TIBETAN NEW YEAR - YEAR OF THE IRON OX PRAYERS FEB. 12, 2021

REFUGE AND BODHICITTA

SANG GYE CHÖ DANG TSOK KYI CHOK NAM LA CHANG CHUP BARDU DAK NI KYAP SU CHI DAK GI JIN SOK GYI PE SONAM KYI DRO LA PHAN CHIR SANGYE DRUP PAR SHOK

In the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Noble Sangha I take Refuge until Enlightenment is fully realized. By the merit accumulated through the practice of generosity and the Six Paramitas, May I become enlightened for the benefit of all beings.

FOUR IMMEASURABLES PRAYER OF BODHICITTA

SEMCHAN TAMCHED DEWA DANG DEWE GYU DANG DAN PAR GYUR CHIK SEMCHAN TAMCHED DUK NGAL DANG DUK NGAL GYI GYU DANG DRALWAR GYUR CHIK SEMCHAN TAMCHED DUK NGAL MED PE DEWA DAMPA DANG MI DRALWAR GYUR CHIK SEMCHAN TAMCHED NYE RING CHAK DANG NYI DANG DRALWE TANG NYOM LA NE PAR GYUR CHIK

May all beings have happiness, and the causes of happiness; May all be free from sorrow, and the causes of sorrow; May all never be separated from the sacred happiness which is sorrowless; And may all live in boundless equanimity, without aachment, and without aversion.

FOUR LINES OF BODHICITTA

CHANGCHUP SEMCHOK RINPOCHE MA KYE PA NAM KYE GYUR CHIK KYE PA NYAM PA MED PA DANG GONG NE GONG DU PEL PAR SHOK

May the precious, supreme Bodhicia Be awakened in those for whom it has not arisen, And for those in whom it has been awakened, May it not decline but ever increase.

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MANTRA RECITATION

VAJRA GURU

ཨ་ཿྃ་བ་་་པ་སིི་ྃ༔ OM AH HUNG VAJRA GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG

TARA ཨ་་རེ་་རེ་་རེ་་། OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA

CHENREZIK

ཨ་མ་ཎི་པེ་ྃ། OM MANI PEME HUNG

VAJRASATTAVA

ཨ་བ་ས་༔ OM VAJRA SATTVA HUNG

BRIEF SANG OFFERING TO PURIFY CONTAMINATION by Mipham Rinpoche

HUNG NANG TONG NAM DAK DUDTSI SANG CHOD DI NAMTOK LE JUNG DRIP DANG MI TSANG KUN DAK SAL NYOK MED CHÖ KU CHENPO’I NGANG SANG NGO KUNZANG DRIP MED LONG DU AH

HUNG Through this smoke offering of amrita, the purity of appearance and emptiness, All contamination and defilement that comes about through thought, Is purified within the experience of the great dharmakaya—pure, clear and unsullied. Within this unobscured expanse of Samantabhadra, the All Good: AH

Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2019.

2 PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLES

DZAM LING CHI DANG YUL KHAM DI DAK DU NAD MUK TSON SOK DUK NGAL MING MI DRAK CHÖ DAN SONAM PALJYOR GONG DU PEL TAK DU TASHI DELEK PUNTSOK SHOK

At this very moment, for the people and nations of this , May not even the names disease, famine, war or suffering be heard, May spiritual practice, merit and prosperity ever increase, And may there be continuous good fortune, well-being and sublime happiness.

DEDICATION

SONAM DI YI TAMCHED ZIKPA YI TOP NE NYE PE DRA NAM PAMJE SHING KYE GA NA CHI BALONG TRUKPA YI SIPE TSO LE DROWA DROLWAR SHOK

By this merit may I aain omniscience. Having defeated the enemies, negativities, May all beings be liberated from the ocean of existence, With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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