Prayers for the Beginning of Practice
Refuge
I take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and Sangha
I take refuge in the Lama, Yidam and Khandro
I take refuge in the channels, winds, centers, and their nature, the bodhicitta,
I take refuge in complete openness, lucid presence and compassion
Bodhichitta Aspiration Prayer
Ho! Mesmerized by the sheer variety of appearances, which are like the illusory reflections of the moon in water,
Beings wander endlessly astray in samsara’s vicious cycle.
In order that they may find comfort and ease in the luminosity and all-pervading space of the true nature of their minds,
I generate the immeasurable love, compassion, joy and equanimity of the awakened mind, the heart of bodhicitta.
4 Bodhi Vows
Sentient beings are numberless, I train in order to free them
Delusions are inexhaustible, I train in order to transform them
Reality is boundless, I train in order to realize it
The awakened way is unsurpassable, I train in order to embody it
Daily Prayers on Video
This is a video of Pema Khandro reciting the Daily Prayers when she was teaching at the Lion’s Roar Retreat in 2017.
Prayers for the End of Practice
Short Dedication
May the teachings of the Buddha spread and flourish
May all sentient beings be happy and joyful
May we practice the dharma day and night
May the benefits for self and others be fully accomplished
Long Dedication
May all beings be free from suffering and the cause of suffering
May all beings experience happiness and its true cause
May the fruit of this practice be to accomplish the highest benefit for all beings and all things everywhere
May all beings everywhere experience the joy, clarity, dignity and fearlessness of peace
May all beings everywhere have peace
About the Prayers
The opening prayers are the refuge and bodhichitta from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse, from the nyingthig lineage by Jigme Linpa.
This dedication is also a nyingthig prayer, from the great Dzogchen master, Longchenpa.
Chanting the Daily Prayers in Tibetan
From The Longchen Nyingthig, in English, The Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse
Refuge
དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་དངོས་བདེ་གཤེགས་རྩ་བ་གསུམ༔
རྩ་རླུང་ཐིག་ལེའི་རང་བཞིན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས༔
ངོ་བོ་རང་བཞིན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ལ༔
བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོའི་བར་དུ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི༔
könchok sum ngo deshek tsawa sum
tsa lung thigle rangshyin changchub sem
ngowo rangshyin tukje kyilkhor la
changchub nyingpo bardu kyab su chi
Bodhichitta
ཧོཿ སྣ་ཚོགས་སྣང་བ་ཆུ་ཟླའི་རྫུན་རིས་ཀྱིས༔
འཁོར་བ་ལུ་གུ་རྒྱུད་དུ་འཁྱམས་པའི་འགྲོ༔
རང་རིག་འོད་གསལ་དབྱིངས་སུ་ངལ་བསོའི་ཕྱིར༔
ཚད་མེད་བཞི་ཡི་ངང་ནས་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དོ༔
ho natsok nangwa chude dzun ri kyi
khorwa lugu gyu du khyampe dro
rangrig osal ying su ngalso chir
tseme shyi yi ngang ne semkye do
