Prayer for Clearing Obstacles – Barche Lamsel

Barche Lamsel

Prayer for Dispelling Obstacles
The Barche Lamsel is a prayer recited in the Nyingma lineage for transforming and clearing obstacles. It has a longer and shorter version, this is the brief version. The prayer is to the Tibetan Tantric Buddha, Padmasambhava.

༈ དུས་གསུམ་སངས་རྒྱས་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ༔
དངོས་གྲུབ་ཀུན་བདག་བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཞབས༔
བར་ཆད་ཀུན་སེལ་བདུད་འདུལ་དྲག་པོ་རྩལ༔
གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་སོ་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཏུ་གསོལ༔
ཕྱི་ནང་གསང་བའི་བར་ཆད་ཞི་བ་དང༌༔
བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྱིས་འགྲུབ་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས༔

Du Sum Sangye Guru Rinpoche
Ngodrup Kun Dak Dewa Chenpo Shab
Barchey Kunsel DudDul Drakpo Tsel
Solwa Deb So Jin Gyi Lab Tu Sol
Chi Nang Sangwai Barchey Shiwa Dang
Sampa Lhungyi Drup Par Jin Gyi Lop

Vajra Guru Mantra – Slow Melody -Three Times
Om Ah Hung Bendzra Guru Pema Siddhi Hung

Translation
Buddha of the Three Times, Guru Rinpoche,
Great Bliss the Source of all accomplishment
Dispel all obstacles Wrathful One
We pray that you grant your blessings.
May outer, inner and secret obstacles be pacified,
and May all our aspirations be fulfilled
Om Ah Hung Bendzra Guru Pema Siddhi Hung

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21 Taras Pema Khandro Birthday Fundraiser

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December 4, 2024

Join us for the 21 Taras. The twenty-one taras is a sublime chanting meditation and praise of the forms of the female Bodhisattva Tara, each one a contemplation of all the forms of compassion ranging from gentle to fierce. This event explores the outer, inner and secret meaning of the twenty-one taras. This will be a joyous fundraiser in honor of our beloved Pema Khandro Rinpoche’s birthday. Wednesday, December 4th 6 pm pt | 9 pm et