ISBN: 978-1-887276-05-4 \u2022 LIST PRICE $ 12.95<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the eighth century, Guru Padmasambhava\u2014the Lotus Born\u2014came to Tibet from India and became known as Guru Rinpoche, the Precious Teacher. He transmitted many esoteric teachings to his disciples and concealed them as Ter (gTer) or Terma (gTer ma)\u2014hidden Dharma treasures\u2014for the sake of future disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the eleventh century until today, thousands of volumes of those concealed teachings have been discovered by the reincarnations of his chief disciples through their spiritual discernment. Various types of sacred texts are included in this volume including prayers of supplication to Guru Rinpoche for his guidance and for achieving profound wisdom through devotion and meditation. Considered one of the greatest enlightened masters and most miraculous adepts of the Buddhist world, Guru Rinpoche is the founder of Tibetan Buddhism and is referred to as the Second Buddha by his followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EXCERPTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the Back Cover<\/p>\n\n\n\n This secret mantra vehicle is as rare as the udumbara flower\u2014a flower which never appears. Even if it does suddenly arise, it will not remain for any pre-determined length of time, for that depends entirely upon the fitness of the vessels, the sentient beings. Now you, O King, listen to me, your guide. Use the precious human body to realize this teaching. Remain within the portals of the secret mantra. All of you who wish enlightenment in this lifetime, it is most important that you guard the purity of your commitments. If you do not, even if you find the very medicines of the Healer, they will seem to you like a mass of poison. Keeping samaya pure requires one\u2019s entire faith, perseverance and strength of awareness<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE CHAPTER REQUESTED BY Then Prince Mutr\u2019i Tsenpo spoke.\u201cPlease listen,Great Such was his request, and the great Guru said:\u201cMutr\u2019i Tsenpo, \u201cListen,Prince. The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas all continuously \u201cPrince, since it is also my own wish to protect the common E MA HO How wonderful.\u2014In the Buddhafield Thus he spoke.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n AUTHOR<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mike Dickman is a long-time practitioner of Buddhism and has translated many texts of the Nyingma and ‘Drigung Ka’gy\u00fc schools of Tibetan Buddhism as well as Saying of Old Cheng, published by Cool Grove Press. 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PRINCE MUTR\u2019I TSENPO<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Teacher. When, in the future, the five hundred year period of the
<\/em>dregs of the Dharma arrives, under the power of suffering and evil
<\/em>karma, it is said, sentient beings will behave like ravening tigers.
<\/em>Looking upon them with compassion,please, I beseech you, give
<\/em>us a prayer that will protect them from suffering.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>listen.Without a surface as a support, shellac will not take. Where
<\/em>there is no field of faith, the seedling of enlightenment cannot
<\/em>sprout.The blessings of the Triple Gem are delayed where there
<\/em>is no foundation of astute mental awareness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
strive for the benefit of living beings but cannot bring about the
<\/em>release of the beings of the six classes, for they are bound to sam<\/em>sara
by the power of the five poisons connected with ego grasping.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>people of Tibet from suffering, let them then turn their minds and <\/em>73
mental faculties with faith and resolution to the Triple Gem. This is
<\/em>the message I leave for the common people.Let them pray as fol-
<\/em>lows at all times.\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
of Sukhavati in the western direction,
By the compassion of the Protector Amitayus,
Thinking to benefit the beings of Jambudvipa,
Blessed by the Buddhas of the ten directions,
To the Sugatas of the three times, we pray.
To the Lotus Born of Uddiyana, we pray.
In the parklands of the lake, \u2018Sport of the
Vermilion Ocean\u2019,
On the anthers of a blazing lotus flower,
With neither father nor mother, born of
his own inherent power,
And come without cause or condition for
the benefit of beings.
To He Who Possesses Spontaneous
Wondrousness,we pray.
To the Lotus Born of Uddiyana,we pray.
Emanation of the bodily forms of all Buddhas,
Complete in the spontaneous characteristics
and marks, you come,
Brilliant as the radiance of a thousand suns,
Pervading the whole phenomenal world with
your emanations:
To the wondrous emanation body,we pray.
To the Lotus Born of Uddiyana,we pray.
Emanation of the speech of all Buddhas,
Born on the anther-tips of the lotus of desirelessness,
Your voice like the roar of a thousand dragons,
Speaking the Mahayana Dharma for the benefit of beings.
To the Dragon-Like Voice, we pray.
To the Lotus Born of Uddiyana,we pray.
Emanation of the mind of all the Buddhas,
Born from the endless and fathomless blue ocean,
Your activities of compassion swift as the lightning flash
of the heavens,
Your profound primordial state equal
to the bounds of space.
To the Omnipresent Radiance of Mind, we pray.
To the Lotus Born of Uddiyana, we pray.
Wish Granting Body, existing for the benefit of beings,
To hear even a little of its characteristics dispels
all suffering.
Like a rainbow its various qualities appear,
Leading one to the path of enlightenment as
soon as one thinks of them.
Source of all Qualities, to you we pray.
To the Lotus Born of Uddiyana, we pray.
By means of compassionate activity,
The four activities: peaceful,increasing,
magnetizing and wrathful,
You overcome obscurations and tame
sentient beings by skilful means
And activities inconceivable as the stars in the skies:
To the Billowing Ocean of Activities, we pray.
To the Lotus Born of Uddiyana, we pray.
Above, below, and in the four directions, you
Fulfill the goals of beings.
Looking on snowy Tibet with compassion,
For the ruler of Tibet and his people,
Unceasingly throughout the three times
grant us your blessings
And liberate us from the ocean of suffering
of cyclic existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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