཚམ་པའི།། ལ་Gའི་བཀོད་པ་་ཚགས་8ོན་མཛད་པ།། Bེ་བན་yོ་བཟང་Kགས་པ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། བསམ་པ་ར་0་འབ་པར་1ིན་~ིས་Wོབས།།

Displayinganarrayofmanifoldnirmanakaya-emanationsAppropriatetothelimitlesslivingbeingsEqualingtheexpanseofspace,Toyou,JetsunLozangDragpa,Imakerequest:Pleaseblessmethatmywishesbeswiftlyfulfilled.

Then,numberfourth:

xོད་ལ་sེ་གཅིག་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པའི་མས།། ནད་ག་འགས་sོད་ནད་རིམས་གདོན་བགེགས་སོགས།།

2Thislinewasoriginallytranslatedas“Thegreatessence-unionofbodyandmind.”ItwaslatercorrectedbyVen.TenzinNamjong.


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ིགས་མའི་0ས་ངན་རང་མདངས་ན་ཞི་ནས།། མན་ེན་ལགེས་ཚགས་འཕེལ་བར་གསོལ་འདེབས་ན།། བསམ་པ་ར་0་འབ་པར་1ིན་~ིས་Wོབས།།

Sohere[thisverse]containsthisepidemicdiseasethatishappeningintheworld,particularlythat,toceasethatrightnow.

Throughthepowerofhavingmadesingle-pointedrequeststoyou,Mayalltheunfortunatenaturalmanifestationsofthedegenerateage—Illness,famine,quarreling,epidemicdisease,graha-spirits,interferers,andsoforth—

bepacified.Then,whenIrequestthattheexcellentcollectionofconduciveconditionsincrease,Pleaseblessmethatmywishesbeswiftlyfulfilled.

Numberfifth:

མ་རིག་ོངས་པའི་ན་པ་ན་བསལ་ནས།། yོ་Kོས་མཆོག་གི་ང་བ་རབ་་zས།། གང་གས་པdྨའི་འདབ་བz་བཞད་པའི་གཉེན།། ཕན་བདེའི་འོད་ང་zས་1ེད་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། བསམ་པ་ར་0་འབ་པར་1ིན་~ིས་Wོབས།།

Havingcompletelyclearedawaythedarknessofignoranceandconfusion,Andfullydevelopedtheilluminationofsupremeintelligence,Virtuousfriendwhocausesthehundred-petalledlotusofthescripturaltraditiontobloom—Thesunradiatingbenefitandhappiness—toyou,Imakerequest:Pleaseblessmethatmywishesbeswiftlyfulfilled.

Numbersix:

བདག་སོགས་དད་ན་ག0ལ་1འི་ཚགས་མས་{ི།། བས་མགོན་རེ་ས་གཞན་ན་མ་མཆིས་པས།། ཉིན་མཚན་0ས་ག་ན་་གསོལ་འདེབས་ན།། y་མའི་1ིན་Wབས་སེམས་ལ་འག་1ིན་Wོབས།།

SinceIandothers—theassemblyoffaithfuldisciples—Havenootherlordofrefugetoturntoforhope,Whenwemakerequestsinallthesixsessionsofdayandnight,Pleaseblessusthattheguru’sblessingsmayenterourminds.


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ཚn་ཡི་མཐར་ཡང་yོ་བཟང་Kགས་པའི་དཔལ།། འཁོར་དང་བཅས་པ་མཐོང་ནས་དེ་མ་ཐག། ་ ་དགའ་ན་མཁའ་ོད་གནས་འKོ་ཞེས།། ག|ང་གི་ད གས་འ1ིན་ང་བ་ཐོབ་པ་སོགས།། གས་Bེས་Jངས་ཤིག་y་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།། བསམ་པ་ར་0་འབ་པར་1ིན་~ིས་Wོབས།།

Also,attheendofthislife,MayIseeyou,GloriousLozangDragpa,alongwithyourretinueAndimmediatelyhaveavisionofyousayingreassuringly,“Son,gotothecelestialrealmofTushita!”Careformewithyourcompassion,PreciousGuru.Pleaseblessmethatmywishesbeswiftlyfulfilled.

Colophons OriginalColophon:ཞེས་འཇམ་མགོན་y་མ་ཙང་ཁ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་བ3ེན་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་བསམ་པ་ར་འབ་མ་འདི་Y་ ་ཞིག་དགོས་ཞེས་ཞ་སེར་བ8ན་པའི་གསལ་1ེད་¢ེ་

ཧོར་Kོང་གསར་མཆོག་གི་ལ་པའི་G་yོ་བཟང་དཔལ་ན་ནས་རབ་དཀར་མཛད་བཏགས་>ི་£ོར་བའི་Kངས་ན་དང་བཅས་ཏེ་བཀའ་ནན་ཆེན་པོས་བGལ་

ངོ་མ་ོག་པར་ཆོས་Sེ་ཆེན་པོ་འ¤ས་¥ངས་{ི་བ8ི་གནས་ནས་འཇམ་མགོན་zལ་བ་གཉིས་པར་མི་>ེད་དད་ན་བན་གJགས་གསེར་ཁང་ེ་མིང་ངག་དབང་

Xལ་Hིམས་དོན་ན་~ིས་¦ས་པས་§ེལ་བའོ།། Thinking that a requesting prayer to swiftly fulfill wishes in dependence on the great Jamgon LamaTsongkhapawas necessary, the clarifier of the teachings of the YellowHat sect, the supreme emanationfromTehor,TrongsarLozangPalden,withanofferingofawhite scarfand tenpiecesof foreigncurrency,madesincereentreatieswithinsistentrequestsforsuchatexttobewritten.ThereforeI,Serkong,wholookslikeamonkandwhosebirthnameisNgawangTsultrimDonden,possessingunshakeablefaithintheSecondVictoriousOne,respectfullywrotethisatmydwellinginthegreatmonasteryofDrepung.[Publisher’sColophon:TranslatedbyGelongTenzinNamjongwith thehelpofVen. JampaKhedrup,March2020, fromSerkhongNgawangTsultrimDonden(serkhongngagdbangtshulkhrimsdonldan),rjebtsuntsongkhapachhenpolabrtenpa'ibsampamyur'grubma.s.l.:s.n.,s.d.TranslationreviewedandeditedbyGesheTenzinNamdakandJoonaRepo,March2020.Translator’sColophon:KyabjeLamaZopaRinpocheadvisedthatthisprayerwouldbebeneficialtohelpquellthenovelcoronavirusresponsible for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Therefore,Gelong TenzinNamjongquickly translated thetextwith somehelpful comments fromVen. JampaKhedrup.Due to themerit generated bymaking thistranslation, may the holy gurus’ lives be long and stable and all their holy wishes succeed immediately.Completed on March 9, 2020, the fifteenth day (Chotrul Duchen) of the Fifteen Days of Miracles.SARVAMAṄGGALAM.]


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Thisone,Idon'thavethelungbutIjustreaditbecauseitseemseffective.

Prayers by Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo

I will do the last lung. The great yogi Thangtong Gyalpo quite a few lifetimes back he was GuruShakyamuniBuddha, [according to] theBriefExplanationof the Life StoryofThangtongGyalpo. SonowthegreatyogiThangtongGyalpo…IthinkHollyprintedit.IthinkatVajraYogini[Institute],whenIwas there giving commentary, she printedVajraArmor, the deity, no, no, sorry, the great yogi, Ithink.3

(Rinpochereadsfromatext)

SowhathedidthegreatyogiThangtongGyalpo,externallywhatheconstructedwas58ironbridgesinTibet.Alsohedidthat inBhutan;wecrossedone. Igottwoironpiecesfromhisbridge. It issaidthatifyoumakeaphurbawiththatiron,itisalreadyblessedsoyoudon'tneedtoblessitagain.Itiscommonlysaid.So,58ironbridgesinTibetandBhutan.Yes,unbelievable.So,60woodenbridgeshebuilt. 118 ferries inTibet. 120assemblyhalls and temples,hebuilt. 111 stupas.Manyhundredsoflarge and small stupas and innumerable paintings. All to benefit sentient beings. It is unbelievablewhathedid.

OnetimeinTibet,anepidemicdiseasehappenedinSakyaandsomanypeopledied.ThentheBonposand tantric practitioners, ngagpas, didmany pujas but nothing helped. So then, I guess, hemadeprayers tostopall thisepidemicdisease inSakya.Theneverythingcompletelystoppedafterhedidthisprayer.Sothisprayerisalsogoodforthisepidemicdiseasenowtostopit.Itisgoodtoreciteittostopitintheworld.

IreceivedthisoraltransmissionfromHisHolinessChogyeTrichenRinpoche,fromwhomHisHolinesstheDalaiLamareceivedSakyaLamdre,HisHolinessChogyeTrichenRinpoche.RinpochegaveittotheNepalesegovernmentpeople.Onetimetheyinvitedhimsomewhere[inNepal],soRinpochegavethisThangtongGyalpo’sprayertostoptheepidemicdisease.

Andthen[thereisaprayerbyThangtongGyalpotostop]famine.InU-Tsang,afaminehappenedandsomuchpeopledied.HemadeaprayerinfrontoftheJowoinLhasa.Then,thosepeoplewhosemindwas purified, they saw Chenrezig pouring grain, seeds, from the sky. So much happened in thecountrywhere the faminehappened,so the faminecompletelystopped. It seems fromthat timeafaminedidn’thappen.

3LamaZopaRinpocheappearstobereferringtoanimageofThangtongGyalpo,underwhichitiswritten:

The greatmahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo built in his lifetime 58 iron bridges, 60 wooden bridges, 118 ferries, 120assembly halls and temples, 111 stupas, andmanyhundredsof large and small statues and innumerablepaintings.Also,afewlifetimesagohewasGuruShakyamuniBuddha.


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Then there was a fight, so much fighting in Kham, I think. They tried so many ways [to stop thefighting] but it didn’t help. They were unable to bring harmony to the two sides. Then DrubthobThangtong Gyalpo made this prayer [to stop the danger from weapons], then everybody becameharmoniousandstoppedthewar.

SoI’mgoingtodothelungofallthree.Okay.

Oral Transmission of Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Stop Epidemics

[video1:09:51]Sofirst,thisoneisgoodtorecite.Weareresponsibletopacifytheworldproblems,tobringperfectpeaceandhappiness,soweneedtorecitethistopacifytheepidemicdisease.

(RinpochegivestheoraltransmissioninTibetanofthefollowingprayer)

The Vajra Speech of Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo: The Blessed Prayer Known as “Liberating Sakya from Disease”

Motivation Allsentientbeings—mymotherswhoareinfinitelikespace—goforrefugetotheprecious

Guru-Buddha.

This formofgoingforrefugewasgivenbyAryaAvalokiteshvaratoKaNgapaPaljorSherabandbyhimtoMahasiddhaThangtongGyalpo.Afterwards,itprovidedinfinitebenefitsforlivingbeings.

WegoforrefugetotheBuddha,theDharma,andtheSangha.Wegoforrefugetotheassemblyofgurus,yidams,anddakinis.Wegoforrefugetotheemptyclarityofourownminds—thedharmakaya.

Recitetheseversesasmanytimesasyouareable.

OṂ MAṆI PADME HŪṂ

Recitethismantrahundredsoftimes.

The Actual Prayer MayallthediseasesthatsaddenthemindsofsentientbeingsThatresultfromkarmaandtemporaryconditions,Suchastheharmsofgraha-spirits,illnesses,andthebhutas,Notoccurintherealmsoftheworld.


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Maywhateversufferingstherearefromlife-threateningdiseasesthat,Likeabutcherleadingananimaltobeslaughtered,Separatethebodyfromthemindinamereinstant,Notoccurintherealmsoftheworld.

MayallembodiedbeingsbeunharmedByacute,chronic,andotherepidemicdiseases,Themeresoundsofwhosenamesterrifybeings,AsthoughtheyhadbeenplacedinsidethemouthofYama,theLordofDeath.

MayallembodiedbeingsbeunharmedBythe80,000classesofinterferers,The360evilspiritsthatharmsuddenly,The424diseases,andsoforth.

Maywhateversufferingsthereareduetodisturbancesofthefourelements,Deprivingthebodyandmindofeveryhappiness,betotallypacified,Andmaythebodyandmindhaveradianceandpower,Andbeendowedwithlonglife,goodhealth,andwell-being.

BythecompassionofthegurusandtheThreeJewels,Bythepowerofthedakinis,Dharmaprotectors,andguardians,Andbythepowerofthetruthoftheinfallibilityofkarmaanditsresults,Mayallthesededicationsandprayersbefulfilled.

Colophons Originalcolophon:Once, an epidemic was spreading from one person to another at the great seat of the Glorious SakyaMonastery.Whateverthemantricmasterstried—threadcrosses,6tormas,medicines,mantras,protection-amulets, and so forth—hadno effect and themonasterywas in danger of annihilation.At that time, theGreat Lord Mahasiddha [Thangtong Gyalpo] performed the “Space refuge,”7 recited a number of manimantras, andproclaimed this prayer, afterwhich the entire epidemic immediately ceased in dependenceupon its performance. Thereby, it became renowned as the Vajra Speech RadiatingMasses of Clouds ofBlessingEntitled“ThePrayerLiberatingSakyafromDisease.”SARVAMAṄGGALAM.[Publisher’sColophon:TranslatedbyGelongThubtenTsultrim (GeorgeChurinoff) fromThangtongGyalpo (thangstongrgyalpo),grubthobthangstongrgyalpo'irdorje'igsungsaskyanasgrolmargragspa'ismonlambyinrlabscan,s.l.:s.n.,s.d.TranslationreviewedandeditedbyJoonaRepoandVen.TenzinTsomo,February2020.]


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Oral Transmission of Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Stop War

Soofthese[next]twoprayers,[theone]topacifythefearsofweapons,orwar.

(RinpochegivesthelungofthefollowingprayerinTibetan)

The Vajra Speech of Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo: Words of Truth Pacifying the Danger of Weapons

OṂ MAṆI PADME HŪṂ

GreatLovingVictoriousOne,AryaSublimeCompassionate-Eye-LookingOne,WrathfulVictoriousHayagriva,PerfectPureTara,andsoforth—Objectsofrefugewhoseholynameseliminatealldangersuponmerehearing—Whoarecompassionateinnature,pleasepayattentiontome.Whenthesentientbeingsofthetimeofquarrelingandofflourishingofthefive

degenerationsAretormentedbyfightingandintensesufferingFromtheexplosionofagreatoceanofevilkarmaandjealousy,Pleasedry[thisocean]upbythestrengthofyourtranscendentalwisdomandcompassion.Also,bylettingfallagreatnectarrainoflovingkindnessOnthetransmigratingbeingswhosehatredisablazingfire,PleasegrantyourblessingsforhappinessandauspiciousnesstoincreaseBytheirrecognizingeachotherasbeinglikeparents.Throughyourdefeatingthemultitudeofviciousevilspirits,Who,byenteringsomeone’smentalcontinuum,Changeitinstantlyintothemindofanasura,Fromnowonmaytheyneverroaminthisregion.PleasealsocauseallthesentientbeingswhohavediedinwarFromnowontoabandonallevilkarma,thecauseandresult,AndbemiraculouslyreborninBlissfulLand.Pleasealsoleadallotherstothatpureland.PleasecauseallthosewhoarebornanddietohavelonglivesAndnothavesicknesses,tostopalltheirquarrelingandfighting,

andtoenjoyalifeinthetenvirtues.Pleasemakerainfallattherighttime,harveststoalwaysbegood,Andauspiciousnesstoincreaseinallhabitatsandforallinhabitants.


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Bytheultimatereality,whichispureinnature,Unbetrayingcauseandresult,whichhasthatultimatereality,Andthecompassionateguru,mind-sealeddeity,andRareSublimeOnes,Maymypureandextensiveprayersbeaccomplished.

Colophons Originalcolophon:Once,whentherewasuninterruptedfightingintheMiNyagdistrictofDokham,Tibet,andnoonewasabletoreconcile[thewarringfactions],MasterTantricAdept[ThangTongGyalpo]cametotheareabychance.Byhisgeneratingbodhichitta,harvestsbecamegood,cropsgrew,thedeadlyfightingceased,andeveryonecametohaveamindoflovingkindnessandreceivedtheperfectlyarisenblessedvajraspeech.Maytherebevirtue.[Translator’scolophon:TranslatedbyLamaZopaRinpocheandscribedbyHollyAnsettatKachoeDechenLing,Aptos,CA,USAon11September,2001,thedaythattheWorldTradeCenterinNewYorkandthePentagoninWashingtonwereattackedandmanypeoplewerekilledandinjured.Translator’snote:ThisisoneofthreeprayerscomposedbyGreatTantricAdeptThangTongGyalpo.Theothertwoprayersaretostopfamineandepidemics.WhenHisHolinessChogyeTrichenRinpoche,aguruofHisHolinesstheDalaiLamaandalsooneofthemainteachers of His Holiness Sakya Trizin, was invited by the Nepalese government to visit a part of Nepal,Rinpochecheckedwhatwouldbethemostbeneficialprayerforthepeoplethere.Itcameoutthatthebestpractice for them to do was to recite the three prayers composed by Thang Tong Gyalpo. Due to this,Rinpochedecidedtogivethemtheoraltransmissionofthesethreeprayers.IfoundoutabouttheexistenceoftheseprayerswhenIreceivedtheseoraltransmissionsfromHisHolinessChogyeTrichenRinpoche.Translator’sdedication:Wherever this text is (in whichever country), by whatevermerits there are frommaking this translationavailableandalsofromreadingthisprayer,mayeveryone’sheartbefilledwithlovingkindness,bodhichitta,and the thought toonlybenefitandnotharmothers.May thesunofpeaceandhappiness rise.Mayanywarsthatarehappeningstopimmediately.Maytherebeharmonyandpeace,andmaythereneverbewarorviolenceagain.Publisher’scolophon:Checked against the Tibetan and edited, and the original colophon translated, by Ven. JoanNicell, FPMTEducationServices,2020.FurthereditingbyVen.AilsaCameron.]


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Oral Transmission of Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Stop Famine

[video1:14:00]Thenextoneistheprayertopacifyfamine.

So, like this.Youhavetounderstandthatgradually theworld isending,gradually. I thinktherearetwenty, Ithink, intermediateeons, Ithink,fortheending,thedissolution,fortheending.Then[theperiod of] existing is twenty intermediate eons, and then the evolution, it also has twentyintermediate eons. Then, where there is the world now, there will be empty space for twentyintermediateeons,also.Likethatismentioned.

Ithinkallovertheworldtherewillbedisease.Somanypeoplewilldieinthewholeworld.Thenthereisfamineinthewholeworld,somanypeoplewilldie.Thenthereiswar,notjustone,notjustafewcountries,butinthewholeworld,war,somanypeoplewilldie.Thesethingshappenastheworldisgraduallyending.LotsawaRinchenZangpowroteonarockinLadakhthatbuildingaMaitreyastatue,thatistheantidotethatwillhelpwiththat,itismentioned.

Soheretheprayertopacifyfamine,danger.

(RinpochegivesthelungofthefollowingprayerinTibetan)

The Speech of Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo: A Request to Pacify the Fear of Famine

མཐའ་ཡས་འKོ་བ་ངེས་པར་ོལ་¨ད་0།། y་མེད་1ང་བ་མཆོག་་གས་བེད་ནས།། ཚགས་གཉིས་Iོགས་མཛད་zལ་བ་གས་Bེ་ཅན།།

Havinggeneratedthemindaspiringtothehighestsupremeenlightenment,Inordertotrulyliberateallinfinitelivingbeings,You,thecompassionateVictoriousOne,completedthetwoaccumulations.

འདི་ནས་ཚEག་©ང་ག|མ་ཞལ་ོང༌། Then,addthethreelines:

>ོགས་བའི་མ་འ}ེན་1ང་སེམས་ཉན་རང་དང༌།། y་མ་ཡི་དམ་མཁའ་འKོ་ཆོས་uང་ཚགས།། གནོད་ªིན་ནོར་«་གཏེར་བདག་འཁོར་དང་བཅས།།

Theassembliesofguiding-buddhas,bodhisattvas,hearers,pratyekabuddhas,Gurus,yidams,dakinis,andDharmaguardiansofthetendirections;Yakshawealthgods,thelordsoftreasures,alongwithyourretinues,


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མགོན་མེད་ིགས་མའི་འKོ་ལ་བsེར་དགོངས་ནས།། བ¬ེས་ོམ་ཉམ་ཐག་*ག་བ+ལ་~ིས་གཟིར་བའི།། ས་ཅན་འདི་དག་ངེས་པར་བབ་>ིར་0།། རིན་ཆེན་ཟས་ནོར་འ་དང་མལ་ཆ་སོགས།། ཡིད་འོང་མཁོ་®འི་ལོངས་ོད་ཇི་ེད་{ི།། ཆར་པ་འཛམ་¯ིང་ཁ་བ་ཅན་0་ཕོབ།།

ThinkoftheseprotectorlesslivingbeingsofthedegeneratetimeswithloveAndthen,inordertotrulyprotecttheseembodiedbeingsWhoaretormentedbythesufferingsofhunger,thirst,andpoverty,Letfallarainofwhateverattractiveenjoymentsareneeded—Jewels,food,wealth,grains,bedding,andsoforth—Onthisworld’sLandofSnows.

0ས་མིན་Uང་དང་མེ་ཐན་ཆར་་སོགས།། འ°ང་བཞིའི་གནོད་པ་ཉེ་བར་ཞི་བ་དང༌།། འ་བད་sི་ཐོག་ལོ་ཏོག་ལ་སོགས་པ།། Iོགས་ན་0ས་Yར་±ིན་ཅིང་zས་²ར་ཅིག།

Pleasepacifytheharmsofthefourelements—Untimelywind,fire,drought,rain,floods,andsoforth—Andmaynourishinggrainsfromcrops,harvests,andsoforthRipenandincreaseliketheydoduringtheAgeofCompletion.

1མས་དང་ིང་Bེའི་Oགས་{ིས་རབ་བGལ་ནས།། z་ཆེན་±ོན་ལམ་བཏབ་པ་འདི་ཡི་མས།། ནད་མཚན་་གེའི་བལ་པ་ཉེར་ཞི་ནས།། ཚn་རིང་ནད་མེད་བདེ་དི་ན་པར་ཤོག།

BytheforceofhavingmadeextensiverequestsWithstrongentreatiesthroughtheforceofloveandcompassion,Maytheeonofsickness,fighting,andfaminebepacifiedAndmaywepossessahappylonglifefreefromillness.

zལ་བ་³ས་དང་བཅས་པའི་གས་Bེ་དང༌།། ལས་འ¤ས་བ´་བ་མེད་པའི་བདེན་8ོབས་{ིས།། zལ་བའི་བ8ན་པ་དར་ཞིང་zས་པ་དང༌།། འKོ་ན་y་མེད་1ང་བ་ར་ཐོབ་ཤོག།


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Throughthegreatcompassionofthevictoriousonesandtheirchildren,Andtheforceoftheinfallibletruthofcauseandeffect,MaytheteachingsoftheVictoriousOnespreadandincrease,Andmayalllivingbeingsswiftlyattainthehighestenlightenment.Colophons OriginalColophon:ཅེས་ད ས་གཙང་0་ལོ་ཉེས་སད་སེར་སོགས་{ིས་་གེའི་འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་°ང་བའི་0ས། B་ེབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོས་«་ན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མ0ན་0་གསེར་~ི་ང་བཟེད་འས་བཀང་བ་µལ་ཞིང་གས་±ོན་0་མཛད་པས། གང་ཟག་ལས་ཅན་མས་{ིས་འཕགས་པ་ན་རས་གཟིགས་{ིས་ནམ་མཁའ་ནས་བོད་¶ལ་0་འའི་ཆར་པ་འབེབས་པ་མཐོང་ཞིང༌། འKོ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་བ¬ེས་ོམ་~ི་*ག་བ+ལ་ལས་Kོལ་བར་མཛད་པའི་?ོ་Bེའི་ག|ང་1ིན་Wབས་ཅན་ནོ། །དགེའོ། InU-Tsang,whenagreatfearoffaminecausedbybadharvest,frost,hail,andthelikearose,theGreatLordMahasiddhaThangtongGyalpoofferedabeggingbowlfullofgrain infrontoftheJowoRinpocheinLhasaandmadeprayers.Asaresultofthis,thoseendowedwiththeappropriatekarmasawAryaAvalokiteshvarabringingdownarainofgrainfromtheskyoverthelandofTibet.Thisblessedvajraspeechalsoliberatesalllivingbeingsfromthesufferingsofhungerandthirst.Virtue!

[Publisher’sColophon:Translated by Joona Repo,March 2020 from Thangtong Gyalpo (thang stong rgyal po), grub chen thangstongrgyalpo’Igsungmuge’I ‘jigspazhiba’Igsol ‘debs,s.l.: s.n., s.d.TranslationreviewedbyVen.SteveCarlier,March2020.]

[ThangtongGyalpo] offered abowl, a beggingbowl filledwith grains, offered to, a goldenbeggingbowl filledwith grains to the Lhasa Jowo. Thenmade prayer by the great yogi ThangtongGyalpo.Thenitsayspeoplewhohavepurekarma,thentheysawChenrezig,fromthesky,madearainfallofgrainsinthatpartofTibet.

(RinpochefinishesreadingtheoriginalcolophoninTibetan)

Then,at last it completelystoppedthehungerandthirst, thesufferingofall thesentientbeings inthatarea.Sothisisblessed.

Dedications

Dedicating for Bodhichitta to be Generated Due to the past, present, and future merits collected by me, the three-time merits collected bynumberlesssentientbeingsandnumberlessbuddhas,anddueto[themeritof]havingdonetheoraltransmissionsofthesetexts,maythebodhichitta,whichisthesourceofallhappinessandsuccessuptoenlightenment foroneselfand forevery sentientbeing,may itbegenerated inone’sownheartand in the hearts of all the sentient beings. And in thosewho have generated bodhichitta,may itincrease.Especiallyinthisworld.


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JANG CHHUB SEM CHHOG RIN PO CHHE Maytheprecioussupremebodhichitta

MA KYE PA NAM KYE GYUR CHIG Notyetbornarise.

KYE PA NYAM PA ME PA YI Maythatarisennotdecline,

GONG NÄ GONG DU PHEL WAR SHOG Butincreasemoreandmore.

Then.Duetoallthepast,present,andfuturemeritscollectedbyme,thethree-timemeritscollectedbynumberlesssentientbeingsandnumberlessbuddhas,thatwhichexistsinmerename(itisnotthattheydon'texistbutitislikethat;theyaremostunbelievablysubtle)theyexistinmerename,sotheydonotexistfromtheirownside(thereisnorealthree-timemeritscollectedbyourselves,bysentientbeings, by thebuddhas),may the I,whoexists inmerename sodoesnot exist from its own side,achieve thebuddhahood,whichexists inmerename, in themerename,sodoesnotexist from itsownside,and leadall thesentientbeings,whoexist inmerenamesodonotexist fromtheirownside,tothatbuddhahood,whichexistsinmerenamesodoesnotexistfromitsownside,bymyselfalone,whoexistsinmerenamesodoesnotexistfromitsownside.

Dedicating in the Same Way as All the Past Buddhas and Bodhisattvas JAM PÄL PA WÖ JI TAR KHYEN PA DANG

IfullydedicateallthesevirtuesKÜN TU ZANG PO DE YANG DE ZHIN TE

TobeabletotrainjustlikeDE DAG KÜN GYI JE SU DAG LOB CHHIR

TheheroManjushri,whoknowsreality,GE WA DI DAG THAM CHÄ RAB TU NGO

AndjustlikeSamantabhadraaswell.

DÜ SUM SHEG PÄI GYÄL WA THAM CHÄ KYI Ifullydedicateallmyrootsofvirtue,

NGO WA GANG LA CHHOG TU NGAG PA DE Withthededicationpraisedasthebest

DAG GI GE WÄI TSA WA DI KÜN KYANG Byallthegone-beyondvictoriousonesofthethreetimes,

ZANG PO CHÖ CHHIR RAB TU NGO WAR GYI Inordertohavegoodconduct.


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Dedicating for Lama Tsongkhapa’s Teachings to Spread in the Hearts of All Sentient Beings

CHHÖ KYI GYÄL PO TSONG KHA PÄI FortheDharmakingTsongkhapa’s

CHHÖ TSHÜL NAM PAR PHEL WA LA WayofDharmatoflourish,

GEG KYI TSHÄN MA ZHI WA DANG Mayallsignsofobstaclesbepacified

THÜN KYEN MA LÜ TSHANG WAR SHOG Andallconduciveconditionsbecomplete.

DAG DANG ZHÄN GYI DÜ SUM DANG

DuetothetwotypesofmeritsDREL WÄI TSHOG NYI LA TEN NÄ

Ofthethreetimesofmyselfandothers,GYÄL WA LO ZANG DRAG PA YI

Maytheteachingsofthevictoriousone,LosangDragpa,TÄN PA YÜN RING BAR GYUR CHIG

Shineresplendentforever.

Dedicating for the Long Life Prayer for His Holiness JIG TEN KHAM DIR PHÄN DE MA LÜ PA

Thewish-grantingWish-FulfillingJewel,GANG LÄ JUNG WÄI SAM PHEL YI ZHIN NOR

Sourceofeverysinglebenefitandhappinessinthisworld,KA DRIN TSHUNG ME TÄN DZIN GYA TSHO LA

Totheincomparablykind,TenzinGyatso,Ibeseech:SÖL WA DEB SO THUG ZHE LHÜN DRUB SHOG

Mayallyourholywishesbespontaneouslyfulfilled.

Okay.Thankyouverymuch.Pleaseenjoythelifebypracticingbodhichittabenefittingsentientbeings.Liveahappylife.Thankyouverymuch.

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