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The extensive fulfilling and restoring ritual of the Dharma
Protector, the great king Dorje Shugden, in conjunction with
Mahakala, Kalarupa, Kalindewi and other Dharma Protectors
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Contents
Introduction
Liberating Prayer
Melodious Drum Victorious in all Directions

Introduction
This practice consists of five parts: Praise to Manjushri, the Guru Yoga of
Je Tsongkhapa, Self-generation as Heruka, the Fulfilling and Restoring
Ritual of the General Protectors and the Fulfilling and Restoring Ritual of
the Great King Dorje Shugden. Of these, the last is the principal practice.
A Dharma Protector is an emanation of a Buddha or a Bodhisattva whose
main functions are to avert the inner and outer obstacles that prevent
practitioners from gaining spiritual realizations, and to arrange all the
necessary conditions for their practice. Beings in this present time have a
strong karmic link with Dorje Shugden, and so he is the Dharma Protector
who is most able to help them. Therefore it is said that, ‘Now is the time to
rely upon Dorje Shugden.’ Dorje Shugden always helps, guides and
protects pure and faithful practitioners by granting blessings, increasing
their wisdom, fulfilling their wishes and bestowing success on all their
virtuous activities.
There are many brief and middling-length sadhanas of Dorje Shugden,
such as Heart Jewel and Wishfulfilling Jewel. This extensive sadhana is
called ‘Kangso’ in Tibetan, which means ‘Fulfilling and Restoring Ritual’,
and it is usually performed once a month in Dharma Centres. During this
puja we make extensive offerings and perform other practices (1) to fulfil
our heart commitment to rely upon the Protector sincerely, regarding him as
inseparable from the Guru and Yidam, and to practise the pure Dharma of
Lamrim, Lojong and Mahamudra; and (2) to restore any degenerate or
broken commitments we may have incurred.
We begin the practice with Praise to Manjushri to remember that the
Guru and Protector are in reality emanations of the Wisdom Buddha. We
then perform the Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa and, after dissolving the
Guru into our heart, perform self-generation as Heruka. We then invite the
general Dharma Protectors such as Mahakala, Kalarupa and Kalindewi,
before beginning the actual sadhana of Dorje Shugden. The fulfilling and
restoring ritual of the general Protectors is interwoven with the sadhana of
Dorje Shugden.
Further information on the Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa and on the
Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden can be found in the book Heart Jewel,
and further information on self-generation as Heruka can be found in the
book Essence of Vajrayana.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
1993
Buddha Shakyamuni
Liberating Prayer
Praise to Buddha Shakyamuni
O Blessed One, Shakyamuni Buddha,

Precious treasury of compassion,
Bestower of supreme inner peace,
You, who love all beings without exception,

Are the source of happiness and goodness;
And you guide us to the liberating path.
Your body is a wishfulfilling jewel,

Your speech is supreme, purifying nectar,
And your mind is refuge for all living beings.
With folded hands I turn to you,

Supreme unchanging friend,
I request from the depths of my heart:
Please give me the light of your wisdom

To dispel the darkness of my mind
And to heal my mental continuum.
Please nourish me with your goodness,

That I in turn may nourish all beings
With an unceasing banquet of delight.
Through your compassionate intention,

Your blessings and virtuous deeds,
And my strong wish to rely upon you,
May all suffering quickly cease

And all happiness and joy be fulfilled;
And may holy Dharma flourish for evermore.
Je Tsongkhapa
Melodious Drum Victorious in all Directions
PRAISE TO MANJUSHRI
Homage to Venerable Guru Protector Manjushri.
At your heart you hold a Dharma text, showing that you see all ultimate and
conventional truths with a wisdom that has dispelled the clouds of the two
obstructions, and radiates like the sun.
With a melodious speech endowed with sixty qualities, you love like your
only child all migrators in the prison of samsara, who are confused by the
darkness of ignorance, and tormented by suffering.
The roar of your speech, like the sound of thunder, rouses us from the sleep
of the delusions, and frees us from the iron chains of karma.
Your sword held aloft dispels the darkness of ignorance, and cuts through
all roots of suffering.
Pure from the beginning, having accomplished the ten grounds, your
princely body in the aspect of a Bodhisattva is complete with all good
qualities.
O Manjushri I prostrate to you, adorned with a hundred and twelve

ornaments, who dispel the darkness of ignorance from our minds.
OM AH RA PA TSA NA DHI
O Compassionate One, with the light of your wisdom,
Please dispel the darkness of confusion from my mind,
And illuminate my mind with the confidence and wisdom
To realize the teachings, commentaries and texts.
THE GURU YOGA OF JE TSONGKHAPA
Going for refuge
I and all sentient beings, until we achieve enlightenment,

Go for refuge to Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. (3x)
Generating bodhichitta
Through the virtues I collect by giving and other perfections,

May I become a Buddha for the benefit of all. (3x)
Inviting Je Tsongkhapa
From the heart of the Protector of the hundreds of Deities of the Joyful
Land,
To the peak of a cloud which is like a cluster of fresh, white curd,
All-knowing Losang Dragpa, King of the Dharma,
Please come to this place together with your Sons.
Prayer of seven limbs
In the space before me on a lion throne, lotus and moon,

The venerable Gurus smile with delight.
O Supreme Field of Merit for my mind of faith,
Please remain for a hundred aeons to spread the doctrine.
Your mind of wisdom realizes the full extent of objects of knowledge,
Your eloquent speech is the ear-ornament of the fortunate,
Your beautiful body is ablaze with the glory of renown,
I prostrate to you, whom to see, to hear and to remember is so meaningful.
Pleasing water offerings, various flowers,

Sweet-smelling incense, lights, scented water and so forth,
A vast cloud of offerings both set out and imagined,
I offer to you, O Supreme Field of Merit.
Whatever non-virtues of body, speech and mind

I have accumulated since time without beginning,
Especially transgressions of my three vows,
With great remorse I confess each one from the depths of my heart.
In this degenerate age you strove for much learning and accomplishment.
Abandoning the eight worldly concerns, you made your freedom and
endowment meaningful.
O Protector, from the very depths of my heart,
I rejoice in the great wave of your deeds.
From the billowing clouds of wisdom and compassion

In the space of your Truth Body, O Venerable and holy Gurus,
Please send down a rain of vast and profound Dharma
Appropriate to the disciples of this world.
Through the virtues I have accumulated here,

May the doctrine and all living beings receive every benefit.
Especially may the essence of the doctrine
Of Venerable Losang Dragpa shine forever.
Offering the mandala
OM VAJRA BHUMI AH HUM

Great and powerful golden ground,
OM VAJRA REKHE AH HUM
At the edge the iron fence stands around the outer circle.
In the centre Mount Meru the king of mountains,
Around which are four continents:
In the east, Purvavideha, in the south, Jambudipa,
In the west, Aparagodaniya, in the north, Uttarakuru.
Each has two sub-continents:
Deha and Videha, Tsamara and Abatsamara,
Satha and Uttaramantrina, Kurava and Kaurava.
The mountain of jewels, the wish-granting tree,
The wish-granting cow, and the harvest unsown.
The precious wheel, the precious jewel,
The precious queen, the precious minister,
The precious elephant, the precious supreme horse,
The precious general, and the great treasure vase.
The goddess of beauty, the goddess of garlands,
The goddess of song, the goddess of dance,
The goddess of flowers, the goddess of incense,
The goddess of light, and the goddess of scent.
The sun and the moon, the precious umbrella,
The banner of victory in every direction.
In the centre all treasures of both gods and men,
An excellent collection with nothing left out.
I offer this to you my kind root Guru and lineage Gurus,
To all of you sacred and glorious Gurus;
Please accept with compassion for migrating beings,
And having accepted, out of your great compassion,
Please bestow your blessings on all sentient beings pervading space.
The ground sprinkled with perfume and spread with flowers,

The Great Mountain, four lands, sun and moon,
Seen as a Buddha Land and offered thus,
May all beings enjoy such Pure Lands.
I offer without any sense of loss

The objects that give rise to my attachment, hatred and confusion,
My friends, enemies and strangers, our bodies and enjoyments;
Please accept these and bless me to be released directly from the three
poisons.
IDAM GURU RATNA MANDALAKAM NIRYATAYAMI
The Migtsema prayer
Tsongkhapa, crown ornament of the scholars of the Land of the Snows,

You are Avalokiteshvara, the treasury of unobservable compassion,
Manjushri, the supreme stainless wisdom,
And Vajrapani, the destroyer of the hosts of maras;
O Losang Dragpa I request you, please grant your blessings. (7x, 21x, etc.)
Prayer of the Stages of the Path
The path begins with strong reliance

On my kind Teacher, source of all good;
O Bless me with this understanding
To follow him with great devotion.
This human life with all its freedoms,

Extremely rare, with so much meaning;
O Bless me with this understanding
All day and night to seize its essence.
My body, like a water bubble,

Decays and dies so very quickly;
After death come results of karma,
Just like the shadow of a body.
With this firm knowledge and remembrance

Bless me to be extremely cautious,
Always avoiding harmful actions
And gathering abundant virtue.
Samsara’s pleasures are deceptive,

Give no contentment, only torment;
So please bless me to strive sincerely
To gain the bliss of perfect freedom.
O Bless me so that from this pure thought

Come mindfulness and greatest caution,
To keep as my essential practice
The doctrine’s root, the Pratimoksha.
Just like myself all my kind mothers

Are drowning in samsara’s ocean;
O So that I may soon release them,
Bless me to train in bodhichitta.
But I cannot become a Buddha

By this alone without three ethics;
So bless me with the strength to practise
The Bodhisattva’s ordination.
By pacifying my distractions
And analyzing perfect meanings,
Bless me to quickly gain the union
Of special insight and quiescence.
When I become a pure container

Through common paths, bless me to enter
The essence practice of good fortune,
The supreme vehicle, Vajrayana.
The two attainments both depend on

My sacred vows and my commitments;
Bless me to understand this clearly
And keep them at the cost of my life.
By constant practice in four sessions,

The way explained by holy Teachers,
O Bless me to gain both the stages,
Which are the essence of the Tantras.
May those who guide me on the good path,

And my companions all have long lives;
Bless me to pacify completely
All obstacles, outer and inner.
May I always find perfect Teachers,

And take delight in holy Dharma,
Accomplish all grounds and paths swiftly,
And gain the state of Vajradhara.
Receiving blessings and purifying
From the hearts of all the holy beings, streams of light and nectar flow
down, granting blessings and purifying.
Requests to receive the Guru’s blessings
O Glorious and precious root Guru,

Please sit on the lotus and moon seat at my heart.
Please care for me with your great kindness,
And grant me the blessings of your body, speech and mind.

And bestow the common and supreme attainments.

And remain firm until I attain the essence of enlightenment.
Dedication
Through being cared for throughout all my lives
By Conqueror Tsongkhapa as my Mahayana Guru,
May I never turn away, even for an instant,
From this excellent path praised by the Conquerors.
SELF-GENERATION AS HERUKA
Requesting the lineage Gurus
Fortunate beings are led to the state of Union in one life

Through depending upon great secret Deity yoga;
O Glorious Guide, Father Mother Heruka,
I request you, please bestow Union in this life.
O Ghantapa, Rubelshab,
Dzalandara, Krishnapada,
And all the other lineage Gurus of this path,
And especially my kind root Guru, Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche,

The compassion of all the Conquerors
Arisen in a perfect form,
Please grant me your blessings so that I may quickly attain

A stable and spontaneous experience
Of renunciation, bodhichitta, correct view,
And all the stages of the twofold path.
In short, venerable Guru Father and Mother,

May I never be parted from you, but always come under your care.
Through the power of your blessings may I swiftly complete the grounds
and paths
And quickly attain the state of Heruka.
Going for refuge and generating bodhichitta
Eternally I shall go for refuge

To Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
For the sake of all living beings
I shall become Heruka. (3x)
Bringing death into the path to the Truth Body
Light rays from the HUM at my heart melt all worlds and beings into light.
This dissolves into me, and I, in turn, gradually melt into light from below
and above and dissolve into the HUM at my heart. The letter HUM dissolves
in stages from the bottom up into the nada. The nada too becomes smaller
and smaller and dissolves into clear light emptiness.
Bringing the intermediate state into the path to the Enjoyment Body
From the state of emptiness my mind appears in the form of a nada.
Bringing rebirth into the path to the Emanation Body
Upon the four elements stands Mount Meru crowned by a lotus. In the
centre of this, from vowels and consonants,there arises a moon, which is
white with a shade of red. I, the nada, enter the centre of the moon and
gradually transform into a HUM.
Five-coloured lights radiate from the HUM and lead all migrators to the state
of Chakrasambara. At the same time, all the Heroes and Heroines are
invited from the Buddha Lands of the ten directions. They all melt into light
and dissolve into the HUM; and the letter HUM becomes the nature of
spontaneous joy. The moon, vowels, consonants and HUM completely
transform, and the supported Deities and supporting mandala arise fully and
all at once.
Checking meditation on the mandala and the beings within it
Now I am the Blessed One Heruka, with a blue-coloured body, one face and
two hands, holding vajra and bell and embracing Vajravarahi. I stand on a
lotus and sun and tread on Bhairawa and Kalarati.
On the petals of the four directions, counter-clockwise from the east, stand
Dakini, Lama, Khandarohi and Rupini. Together with the square celestial
mansion, protection circle and charnel grounds, everything is complete.
Inviting the wisdom beings and empowering Deities
PHAIM
My three places are marked by the three letters. Light rays radiate from the
letter HUM and invite all at once all the Buddhas of the ten directions in the
aspect of the visualized mandala, together with the empowering Deities.
DZA HUM BAM HO
The wisdom beings and commitment beings become inseparable.
Granting empowerment and adorning the crown

The empowering Deities grant empowerment. The Father’s crown is
adorned with Vajrasattva and the Mother’s with Vairochana.
Offerings and praises to the self-generation
Offering and praising goddesses emanate from my heart and perform the
offerings and praises.
Outer offerings
OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA AHRGHAM PARTITZA SOHA
OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA PADÄM PARTITZA SOHA
OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA PUPE PARTITZA SOHA
OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA DHUPE PARTITZA SOHA
OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA DIWE PARTITZA SOHA
OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA GÄNDHE PARTITZA SOHA
OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA NEWIDE PARTITZA SOHA

OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA SHAPTA PARTITZA SOHA
Inner offering
OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA OM AH HUM
Secret offering
Father and Mother engage in union and generate spontaneous bliss and
emptiness.
Praise
To Glorious Heruka Father and Mother,

Synthesis of all objects of knowledge in the supreme sphere of spontaneous
bliss,
To the beautiful Goddesses in the four directions,
And to the entire supported and supporting mandala, respectfully I
prostrate.
Blessing the mala
The mala becomes vajra speech, the nature of Pemanarteshvara.
Mantra recitation
On a sun seat at the heart of Father and Mother is a letter HUM surrounded
by a mantra rosary. These radiate and gather light.
The essence mantra of the Father
OM SHRI VAJRA HE HE RU RU KAM HUM HUM PHAT DAKINI DZALA SHAMBARAM
SOHA (21x, 100x, etc.)
The essence mantra of the Mother
OM VAJRA BEROTZANIYE HUM HUM PHAT SOHA
(21x, 100x, etc.)
Blessing the inner offering
OM KHANDAROHI HUM HUM PHAT

OM SOBHAWA SHUDDHA SARWA DHARMA SOBHAWA SHUDDHO HAM
Everything becomes emptiness.

From the state of emptiness, from YAM comes wind, from RAM comes fire,
from AH a grate of three human heads. Upon this from AH appears a broad
and expansive skullcup. Inside from OM, KHAM, AM, TRAM, HUM come the
five nectars; from LAM, MAM, PAM, TAM, BAM come the five meats, each
marked by these letters. The wind blows, the fire blazes, and the substances
inside the skullcup melt. Above them from HUM there arises a white, upside-
down khatanga, which falls into the skullcup and melts whereby the
substances take on the colour of mercury. Above them three rows of vowels
and consonants, standing one above the other, transform into OM AH HUM.
From these, light rays draw the nectar of exalted wisdom from the hearts of
all the Tathagatas, Heroes and Yoginis of the ten directions. When this is
added the contents increase and become vast.
OM AH HUM (3x)
Blessing the outer offerings
From the state of emptiness, from KAMs come broad and expansive
skullcups, inside which from HUMs there arise water for drinking, water for
the feet, water for the mouth, flowers, incense, lights, perfume, food and
music. By nature emptiness, they have the aspect of the individual offering
substances, and function as objects of enjoyment of the six senses to bestow
special, uncontaminated bliss.
OM AHRGHAM AH HUM
OM PADÄM AH HUM
OM ÄNTZAMANAM AH HUM
OM VAJRA PUPE AH HUM
OM VAJRA DHUPE AH HUM
OM VAJRA DIWE AH HUM
OM VAJRA GÄNDHE AH HUM
OM VAJRA NEWIDE AH HUM
OM VAJRA SHAPTA AH HUM
Blessing the tormas
OM AH HUM (3x)
Inviting the guests of the torma offering
PHAIM
Light rays from the letter HUM at my heart invite to the space before me the
mandala of Heruka five Deities together with their retinue of directional
guardians, regional guardians, nagas and so forth, who reside in the eight
great charnel grounds. From a white HUM in the tongue of each Deity there
arises a white, three-pronged vajra through which they partake of the
essence of the torma by drawing it through straws of light the thickness of
only a grain of barley.
Offering the principal torma
Offer the torma while reciting three times:
OM VAJRA AH RA LI HO: DZA HUM BAM HO: VAJRA DAKINI SAMAYA TÖN TRISHAYA
HO
Outer offerings
OM SARWA TATHAGATA AHRGHAM PARTITZA SOHA
OM SARWA TATHAGATA PADÄM PARTITZA SOHA
OM SARWA TATHAGATA ÄNTZAMANAM PARTITZA SOHA
OM SARWA TATHAGATA PUPE PARTITZA SOHA
OM SARWA TATHAGATA DHUPE PARTITZA SOHA
OM SARWA TATHAGATA DIWE PARTITZA SOHA
OM SARWA TATHAGATA GÄNDHE PARTITZA SOHA
OM SARWA TATHAGATA NEWIDE PARTITZA SOHA
OM SARWA TATHAGATA SHAPTA PARTITZA SOHA
Inner offering
OM SHRI VAJRA HE HE RU RU KAM HUM HUM PHAT DAKINI DZALA SHAMBARAM
SOHA OM AH HUM
OM VAJRA BEROTZANIYE HUM HUM PHAT SOHA OM AH HUM
OM DAKINIYE HUM HUM PHAT OM AH HUM
OM LAME HUM HUM PHAT OM AH HUM
OM KHANDAROHI HUM HUM PHAT OM AH HUM
OM RUPINIYE HUM HUM PHAT OM AH HUM
Eight lines of praise to the Father
OM I prostrate to the Blessed One, Lord of the Heroes HUM HUM PHAT
OM To you with a brilliance equal to the fire of the great aeon HUM HUM PHAT
OM To you with an inexhaustible topknot HUM HUM PHAT
OM To you with a fearsome face and bared fangs HUM HUM PHAT
OM To you whose thousand arms blaze with light HUM HUM PHAT
OM To you who hold an axe, an uplifted noose, a spear and a khatanga HUM
HUM PHAT
OM To you who wear a tiger-skin garment HUM HUM PHAT
OM I bow to you whose great smoke-coloured body dispels obstructions
HUM HUM PHAT
Eight lines of praise to the Mother
OM I prostrate to Vajravarahi, the Blessed Mother HUM HUM PHAT

OM To the Superior and powerful Knowledge Lady unconquered by the
three realms HUM HUM PHAT
OM To you who destroy all fears of evil spirits with your great vajra HUM
HUM PHAT
OM To you with controlling eyes who remain as the vajra seat unconquered
by others HUM HUM PHAT
OM To you whose wrathful fierce form desiccates Brahma HUM HUM PHAT
OM To you who terrify and dry up demons, conquering those in other
directions HUM HUM PHAT

OM To you who conquer all those who make us dull, rigid and confused
HUM HUM PHAT
OM I bow to Vajravarahi, the Great Mother, the Dakini consort who fulfils
all desires HUM HUM PHAT
Requesting the fulfilment of wishes
You who have destroyed equally attachment to samsara and solitary peace,
as well as all conceptualizations,
Who see all things that exist throughout space;
O Protector endowed with strong compassion, may I be blessed by the
waters of your compassion,
And may the Dakinis take me into their loving care.
Offering the torma to the mundane dakas and dakinis
The directional guardians, regional guardians, nagas and so forth, who

reside in the eight great charnel grounds, instantly enter into the clear light,
and arise in the form of Heruka Father and Mother. From a white HUM in the
tongue of each guest there arises a white, three-pronged vajra through
which they partake of the essence of the torma by drawing it through straws
of light the thickness of only a grain of barley.
Offer the torma while reciting twice:
OM KHA KHA, KHAHI KHAHI, SARWA YAKYA RAKYASA, BHUTA, TRETA, PISHATSA,
UNATA, APAMARA, VAJRA DAKA, DAKI NÄDAYA, IMAM BALING GRIHANTU, SAMAYA
RAKYANTU, MAMA SARWA SIDDHI METRA YATZANTU, YATIPAM, YATETAM,
BHUDZATA, PIWATA, DZITRATA, MATI TRAMATA, MAMA SARWA KATAYA,
SÄDSUKHAM BISHUDHAYE, SAHAYEKA BHAWÄNTU, HUM HUM PHAT PHAT SOHA
Outer offerings
OM AHRGHAM PARTITZA SOHA
OM PADÄM PARTITZA SOHA
OM VAJRA PUPE AH HUM SOHA
OM VAJRA DHUPE AH HUM SOHA
OM VAJRA DIWE AH HUM SOHA
OM VAJRA GÄNDHE AH HUM SOHA

OM VAJRA NEWIDE AH HUM SOHA
OM VAJRA SHAPTA AH HUM SOHA
Inner offering
To the mouths of the directional guardians, regional guardians, nagas and so

forth, OM AH HUM
Requests
You the entire gathering of gods,

The entire gathering of nagas,
The entire gathering of givers of harm,
The entire gathering of cannibals,
The entire gathering of evil spirits,
The entire gathering of hungry ghosts,
The entire gathering of flesh-eaters,
The entire gathering of crazy-makers,
The entire gathering of forgetful-makers,
The entire gathering of dakas,
The entire gathering of female spirits,
All of you without exception
Please come here and listen to me.
O Glorious attendants, swift as thought,
Who have taken oaths and heart commitments
To guard the doctrine and benefit living beings,
Who subdue the malevolent and destroy the dark forces
With terrifying forms and inexhaustible wrath,
Who grant results to yogic actions,
And who have inconceivable powers and blessings,
To you eight types of guest I prostrate.
I request all of you together with your consorts, children and servants
To grant me the fortune of all the attainments.
Inviting the general Dharma Protectors such as Mahakala, Kalarupa,

and Kalindewi
HUM
In the space before me, in a vast phenomena source,

Within an expansive and turbulent blood-red ocean,
In the centre of a thousand-petalled lotus is a sun seat
Where all the venerable Dharma Protectors upon whom we rely
Will remain surrounded by their vast assembled retinues.
Light rays blaze from the letter HUM at my heart
And invite the wisdom beings to appear in an instant
From all the different vajra palaces where they abide.
From the play of the exalted wisdom of bliss and emptiness,

O Root and lineage Gurus, the assembly of Yidams,
And especially Yamantaka, great Wrathful One, and your retinues,
Please come without obstruction to this place.
From the fearful charnel grounds of Silwa Tsel,

O Glorious Wisdom Protector, Six-armed Mahakala,
Wish-granting Jewel Wangyel, Protector of life,
The lords of the desire realm, the four givers of harm,
The directional guardians, and the seventy massed armies,
Please come here to perform virtuous deeds for practitioners.
From the city of Yama, the destroyer of life,

O Mighty Kalarupa and Tzamundi,
And the assembly of eight male and female wrathful attendants,
Please come quickly to eradicate obstacles to the doctrine.
Principal Lady of the desire realm, foremost Dakini of the three places,
O Palden Lhamo, Kalindewi, who delight in incisive and powerful actions,
The five long-life goddesses, and the hosts of Denmas,
Please come here with your retinue of female Protectors.
From Akanishta, Tise, Nalendra and so forth,

O Dorje Gur, Mahakala with four faces,
Please come here quickly with your massed armies
Of eight types of wrathful being who wait upon your command.
From the celestial garden of Changlachen in the north,
Great king Namtose, who bestow a rain of desired enjoyments,
The hosts of givers of harm, and the wealth gods such as the eight guides,
Please come here to promote pure discipline and dispel misfortune.
From the charnel grounds of Marutse in the north-east,

O Mighty red Dharma Protector Yakya Chamsing, the Lord of life,
And the hosts of wrathful beings who oppose those who betray us,
Please come here quickly to dispel demons and obstructors.
From the palace of great bliss and emptiness,

In a dance of emanations of virtuous friends of the Deities,
O Great, wrathful Deities, come here please,
To protect the doctrine and guard practitioners like your only child.
Ching Karwa renowned as the great being Neser,

Spiritual friend of the Deities who are attendants
To the illuminating root and lineage Gurus,
Please come here with your retinue to enjoy these pleasing substances.
And all the guardians who give protection

To practitioners, Teachers, disciples and others,
The regional and local guardians, and your retinues,
Please come to this place of pure practitioners.
OM HAYE HI VAJRA SAMAYA DZA | DZA | DZA HUM BAM HO
KAMALAYA TAM
Praise and prostration

HUM
To the assembly of Dharma Protectors and Guardians,

Who with pacifying, increasing, controlling and wrathful actions,
Protect the doctrine and guard practitioners like your only child,
Respectfully I prostrate with body, speech and mind.
Outer offerings
To fulfil my commitments I offer vast clouds of offerings:

The two waters, close enjoyment offerings, music, and five objects of
desire,
The inner offering, and the great bliss of the secret offering,
Both actually set out and emanated by mind, beyond samsara and peace.
OM GURU BUDDHA BODHISATTVA SHRI MAHAKALA KALARUPA KALINDEWI SARWA
DHARMAPALA SAPARIWARA AHRGHAM, PADÄM, PUPE, DHUPE, ALOKE, GÄNDHE,
NEWIDE, SHAPTA, PARTITZA SOHA
Inner offering
DHARMAPALA SAPARIWARA OM AH HUM
THE SADHANA OF DORJE SHUGDEN
Blessing the environment and all objects of enjoyment
OM SARWA BI PURA PURA SURA SURA AHWATAYA AHWATAYA HO: VAJRA PARANA
KHAM (3x)
OM VAJRA DHARMA RANITA, PARANITA, SAMPARANITA, SARWA BUDDHA KHYETRA
PATZALANI PÄNJA PARAMITA NADA SOBHAWA WI, VAJRA SATTVA HRIDAYA, SANTO
KHANI HUM HUM HUM HO HO HO SOHA (3x)
HUM
O Venerable Losang Dorjechang, essence of all three lineages in one,

And all the other holy beings in the lineage of the Father and Sons,
Out of compassion please bless myself, this place, and all the offerings,
As well as all worlds and their beings, as the play of your exalted wisdom.
O Vast assembly of Protectors, Deities who are guests of the offerings,

With the power and inspiring blessings of Losang Dragpa, the Omniscient
One,
Please show signs that with great courage you swiftly accomplish all our
wishes
Through any of the four great actions we humbly request you to perform.
Radiating from the Deities of your holy body mandala

Streams of five-coloured lights and nectars descend and enter through the
crowns
Of all the holy Dharma Protectors, together with their retinues.
They all become extremely radiant, magnificent with great power and
strength.
Whenever I the practitioner, my benefactors, or followers,

Engage in any Dharma action, either now or in the future,
Please be vigilant and care for us, quickly dispel adverse conditions,
And create every good condition for us to succeed in our practice.
Blessing the outer offerings

the feet, flowers, incense, lights, perfume, food and music. By nature
emptiness, they have the aspect of the individual offering substances, and
function as objects of enjoyment of the six senses to bestow special,
uncontaminated bliss.
OM AHRGHAM AH HUM
OM PADÄM AH HUM
OM VAJRA ALOKE AH HUM
OM RUWA AH HUM
OM SHAPTA AH HUM
OM GÄNDHE AH HUM
OM RASE AH HUM
OM PARSHE AH HUM
Dorje Shugden
Visualizing the five lineages of Dorje Shugden together with their
retinues and mandala palaces
From the state of clear light emptiness that is the non-true existence of all
phenomena of the worlds of samsara and nirvana, established from the
appearance of the exalted wisdom that is the non-duality of the object-
possessor, my mind of resultant-time great bliss, and its object, the
Dharmadhatu, the realization that all Buddha’s teachings are free from
contradiction appears as a ground of lapis lazuli, upon which all Buddha’s
teachings taken as personal advice arise as a pleasure garden.
Inside this is a wish-granting tree laden with the fruit of the Conqueror’s
ultimate intention, that has seven branches marked by the seven precious
possessions of a king, which symbolize the seven limbs of enlightenment.
The eight worldly Dharmas purified in emptiness are a lake possessing
eight good qualities. Resembling dream-like manifestations of a sixth-
ground Bodhisattva, birds and deer symbolizing the four classes of
Superiors roam around a languid pool. The four wheels of the Mahayana
and the seven special attributes of high status appear as mansions and
verdant pastures of soft, springy turf, with flowers blooming in various
colours, and the seven wealths of Superiors appearing as an infinite and
exquisite array of the treasures of gods and men.
Within a circle of jewelled mountains of earth-like to cloud-like bodhichitta,

which hold back the winds of karma such as heavy negative actions, is a
precious three-storied mansion symbolizing the stages of the path of the
three types of being. The sublime exaltation of the Ganden doctrine
distinguished by a million special qualities which, in terms of view,
meditation and action, are not found in any of the stainless excellent
systems of scripture and realization of all the unprejudiced tenets of India
and Tibet, appears as the golden three-tiered roof. The instructions of the
Ensa Whispered Lineage, through which the three bodies of a Buddha can
be attained in one short life, appear as the crowning ornament reaching the
Enjoyment Body Pure Land of Akanishta. The perfect view that is arrived
at through the paths of reasoning in Guide to the Middle Way and
Commentary to Valid Cognition, which are victorious over the four types of
being who, though they are proud to be counted among Buddhists, have
fallen into the crevasse of inferior views, appears as the eight victory
banners and other banners raised aloft for all to see. The doctrine and
kindness of Je Tsongkhapa pervading our land, the surrounding lands, and
all three thousand worlds manifest as the four white parasols. From their
silken tips, cymbals, small bells, and chimes play continuously with the
sound of the conclusive meanings of the essential scriptures of Sutra and
Tantra proclaimed from the paths of reasoning of the three pure analyses of
the Reason Vehicle. The four stairways block the four doors for receiving
downfalls. Standing around the veranda, which is the completion of the four
powers, is an assembly of offering goddesses who symbolize skill in the
practice of the six perfections and the four ways of gathering. The eight
pillars are the eight paths of Superiors, and the pendants and half pendants
are the thirty-seven realizations conducive to enlightenment. The entire
mansion is beautified by breathtaking offering substances that cannot be
described in words.
In the centre is a jewelled throne, its vast seat supported by magnificent,

terrifying lions, symbolizing the four fearlessnesses. It is covered with
jewelled ornaments and fine brocades. Upon this is a letter YA marked by a
HUM. From this, light rays radiate above, below, and in the cardinal and
intermediate directions, offering the practice of the seven limbs to guests

throughout samsara and nirvana. All the faults of true sufferings and true
origins of all beings of the six realms, and all impure worlds and their
inhabitants are purified; and the beings are led into the ripening and
liberating paths. All maras and obstacles in the ten directions are consumed
by the fire of exalted wisdom. The light gathers back and completely
transforms, and there arises he who is by nature inseparable from Manjushri
and Yamantaka, in the aspect of the Protector of the doctrine of Je
Tsongkhapa, the great king Dorje Shugden.
He has a dark red body, one face, and two hands. He smiles with delight,
with his mouth slightly open and his tongue curled. He has three darting
eyes, bulging through the force of his compassion, and a beard and
eyebrows blazing like fire. His right hand holds a golden wisdom sword up
to the sky, and his left hand holds a heart of compassion at the level of his
heart, showing that he eradicates all problems and obstacles at their root.
The crook of his left arm holds a treasure mongoose that abundantly fulfils
all needs and wishes, and grips a golden taming hook showing that he can
subdue all three realms. On his head he wears a domed hat, radiant with
gold from the Dzambu river and adorned with silken bands. He wears three
flowing robes, the garments of an ordained person, and on his feet he wears
tiger boots. The emanations of his body pervade the whole world, the pure
deeds of his speech protect the doctrine, and the thoughts of his mind
possess the ten powers. From his body, which has no definite form but can
display any aspect whatsoever, there arises a turbulent fire and wind of
exalted wisdom, in the centre of which he abides.
From the aggregates, elements, sources and limbs of the Principal Deity,
some light radiates and becomes Vairochana Shugden in front of him. He
has a white-coloured body and a slightly wrathful smile. In his right hand
he holds a lance tied with silks and adorned by a mirror, and in his left hand
he holds a noose. He wears a flowing white silk robe and a golden turban,
and rides an elephant with a long trunk.
To the right of the Principal Deity is Ratna Shugden, who has a yellow-
coloured body. With his right hand he holds up to the sky a golden life-vase
filled with the nectar of immortality and adorned at its mouth by a wish-
granting tree, and in his left hand he holds a precious bowl filled with
jewels. He wears a magnificent yellow robe and is adorned with jewelled
ornaments. He rides a heavenly palomino horse equipped with a beautiful
bridle and saddle.
Behind the Principal Deity is Pema Shugden, who has a blood-red-coloured

body. He has a smile that is both wrathful and radiant, and he displays a
flirtatious manner. In his right hand he holds up to the sky a taming hook
adorned with red silks showing that he can subdue all three realms, and in
his left hand he holds a jewelled noose. Like a distinguished minister he
wears red silk garments adorned with red flowers and rides a turquoise
dragon.
To the left of the Principal Deity is Karma Shugden, who has a very dark
red body and displays a wrathful manner. His right hand brandishes a
sword, and his left hand holds a heart to his mouth, symbolizing that he has
great power to overcome obstacles. He wears black silk garments and rides
a wrathful garuda.
Surrounding these is the assembled oathbound retinue – outer, inner and
secret. First in the sequence are the nine Mothers who attend the Principal
Deity, displaying control over the four elements and holding offering
substances of the five objects of desire. They are adorned with the eight
jewelled ornaments and wear garments of various silks. These nine
attractive Goddesses assist practitioners with their Tantric practice.
Next are the eight fully ordained Monks who guide the activity of
propagating the precise tradition of the Vinaya, such as training in the pure
discipline of the Pratimoksha, the root of Buddha’s doctrine. They all wear
saffron robes. Some wear the domed hat, some the Pandit’s hat, some the
yellow hat, and some the split meditation hat. Some hold a staff, some a
bowl, some a Dharma text, and some a vajra and bell. They all proclaim
eloquent explanations of Dharma.
Then there are the ten youthful and wrathful Deities who provide powerful
and swift protection from obstacles caused by misguided beings who,
misled by mistaken tenets, despise and criticize the study and practice of the
pure teachings of Sutra and Tantra and deceive ordinary beings through
inappropriate behaviour; and especially by those malevolent humans and
non-humans who would despise or harm pure practitioners who with faith
and respect rely upon the upholders of the tradition of Protector Manjushri
Je Tsongkhapa. They appear in terrifying forms in various aspects, some
with cheerful expressions and some with fierce expressions, wearing
Chinese, Mongolian, Nepali, Tibetan, Kashmiri, and Bengali garments, and
holding various sharp weapons in their hands.
Furthermore, in the space around, like particles in rays of sunshine, is Dorje

Shugden’s vast oath-bound retinue of spirit kings such as Behars, planetary
maras, Tsimars, female spirits, yamas, gods, nagas, givers of harm, wealth
gods, flesh-eaters, cannibals, smell-eaters, drumbus, maras, therangs, evil
spirits, the eight classes of worldly spirit, the four classes of guiding spirit,
and so forth, all of whom appear in wrathful aspects.
In the space above this assembled retinue, amidst an expanse of clouds and
rainbows, is the Pure Land of Tushita. Within this is Protector Manjushri Je
Tsongkhapa and his retinue, all appearing clearly, surrounded by heavenly
youths and maidens playing celestial music and showering them with
flowers.
Above the highest part of the palace is Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite
Light; and in the intermediate space there is the great Protector, the
powerful Pure One, together with his retinue.
The whole of space and all the ground are filled with all the desired
substances and articles; and peaceful and wrathful attractive offerings
generated through the power of concentration appear everywhere.
From the heart of the Principal Deity, and from the seed-letter at the heart of
myself appearing clearly as the Yidam, light rays radiate and invite in an
instant the emanations of the five lineages of the great king Dorje Shugden
together with their retinues to come from all the palaces where they abide,
such as Tushita, Keajra, Five-peaked Mountain and Shambala, to this great
place emanated by concentration.
VAJRA SAMAYA DZA DZA
Inviting the wisdom beings
HUM
Though you never move from the peaceful sphere of the Dharmakaya,
Please arise in an infinite dance of various emanations
And display whatever forms are appropriate
To protect the precious and unequalled doctrine of Buddha.
You who are a manifestation of Manjushri’s vajra mind,

Please arise in the form of Duldzin, the king of the Dharma,
And come with your retinue of countless emanations
To protect the essence of Je Tsongkhapa’s tradition.
You who are a manifestation of Manjushri’s vajra body,

Please arise in a pacifying form, as a dispeller of all obstacles,
And come with your retinue of countless pacifying beings
To dispel sickness, spirits, misfortune and hindrances.
You who are a manifestation of Manjushri’s vajra qualities,

Please arise in an increasing form, the glory of the three realms,
And come with your retinue of countless increasing beings
To increase life, merit and prosperity like a waxing moon.
You who are a manifestation of Manjushri’s vajra speech,

Please arise in a controlling form, as a subduer of all worlds and beings,
And come with your retinue of countless controlling beings
To subjugate all things stable and moving throughout the three realms.
You who are a manifestation of Manjushri’s vajra deeds,

Please arise as Dorje Shugden in a fierce and wrathful form,
And come with your retinue of countless wrathful beings
To avert obstructions to Je Tsongkhapa’s doctrine.
O Nine attractive Mothers, eight guiding Monks,
Ten youthful and wrathful Deities, and so forth,
And the supramundane and dignified retinue,
Please come with your infinite array of assemblies.
Without forgetting your compassion and loving promise

To all beings who have entered into Losang’s doctrine,
Please come from within the lion throne
Of Je Tsongkhapa in the Pure Land of Tushita.
Please come from the twenty-four and thirty-two places,

From Odiyana, and from Shambala in the north,
From Five-peaked Mountain and glorious Dhanya Kataka,
And from the Sakya temple at Mug Chung.
From all the places where you reside,

Within Tibet and the surrounding lands,
And from all your abodes in the three thousand worlds,
Please come without obstruction to this place.
OM DHARMAPALA MAHA RADZA VAJRA BEGAWÄN RUDRA PÄNTSA KULA
SAPARIWARA AH KA KAYA DZA DZA | DZA HUM BAM HO
They become non-dual with the commitment beings.
Outer offerings
HUM
From the play of the concentration of non-dual bliss and emptiness,

I offer nectar filling the whole of space;
O Powerful Dharma Protector, together with your retinues,
Please accept and bestow all the attainments.
SAPARIWARA AHRGHAM PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer water filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA PADÄM PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer flowers filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA PUPE PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer incense filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA DHUPE PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer bright lights filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA ALOKE PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer perfume filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA GÄNDHE PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer pure food filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA NEWIDE PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer music filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA SHAPTA PARTITZAYE SOHA
Offering the five objects of desire

I offer pure forms filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA RUWA PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer pure sounds filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA SHAPTA PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer pure scents filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA GÄNDHE PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer pure tastes filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA RASA PARTITZAYE SOHA

I offer pure touch filling the whole of space;
SAPARIWARA PARSHA PARTITZAYE SOHA

Offering the seven precious possessions of a king

I offer to you, filling the whole of space,
A king’s seven precious possessions, objects worthy of the highest beings;
Please perform actions to govern all three worlds.
SAPARIWARA MAHA SAPTA RATNA PARTITZAYE SOHA
Offering the eight auspicious substances

The eight auspicious substances blessed by Buddha Shakyamuni;
Please increase auspiciousness throughout the world.
SAPARIWARA ÄNDRA PADRABE MANGALA PARTITZAYE SOHA
Offering the eight auspicious signs

The eight auspicious signs of conquest over all opposing forces;
Please perform actions to conquer all maras.
SAPARIWARA ÄNDRA MANGALA PARTITZAYE SOHA
Inner offering
This ocean of nectar that has been purified, transformed, and increased,
In a vast skullcup of bliss and emptiness,
I offer so that we may enjoy the nectar of supreme bliss and emptiness;
Please increase the enjoyment of stainless bliss.
SAPARIWARA MAHA PÄNTSA AMRITA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI
Prayer of seven limbs
Merely through my remembering you, you perform the four types of action
To dispel all outer, inner and secret obstacles;
O Dharma Protector, great king Dorje Shugden five lineages,
I prostrate to you and your retinues.
Offerings to statues, offerings to stupas, offerings to the seen and unseen;

Offerings performed, offerings commissioned, offerings of great wealth and
devotion;
Offerings made without delusion, and offerings of my Dharma practice –
These ten types of offering I offer to you, O Five lineages of Dorje
Shugden.
Even though I have received many teachings on Sutra and Tantra,

I have not practised purely, either in thought or in deed,
The instructions on Guru yoga, Lamrim, philosophy, or moral discipline;
But now I confess all my faults and downfalls.
To tame disciples, you perform deeds beyond ordinary understanding,

Appearing as if in a drama as gods, spirits, demons, or deluded beings,
Or as men, women, handicapped people, or even insane beings;
I rejoice in your great kindness towards the doctrine and living beings.
Please turn the Wheel of Dharma appropriate for sharp disciples,
And remain for a hundred aeons to perform your deeds.
I dedicate all virtue, the two collections of all ordinary and Superior beings,
To the destruction of the four maras and of obstacles to Je Tsongkhapa’s
doctrine.
Special confession
Light rays radiate from the HUM at my heart and invite the assembly of
Deities of the three vajras to the space before me. From their three places
there arise countless white, red, and blue hundred-letter mantras. These
dissolve into the three places of myself and the five lineages of the great
king together with their retinues. All faults and transgressions against the
body, speech, and mind of the five lineages and their retinues of myself and
others, our benefactors, and followers, are cleansed and purified.
OM VAJRA HERUKA SAMAYA, MANU PALAYA, HERUKA TENO PATITA, DRIDHO ME
BHAWA, SUTO KAYO ME BHAWA, SUPO KAYO ME BHAWA, ANURAKTO ME BHAWA,
SARWA SIDDHI ME PRAYATZA, SARWA KARMA SUTZA ME, TZITAM SHRIYAM KURU
HUM, HA HA HA HA HO BHAGAWÄN, VAJRA HERUKA MA ME MUNTSA, HERUKA
BHAWA, MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM PHAT (3x, 7x, 21x, etc.)
HUM
O Peaceful and wrathful Manjushri, Venerable Losang Dragpa,

The root and lineage Gurus, the assembly of Glorious Heruka,
And especially the powerful Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden,
Out of compassion please listen to what I now say.
Powerless, under the sway of the darkest ignorance,

Careless, with my mind disturbed by attachment and hatred,
I have committed many negativities, downfalls and faults.
I confess these from the depths of my heart; please purify them swiftly.
I have broken the boundaries of the Pratimoksha vows

Taken in front of the Preceptors, Elders and Sangha.
I have transgressed the trainings of the Bodhisattva vows
Received in the presence of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
I have neglected the sacred vows and commitments

Witnessed by the Guru and assembly of mandala Deities.
All these natural and proscribed negativities, downfalls and faults
I confess from the depths of my heart; please purify them swiftly.
In particular, I confess that I have relied upon

Those who despise or detest Conqueror Losang’s doctrine,
And upon those with degenerate or broken commitments;
And I have given false explanations of emptiness.
And I confess actions that especially offend your mind,

For despite having met with the complete unmistaken essence of the
teachings,
I have either mixed and polluted them with incomplete or false teachings,
Or rejected them altogether.
O Great Deity, even though you have cared for me like your only child,
I have made neither regular nor occasional offerings to you.
In short, I confess from my heart all these faults and mistakes;
Please look after me and grant me your care and protection.
In the presence of the Gurus, Yidams, Protectors and their retinues,

I confess that even though all phenomena are completely pure, like space,
Out of ignorance, as in a dream or an illusion,
I have committed many wrong deeds.
Blessing the fulfilling offerings
From the state of emptiness appear the first letters of the names of the
fulfilling substances marked by a drop. These all melt, and there arise
inconceivable commitment substances, pleasing offerings, and a great
variety of offerings to delight the Gurus, Yidams, and emanations of the
wrathful five lineages of the great king Dorje Shugden together with their
retinues. They arise and increase in their presence.
KHAM (3x)
OM VAJRA AHRGHAM AH HUM
OM VAJRA PADÄM AH HUM
OM VAJRA RUWA AH HUM

OM VAJRA RASA AH HUM
OM VAJRA PARSHA AH HUM
OM SOBHAWA BISHUDHE DHARMATE VAJRA SIDDHI HUM
NAMA SARWA TATHAGATA BHAYO BISHU MUKHEBE SARWA DEKANG UGATE
PARANA HI MAM GAGANA KAM SOHA
OM AMRITE HUM PHAT
OM AHKAROMUKHAM SARWA DHARMANÄN ADENUWATEN NADO DA
NAMA SARWA TATHAGATA AWALOKITE OM SAMBHARA SAMBHARA HUM
OM RURU PURU SOLA DIKTA SIDDHI LOTSANI SARWA AHTA SADHANI SOHA
Through the force of my intention,

Through the force of the blessings of the Tathagatas,
And through the force of the truth of phenomena,
May any suitable purpose
That I wish to come about
Be accomplished without obstruction.
Blessing the special torma


OM AH HUM (3x)
Actual offering of the fulfilling offerings and making requests
HUM
From the play of great bliss of the Dharmadhatu

Come vast clouds of offerings as extensive as space.
In the presence of the five lineages and their retinues
They arise, increase and give rise to great bliss.
An ocean of nectar of three pure, sweet offerings,

Beautiful flowers, clouds of sweet-smelling incense,
Brilliant lights, perfume scented with camphor,
Delicious food offerings, and melodious sounds;
By offering these may I fulfil the heart commitments
Of Dorje Shugden’s five lineages and their retinues.
Please accomplish the wishes of all practitioners
And protect the pure doctrine of Je Tsongkhapa.
Blood-red water offerings, flowers of the five organs,

Clouds of smoke, lamps of molten fat,
Perfumes of inner fluids, food of flesh and bone,
Thigh-bone trumpets, small drums and long trumpets;
Blissful red tormas heaped as high as a mountain,

Alcohol, tea, milk, and curd, vast as an ocean,
Auspicious signs and substances, objects of desire, the seven precious
possessions –
Clouds of outer and inner offerings filling the clarity of space;
Soaring like white clouds are powerful lions,

Mighty garudas, dragons, elephants, yellow swans and horses,
Fierce wild animals, and ominous birds –
A variety of pleasing offerings of desirable creatures;
Awesome and frightening precious bone palaces,
Domed hats, saffron robes, and cloaks,
Clothes made from skins, bone and jewelled ornaments –
All the peaceful and wrathful ornaments and garments;
A sword, a heart of compassion, a taming hook and a lance,

A vase, a skullcup, a bowl of jewels and a mongoose,
Various peaceful and wrathful ornaments and implements,
Life wheels, and precious stones – all outer, inner and secret substances;
Having the good quality of contentment with few desires,

Studying profusely the scriptural tradition of the great Charioteers,
With detailed analysis and focused discussion,
And quoting countless scriptural citations and reasonings;
Through this practice may I fulfil the heart commitments
Striving single-pointedly to listen to, contemplate, explain, and practise

The essence of the doctrine, the stages of the path to enlightenment,
And cultivating the pure view and deeds of the Geden tradition –
Offerings that particularly please you, O Great Deity;
Outwardly practising pure Pratimoksha discipline,

Inwardly training in renunciation and bodhichitta,
And secretly cherishing the yoga of bliss and emptiness of the two stages –
This excellent, complete path, free from contradictions;
The ultimate intention of Conqueror Losang Dragpa

Is the common and uncommon stages of the path
And the profound essence of the Yidam’s two stages.
Realizing this and striving single-pointedly to practise them,
Although your aggregates, elements, sources and limbs

Appear as the Principal and retinue of Dorje Shugden’s five lineages,
In reality they are the thirty-two Deities of the body mandala.
Having found complete certainty in this marvellous wonder,
Through this knowledge may I fulfil the heart commitments
Even though you appear as a haughty and fearsome being

To dispel obstructions to Je Tsongkhapa’s doctrine,
You are by nature Manjushri and Yamantaka themselves.
Believing this and making requests with supreme, unsurpassed devotion,
Brief offering of the fulfilling substances and requests
HUM
Blood-red water offerings as vast as the river Ganges,

Beautiful flowers of sense organs, billowing clouds of smoke,
Inner perfumes, strong foods, and the sound of thigh-bone trumpets –
Please accept with delight this ocean of uncontaminated nectar.
The five objects of desire, the seven precious possessions of a king,
Intelligent horses, elephants, fearsome yaks, sheep and dogs,
Saffron robes, strong hard armour, shields, spears and swords –
With these outer, inner and secret substances
As clouds of supramundane and mundane offerings
To the Guides of the world, the assembly of Dorje Shugden’s five lineages,
May I fulfil the heart commitment and restore my degenerate commitments.
And especially I confess with a mind of shame and great regret
Every single negative action of my three doors,
Committed under the influence of ignorance,
That has offended your mind, O Great Protector.
Moreover, O Powerful Protector and your retinues,
In the unobservable emptiness of the three spheres
I confess all my degenerate and broken commitments
With respect to my practice, offerings, and tormas.
(3x)
Fulfilling offerings and requests to the general Dharma Protectors
HUM
I offer to the Gurus, Yidams, Dharma Protectors,

Guardians of the doctrine, and their retinues,
Clouds of offerings, commitment substances, and pleasing offerings
Filling the space of inseparable bliss and emptiness.
The two waters as a vast, swirling, blood-red ocean,

Beautiful flowers covering the ground and filling space,
Powerful black incense in vast billowing clouds,
Great blazing lamps with the brilliance of the sun;
Of the Guru, Yidam, Protector, and their retinues.
Please fulfil these commitments, dispel all obstacles,
Restore broken commitments, and bestow all attainments.
Supreme perfumes with the scent of finest camphor,

Mountains of foods endowed with a hundred flavours,
Delightful, melodious music like the roar of thunder,
The five objects of desire, and the seven precious possessions;
Magically emanated powerful horses, as swift as the wind,

Black yaks with thick coats and a frightening roar,
Black sheep with white crowns covering all the ground,
Mighty Garudas, and dark birds swirling in space,
And packs of black dogs roaming like bears;
Blissful blood-red tormas heaped as high as a mountain,

Impenetrable palaces unconquered in battle,
Various weapons showing conquest over demons and obstructors –
All outer, inner and secret unsurpassed objects;
Restore broken commitments and bestow all attainments.
Removing obstacles
HUM
From the palace of the expanse of the Dharmakaya

O Five lineages together with your retinues,
Please accept these appropriate commitment substances,
And for myself the practitioner and others,
May the evil thoughts and actions of others be stopped!
May the casting of all spells and curses be stopped!
May obstructions caused by outsiders be stopped!
May the evil use of black magic be stopped!
May curses cast by nagas be stopped!
May the theft of possessions by spirits be stopped!
May delirious fits caused by spirit kings be stopped!
May the eighty-four types of bad omen be stopped!
May the three hundred and sixty obstructions be stopped!
May bad dreams and bad signs be stopped!
May difficult years, months, and days be stopped!
May the four hundred and four types of disease be stopped!
May interference from malevolent forces be stopped!
May all demons and obstructors with evil minds
Be completely and utterly subdued!
HUM
O Mighty Dorje Shugden,

Please grant us here and now
All the suitable attainments,
And increase the doctrine, our followers, and resources.
Recitation of the mantra
I have the clarity of the Yidam. Before me are the five lineages of Dorje
Shugden, the great king of Dharma Protectors. At their hearts are sun
cushions, upon each of which there is a HUM surrounded by the mantra
rosary in its appropriate colour. Light rays radiate from the seed-letter at my
heart and touch these. As a result their minds automatically engage in the
pacifying, increasing, controlling and wrathful actions that I desire,
accomplishing them without obstruction.
OM VAJRA WIKI WITRANA SOHA (21x, 100x, etc.)
OM DHARMAPALA MAHA RADZA VAJRA BEGAWÄN RUDRA: PÄNTSA KULA SARWA
SHA TRUM MARAYA HUM PHAT
(7x, 21x, etc.)

BHAWA, MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM PHAT
Blessing the torma offering to Dorje Shugden
and expansive skullcup. Inside from OM, KHAM, AM, TRAM, HUM come the five
nectars; from LAM, MAM, PAM, TAM, BAM come the five meats, each marked
by these letters. The wind blows, the fire blazes, and the substances inside
the skullcup melt. Above them from HUM there arises a white, upside-down
khatanga, which falls into the skullcup and melts whereby the substances
take on the colour of mercury. Above them three rows of vowels and
consonants, standing one above the other, transform into OM AH HUM. From
these, light rays draw the nectar of exalted wisdom from the hearts of all the
Tathagatas, Heroes and Yoginis of the ten directions. When this is added the
contents increase and become vast.
OM AH HUM (3x)
Visualizing the guests of the tormas
Before me are the five lineages of Dorje Shugden, the great king of Dharma
Protectors, together with their retinues. From HUMs in their tongues come
red, single-pronged vajras. These have straws of light through which they
partake of all the essence of the tormas.
Offering the tormas to the five lineages
OM DHARMAPALA MAHA RADZA VAJRA BEGAWÄN RUDRA: PÄNTSA KULA
SAPARIWARA SARWA BIGNÄN SHA TRUM IDAM BALINGTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI
(3x)
Offering the tormas to the retinues
OM AHKAROMUKHAM SARWA DHARMANÄN ADENUWATEN NADO DA, NAMA SARWA
TATHAGATA AWALOKITE OM SAMBHARA SAMBHARA HUM (3x)
Outer offerings
SAPARIWARA AHRGHAM, PADÄM, PUPE, DHUPE, ALOKE, GÄNDHE, NEWIDE, SHAPTA
PARTITZA HUM SOHA
Inner offering
SAPARIWARA OM AH HUM
Offering the torma to the general Dharma Protectors
Blissful blood-red tormas free from degenerate commitments,

And delicious nectars with a hundred flavours of gods and men –
This vast array of tormas purified, transformed and increased,
I offer to delight you, O Dharma Protectors and your retinues.
From HUMs in the tongues of the Gurus, Yidams, Dakas, Dakinis, Dharma
Protectors and Guardians come straws of red light in the aspect of single-
pronged vajras, through which they partake of all the essence of the tormas.
DHARMAPALA SAPARIWARA IDAM BALINGTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI (3x)
Outer offerings
DHARMAPALA SAPARIWARA AHRGHAM, PADÄM, PUPE, DHUPE, ALOKE, GÄNDHE,
NEWIDE, SHAPTA PARTITZA SOHA
Inner offering
DHARMAPALA SAPARIWARA OM AH HUM
Blessing the torma offering to Four-armed Mahakala, Four-faced

Mahakala, and Father Mother Lord of the Charnel Grounds
OM AH HUM (3x)
Torma offering to four-armed Mahakala
Invocation
HUM
From the palace of great bliss of Keajra,
The monastery of Nalanda, and so forth,
O Glorious Wisdom Protector, Father and Mother,
Please come here together with your oath-bound retinues.
In the space before me on a lotus and sun, trampling demons and

obstructors,
Is the magnificent form of Mahakala with one face and four arms,
Holding a flaying knife, a skullcup of blood, a sword and a trident,
And standing amidst a great fire of exalted wisdom.
Actual offering
Outer offerings covering all the ground and filling the whole of space,
Inner commitment substances and tormas piled as high as a mountain,
And secret commitment nectars swirling like an ocean,
I offer to you Mahakala, together with your retinues.
(3x)
Praise
HUM
The exalted wisdom of the pervasive Lord, Chakrasambara,

Displaying a wrathful form to subdue the malevolent;
I prostrate to you who appear in a wrathful form
With a terrifying body like a mountain of sapphire.
By accomplishing the four types of action,

You protect Buddha’s teachings and those who uphold them,
Subdue all malevolent demons and obstructors,
And fulfil the wishes of Yogis, Teachers and students.
Torma offering to four-faced Mahakala
Invocation
HUM
From Potala and all the other places where you abide,
O Supreme Deity Mahakala and the four great Mothers,
Together with the eight classes of oath-bound Protectors,
Please come here to perform enlightened deeds for practitioners.
In the space before me, in the centre of a blazing fire of exalted wisdom,
Within a phenomena source and a swirling blood-red ocean,
On a lotus and sun, trampling demons and obstructors,
Please remain with delight, inseparable from your deeds.
Making offerings
HUM
I offer clouds of various outer, inner and secret offerings

Filling all worlds throughout the ten directions –
The five objects of desire, the seven precious possessions,
And outer, inner and secret symbolic substances.
Food and drinks with a hundred flavours
And an array of blissful tormas,
Spontaneously transformed into uncontaminated nectar,
I offer to you, great wrathful Deity, together with your retinues.
Offering the torma
OM MAHAKALA BIKALA RATRITA TOMBINI CHANDALI RAKYASI SINGALI DEWI
SAPARIWARA IDAM BALINGTA
KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI (3x)
Outer offerings
OM TZATUR MUKHA SAPARIWARA AHRGHAM PARTITZA HUM SOHA

OM TZATUR MUKHA SAPARIWARA PADÄM PARTITZA HUM SOHA
OM TZATUR MUKHA SAPARIWARA PUPE PARTITZA HUM SOHA
OM TZATUR MUKHA SAPARIWARA DHUPE PARTITZA HUM SOHA
OM TZATUR MUKHA SAPARIWARA ALOKE PARTITZA HUM SOHA
OM TZATUR MUKHA SAPARIWARA GÄNDHE PARTITZA HUM SOHA
OM TZATUR MUKHA SAPARIWARA NEWIDE PARTITZA HUM SOHA
OM TZATUR MUKHA SAPARIWARA SHAPTA PARTITZA HUM SOHA
Inner offering
OM TZATUR MUKHA SAPARIWARA OM AH HUM
Praise
HUM
O Secret exalted wisdom of all the Conquerors,

To protect Buddha’s doctrine during impure times
You overcome all demons and obstructors with your terrifying dance;
I prostrate to you, great Protector of practitioners.
O Great powerful Lord with a blazing, wrathful form,

The four Mothers, and your vast retinue of oathbound attendants,
Please never waver in your protection of Buddha’s doctrine,
And always be my Protector, refuge, friend and helper.
In particular, please protect our Dharma Centre, our community,

And all our necessary inner and outer resources,
From thieves, burglars and malevolent forces,
And always create a great feast of benefit and bliss.
Offerings and requests to Father and Mother Lord of the Charnel
Grounds (Kinkara)
HUM
In the space before me, amidst inconceivable skeletons,

On a seat of a lotus, sun and moon,
Is a conch and a small shell marked by a HUM and an OM.
These completely transform and there appears
The great Hero from the Pure Land of Ogyen,
Father and Mother Lord of the Charnel Grounds.
In the form of skeletons, with one face and two hands,

They hold skull staff, skullcup of blood, and vase.
They have wide-open eyes, curled tongues and bared teeth,
And display an extremely terrifying manner.
Their three places are marked by the three letters.

Light rays radiate from the letter HUM
And invite the wisdom beings from their natural abodes.
DZA HUM BAM HO They mix inseparably with the commitment beings.
I offer you an ocean of outer and inner offerings,

Tormas, commitment substances and pleasing offerings.
Through this fulfilling offering I confess
All my faults and errors; please show forbearance.
HUM
You whose body is devoid of flesh and blood,

Who appear in the form of terrifying skeletons,
And fulfil all the needs and wishes of practitioners;
Great Hero Father and Mother, to you I prostrate.
I request you and beseech you,

O Glorious Heruka,
And Venerable Vajrayogini,
Please do not forsake the pledges you have made.
Please accomplish for myself the practitioner,

All virtuous purposes according to my wishes,
Protect me from all outer, inner and secret obstacles,
And from sickness, spirits and other dangers.
And especially, please render incapable
All those who would harm us or steal from us.
In short, please swiftly accomplish

Any of the four actions that may be required,
Whether pacifying, increasing, controlling or wrathful,
And never waver in your vigilance as our Protector.
Requests to the general Dharma Protectors for pacifying, increasing,

controlling, and wrathful actions
O Dharma Protectors together with your retinues,

Please enjoy this vast array of torma offerings;
And for myself, the Teachers, disciples and others,
Please stand guard from afar during the three parts of the day,
And watch over us closely during the three parts of the night.
Pacify all sickness, spirits and obstacles,
And increase our life, our influence and our enjoyments.
Exercise control over all three realms,
Dispel every single demon and obstructor,
And grant us the common and supreme attainments.
In short, please accomplish according to our wishes
Any virtuous purpose that we desire.
Special request to Dorje Shugden
HUM
O Five lineages of Dorje Shugden together with your retinues, Protectors of

the doctrine of Je Tsongkhapa, please accept these blissful tormas. Please
protect the doctrine of Buddha, and especially the Sutra and Tantra
teachings of the Protector Manjushri, King of the Dharma, the great
Tsongkhapa. Please increase the renown of the Three Jewels, protect the
community of the Sangha and extend the life of the Gurus. For myself, the
practitioner, and all of us disciples, our benefactors and others, please dispel
all adverse conditions that obstruct the practice of Dharma. Please establish
favourable conditions and subdue immediately all traitors, enemies and
obstructors who cause harm and injury, by performing the appropriate
actions swiftly and without delay!
SAPARIWARA DRA GEG AH MU KA MARAYA PHAT!
Offering the torma to the general dakas and dakinis
Blessing the torma
OM AH HUM HA HO HRIH (3x)
Inviting the guests of the torma

PHAIM
Light rays from the letter HUM on the moon seat at my heart invite the
directional guardians, regional guardians, nagas, and so forth who reside in
the eight great charnel grounds. They come to the boundaries in the eight
directions, instantly enter into the clear light, and arise in the form of the
Deities of Heruka in the aspect of Father and Mother. They partake of the
torma through their tongues, which are straws of vajra light.
Offering the torma
Recite twice:
OM KHA KHA, KHAHI KHAHI, SARWA YAKYA RAKYASA, BHUTA, TRETA, PISHATSA,
UNATA, APAMARA, VAJRA DAKA, DAKI NÄDAYA, IMAM BALING GRIHANTU, SAMAYA
RAKYANTU, MAMA SARWA SIDDHI METRA YATZANTU, YATIPAM, YATETAM,
BHUDZATA, PIWATA, DZITRATA, MATI TRAMATA, MAMA SARWA KATAYA,
SÄDSUKHAM BISHUDHAYE, SAHAYEKA BHAWÄNTU, HUM HUM PHAT PHAT SOHA
Outer offerings
OM SHRI HERUKA SAPARIWARA AHRGHAM, PADÄM, PUPE, DHUPE, DIWE, GÄNDHE,
NEWIDE, SHAPTA PARTITZA HUM SOHA
Inner offering
To the mouths of the directional guardians, regional guardians, nagas and so

forth, OM AH HUM
Requests
You the entire gathering of gods,

The entire gathering of nagas,
The entire gathering of givers of harm,
The entire gathering of cannibals,
The entire gathering of evil spirits,
The entire gathering of hungry ghosts,
The entire gathering of flesh-eaters,
The entire gathering of crazy-makers,
The entire gathering of forgetful-makers,
The entire gathering of dakas,
The entire gathering of female spirits,
All of you without exception
Please come here and listen to me.
O Glorious attendants, swift as thought,
Who have taken oaths and heart commitments
To guard the doctrine and benefit living beings,
Who subdue the malevolent and destroy the dark forces
With terrifying forms and inexhaustible wrath,
Who grant results to yogic actions,
And who have inconceivable powers and blessings,
To you eight types of guest I prostrate.
I request all of you together with your consorts, children, and servants
To grant me the fortune of all the attainments.
May I and other practitioners
Have good health, long life, power,
Glory, fame, fortune,
And extensive enjoyments.
Please grant me the attainments
Of pacifying, increasing, controlling and wrathful actions.
O Guardians, always assist me.
Eradicate all untimely death, sicknesses,
Harm from spirits and hindrances.
Eliminate bad dreams,
Ill omens and bad actions.
May there be happiness in the world, may the years be good,

May crops increase, and may Dharma flourish.
May all goodness and happiness come about,
And may all wishes be accomplished.
Giving the torma to the local guardians
Blessing the torma
From the state of emptiness, from a DHRUM before me comes a broad and
expansive jewelled vessel. Inside from OM comes a torma, a vast ocean of
uncontaminated nectar of exalted wisdom.
OM AH HUM (3x)
Offering the torma
NAMA SARWA TATHAGATA AWALOKITE OM SAMBHARA SAMBHARA HUM (3x)
Praise
To the Tathagata Rinchen Mang I prostrate.
To the Tathagata Sug Dze Dampa I prostrate.
To the Tathagata Ku Jam Le I prostrate.
To the Tathagata Jigpa Tamche Dang Drelwa I prostrate.
Request
I offer this torma, an ocean of nectar, possessing an excellent collection of

the five objects of desire, to Denma, goddess of the earth, to all the regional
guardians in the three thousand worlds, to the five long-life goddesses, to
the guardians of the doctrine, to the local guardians, the lords of the sites
throughout the land, and especially those who reside in this place. Please
accept it, and without being jealous or annoyed with any of the actions
performed by myself or any of my benefactors, create good conditions that
suit our minds.

Offering the tea
The Guru is Buddha, the Guru is Dharma,

The Guru is also Sangha.
The Guru is the source of all joys;
To all Gurus I make this offering.
OM AH HUM (3x)
Blessing the tsog offering
OM AH HUM (3x)
KHAM (3x)
OM SOBHAWA BISHUDHE DHARMATE VAJRA SIDDHI HUM
NAMA SARWA TATHAGATA BHAYO BISHU MUKHEBE SARWA DEKANG UGATE
PARANA HI MAM GAGANA KAM SOHA
OM AMRITE HUM PHAT
OM AHKAROMUKHAM SARWA DHARMANÄN ADENUWATEN NADO DA

NAMA SARWA TATHAGATA AWALOKITE OM SAMBHARA SAMBHARA HUM
OM RURU PURU SOLA DIKTA SIDDHI LOTSANI SARWA AHTA SADHANI SOHA

Inviting the guests of the tsog offering
HUM
From the sphere of all the Conquerors of one taste in the wisdom drop,
In a graceful dance of hosts of illusory emanations to tame disciples,
O Root and lineage Gurus, Yidams and Three Precious Jewels,
Please come here as guests to enjoy this tsog offering.
You who alone have the strength to bear with great courage
The responsibility of maintaining the life of Losang’s doctrine,
O Venerable Duldzin, unrivalled by the countless powerful ones,
Great King of the Dharma, please come here with your retinues.
And all the hosts of oath-bound Dharma Protectors,

Heroes, Dakinis, and Protectors of the three places,
Together with all pitiful suffering beings appearing as guests,
Please come here as guests to enjoy this tsog offering.
Actual tsog offering

HUM
Clouds of outer, inner and secret commitment substances,

Together with a blissful blood-red tsog offering torma,
Blessed by bliss and emptiness, mantra and mudra,
As a qualified tsog offering of uncontaminated nectar,
I offer to please you, my kind root Guru.
Please accept and promote Conqueror Losang’s doctrine,
And bless us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
Spontaneously to accomplish the two purposes.
HUM

I offer to please you, Yidams of Heruka’s mandala.
And lead us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
Effortlessly to accomplish the supreme and common attainments.
HUM

I offer to please you, the Three Precious Jewels.
And grant us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
The attainment of liberation from the fears of samsara and peace.
HUM

I offer to please you, hosts of Dakinis and Dharma Protectors.
And help us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
Spontaneously to accomplish all our wishes.
HUM

I offer to please you, great king Dorje Shugden.
And protect us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
Without break through the six periods of the day and the night.
HUM

I offer to please you, the five lineages of Dorje Shugden.
And show us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
Signs of the swift and incisive four types of action.
HUM

I offer to please you, the four great Mothers such as Chenma.
And show us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
Signs of good fortune for all worlds and their beings.
HUM

I offer to please you, the five Vajra Goddesses such as Rupavajra.
A feast of enjoyments of spontaneous great bliss.
HUM

I offer to please you, the eight Monks, by nature Bodhisattvas.
A feast of increasing explanation and practice of Dharma.
HUM

I offer to please you, the ten youthful and wrathful Deities.
And for us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
Perform actions to dispel demons and obstructors.
HUM

I offer to please you, the attendant messenger Khache Marpo.
And for us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
Never waver in promoting good and opposing evil.
HUM

I offer to please you, the wrathful assembly following Gyalchen’s
command.
And guard us, the Teachers, disciples, benefactors and others,
Without break through the six periods of the day and the night.
HUM

I offer to please you guests, the pitiful beings of the six realms.
May you enjoy whatever objects you each desire,
Purify all sufferings and origins, karma, delusion, evils and obstructions,
And swiftly attain the kingdom of unsurpassed great enlightenment.
Short tsog offering
HUM
I make this tsog offering of uncontaminated enjoyments

To the assembly of Gurus, Yidams, Three Jewels, Dakinis and oath-bound
Protectors;
And especially to you, great king Dorje Shugden,
Supreme Protector of the doctrine of the Geden tradition,
And to the whole assembly who follow your command.
By your accepting this, may the Conqueror Losang’s tradition
Spread throughout the ten directions.
For all of us disciples, our benefactors and others,
Please destroy all outer, inner and secret obstacles.
Please subdue hateful enemies and harmful obstructors,
And swiftly fulfil all our wishes.
(3x)
Tsog offering to the Guru

HO
O Great Hero please listen to me.

Of this we should have no doubt,
Brahmins, dogs and outcasts are inseparably one.
Considering this, please enjoy this offering.
HO
I am the principal of all the Conquerors,

In actuality the Blessed One Guru Heruka.
I taste this great ocean of wisdom nectar
To satisfy all the Deities.
AH HO MAHA SUKHA
The five lineages of Dorje Shugden
Praise to the five lineages of Dorje Shugden
HUM
You said ‘I will protect as a wealth of merit for all beings

The sublime, stainless essence of the Sugatas’ teachings.’
O Hero Manjushri and Yamantaka in a fearsome disguise,
With the strength of a million Dharma Protectors; to you we offer praise.
With a captivating, ruby smile of affection and compassion,

You are graceful whether wrathful, affectionate, peaceful or smiling.
The moment we remember the unseen secrets of your body,
You grant all needs and wishes; to you we offer praise.
You hold a wisdom sword that cuts asunder the foe of samsara,
And a heart of great bliss that overcomes the extreme of peace.
You display skilful means beyond the extremes of samsara and peace,
O Glory of countless living beings, to you we offer praise.
The system of Nagarjuna is the supreme view free from extremes,

And the supreme behaviour of the Vinaya is Buddha’s code of conduct;
To show living beings that they should practise these,
You wear a domed hat and saffron robes; to you we offer praise.
With various mounts of indefinite form,

Such as powerful lions, mighty garudas and dragons,
You manifest whatever will tame beings throughout infinite worlds,
And never tire in your work for migrators; to you we offer praise.
Even though you display the manner of a fearsome being

Amidst a mass of turbulent, blazing fire,
You never move even slightly from the peaceful state of love and
compassion;
O Extraordinary supreme wonder, to you we offer praise.
You who are the pure aggregate of form in a pacifying dance

With a youthful body as vibrant as a host of autumn moons,
Who hold a lance with silks and a noose, and ride the king of elephants;
O Dispeller of adverse conditions and obstacles, to you we offer praise.
You who are the pure aggregate of feeling in an increasing dance

With a magnificent body with the brilliance of a million suns,
Who hold a bowl of jewels and a vase, and ride a divine palomino;
O Increaser of wealth and desirable conditions, to you we offer praise.
You who are the pure aggregate of discrimination in a controlling dance

With a blazing body like a magnificent ruby mountain,
Who hold a taming hook and noose, and ride a turquoise dragon;
O Subduer of the three realms, to you we offer praise.
You who are the pure aggregate of compositional factors in a wrathful

dance
With a body like a terrifying turbulence of dark red fire and wind,
Who hold a sword and a heart, and ride a mighty garuda;
O Opponent of demons and obstructors, to you we offer praise.
The pure natures of the four elements and five objects of desire
Are the nine great attractive Mothers of the lineages,
Delightful maidens skilled in the arts of love;
O Liberators from the bonds of samsara, to you we offer praise.
The pure natures of the sources, veins and joints
Are the eight fully ordained Monks who guide virtuous deeds.
As if in a drama you manifest whatever is needed to tame disciples,
And protect those with commitments like your only child, to you we offer
praise.
The pure limbs of the body in a powerful, wrathful dance

Are the ten wrathful Deities who subjugate the malevolent.
You who guard all directions in various guises,
O Youthful and wrathful Deities, to you we offer praise.
To the wrathful oath-bound attendants such as Khache Marpo,

Spirit kings, planetary maras, givers of harm, wealth gods, nagas,
Celestial spirits, cannibals, yamas, female spirits and flying spirits,
O Assembled masses of wrathful beings who shake the three thousand
worlds, to you we offer praise.
To the breathtakingly beautiful, precious celestial mansion,

The terrifying charnel grounds, palaces of bone, and so forth,
The various supporting mandalas and supported Deities,
An infinite emanated array, to you we prostrate and offer praise.
Praise to the general Dharma Protectors
HUM
O Powerful Vajradhara whose nature pervades all lineages,
Inseparable from the supreme state of the Guru’s four bodies,
The Yidams, the source of all attainments,
And the assembly of Heroes and Dakinis, to you we offer praise.
As the power and strength of all the Conquerors gathered into one,
You subdue obstacles to the teachings and protect practitioners like your
only child;
O Wisdom Protector, Mahakala with six arms,
And your vast assembled retinue, to you we offer praise.
O Life Protector Wangyel, wish-granting jewel

Who bestow the needs, resources, life span and actions we wish for,
And the assembly of Heroes and Dakinis of the three places,
To you we offer praise.
O King of the Dharma, Kalarupa, who discriminate good from evil,

Subdue the evil-minded, and protect sincere practitioners,
Tzamundi, the assembly of eight male and female attendants,
And the hosts of fearsome Yamas, to you we offer praise.
O Sole Mother of all the Conquerors, Kalindewi, Palden Lhamo,

Who delight in powerful and incisive actions for pure practitioners,
The five long life Goddesses, the Denma Protectors,
And your retinue of female Protectors, to you we offer praise.
O Powerful Chamdrel, principal Protector of the doctrine from Burmashing,

The male and female givers of harm,
Bhadraputra, brother and sister, and so forth,
Together with your vast oath-bound retinue, to you we offer praise.
O Mahakala with four faces and four arms, destroyer of all obstacles,
Who arose from the play of the exalted wisdom of great bliss,
The four Mothers, the twenty-one wrathful beings,
And the eight types of attendant, to you we offer praise.
O Glorious Heruka in a wrathful dance,
Glorious Wisdom Protector with four arms,
Chamdrel Legden, Seng Dong, Ja Dong,
The eight types of female attendant and your retinues, to you we offer
praise.
O Deity who bestow all common and supreme attainments

The moment we merely remember you,
Great king Namtose, wealth god Tadagye,
The givers of harm, and your retinues, to you we offer praise.
O Great, powerful Deity, Protector of practitioners,

Red Dharma Protector Yakya Chamsing, the Lord of life,
The eight incisive Deities, the twenty-one wrathful Deities,
Together with your vast assembled retinues, to you we offer praise.
O Protector of gods and men, from the light that you radiate
Various emanations appear throughout the ten directions,
Showing all beings how to abide in acceptance and abandonment;
To you with unobstructed magical emanations we offer praise.
O Messengers from the heart of Avalokiteshvara

In a playful dance of various emanations,
Who protect the turning of the Wheel of Dharma,
And guard practitioners like your only child, to you great Deities we offer
praise.
Special request to the general Dharma Protectors
HUM
O Powerful Dharma Protectors and Guardians
Upon whom I have relied and made offerings for a long time,
From now until I attain the essence of enlightenment,
Please be my refuge and Protector, without my ever being parted from you.
Please overcome all obstacles and adverse conditions,

Accomplish spontaneously and without effort
All favourable conditions for the practice of holy Dharma,
And dispel all harmful demons and obstructors.
O All you great and powerful Deities,

When I rely upon you, please do not be far from my heart,
When I request you, please do not be slow in coming,
When I propitiate you, please do not show little strength.
For myself the practitioner, the Teachers, and disciples,

Please avert immediately, in this very moment,
All harmful demons and obstructors
Who have hateful or mischievous intentions,
As well as difficult years, months, and days,

Ill omens, and bad signs;
Please accomplish swiftly and without obstruction
Whatever actions I may request of you.
Blessing the remaining tsog offering for the spirits


from AH a grate of three human heads. Upon this, from AH, appears a broad
and expansive skullcup inside which is the remaining tsog offering, the
nature of the five meats and the five nectars. These are purified,
transformed, and increased, and become a great ocean of uncontaminated
nectar of exalted wisdom.
OM AH HUM (3x)
Actual offering to the spirits
HUM
Through the hooking light rays from my heart,
The guests of the remainder, the directional and regional guardians,
The eight classes of wrathful being, and others with vajra commitments,
Hasten here to enjoy the remainder torma.
HUM

Blessed by bliss and emptiness, mantra, and mudra,
I offer to those who follow the vajra command and commitments

And the guests who can enjoy the remainder, but not the first portion.
Please enjoy with delight and satisfaction,
And swiftly fulfil the wishes of practitioners.
HO
O Guests of the remainder together with your retinues,

Please enjoy this ocean of remaining tsog offering.
May those who spread the precious doctrine,
The holders of the doctrine, their benefactors, and others,
And especially I and other practitioners
Have good health, long life, power,
Glory, fame, fortune,
And extensive enjoyments.
Please grant me the attainments
Of pacifying, increasing, controlling and wrathful actions.
O Guardians, always assist me.
Eradicate all untimely death, sicknesses,
Harm from spirits and hindrances.
Eliminate bad dreams,
Ill omens and bad actions.
May there be happiness in the world, may the years be good,

May crops increase, and may Dharma flourish.
May all goodness and happiness come about,
And may all wishes be accomplished.
By the force of this bountiful giving,

May I become a Buddha for the sake of living beings;
And through my generosity may I liberate
All those not liberated by previous Buddhas.
Blessing the golden drink (serkyem)

From the state of emptiness, from AH appears a broad and expansive
skullcup. Inside this is the golden drink, which is the nature of the five
meats and the five nectars. This is purified, transformed, and increased by
the three letters, and becomes a great ocean of uncontaminated nectar of
exalted wisdom.
OM AH HUM (3x)
Offering the golden drink (serkyem)
HUM
To the Gurus who perform the two purposes and send down a rain of
excellent blessings,
And to the Yidams who bestow all common and uncommon attainments,
I offer this drink of nectar that bestows bliss;
Please partake, and swiftly and spontaneously fulfil all my wishes.
To the whole assembly of Heroes and Dakinis of the three places,

And to the assembly of powerful, oath-bound Dharma Protectors,
Especially to you, supreme, supramundane Protector of the doctrine,

Very powerful, swift, and wrathful Dorje Shugden,
To you, manifestations of the five lineages, who bestow without obstruction

Countless pacifying, increasing, controlling and wrathful actions,
To the nine attractive Mothers, the eight guiding Monks,
The ten youthful and wrathful Assistants, and so forth,
To the extremely wrathful Khache Marpo,

The fierce Attendant who opposes those who betray the Dharma,
And to all your emanations and their emanations in turn who are beyond
thought,
The Attendants, gods, and others filling the three thousand worlds,
Thus, through the power of my making offerings and requesting your help,
Please perform the four types of action during the six times;
And always care for me and protect me like a father with his child,
Without wavering even for a moment.
And may you, the whole assembly of dignified Attendants,

Ever mindful of your solemn oaths to Venerable Duldzin,
Accomplish swiftly and without wavering
Whatever actions I may request of you.
Inviting Dorje Shugden and his retinue
HUM
I have the clarity of the Yidam.

Before me in the centre of red and black fire and wind,
On a lotus and sun, trampling demons and obstructors,
Is a terrifying lion, which is powerful and alert.
Upon this sits the great king Dorje Shugden,
The supreme Heart Jewel of Dharma Protectors.
His body is clothed in the garments of a monk,
And on his head he wears a round, yellow hat.
His hands hold a sword and a heart of compassion.
To his followers he shows an expression of delight,
But to subdue demons and obstructors he displays a wrathful manner.
He is surrounded by a vast, assembled retinue,
Such as his attendant Khache Marpo and so forth.
Light rays from my heart instantly invite the wisdom beings from the
sphere of nature, and from all the different palaces where they abide. They
become inseparable from the commitment beings.
Making offerings and requests
HUM
Respectfully I prostrate with body, speech and mind.
I offer a mass of inner and outer offerings, blissful tormas,
Alcohol, tea, cakes, milk and curd,
Both actually set out and mentally imagined, filling the whole of space.
Commitment, fulfilling, reliance and appropriate substances,

Outer, inner, secret, attractive and cleansing offerings, filling the whole of
space,
I offer these to the entire assembly;
May I fulfil the heart commitment and restore my broken commitments.
All my harmful thoughts and actions
That have offended your mind, O Great Protector,
I confess from the depths of my heart.
Please purify them swiftly, and care for me with love, like a mother for her
child.
I beseech you from the depths of my heart, O Supreme Deity,

Please cause the tradition of Je Tsongkhapa to flourish,
Extend the life and activities of the glorious Gurus,
And increase the study and practice of Dharma within the Dharma
communities.
Please be with me always like the shadow of my body,

And grant me your unwavering care and protection.
Destroy all obstacles and adverse conditions,
Bestow favourable conditions, and fulfil all my wishes.
Now is the time to show clearly your versatile strength

Through your four actions, which are swift, incisive and unobstructed,
To fulfil quickly my special heartfelt desires
In accordance with my wishes;
Now is the time to distinguish the truth and falsity of actions and effects;
Now is the time to dispel false accusations against the innocent;
Now is the time to protect the pitiful and protectorless;
Now is the time to protect Dharma practitioners as your children.
In short, from now until I attain the essence of enlightenment,

I shall honour you as the embodiment of my Guru, Deity and Protector.
Therefore please watch over me during the three periods of the day and the
night
And never waver in your actions as my Protector.
Requesting the fulfilment of wishes
HUM
Whenever your followers with commitments

Request any of the four actions,
Swiftly, incisively and without delay, you show signs for all to see;
So please accomplish the actions that I now request of you.
The stainless sun of Je Tsongkhapa’s tradition

Shines throughout the sky of samsara and nirvana,
Eliminating the darkness of inferior and wrong paths;
Please cause its light to spread and bring good fortune to all living beings.
May the glorious Gurus who uphold this tradition

Have indestructible lives, as stable as the supreme victory banner;
May they send down a rain of deeds fulfilling the wishes of disciples,
So that Je Tsongkhapa’s doctrine will flourish.
Through increasing the study, practice, pure discipline and harmony

Of the communities who uphold the stainless doctrine of Buddha,
And who keep moral discipline with pure minds,
Please cause the Geden tradition to increase like a waxing moon.
Through your actions please fulfil the essential wishes

Of all practitioners who uphold the victory banner
Of practising single-pointedly the stages of the paths of Sutra and Tantra,
The essence of all the teachings they have heard.
Beings throughout this great earth are engaged in different actions

Of Dharma, non-dharma, happiness, suffering, cause and effect;
Through your skilful deeds of preventing and nurturing,
Please lead all beings into the good path to ultimate happiness.
In particular, please destroy the obstacles and unfavourable conditions

Of myself and other practitioners.
Increase our lives, our merit, and our resources,
And gather all things animate and inanimate to be freely enjoyed.
Please be with me always like the shadow of my body,

And care for me always like a friend,
By accomplishing swiftly whatever I wish for,
And whatever I ask of you.
Please perform immediately, without delaying for a year, or even for a

month,
Appropriate actions to eliminate all obstacles
Caused by misguided beings with harmful minds who try to destroy Je
Tsongkhapa’s doctrine,
And especially by those who try to harm practitioners.
Please remain in this place always, surrounded by most excellent

enjoyments.
As my guest, partake continuously of tormas and offerings;
And since you are entrusted with the protection of human wealth and
enjoyments,
Never waver as my guardian throughout the day and the night.
Requests to Ratna Shugden
HUM
Arisen from the play of various emanations,

In the illusory dance of non-dual great bliss and emptiness,
O Increaser, glory of the three worlds, please come to this place
Together with the nine great Mothers, hosts of Dharma Protectors, and
wealth gods.
I offer vast clouds of outer, inner, and secret offerings,

The auspicious signs and substances, close enjoyment offerings, seven
precious possessions,
Alcohol, tea, cakes, milk, and curd, fragrant smoke, tormas, and so forth;
May you be pleased, O Increaser, Great King and your retinue.
As a devoted practitioner, I request you from my heart

To overcome all unfavourable conditions, obstacles, and maras,
And increase my life span, merit, resources, good fortune,
Qualities of scripture and realization, listening and renown.
Please always spread throughout the world the explanation and practice
Of Losang’s sublime Whispered Lineage, the heart of the doctrine.
O Completely pure happiness with a supremely radiant form,
Please perform your activities throughout the whole world.
Requesting the removal of obstacles
HUM
O Five lineages of wrathful Dorje Shugden and your retinues,

Please accept these commitment substances, offerings, and tormas;
And through your power, strength, miracle powers and forces,
May all obstacles to the long life of the Venerable Guru be stopped!
May everything preventing the spread and increase of Buddha’s teachings,
And especially of Je Tsongkhapa’s doctrine be stopped!
For holders of the doctrine and especially our Dharma Centres,
May all outer, inner and secret obstacles and adverse conditions be stopped!
For us, our benefactors, all humans, our livestock, and others,
May all sickness, spirits, obstructions and their karmic causes be stopped!
May all kinds of fatal disease
That arise from the four hundred and four delusions be stopped!
May all kinds of spell, curse, black magic device,
Bad substance, and incantation that harm body and mind be stopped!
May the movements of spirits above, the rising of spirits below,
Difficult years, months and days, and all evil spirits be stopped!
May bad signs in dreams, misfortune, inauspiciousness,
And harm from spirits, obstructors and demons be stopped!
May all sudden dangers, strong attachment, anxiety,
And all punishments, disputes and conflicts be stopped!
May all harms from planetary spirits and nagas,
And delirious fits caused by spirit kings and female spirits be stopped!
May infectious diseases caused by the breath of spirits
And all forms of demonic activity be stopped!
May the turning of the wheel of yama spirits
And harm from all types of mara and destructive spirit be stopped!
In short, for us, our benefactors, and others,
May opponents who have developed evil intentions be completely subdued!
May all kinds of evil manifestation be completely subdued!
And may all malevolent demons and obstructors be completely subdued!
O Dorje Shugden five lineages and your retinues,
Please perform your actions to stop all of these!
HUM
O Mighty Dorje Shugden,

Please grant us here and now
All the suitable attainments,
And increase the doctrine, our followers and resources.
Blessing the promising torma and farewell torma

OM AH HUM (3x)
Torma offering requesting Dorje Shugden to fulfil his promises

HUM
Long ago in the Truth Body Pure Land of Akanishta,

When as an emanation of the compassion of Hero Manjushri,
You arose as powerful Dorje Shugden,
You promised to dispel demons and obstructors in the ten directions,
You promised to protect the turning of the Wheel of Dharma,
You promised to perform enlightened deeds for practitioners;
O Please accept these tormas and offerings,
And perform your deeds just as you promised.
Later, in the supreme pure place of Ganden Mountain,

When in the presence of the Second Buddha, Protector Manjushri,
You arose as a Protector to help the Ganden doctrine,
Then, when as Ngatrul Dragpa Gyaltsen, you were honoured and praised
As the Protector of the Ensa Whispered Lineage,
And you arose in this supreme form as Dorje Shugden,
Now in the imagined mandala that is mere appearance,

When the assembly of Vajra Masters and disciples
Propitiate you to perform your deeds with great energy,
You have promised to dispel demons and obstructors in the ten directions,
You have promised to protect the turning of the Wheel of Dharma,
You have promised to perform enlightened deeds for practitioners;
And perform your deeds just as you have promised.
Farewell torma offering to Dorje Shugden
HUM
O Principal of all the powerful Deities, Protector of the doctrine

Of Protector Manjushri Je Tsongkhapa, the nature of all the Conquerors,
Completely fierce and wrathful great Dorje Shugden,
The assembly of five lineages, a treasury of attainments of the four actions,
As well as your attendants of Behars, planetary maras,
The eight classes of wrathful Deity, the hosts of Yama and female
Protectors,
And the lords of the sites and local guardians such as Rudren,
Just as you have promised to those who propitiate you,
Please enjoy this beautifully adorned farewell torma,
Please enjoy this blissful blood-red torma,
Please enjoy this food offering of Jambudiva,
Please enjoy this medicine nectar with alcohol,
Please enjoy this medicine nectar with tea,
Please enjoy this completely pure golden drink.
We thank you sincerely for granting our requests in the past,

And now sincerely make offerings for your continued assistance.
Please protect us and overcome all adverse conditions,
Completely subdue all demons and obstructors,
And provide all the resources we require.
Requesting uncommon protection
HUM
Realizing that all appearances, sounds and minds
Arise as the Deity, mantra and Truth Body,
O Supreme Deity, we practitioners and our followers
Honour you as the interpretative and definitive Vajradhara.
You are the Guru who teaches the excellent path of abandonment and
practice,
The Yidam who bestows the common and supreme attainments,
The Dharma Protector who assists us with the four actions;
We honour you as the embodiment of the Guru, Yidam and Protector.
We who work to promote the Ganden tradition

Endowed with the eight types of power,
Honour you as the Protector who helps us to accomplish easily
Whatever we wish for and whatever actions we perform.
The Spiritual Guides maintaining Buddha’s teachings who rely upon you
Honour you as the supreme accomplishing Deity
Who increases their life span, resources and power,
And grants success in their extensive deeds for Losang’s doctrine.
For any community upholding the Ganden tradition that relies upon you,
Makes offerings to you, and abides in pure moral discipline,
Their extensive study, explanation, and practice of teachings taken as
personal advice increase;
We honour you as the Protector of the lineage of pure view and pure deeds.
If we perform the ritual that delights Gyalchen’s mind and fulfils the heart
commitments,
With all the necessary commitment substances and articles,
Our family, influence, resources and acquaintances will flourish;
We honour you as a wealth Deity who is a wishfulfilling jewel.
O Supreme Deity, when you simply radiate light,

The eight classes of spirit, the lords of the sites, and the local guardians,
Swiftly accomplish all four types of action,
Therefore we honour you as the embodiment of all protecting Deities.
Since we honour you as the Protector to whom we entrust ourselves,

Our Teachers, disciples, acquaintances, and all outer and inner resources,
Please never waver in performing the four types of action
From now until we attain the essence of enlightenment.
Blessing the thanking offering

the feet, flowers, incense, lights, perfume, food and music. By nature
emptiness, they have the aspect of the individual offering substances, and
function as objects of enjoyment of the six senses to bestow special,
uncontaminated bliss.
OM AHRGHAM AH HUM
OM PADÄM AH HUM

Actual thanking offering
Outer offering
SAPARIWARA AHRGHAM, PADÄM, PUPE, DHUPE, ALOKE, GÄNDHE, NEWIDE, SHAPTA

PARTITZAYE SOHA
Inner offering
SAPARIWARA OM AH HUM
Brief praise and dedication
Merely by our remembering you, you perform the four actions

To dispel all outer, inner, and secret obstacles;
O Great Dharma Protector together with your retinues,
Powerful five lineages of Dorje Shugden, to you I prostrate.
Through my virtues from practising with pure motivation,
May all living beings throughout all their lives
Never be parted from peaceful and wrathful Manjushri,
But always come under their care.
May I attain the state of the seven pre-eminent qualities of embrace,

The nature of the five bodies as eternal as space;
And then without effort, in one short instant,
Lead all living beings to that state.
Requesting forbearance
BHAWA, MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM PHAT
Whatever mistakes I have made

Through not finding, not understanding,
Or not having the ability,
Please, O Protector, be patient with all of these.
Dissolution
Please remain here inseparable from this image

For the sake of all living beings;
Please grant us long, healthy and prosperous lives,
And bestow the supreme attainments.
OM SUPRA TIKTRA VAJRE YE SOHA
OM VAJRA MU
The worldly beings return to their own places.
OM YOGA SHUDDHA SARWA DHARMA YOGA SHUDDHO HAM

The Deities of the mandala dissolve into me.
The celestial mansion and Mother dissolve into me.
Auspicious prayers and dedication
May there be the auspiciousness of the root and lineage Gurus,

May there be the auspiciousness of the assembly of Deities and Yidams,
May there be the auspiciousness of the Dakas and Dakinis,
And may there be the auspiciousness of the Dharma Protectors.
I fully dedicate all these virtues

So that I might train in the same way
As Hero Manjushri and Samantabhadra
Who realize the nature of things.
I fully dedicate all these virtuous roots

In the way that receives the highest praise
From all the Conquerors of the three times –
For the sake of accomplishing the excellent, supreme attainment.
Prayers for the Virtuous Tradition
So that the tradition of Je Tsongkhapa,

The King of the Dharma, may flourish,
May all obstacles be pacified
And may all favourable conditions abound.
Through the two collections of myself and others

Gathered throughout the three times,
May the doctrine of Conqueror Losang Dragpa
Flourish for evermore.
The nine-line Migtsema prayer
Tsongkhapa, crown ornament of the scholars of the Land of the Snows,

You are Buddha Shakyamuni and Vajradhara, the source of all attainments,
Avalokiteshvara, the treasury of unobservable compassion,
Manjushri, the supreme stainless wisdom,
And Vajrapani, the destroyer of the hosts of maras.
O Venerable Guru-Buddha, synthesis of all Three Jewels,
With my body, speech and mind, respectfully I make requests:
Please grant your blessings to ripen and liberate myself and others,
And bestow the common and supreme attainments.
(3x)
Colophon: At the requests of his faithful disciples, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
compiled this sadhana, or ritual prayer for spiritual attainments, from traditional sources for use by
sincere practitioners, 1993.
May everything be auspicious!
Liberating Prayer was composed by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche and is recited at the
beginning of teachings, meditations and prayers in Kadampa Buddhist Centres throughout the world.
This eBooklet edition published by Tharpa Publications 2020
© New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union 1993
The images at the front are Buddha Shakyamuni and the Lamrim Field of Merit, the latter painted by
Chating Jamyang Lama; and the images at the back are the Kadampa Buddhist Temple, Ulverston,
UK, and Offering a Mandala.
An audio recording of this practice is available from www.tharpa.com
This eBooklet is published under the auspices of the NKT-IKBU International Temples Project and
the profit from its sale is designated for public benefit through this fund. [Reg. Charity number
1015054 (England)] A Buddhist Charity, Building for World Peace. Find out more:
tharpa.com/benefit-all-world-peace
UK KADAMPA WORLD PEACE TEMPLE
at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, Ulverston, one of many Kadampa Temples established by
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.

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O Blessed One, Shakyamuni Buddha,

You, who love all beings without exception,

Your body is a wishfulfilling jewel,

With folded hands I turn to you,

Please give me the light of your wisdom

Please nourish me with your goodness,

Through your compassionate intention,

May all suffering quickly cease

Homage to Venerable Guru Protector Manjushri.

O Manjushri I prostrate to you, adorned with a hundred and twelve

THE GURU YOGA OF JE TSONGKHAPA

Going for refuge

I and all sentient beings, until we achieve enlightenment,

Through the virtues I collect by giving and other perfections,

Prayer of seven limbs

In the space before me on a lion throne, lotus and moon,

Pleasing water offerings, various flowers,

Whatever non-virtues of body, speech and mind

From the billowing clouds of wisdom and compassion

Through the virtues I have accumulated here,

OM VAJRA BHUMI AH HUM

The ground sprinkled with perfume and spread with flowers,

I offer without any sense of loss

IDAM GURU RATNA MANDALAKAM NIRYATAYAMI

The Migtsema prayer

Tsongkhapa, crown ornament of the scholars of the Land of the Snows,

Prayer of the Stages of the Path

The path begins with strong reliance

This human life with all its freedoms,

My body, like a water bubble,

With this firm knowledge and remembrance

Samsara’s pleasures are deceptive,

O Bless me so that from this pure thought

Just like myself all my kind mothers

But I cannot become a Buddha

When I become a pure container

The two attainments both depend on

By constant practice in four sessions,

May those who guide me on the good path,

May I always find perfect Teachers,

Receiving blessings and purifying

Requests to receive the Guru’s blessings

O Glorious and precious root Guru,

O Glorious and precious root Guru,

O Glorious and precious root Guru,

Requesting the lineage Gurus

Fortunate beings are led to the state of Union in one life

And especially my kind root Guru, Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche,

Please grant me your blessings so that I may quickly attain

In short, venerable Guru Father and Mother,

Going for refuge and generating bodhichitta

Eternally I shall go for refuge

Bringing death into the path to the Truth Body

From the state of emptiness my mind appears in the form of a nada.

Bringing rebirth into the path to the Emanation Body

Checking meditation on the mandala and the beings within it

Inviting the wisdom beings and empowering Deities

DZA HUM BAM HO

The wisdom beings and commitment beings become inseparable.

Granting empowerment and adorning the crown

Offerings and praises to the self-generation

OM CHAKRASAMBARA SAPARIWARA AHRGHAM PARTITZA SOHA