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Prayer for Peace by the Great Yogi Tang Tong
Gyalpo translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
at the time of the
terrorist attack in New York and Washington.
Om mani padme hum
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Great Loving Victorious One (Maitreya
Buddha), Transcendental Sublime
Compassionate Eye Looking
One, Wrathful Victorious Hayagriva, Fully Accomplished Totally
Pure (Jetsun) Tara and so forth,
Merely hearing your holy
names eliminates all dangers,
Objects of refuge in the
nature of compassion, please pay attention!
When the
sentient beings of the time of quarrelling and five
degenerations
By the explosion of the great ocean of evil
karma and jealousy
Are tormented by the intensive suffering
of fighting and quarrelling
Please dry this up by the power
of transcendental wisdom and compassion.
By letting
great rainfalls of the nectar of loving-kindness fall
On
the migratory beings who are enflaming the conflagration of
hatred-fire
Please grant blessing with the recognition of
each other like father-mother
Then increase happiness and
auspiciousness.
May the multitudes of the vicious evil
spirits
Who enter the mental continuum and
Change it
instantly to the mind of asura
From now on never run in
this area (country/world).
I am requesting for even
all the sentient beings who have died in the war
To abandon
from that time onwards all the evil karma, cause and
effect,
Then having entered and been born in the Blissful
Field (Amitabha's Pure Land)
To lead all others to that
Pure Land.
Please bless all those who are born and die
(samsaric beings)
To have a long life, no sicknesses, to
pacify all quarrelling and fighting,
Enjoy the ten virtues,
have rainfall at the right times, always have good harvests
And for all the habitat and inhabitants to be auspicious
and increase.
By the ultimate reality which is pure by
nature,
By phenomena having ultimate reality cause and
result are unbetrayable,
And by the compassion of the Guru,
Mind-seal Deity and Rare Sublime Ones,
May these pure
extensive prayers be completed. |
When there was unceasing war in Kham (Me
Nyak), Tibet and nobody was able to create harmony, the Great Lord
Yogi (Tang Tong Gyalpo) came to Kham, generated Bodhicitta and just
by merely saying these true words and sprinkling flowers all the
vicious minds (jealousy and anger) were completely pacified and the
war that had been continuous, ceased. There were prosperous harvests
and so forth. The country became auspicious and
peaceful. This is
blessed vajra speech.
This is one of the prayers of the
Great Tantric Yogi Tang Tong Gyalpo. The other prayers that he
composed were to stop famine and epidemics.
His Holiness
Chobgye Trichen Rinpoche who is a Guru of His Holiness the Dalai
Lama (His Holiness received the Sakya Lam Dre teachings and
initiations including Dorje Phurba from him) and also one of the
main teachers of His Holiness Sakya Trizin was invited to one part
of Nepal by the Nepalese government. Rinpoche checked what could be
most beneficial for them and what prayer was most needed to benefit
them. It came out that the best practice for them to do was these
three prayers composed by Tang Tong Gyalpo. So then Rinpoche decided
to give the oral transmission of these three prayers. That is how I
found out about these prayers and I received the oral transmission
from His Holiness Chobgye Trichen Rinpoche.
Through whatever
merits have come from making this translation available, may
wherever this text is (whichever country) and also by reading this
prayer, cause all the people's hearts be filled with
loving-kindness, bodhicitta and the thought to only benefit and not
harm. May the sun of peace and happiness arise and may any wars that
are happening stop immediately. May there be harmony, peace and may
there never be war or violence again.
Translated by the incomparably kind Guru Lama
Zopa Rinpoche at Kachoe Dechen Ling, Aptos, California, USA, 11
September 2001, on the day that the World Trade Center in New York
and the Pentagon in Washington were attacked and many people killed
and injured. This is a revised and edited version of the original,
with the help of Ven Sarah Tenzin
Yiwong.. |
