The Bodhichitta FoundationPrayer Book

Please treat this prayer book with respect as it contains the precious teachings of the Dharma. Please do not place it on the floor, step over it, or place other objects on top of it. Thank you.

The Bodhichitta Foundation

Founded by Acharya Lama Gursam, The Bodhicitta Foundation was incorporated in 2006 with the blessings of His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche and His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche. The purpose of this foundation is to provide support and guidance for Tibetan Buddhist practice and study groups in America as well as to promote interest in various projects such as text preservation, translation and Tibetan culture.

We offer out most grateful appreciation to Khenchen Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche who translated these prayers from Tibetan and Acharya Lama Gursam who translated the Request for Teachings.

By virtue of this Dharma work, may all sentient beings be free from suffering and attain perfect, complete Enlightenment.

Opening Prayers

Altruistic Motivation

All mother sentient beings-Especially those enemies who hate me, Obstructers who harm me,And those who create obstacles on my path to

liberation and all knowingness-May they experience happiness, be separated from

suffering, and Swiftly may I establish them in the state of unsurpassed,

perfect, complete and precious Buddhahood.

Action Bodhichitta Prayer

Thus, until I achieve enlightenment, I perform virtuous deedswith body, speech and mind.

Until death, I perform virtuous deeds with body, speech and mind.

From now until this time tomorrow, I perform virtuous deeds with body, speech and mind.

Short Refuge Prayer

In the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha most excellent,I take refuge until enlightenment is reached.By the merit of generosity and the other good deeds,May I attain Buddhahood for the sake of all living beings.Repeat 3 times

1The Four Immeasurables

May all sentient beings, boundless as the sky,have happiness and the causes of happiness .May they be liberated from suffering and the causes of suffering.

May they never be separated from the happiness which is free from sorrow.

May they rest in equanimity,free from attachment and aversion.

Repeat 3 times

100 Syllable Purification Mantra of Vajrasattva

OM BAZRA SATTVA SAMAYA / MANU PALAYA /

BAZRA SATTVA TENOPA / TISHTA DRIDO ME BHAVA /

SUTO KHYO ME BHAVA / SUPO KHYO ME BHAVA /

ANU RAKTO ME BHAVA / SARVA SIDDHI ME PRA-

YATSHA / SARVA KARMA SUTSA ME TSI TAN SHRIYA

KURU HUUNG / HA HA HA HA HO / BAGAVAN SARVA

TATAGATA / BAZRA MA ME MUNTSA / BAZRI BHAVA /

MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH /

2Mandala Offering

Request for Teachings

Please turn the wheel of the Dharmaof the two vehicles and their combination,according to the dispositions and the mental capacities of living beings.

Praise to Tara

Om, I prostrate to you who protects from the eight fears.I prostrate to her whose glorious good fortune blazes.I prostrate to her who blockades the door to the lower states.I prostrate to her who leads us on the path to the higher states.Please help me at all times.Furthermore, please protect me by your compassion.

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA

3Mantra of Shankyamuni Buddha

The ground is sprinkled with scented water and strewn with flowers,It is adorned with Mount Meru, the supreme mountain, the four continents and the sun and the moon. As a Buddha field I offer it.May all living beings attain the happiness of the Buddha fields.

OM MUNI MUNI MAHA MUNIYE SVAHA

Mantra of Buddha of Compassion, Avalokiteshvara

OM MANI PEDME HUUNG

Mantra of Padmasambhava

OM AH HUUNG BENZAR GURU PEDME SIDDHI HUUNG

Mantra of Manjushri

OM AH RA PA TSA NA DI

Mantra of Jetsun Milarepa

JE MILA SHEPA DORJE LA SOLWAN DEB SO

Mantra of Lord Jigten Sumgon

OM AH NAMO GURU BENZAR DRIK TRI LOKYA NATHA RATNA SHRI MULA GURU MAHAMUDRA SIDDHI PALA HUUNG

4Mantra of His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche

GARCHEN DORJE CHANG-CHEN CHEN-NO

Dedication Prayers

Dorje Chang, Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa, Dharma Lord Gampopa, Pagmo Drupa and Lord DrikungpaPlease bestow upon us the most auspicious blessing of all the Kagyu Lamas.

Bodhichitta, the excellent and precious mind-Where it is unborn, may it ariseWhere it is born, may it not decline,But ever increase higher and higher.

I pray that the Lama may have good health,I pray that the Lama may have long life,I pray that your Dharma activities spread far and wide.I pray that I may not be separated from you.

5Dedication Prayer by Lord Jigten Sumgon

Glorious, holy, venerable, kind root and lineage lamas,Divine assembly of Yidams and assemblies of Buddhas, bodhisattvas,yogins, yoginis and dakinis dwelling in the ten directions,

Please hear my prayer!By the power of this vast root of virtue,May I benefit all beings though my body, speech and mind,May the afflictions of desire, hatred, ignorance, arrogance and jealousy, not arise in my mind. May the thoughts of fame, reputation, wealth, honor and concern for this life not arise for even a moment. May my mind stream be moistened by loving kindness, compassion and bodhichitta and thru that may I become a spiritual master with good qualities equal to the infinity of space. May I gain the supreme attainment of Mahamudra in this very life. May the torment of suffering not arise even at the time of my death. May I not die with negative thoughts. May I not die confused by wrong view. May I not experience an untimely death. May I die joyfully and happily in the great luminosity of the Mind-as-such and the pervading clarity of Dharmata. May I in any case gain the supreme attainment of Mahamudra at the time of death or in the bardo.

6Dakorma Prayer

By the virtues collected in the three times by myself and all beingsin samsara and nirvana, and by the innate root of virtue,May I and all sentient beings quickly attain,

unsurpassed, perfect, complete and precious enlightenment.

Long Life Prayers

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

For this realm encircled by snow covered mountainsYou are the source of every benefit and bliss without exception.Tenzin Gyatso, you who are on with Avalokiteshvara,May you remain steadfast until samsaras end!

His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche

You are the embodiment of the Precious Ones,You, a great being, are the holder and the promoter of the teachings of the Shakya lion, Your perfect actions are for the liberation of sentient beings. May you, the Jetsun lama whose enlightened activities are spontaneously present, live long!

His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche

The one known in the holy land as AryadevaEmanated into the Gar Clan of Eastern Tibet as ChodingpaThe Heart son of Jigten Gonpo,May the life of the Glorious Garchen remain steadfast for a hundred eons!

In this age of strife when the Victors teaching faces hardship Through his powerful, vajra-like conduct, He takes on himself the heavy responsibility of the unbiased teachings, May Garchen, the Sun of the teachings live long!

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