Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga

Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga
Composed by Dlnagpa Pldn

Translated and Arranged by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Practice Requirements
Anyone with faith may practice Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga
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All line drawings in this booklet Robert Beer and Andy Weber. Used with permission. Cover thangka image taken from a photograph by Nick Dawson. Used with permission.
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Lama Tsongkhapa Daily Guru Yoga Meditation

Visualize the merit eld, either the elaborate visualization of the one into many, as in Jor Ch; or the simple visualization of the many into one: all Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha in the one aspect of Buddha Shakyamuni. Set up as many oerings of the best possible quality as you can. As you set up, bless each oering you put on the altar by reciting OM AH HUM.
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Refuge and Bodhichitta

SANG GY CHH DANG TSHOG KYI CHHOG NAM LA JANG CHHUB BAR DU DAG NI KYAB SU CHHI DAG GI JIN SOG GYI PI S NAM KYI
To the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Supreme Assembly. By my practice of giving and other perfections, I go for refuge until I am enlightened.
DRO LA PHN CHHIR SANG GY DRUB PAR SHOG (3x)

May I become a buddha to benet all sentient beings. (3x)
Meditation on the Four Immeasurable Thoughts

Immeasurable Thought of Equanimity: SEM CHN THAM CH NYE RING CHHAG DANG DANG DRL WI TANG
NYOM LA N NA CHI MA RUNG
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How wonderful it would be if all sentient beings were to abide in equanimity, free of hatred and attachment, not holding some close and others distant.
N PAR GYUR CHIG N PAR DAG GI JA O

May they abide in equanimity. I myself will cause them to abide in equanimity. Please, Guru-Deity, bless me to be able to do this.
tioned by Panchen Losang Chkyi Gyltsn that says to meet Lama Tsongkhapas teaching is much more rare than to be born in the pure land of the Buddha.
DE TAR JE N PAR LA MA LH JIN GYI LAB TU SL Immeasurable Thought of Loving Kindness: SEM
Colophon:
Original text by Dlnagpa Pldn. Translated with additional prayers and commentary by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Transcribed by Venerable Lhundup Nyingje (Paula Chichester) in Madison, Wisconsin and Aptos, California in October 1998. Lightly edited and polished by Venerable Constance Miller, FPMT Education Department, August 1999. Revised edition, July 2001. Updated December 2003, August 2006. Extensive Meditations for Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga taken from the Lama Tsongkhapa retreat at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Pomaia, Italy, September, 2004 and provided in this form by Venerable Sarah Thresher. Lightly edited by Venerable Gyalten Mindrol, FPMT Education Department, August 2006.
CHN THAM CH DE WA DANG DE WI GYU DANG DN NA CHI
MA RUNG
DN PAR GYUR CHIG
How wonderful it would be if all sentient beings had happiness and the cause of happiness. May they have happiness and its cause. I myself will cause them to have happiness and its cause. Please, Guru-Deity, bless me to be able to do this.
DN PAR DAG GI JA O
DE TAR JE N PAR LA MA LH JIN GYI LAB TU SL Immeasurable Thought of Compassion: SEM
CHN THAM CH DUG NGL DANG DUG NGL GYI GYU DANG
DRL NA CHI MA RUNG
DRL WAR GYUR CHIG
How wonderful it would be if all sentient beings were free of suering and its cause. May they be free of suering and its cause. I myself will cause them to be free from suering and its cause. Please, Guru-Deity, bless me to be able to do this.
DRL WAR DAG GI JA O
DE TAR JE N PAR LA MA LH JIN GYI LAB TU SL
Notes Regarding This Practice

Altar and Gompa Set-up Place one complete set of oering bowls on the altar, from left to right when facing the altar. NOTE: When seating monks and nuns in the front, it is customary to seat monks on the left side of the throne (when facing the throne) and nuns on the right. During big pujas (these are dened as self-initiations or long pujas and pujas with extensive oerings, etc.) one can oer a stick of incense for the lama or geshe to hold during the verses of invocation. Ritual Implements One should have dorje and bell, and a mandala set for the mandala oering. NOTE: Throughout the preceding text, small symbols such as bells or hands in various mudras, such as prostration mudra or showing the dorje appear in the margins to help the practitioner know when to play ritual instruments, for example, or when to do certain mudras. It is hoped that these small indications will be helpful to those not yet familiar with these aspects of tantric prac tice.
Immeasurable Thought of Joyfulness: SEM

CHN THAM CH THO RI DANG THAR PI DE WA DAM PA DANG MA DRL NA CHI MA RUNG
MI DRL WAR GYUR CHIG
How wonderful it would be if all sentient beings were never separated from the happiness of higher rebirth and liberation. May they never be separated from these. I myself will cause them never to be separated from these. Please, Guru-Deity, bless me to be able to do this.
MI DRL WAR DAG GI JA O
DE TAR JE N PAR LA MA LH JIN GYI LAB TU SL
Generating Special Bodhichitta

MA SEM CHN THAM CH KYI DN DU DAG GI TSHE DI NYI LA NYUR WA
NYUR WAR D MI SANG GY LA MA LHI GO PHANG NGN DU J
Endnotes:
1. The rst quickly refers to practicing lower (kriya) tantra, which brings enlightenment more quickly than Mahayana Paramitayana practice. The second quickly refers to yoga tantra, which is quicker than lower tantra, thus making it possible to achieve enlightenment in one brief lifetime. The teaching of Lama Tsongkhapa, which contains the practice of integrating the three deities, enables one to achieve enlightenment even more quickly in one brief lifetime during degenerated times. 2. The word jetsun, which Lama Zopa Rinpoche has translated here as perfect, pure, has many meanings. Je means: (1) having renounced this life, (2) having renounced samsara, (3) having no self-cherishing thought, (4) having eliminated the ignorance of holding onto the truly existent I, (5) having given up ordinary appearances, and (6) having ceased dualistic views and subtle negative imprints. Tsun means pure and disciplined: having realized (1) the path of the lower capable being, (2) the path of the middle capable being, and (3) the path of the higher capable being. The subtle meaning of jetsun is having the perfect qualities of cessation and realization of the wisdom of the nondual bliss and voidness, the dharmakaya. 3. This prayer is contained in the long version of the prayer to meet Lama Tsong Khapas teaching that expresses all the special qualities. There is a story men-
KYI SA LA G PAR JA
MA SEM CHN THAM CH DUG NGL L DRL / DE CHHEN SANG GY / DEI CHHIR DU LAM ZAB MO LA MA LHI NL
(both verses 3x)
JOR NYAM SU LANG WAR GYI O
For the sake of all mother sentient beings, I shall quickly and more quickly actualize the Guru-Deitys primordial state of buddhahood in this very lifetime.1 I shall liberate all mother sentient beings from suering and lead them to the great bliss of buddhahood. For this purpose I am going to practice the profound path of Guru-Deity yoga.
(both verses 3x)
At this point, one may turn to p. 8 and continue with the actual practice, inser ting the oering prayer and mantra where indicated, as per Lama Zopa Rinpoches method. Alternatively, one may continue as written below.
Purifying the Place

THAM CH DU NI SA ZHI DAG SEG MA LA SOG ME PA DANG L AG THIL TAR NYAM BIDURYI
Everywhere may the ground be pure, Free of the roughness of pebbles and so forth. May it be in the nature of lapis lazuli And as smooth as the palm of ones hand.
Rejoice, thinking: How wonderful it is. Like the sun rising in this world, Lama Tsongkhapa illuminated the Dharma. Feel happiness in the heart. Each time we rejoice we create the cause to be the same as Lama Tsongkhapa, which is the purpose of our lives. At the end dedicate, May I be able to oer extensive benet to the teachings of the Buddha and to sentient beings, by having within me all the qualities of Lama Tsongkhapa from now on in all my future lifetimes.
Return to p. 10.
RANG ZHIN JAM POR N GYUR CHIG
Offering Prayer
This has great benet. Once the oerings are arranged, recite the oering cloud mantra, which blesses the oerings and causes each of the numberless buddhas to receive innumerable oerings, like rainfall, which is why this is called the oering cloud mantra. It is extremely important to recite this because the buddhas receive innumerable oerings whereby you collect innumerable merits.
LHA DANG MI YI CHH PI DZ NG SU SHAM DANG YI KYI TRL

May human and divine oerings, Actually arranged and mentally created, Clouds of nest Samantabhadra oerings, Fill the entire space.
KN ZANG CHH TRIN LA NA ME
NAM KHI KHAM KN KHYAB GYUR CHIG
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Studied very well the hundreds of volumes of all the Buddhas teachings on sutra and tantra, as well as the commentaries composed by the great pandits and yogis of India and Tibet, and took teachings from the Sakya, Kagyu, and Nyingma traditions; reected on the meaning of these teachings, analyzing what was correct and gaining unmistaken understanding; and meditated on this understanding, gaining unmistaken realization. Composed eighteen volumes clarifying the scriptures of sutra and tantra, clarifying his points with hundreds of proofs, particularly the dicult and subtle points where other famous meditators and scholars made mistakes, such as the subtle points of developing shamatha, of the Prasangika-Madhyamaka view, and of the tantric completion stage method. He gave the clearest explanation of these subjects. Practiced the three types of vows perfectly and established monasteries with many disciples upholding the vows. Led an ascetic life, completing 3,500,000 prostrations to the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas, over one million mandala offerings, and so forth. Constructed holy objects, established the Great Prayer Festival, and so forth. Taught and guided many disciples who achieved enlightenment and who in turn guided many others to enlightenment. They established many great monasteries which uphold the teachings and have produced great bodhisattvas, tantric practitioners, and qualied teachers. Even today Lama Tsongkhapa is guiding us; through his kindness we can practice the three principals of the path, purify, and accumulate so much merit every day. Our understanding of the Dharma comes from teachers whose knowledge came from Lama Tsongkhapa. Therefore, Lama Tsongkhapa is leading us to liberation and enlightenment.
Offering Cloud Mantra

OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VAJRA SARA PRAMARDANE TATHAGATAYA / ARHATE SAMYAKSAM BUDDHAYA / TADYATHA / OM VAJRE VAJRE / MAHA VAJRE / MAHA TEJA VAJRE / MAHA VIDYA VAJRE / MAHA BODHICHITTA VAJRE / MAHA BODHI MNDO PASAM KRAMANA VAJRE / SARVA KARMA AVARANA VISHO DHANA VAJRE SVAHA (3x)
By saying this, as you visualize, they receive.
Extensive Power of Truth

KN CHHOG SUM GYI DEN PA DANG SANG GY DANG JANG CHHUB SEM
DANG PA THAM CH KYI JIN GYI LAB
TSHOG NYI YONG SU DZOG PI NGA THANG CHHEN PO DANG CHH KYI YING NAM PAR DAG CHING SAM GYI MI KHYAB PI TOB
KYI
DE ZHIN NYI DU GYUR CHIG
By the power of truth of the Three Rare Sublime Ones, The blessings of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas, The great wealth of the completed two collections, And the sphere of phenomena being pure and inconceivable; May these piles of clouds of oerings arising through transformation by the bodhisattvas Arya Samantabhadra, Manjushri, and so forth unimaginable and inexhaustible, equaling the sky arise and, in the eyes of the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions, be received.
This has great benet: it causes each buddha of each and every merit eld to actually receive as many oerings as you have visualized.
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The Actual Guru Yoga Meditation Related to Lama Tsongkhapa

Invocation
(with burning incense)
Visualize that the three Vajradharas at the hearts of Lama Tsongkhapa and his two disciples transform into Vajrasattva, a replica of which comes to crown of your head. Recite the Vajrasattva mantra along with the three visualizations for purication (see Essential Buddhist Prayers, Vol. 1, p. 208), visualizing all sentient beings on a moon disc at your heart, and purifying them also. Generate strong faith that you have completely puried all negative karmas, especially having broken the three vows. Make the promise not to commit again those negative actions from which you can easily abstain, and not to commit for a day, an hour or at least a few seconds those negative actions from which you nd it dicult to abstain. Guru Vajrasattva is extremely pleased and dissolves into light, absorbing into the space between your eyebrows, completely blessing your body, speech, and mind.
Return to p. 9.
GAN DN LHA GYI GN GYI THUG KA N RAB KAR ZHO SAR PUNG TRI CHHU DZIN TSER
You who emanate from the heart of the savior of the hundred devas Joyful Realm, On the peak of a cloud (water holder) resembling clumps of extremely fresh white curd, The king of Dharma, omniscient Losang Dragpa, with your sons: I request you to come to this place.
CHH KYI GYL PO KN KHYEN LO ZANG DRAG S DANG CH PA N DIR SHEG SU SL
Requesting to Have a Stable Life

DN GYI NAM KHAR SENG THRI P DI TENG JE TSN LA MA GYE PI DZUM KAR CHN
In the sky before me, on a lion throne, lotus, and moon disk, The perfect, pure2 lama smiles with delight. Supreme eld of the merit of minds devotion, I beg you to abide for a hundred eons to increase the teachings.
Rejoicing Meditation
First, rejoice that Lama Tsongkhapa completed the path to enlightenment practicing the Dharma purely in such degenerate times, that he was free from the stains of the eight black worldly dharmas, the eight mixed worldly dharmas, and the eight white worldly dharmas. Then rejoice in the extensive activities Lama Tsongkhapa performed for the teachings of the Buddha and for all sentient beings. By giving the clearest explanation of the teachings, Lama Tsongkhapa made it so easy for us to gain unmistaken understanding and unmistaken realization, without wasting time on wrong views. To rejoice extensively, reect how Lama Tsongkhapa:
DAG LO D PI S NAM ZHING CHHOG TU TN PA GY CHHIR KL GYAR ZHUG SU SL
Prostration
SHE JI KHYN KN JL WI LO DR THUG
Your holy mind understands the full extent of objects to be known.
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All holy objects (statues, stupas, scriptures, prayer wheels, etc.), all relics, and all gurus, including those: In India, especially Bodhgaya stupa, the essence of which is the Guru. In Tibet, especially Samye Monastery, the essence of which is the Guru. In Nepal, especially Swayambunath and Bouddhanath stupas, the essence of which is the Guru. In the world (such as Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand) and all universes, the essence of which is the Guru.
Return to p. 9.
K L ZANG NA WI GYN GYUR LEG SH SUNG DRAG PI PL GYI LHAM MER DZE PI KU
Your eloquent speech is the ear-ornament of the fortunate ones. Your holy body is glowing and glorious with fame. To you, who is meaningful to see, hear, and remember, I prostrate.
If you like, you may return to p. 6 and perform the oering prayer, oering mantra, and extensive power of truth here, before the offering verse. You may also turn to p. 23 for an extensive oering meditation to Lama Tsongkhapa, also done before the verse.
THONG TH DRN P DN DN LA CHHAG TSHL
Offerings
YI WONG CHH YN NA TSHOG ME TOG DANG DRI ZHIM DUG P NANG SL DRI CHHAB SOG NG SHAM YI TRL CHH TRIN GYA TSHO DI
Beautiful drinking water, various arranged owers, Fragrant incense, light, scented water, and so forth; Actually performed and mentally transformed oceans of clouds of oerings I oer to you, the supreme eld of merit.
Confession Meditation
Generate strong regret reecting on: The general negative karmas, the ten non-virtues (killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views) collected not only today, but this day, this week, this month, this year, from birth, and from beginningless past lives. The specic negative karmas accumulated from having broken pratimoksha, bodhisattva, and tantric vows and samaya, along with the heaviest negative karma created in relationship with the virtuous friend. Think of the denition of negative karma: any action motivated by ignorance, anger, attachment, ego or any other delusion. Confess all of these with great urgency, thinking how these negative imprints are millions of times more harmful than all the poison and pollution outside. Generate a very intense wish to purify.
S NAM ZHING CHHOG KHYE LA CHH PAR BL
Confession
GANG ZHIG THOG ME DU N SAG PA YI L NGAG YI KYI MI GE CHI GYI DANG
Whatever non-virtues of body, speech, and mind, And especially actions opposite to the three vows That I have created from beginningless time, From the bottom of my heart, I regret and fervently confess them all individually.
For the extensive meditation on confession, turn to p. 24.
KHY PAR DOM PA SUM GYI MI THN CHHOG NYING N GY P DRAG P SO SOR SHAG
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Rejoicing
NYIG MI D DIR MANG TH DRUB LA TSN CHH GY PANG P DL JOR DN Y JE GN PO KHY KYI LAB CHHEN DZ PA LA
In this time of the ve degenerations, you strove for many listenings and realizations, And made meaningful the perfect human rebirth By renouncing the eight worldly concerns. In the saviors extensive deeds I rejoice sincerely from the depths of my heart.
For the extensive meditation on rejoicing in Lama Tsongkhapas deeds, turn to p. 25.
Extensive Meditations for Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga

Offering Meditation
Make charity of all the oerings to all sentient beings so that you can oer together. Oer all the oerings water bowls as nectar, owers, lights, food, music, and so on in the room and around the center, in all the FPMT center gompas, in Lama Zopa Rinpoches houses in America, in the various students houses and so on, thinking the nature of all these oerings is great bliss, and by oering them you generate innite great bliss in the holy minds of the merit eld, the essence of which is the Guru. Oer (108x, 21x, or as many times as possible) to each of the following groups: Lama Tsongkhapa and his two disciples, thinking they are all the Buddhas, Dharma, Sangha, and all ten directions statues, stupas, scriptures, the essence of which is the Guru. All Buddhas, Dharma, Sangha in the ten directions, the essence of which is the Guru. All holy objects in the ten directions, the essence of which is the Guru. The eight Medicine Buddhas for success, Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha to fulll the wishes of all sentient beings immediately and thousand-armed Chenrezig to develop great compassion, the essence of which is the Guru.
DAG CHAG SAM PA THAG P YI RANG NGO
Requesting to Turn the Wheel of Dharma

JE TSN LA MA DAM PA KHYE NAM KYI CHH KI KHA LA KHYEN TSEI TRIN THRIG N JI TAR TSHAM PI DL JI DZIN MA LA
From billowed clouds of compassion and wisdom in the sky of dharmakaya, Make rainfalls of profound and extensive teachings of whatever is suitable For the ears of sentient beings who are the objects to be subdued.
Visualize oering Lama Tsongkhapa and his heart sons a golden Dharma wheel
Please, holy perfect, pure gurus,
ZAB GY CHH KYI CHHAR PA BAB TU SL
Dedication
DAG GI JI NYE SAG PI GE WA DI
I dedicate whatever virtues I have ever collected,
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we always see them as enlightened. May we always perform only actions most pleasing to their holy minds, and may we always fulll their holy wishes immediately.
TN DANG DRO WA KN LA GANG PHN DANG KHY PAR JE TSN LO ZANG DRAG PA YI
For the benet of the teachings and of all sentient beings, And in particular, for the essential teachings Of venerable Losang Dragpa to shine forever.
Long Life Prayers

Long Life Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
GANG RI RA WI KHOR W ZHING KHAM DIR PHN DANG DE WA MA L JUNG WI N
In the land encircled by snow mountains You are the source of all happiness and good; All-powerful Chenrezig, Tenzin Gyatso, Please remain until samsara ends.
TN PI NYING PO RING DU SL JE SHOG
Mandala Offering
SA ZHI P KYI JUG SHING ME TOG TRAM RI RAB LING ZHI NYI D GYN PA DI
This ground, anointed with perfume, strewn with owers, Adorned with Mount Meru, the four continents, the sun and the moon, I imagine this as a buddha eld and oer it. May all living beings enjoy this pure land.
CHN R ZIG WANG TN DZIN GYA TSHO YI ZHAB P SI THI BAR DU TN GYUR CHIG
SANG GY ZHING DU MIG TE L WA YI
Long Life Prayer for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

THUB TSHL CHHANG ZHING JAM GN GYL WI TN DZIN KYONG PEL W KN Z DOG POR DZ
You who uphold the Subduers moral way, who serve as the bountiful bearer-of-all, Sustaining, preserving, and spreading Manjunaths victorious doctrine;
DRO KN NAM DAG ZHING LA CH PAR SHOG
M JUNG NAM THAR TSANG MI THRIM DANG DN L AB CHHEN GYL S CHO PI NYING TOB CHHE DE TONG CHHOG GI RIM NYI NL JOR GYI LO ZANG GYL WI TN DAG JL WAR SHOG
Due to the merits of having oered this mandala to Guru Lama Tsongkhapa father and two sons may I, my family members, and all sentient beings, without a delay of even one second, be able to meet the pure wisdom teaching of the victorious one (Lama Tsongkhapa) who is endowed with pure morality and the brave attitude, who does extensive deeds for all sentient beings, and who accomplished the yoga of two stages (the essence of which is the transcendental wisdom of non-dual bliss and voidness).3
IDAM GURU RATNA MANDALAKAM NIRYATAYAMI
CHHOG SUM KUR WI LEG MN THU DRUB PA DAG SOG DL JI GN DU ZHAB TN SHOG
Who masterfully accomplish magnicent prayers honoring the Three Jewels: Savior of myself and others, your disciples, please, please live long!
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Visualization
DE
TAR SHUG DRAG SL WA TAB PI TH THUG KA N
PL DN LA MA KHYE KU CHI DRA DANG /

JE TSN YAB S SUM GYI
ZER KAR PO BUG CHN THR PI NE
CHIG TU DRE
KHOR DANG KU TSHEI TSH DANG ZHING KHAM SOG KHY KYI TSHN CHHOG ZANG PO CHI DRA WAR DE DRA KHO NAR DAG SOG GYUR WAR SHOG
May I and others attain only these. Whatever noble and holy name you take, With whatever retinue, lifespan, and pure land,
In whatever way you appear, glorious Guru,
N RANG GI CHI WOR ZUG
Three hollow, white beams are emitted from the hearts of Lama Tsongkhapa and sons; the beams mix into one as they enter into your own crown.
KAR BU GI JUG NGOG L JUNG WI / D TSI KAR PO O MI DOG CHN GYI / N DN DIG DRIB BAG CHHAG MA L PA / TR N RANG
L DANG SL SHEL TAR GYUR
PL DN LA MI KU TSHE TN PA DANG KHA NYAM YONG LA DE KYI JUNG WA DANG

May the glorious gurus lives be long and stable. May all beings equaling the extent of space have happiness. May I and others without exception accumulate merit and purify negativities, And may we be blessed to quickly attain buddhahood.
Milk-colored white nectar ows into you through the white beam tube and washes away all stains, sicknesses, spirit harms, delements, and negative karma. Your own body becomes calm and clear, like crystal.
DAG ZHN MA L TSHOG SAG DRIB JANG N NYUR DU SANG GY THOB PAR JIN GYI LOB PL DN LA MI NAM PAR THA PA LA K CHIG TSAM YANG LOG TA MI KYE ZHING CHI DZ LEG PAR THONG W M G KYI L A MI JIN LAB SEM LA JUG PAR SHOG
In the actions of the glorious Guru.
Nine-Line Prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa

NG DRUB KN JUNG THUB WANG DOR JE CHHANG MIG ME TSE WI TER CHHEN CHN R ZIG
Vajradhara, lord of sages, source of all realizations, Avalokiteshvara, great treasure of objectless compassion, Manjushri, master of stainless wisdom, Vajrapani, destroyer of the entire host of maras, Losang Dragpa, crown jewel of sages of the land of snow, To you, Guru-Deity, embodying the three refuges, I make requests respectfully with my three doors. Please grant your blessings to liberate myself and others. Please bestow the supreme and common realizations. (3x)
May I not arise heresy even for a second
DRI ME KHYEN PI WANG PO JAM PI YANG D PUNG MA L JOM DZ SANG WI DAG
May I regard whatever actions are done as pure. [With this devotion] may I receive the blessings of the Guru in my heart.
GANG CHN KH PI TSUG GYN LO ZANG DRAG KYAB SUM KN D LA MA SANG GY LA GO SUM G PI GO N SL WA DEB
Dedication Prayer for All Guru Yoga Practices

Due to the merits of the three times created by myself and others and by the buddhas and bodhisattvas, may I, my family members, all the students and benefactors of the organization, and all sentient beings be able to meet with perfectly qualied Mahayana virtuous friends in all our future lives. From our side may
RANG ZHN MIN CHING DRL WAR JIN GYI LOB
CHHOG DANG THN MONG NG DRUB TSL DU SL (3x)
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K A DRIN CHHEN PI GO N JE ZUNG TE JANG CHHUB NYING PI BAR DU TN PAR SHUG

And please remain stable, without separation from my body, speech, and mind, until I attain enlightenment
Guru Lama Tsongkhapa enters into your heart and becomes completely one with your body, speech, and mind. If you have received highest yoga tantra initiation, the Guru enters into your heart; otherwise, the Guru melts into light and absorbs into the center of your two eyebrows, thus blessing and transforming your body, speech, and mind.
Five-Line Prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa (Mig-tse-ma)

MIG ME TSE WI TER CHHEN CHN R ZIG DRI ME KHYEN PI WANG PO JAM PI YANG D PUNG MA L JOM DZ SANG WI DAG
Avalokiteshvara, great treasure of non-objectifying compassion; Manjushri, master of stainless wisdom; Vajrapani, destroyer of the entire host of maras, Tsongkhapa, crown jewel of the sages of the land of snow; To Losang Dragpa, at your feet I make requests.
Guide me with your great kindness,
GANG CHN KH P TSUG GYN TSONG KHA PA LO ZANG DRAG P ZHAB LA SL WA DEB
Dedication
TSHL THRIM TSANG ZHING MANG DU TH PA DANG JANG SEM JONG DANG TA CH TSANG PA SOG LO ZANG GYL WA NYI PI TN PA LA SE L ME WI NAM THAR KHYONG PAR SHOG
May I train the mind in bodhichitta, pure conduct, and pure view, Without corrupting the teaching of pure wisdom of the second buddha, Lama Tsongkhapa. Listening [to many teachings]. May I continue my life in pure moral conduct,
Purification
When you do purication conjoined with guru yoga, the main object to purify is negative karma collected in relation to the Guru such as having harmed the Gurus holy body, breaking the Gurus advice, disturbing the Gurus holy mind, arousing non-devotional thoughts toward the Guru, criticizing the Guru, breaking samaya with the Guru all collected since beginningless time. Why? Because it is the heaviest negative karma and the greatest obstacle to achieving enlightenment. Visualize before you Lama Tsongkhapa and his two spiritual sons, focusing especially on Lama Tsongkhapa and all the buddhas. While reciting the ve-line prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa above (called Mig-tse-ma) do the common meditation for purication. Following that, still while reciting Mig-tse-ma, do the meditations for actualizing the seven types of wisdom. When doing the meditations of achieving the seven wisdoms, you must do the rst four, up to profound wisdom; the last three can be done according to your wishes and needs. Throughout the meditations, it is important to hold the awareness and devotional thought that your root Guru is inseparable from Lama Tsongkhapa and, in essence, is the synthesis of all three deities Manjushri, embodiment of all buddhas wisdom; Avalokiteshvara, embodiment of all buddhas compassion; and Vajrapani, embodiment of all buddhas power.
TSHE RAB KN TU GYL WA TSONG KHA P THEG CHHOG SHE NYEN NG SU DZ PI TH GYL WA NGAG PI LAM ZANG DE NYI L
In all my lives, through the victorious one, Lama Tsongkhapa, Acting in person as the Mahayana Guru, May I never turn aside for even an instant From the excellent path praised by the victorious ones.
K CHIG TSAM YANG DOG PAR MA GYUR CHIG
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The Seven Wisdoms

1. Please grant me blessings to achieve great understanding, which is able to understand and explain the meanings of extensive scriptures without resistance.
Great understanding, in the form of orange-colored nectar beams claried as pure Lord Manjushri, is emitted from Lama Tsongkhapa and his two sons, absorbing into me and lling my whole body. Then, atoms of nectars, which are claried as pure Lord Manjushri, radiate out to the victorious ones and their sons. Thus, the great understanding of the victorious ones and their sons, in the form of the deities holy bodies, absorbs into me and lls my whole body.
Like that, may the gurus who show the noble path And the spiritual friends who practice it have long lives. Please bless me to pacify completely All outer and inner hindrances. In all my lives, never separated from perfect gurus, May I enjoy the magnicent Dharma. By completing the qualities of the stages and paths, May I quickly attain the state of Vajradhara.
The Guru Entering the Heart

PL DN TSA WI LA MA RIN PO CHHE DAG GI NYING GAR PADMI TENG SHUG LA K A DRIN CHHEN PI GO N JE ZUNG TE
Please abide on the lotus seat at my heart. Guide me with your great kindness, Magnicent and precious root Guru,
2. Please grant me blessings to achieve clear wisdom, which can understand and clarify the details of very subtle and extremely dicult points without resistance.
Clear wisdom, in the form of orange-colored nectar beams claried as the syllables of the mantra OM AH RA PA CHA NA DHI, is emitted from Lama Tsongkhapa and his two sons, absorbing into me and lling my whole body. Then, atoms of nectars, claried as OM AH RA PA CHA NA DHI, radiate out to the victorious ones and their sons. Thus, the clear wisdom of the victorious ones and their sons, in the form of OM AH RA PA CHA NA DHI, absorbs into me and lls my whole body.
KU SUNG THUG KYI NG DRUB TSL DU SL

And grant me the realizations of your holy body, speech, and mind.
PL DN TSA WI LA MA RIN PO CHHE DAG GI NYING GAR PADMI TENG SHUG LA K A DRIN CHHEN PI GO N JE ZUNG TE
Please abide on the lotus seat at my heart. Guide me with your great kindness, Magnicent and precious root Guru,
3. Please grant me blessings to achieve quick wisdom, which quickly cuts the non-understanding and wrong-understanding and doubts without resistance.
Quick wisdom, in the form of orange-colored nectar beams claried as the syllable DHI, are emitted from Lama Tsongkhapa and his two sons, absorbing into me and lling my whole body. Then, atoms of nectars, claried as the syllable DHI, radiate out to the victorious ones and their sons. Thus, the quick wisdom of the
CHHOG DANG THN MONG NG DRUB TSL DU SL

And grant me the general and sublime realizations.
PL DN TSA WI LA MA RIN PO CHHE DAG GI NYING GAR PADMI TENG SHUG LA

Please abide on the lotus seat at my heart. Magnicent and precious root Guru,
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Led by this pure thought, Mindfulness, alertness, and great caution arise. The root of the teachings is keeping the pratimoksha vows; Please bless me to accomplish this essential practice. Just as I have fallen into the sea of samsara, So have all mother migratory beings. Please bless me to see this, train in supreme bodhichitta, And bear the responsibility of freeing migratory beings. Even if I merely develop bodhichitta, but I dont practice the three types of morality, I will not achieve enlightenment. With my clear recognition of this, Please bless me to practice the bodhisattva vows with great energy. Once I have pacied distractions to wrong objects And correctly analyzed the meaning of reality, Please bless me to generate quickly within my mindstream The unied path of calm abiding and special insight. Having become a pure vessel by training in the general path, Please bless me to enter The holy gateway of the fortunate ones: The supreme vajra vehicle. At that time, the basis of accomplishing the two attainments Is keeping pure vows and samaya. As I have become rmly convinced of this, Please bless me to protect these vows and pledges like my life. Then, having realized the importance of the two stages, The essence of the Vajrayana, By practicing with great energy, never giving up the four sessions, Please bless me to realize the teachings of the holy Guru.
victorious ones and their sons, in the form of the syllable DHI, absorbs into me and lls my whole body.
4. Please grant me blessings to achieve profound wisdom, which can understand and explain the meaning of scripture with depth and without resistance.
Profound wisdom, in the form of orange-colored nectar beams claried as the implements (text and sword), are emitted from Lama Tsongkhapa and his two sons, absorbing into me and lling my whole body. Then, atoms of nectars, claried as the implements, radiate out to the victorious ones and their sons. Thus, the profound wisdom of the victorious ones and their sons, in the form of the implements, absorbs into me and lls my whole body.
5. Please grant me blessings to achieve the wisdom to explain the Dharma, which gives denite, supreme understanding of all the meanings of all the words of the scriptures without resistance.
Wisdom to explain the Dharma, in the form of orange-colored nectar beams claried as texts, are emitted from Lama Tsongkhapa and his two sons, absorbing into me and lling my whole body. Then atoms of nectars, claried as texts, radiate out to the victorious ones and their sons. Thus, the wisdom to explain the Dharma of the victorious ones and their sons, in the form of texts, absorbs into me and lls my whole body.
6. Please grant me blessings to achieve debating wisdom, which enables one to achieve bravery over evil debate without resistance.
Debating wisdom, in the form of orange-colored nectar beams claried as wheels of swords, are emitted from Lama Tsongkhapa and his two sons, absorbing into me and lling my whole body. Then, atoms of nectars, claried as wheels of swords, radiate out to the victorious ones and their sons. Thus, the debating wisdom of the victorious ones and their sons, in the form of wheels of swords, absorbs into me and lls my whole body.
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7. Please grant me blessings to achieve writing wisdom, which makes meaning and sound perfect and gives clear understanding and happiness.
Writing wisdom, in the form of orange-colored nectar beams claried as texts and wheels of swords, are emitted from Lama Tsongkhapa and his two sons, absorbing into me and lling my whole body. Then atoms of nectars, claried as texts and wheels of swords, radiate out to the victorious ones and their sons. Thus, the writing wisdom of the victorious ones and their sons, in the form of texts and wheels of swords, absorbs into me and lls my whole body.
NG DZIN THRL WI DRI MA SEL DU SL SEM NYI THE TSHOM DRA WA CH DU SL NYUR DU KHYE RANG TA BUR JIN GYI LOB
I request that the stains of truly believing illusory thought may be puried. I request that the net of doubts that are only in the mind may be cut o. Please grant me blessings to be quickly like you.
The Foundation of All Good Qualities

The foundation of all good qualities is the kind and perfect, pure Guru; Correct devotion to him is the root of the path. By clearly seeing this and applying great eort, Please bless me to rely upon him with great respect. Understanding that the precious freedom of this rebirth is found only once, Is greatly meaningful, and is dicult to nd again, Please bless me to generate the mind that unceasingly, Day and night, takes its essence. This life is as impermanent as a water bubble; Remember how quickly it decays and death comes. After death, just as a shadow follows the body, The results of black and white karma follow. Finding rm and denite conviction in this, Please bless me always to be careful To abandon even the slightest negativities And accomplish all virtuous deeds. Seeking samsaric pleasures is the door to all suering: They are uncertain and cannot be relied upon. Recognizing these shortcomings, Please bless me to generate the strong wish for the bliss of liberation.
Requests
ZHUNG DN JE LA TUG PA ME PA YI ZAB M SHE RAB THOB PAR JIN GYI LOB
Please grant me blessings to achieve extensive great wisdom that is able to understand And explain the meanings of the extensive scriptures without resistance. I request that the wisdoms of hearing, understanding, and meditation may increase. I request that the wisdoms of expounding, debating, and writing may be developed. I request that the general and sublime realizations may be granted. Please grant me blessings to be quickly like you.
TH SAM GOM P SHE RAB PHEL DU SL
CHH TS TSOM PI LO DR GY DU SL
CHHOG DANG THN MONG NG DRUB TSL DU SL NYUR DU KHYE RANG TA BUR JIN GYI LOB
DE CHHEN LHN KYE YE SHE CHHAR TU SL

I request that the transcendental wisdom of the simultaneously born great bliss may arise.

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