Seven Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava

Seven Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche by Khenpo Sodargye “Enshrining the most sacred prayer to Guru Padmasambhava, the Vajra Seven Line Prayer, White Lotus elucidates its five layers of meaning as revealed by the eminent scholar Mipham the Great. This commentary now makes this treasure, which has been kept secret among the great masters of Tibet for generations, available as a source of blessings and learning for all.” —Tulku Thondup, author of Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth “The Seven-Line Prayer is the most majestic of all prayers to Guru Padmasambhava—the buddha for our time. It has been cherished over the centuries as the most powerful way to invoke his blessings. How wonderful that we have this commentary, one of Mipham Rinpoche’s most inspiring works, to elucidate these sacred verses and reveal their profound meaning.” —Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying In these dark times of degeneration, it is far from easy to progress and succeed in spiritual practice, solely by one’s own effort. Therefore, it is very important for one to pray constantly to Guru Padmasambhava, the embodiment of all Buddhas past, present, and to come. Of all the prayers to the great and glorious Padmasambhava, the invocation composed of seven vajra verses is supreme. It is the king of all prayers; the pith of sutras, tantras and upadeshas; the core of all Dharmas of the Ground, Path and Fruit; and the essence of all practices of the Three Roots of Guru, Dakini and Yidam. It arose spontaneously as the natural resonance of indestructible ultimate reality and is an immense treasure-mine of blessings and accomplishments. When you supplicate by reciting the Seven-Line Prayer, Padmasambhava and all the Three Roots of Guru, Yidams and Dakas will immediately gather like the clouds in front of you to grant you blessings and bestow you common and supreme siddhis without any hindrances. ༄༅། །བླ་མ་གསང་འདུས་ལས་གསུངས་པའ་ྲིཁྱད་པར་བླ་སྒྲུབ་ཚིག་ བདུན་གསོལ་འདེབས་བཞུགས། The Seven Line Prayer ཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྲི་ནུབ་བང་མཚམས༔ hung, orgyen yul gyi nubjang tsam Hūṃ! In the north-west of the land of Oḍḍiyāna པདྨ་གེ་སར་སོང་པོ་ལ༔ pema gesar dongpo la In the heart of a lotus flower, ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གྲི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརེས༔ yatsen chok gi ngödrub nyé Endowed with the most marvellous attainments, པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གགས༔ pema jungné shyé su drak You are renowned as the ‘Lotus-born’, འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔ khor du khandro mangpö kor Surrounded by many hosts of ḍākinīs ཁྱེད་ཀྲི་རེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྲི༔ khyé kyi jesu dak drub kyi Following in your footsteps, བྲིན་གྲིས་བརླབ་ཕྲིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔ jingyi lab chir shek su sol I pray to you: Come, inspire me with your blessing! ུ་ར་ུཔདྨ་སྲིདྡྲི་ཧཱུྃ༔ guru pema siddhi hung guru pema siddhi hūṃ May All Beings Benefit!