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Samantarbhadra Card Final0510.Indd ༅༅། འཕགས༌མཆོག༌ རིཌ༌གསུ ཾ༌མགོན༌ལ༌ བས༌ སུ ༌མཆ།ི འཕཌ༌མཆག༌ོ རཌ༌གསིུ ༌མགཾ ན༌ལ༌གསོ ལ༌ོ བ༌འདབས།ེ ནད༌མུ ག༌འཁྲུ ག༌ ད༌ཞོ ༌བར༌ི ན༌ི ས༌ི བས།ོ འགྲ ༌ོ ན༌བད༌ཞེ ང༌ི ད༌བར༌ི ིན༌ ིས༌ ོབས། ༀ༌ཝ༌ གི༌ ༌རི༌མུ ཾ༎ ༀ༌མ༌ཎི༌༌༌ པb ེ༌ཧཱུ ཾ༎ ༀབб པཱཎ ི༌ཧཱུ ཾ། དག༌བ༌འདེ ༌ཡི ས༌མྱིུ ར༌དུ༌ བདག རིགས༌གསུ ཾ༌ མགན༌པོ ༌སྒྲོུ བ༌ ར ནས། འགྲ ༌བ༌ཅོ ག༌ི ང༌མ༌༌༌ ལུ ས༌པ། ད༌ེ ༌ས༌ལ༌དགི ད༌ོ པར༌ ཤོག། This Samantabhadra protecti on comes from the great Please grant blessings that illness, famine, strife, and lama Thugyen Chokyi Nyima. It eliminates bad things, dispute be pacifi ed. creates outer and inner success, and can also prevent all Please grant blessings that all migrators be well and happy. the bad extremes of the earth. Due to this virtue, may I quickly The main deity is the Bodhisatt va Samantabhadra, white Achieve the state of the saviors of the three types, in color, riding an elephant, his two hands carrying a And place all migrators, without leaving out even one, container fi lled with piles of jewels. Above are the three In that state. types of deiti es: Chenrezig, Vajrapani, and Manjushri. On one side is Hayagriva and on the other is Lion-Faced OM WAGI SHORI MUM Dakini. Below are the two kinds of garudas: Multi -Col- OM MANI PADME HUM ored Garuda and Black Garuda. OM VAJRAPANI HUM When you get this protecti on card, fi rst consecrate it Further, for protecti on from fi res and the dangers of the elements, the well. Then put it above the front door or place it in dif- general advice is: ferent parts of the house: above windows, to the side of front door (outside), etc. The image should be protected 1. Medicine Buddha practi ce and not destroyed by rain. 2. White Umbrella Deity practi ce. A picture of White Umbrella Deity By displaying this card, all the outer and inner evil en- can be put outside or inside the house as well as the White Umbrella emies (living beings or bad feng shui) are stopped. It Deity mantra. The text can be rolled up and worn as a protecti on was said by Vajradharma, who is the all knowing one, and can also be displayed on noti ce boards. that this instructi on can stop any kind of harm, includ- ing the nine harms. By displaying this protecti on in the 3. Put this Samantabhadra card and the Mantra of Vairochana card in- house, acti viti es that take place in the house and have side and outside the home. no meaning will become meaningful and virtue will be created. In this way, having this protecti on in the home Of course, the best protecti on is to purify negati ve karma that one has becomes good feng shui, a way of creati ng an auspicious already created and not to create negati ve karma, which creates bad environment. feng shui and so forth. What is writt en on the front of this card: I go for refuge to the exalted sublime (Arya) savior of Colophon: the three types. Compiled and designed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, painted by Venerable Losang Tser- ing. This advice was edited by Venerable Gyalten Mindrol, FPMT Educati on Services, I make requests to the exalted sublime (Arya) savior of April 2010. the three types..
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