Prayer to Śākyamuni

༄༅། །ཇོ་བོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།

Prayer to Śākyamuni¹

by Tersé Drimé Özer

ཉོན་མོངས་བདུད་ཀྱི་སྡེ་ཚོགས་བཅོམ༔

nyönmong dü kyi dé tsok chom

You vanquished the hordes of the māra of afflictions,²

བསོད་ནམས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཕུང་པོར་ལྡན༔

sönam yeshe pungpor den

Endowed yourself with masses of merit and wisdom,

སྲིད་དང་ཞི་བའི་མཐའ་ལས་འདས༔

si dang zhiwé ta lé dé

And transcended the limitations of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa.

ཤཱཀྱའི་ཏོག་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔

shakyé tok la solwa deb

To you, crown jewel of the Śākyas, I pray.

འཇིགས་བརྒྱད་ཞི་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས༔

jikgyé zhiwar jingyi lob

Please bless me to overcome the eight fears.³

སྐྱེ་དང་ཚེ་རབས་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ༔

kyé dang tserab tamché du

In all my future lives,

སླར་ཡང་ལྷག་པའི་ལུས་ཐོབ་ནས༔

lar yang lhakpé lü tob né

May I attain an exceptional human body

འགྲོ་རྣམས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ལས་གྲོལ་བའི༔

dro nam dukngal lé drolwé

And become a supreme guide for beings,

དེད་དཔོན་མཆོག་ཏུ་བདག་གྱུར་ཤོག༔

depön chok tu dak gyur shok

Freeing them from all their pain.

| Translated by Joseph McClellan, 2025.

Source: Padma ʼod gsal mthaʼ yas, ed. gter chen bdud ʼjoms yab sras kyi rnam thar, pp. 87–88. Khreng tuʼu: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2000. BDRC MW20205.

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1. ↑ These terma verses occurred to Drimé Özer as he prayed to the Buddha statue at Lhasa's Jokhang Temple around 1907. Though his treasures have been lost, fragments survived in Sera Khandro's biography of Drimé Özer. These verses are reproduced in Pema Ösel Tayé's shorter biography of the master.
2. ↑ Of the Four Māras (bdud bzhi), the first is the māra of the three or five afflictions: ignorance, hostility, desire, envy, and pride.
3. ↑ The eight fears are of lions (pride), elephants (ignorance), fire (anger), snakes (envy), robbers (wrong views), drowning (attachment), captivity (avarice), and demons (doubt).