Prayer to Gyalwa Longchenpa

༄༅། །རྒྱལ་བ་ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ལ་གསོལ་འདེབས།

Prayer to Gyalwa Longchenpa¹

from A Shower of Precious Blessings

by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa

མཁྱེན་རབ་འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས་དང་མཉམ། །

khyenrab pakpa jampal yang dang nyam

Your wisdom is equal to that of noble Mañjuśrī,

བརྩེ་བའི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དང་མཚུངས། །

tsewé tukjé chenrezik dang tsung

Your loving compassion is like Avalokiteśvara’s.

ནུས་པ་གསང་བའི་བདག་པོར་དབྱེར་མེད་ཅིང་། །

nüpa sangwé dakpor yermé ching

Your power is indivisible from the Lord of Secrets—

སྙིང་ཐིག་གཏེར་གྱི་བཀའ་བབ་ལས་འབྲེལ་རྩལ། །

nyingtik ter gyi kabab ledrel tsal

Ledrel Tsal, recipient of the Heart-Essence treasures,²

པདྨའི་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་དྲི་མེད་འོད་ཟེར་གྲགས། །

pemé gyaltsab drimé özer drak

Regent of the Lotus-Born, renowned as Drimé Özer,

བི་མ་ལ་ཡི་རྗེས་བཟུང་བསམ་ཡས་པ། །

bimala yi jezung samyé pa

Resident of Samyé embraced by Vimala,

ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་ཞབས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། །

longchen rabjam zhab la solwa deb

Longchen Rabjam, at your feet I pray!

ཞེས་པ་དུས་སྙིགས་ཀྱི་སྐབས་འདིར་བསླབ་གསུམ་འགྲན་ཟླ་བྲལ་བ་མཁན་པོ་པདྨ་བློ་གྲོས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་འཕེལ་གྱིས་གྲྭ་ཚང་འཚོགས་འདོན་རྒྱུར་དགོས་ཞེས་གསུངས་ངོར། མཆོག་གྱུར་གླིང་པས་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཚེས་བཅུ་ལ་བྲིས་པ་དགེ །

Khenpo Pema Lodrö Sangyé Chöpel,³ who is unmatched in the three trainings in these degenerate times, said that there was a need for a prayer like this that could be chanted aloud by the monastic assembly. In response, Chokgyur Lingpa wrote this on the tenth day of the waxing phase of the month. May this bring goodness!

| Samye Translations, 2024.

Source: mchog gyur gling pa, “skyabs kun 'dus zhal guru rin po che'i gtsos rtsa gsum brgyud par bcas la gsol 'debs kyi phreng ba byin rlabs nor bu'i gru char ldeb.” In mchog gling bde chen zhig po gling pa yi zab gter yid bzhin nor bu’i mdzod chen po, Vol. 36: 24–25. Kathmandu, Nepal: Ka-nying Shedrub Ling Monastery, 2004.

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1. ↑ The original text is untitled; this title has been added by the translators.
2. ↑ Pema Ledrel Tsal (1231/2?-1307?) was the reincarnation of Princess Pema Sel to whom Guru Rinpoche had entrusted the transmission of the Heart-Essence of the Ḍākinīs in the eighth century. Pema Ledrel Tsal withdrew the terma of the Heart-Essence of the Ḍākinīs from its place of concealment at the Daklha Tramo Drak rock in the province of Dakpo, but only partially decoded it during his life. He then transmitted these teachings to his main disciple Gyalsé Lekden. Pema Ledrel Tsal was reincarnated as the Omniscient Longchenpa, who received the whole cycle of the Heart-Essence of the Ḍākinīs from Gyalsé Lekden, and by so doing, ensured that the authentic lineage was kept alive.
3. ↑ More commonly known as Karme Khenpo Rinchen Dargye.