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IMPLORING PADMASAMBHAVA

INVOCATION

LU ME

TEN GYI

KYAB CHIG

KHOR LOI GON

unfailing,
permanent
protector
Chakranath, *
uncheating
lord of the wheel of the dharma
*Samantabhadra, dharmakaya, Vajradhara, Sunyata or dharmata

Unfailing, consistent protector, lord of the wheel of the dharma,

SANG GYE

KUN

buddhas

NGO

all

OR GYEN DOR JE CHANG

original,
true nature

Padmasambhava
(I pray to you)

The actuality of all the buddhas, Orgyen Dorje Chang

NYAM

THA<

very difficult, very

sad, many troubles

DA<

LA

me (I and all
to
sentient beings)

RE SA

hope, something
to rely on

KHYE

you

LAE

other than

ME

without

With my many troubles, you are my only hope!

THU< JE

compassion

LOG

lightning

TAR

like

NYUR WAE

quick

DU

DIR

time
here
(now)

GONG

think of me

With your compassion fast as lightning, please think of me now.

Unfailing consistent protector, the lord of the wheel of the dharma, the actuality of all the buddhas,
Orgyen Dorje Chang with my many troubles, you are my only hope! With your compassion
fast as lightning, please think of me now.

RECALLING PADMASAMBHAVAS KINDNESS

DA NI

now

DU NGAN

bad time

NYI< MAI

degenerate
period

THA

end

LA THU<

has come now

Now the evil time of the end of the degenerate period has come, and

MON

aspiration

LOG

false,
wrong

DAM SI

demons who make trouble

for vow keepers

PUN GU

nine
brothers

KHA DAR

now spread and

grow strong

NAE

then

The misguided intentions of the Dam Si Pun Gu demons spread and grow strong and

James Low

www.simplybeing.co.uk

Imploring Padmasambhava 23-03-2012

MI NAM

human beings

PHAL CHER

SHE GYU<

ordinary

GONG POE

minds

demon

LAM

influence

The minds of human beings are influenced by Gongpo demons.

KHYO< BANG

THUG JE

your people, subjects

(all beings in samara)

NAM YANG MI

DOR WAI

compassion
never
forget, discard
(Padmasambhava said he would help)

With a compassion that never forgets your people,

TSE WAI

KU

compassions

DRIN CHEN

DE

body, very kind

one

KHYE

that

you

LAG

are

KYANG

yet

You are the most kind manifestation of loving concern.

Now the evil time of the end of the degenerate period has come, the misguided intentions of the
Dam Si Pun Gu demons spread and grow strong and the minds of human beings are influenced
by Gongpo demons. With a compassion that never forgets your people you are the most kind
manifestation of loving concern.

THE EVIL THAT BEINGS DO

TREL ME PO NAM

shameless people

LAE NGAN

bad actions

KHA MA GANG

have not yet come full (i.e. dont have quite enough
negativity for going to hell)

Shameless people go on performing bad actions.

GU RU NYI<

Padmasambhava

DANG

and

KHYE KYI

your

TEN PA

doctrines

DANG

and

You, Padmasambhava, and your doctrines and

KHYE KYI

your

JE JUG NAM

followers

LA

to

THA< DU

bad, inauspicious, troubling sign

like a river flowing the wrong way

TA

look

Your followers are looked on as being bad and harmful.

KA DRIN

kindness

KHYA< SO<

ignore, not feel any

obligation to repay

LOG TAI

wrong views

BAR SHA DIR

say and do many wrong things

Kindness is repaid by harm, and with wrong views, people say and do many bad things.

James Low

www.simplybeing.co.uk

Imploring Padmasambhava 23-03-2012

MA RUNG

very bad

GONG POR

GYAB TEN

obstructing demons
(they can show human form)

LO TA< CHA

relying on them
to back one up

believe what these demons

say and do

Very bad Gongpo demons are relied on and believed in.

CHI

outer

NANG

inner

JEN JOR

cause trouble
with bad words

PHUNG TRUG

telling tales about

people to cause trouble

JUR NA DREN

lead in a bad way

(e.g the materialist doctrines)

Outer and inner troubles are caused by bad words, discord is spread and people are led in
false ways.

Shameless people go on performing bad actions. You, Padmasambhava, your doctrines and your
followers are looked on as being bad and harmful. Kindness is repaid by harm, and with wrong
views, people say and do many bad things. Very bad Gongpo demons are relied on and believed
in. Outer and inner troubles are caused by bad words, discord is spread and people are led in
false ways.

I ALSO HAVE GONE WRONG AND SO NOW GET TROUBLES

MAN SA

ZUNG

YANG

low place*
keep
yet, even if
* without egoism, humble

CHOG LHUNG

partial, biased

TRA< DO<

jealous

DANG

grow up

I stay humbly in a low place, yet biased attitudes and jealousy arise towards me.

DRANG POR

NAE

straight
stay
(not doing bad things)

KYANG

yet

YO GYUE

cheating //by

NAG NYE GEL

get trouble

I act straight-forwardly, yet I am troubled by cheaters.

MA NYE

I have not
done wrong

KHA YOG

falsely
accused

KYEN NGAN

bad, difficult
situations

LUNG

storm

TAR

like

TSHUB

fiercely coming

I dont act badly, yet I am falsely accused and difficult situations rage like a storm.

CHOD NGAN

bad action

RANG

I (sentient
beings)

GI

by

CHAD

done

NAE

then

DU

NGAN

times bad
(kali yuga)

ZER

say

I myself have done bad actions and yet say that these times are evil.

I stay humbly in a low place, yet biased attitudes and jealousy arise towards me. I act straight
forwardly, yet I am troubled by cheats. I dont act badly, yet I am falsely accused and difficult
situations rage like a storm. I myself have done bad actions and yet say that these times are evil.

James Low

www.simplybeing.co.uk

Imploring Padmasambhava 23-03-2012

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CALLING FOR HELP

CHI LA SAM

YANG

NYING

whatever I think
also
about, all that I see

LUNG

TO< DU TSANG

heart
wind
go up
(i.e. sighing because very sad)

Whatever I think about makes me very sad.

TING

NAE

deep
inside

YI< CHA<

from

heart broken,
no hope

KYO WAI

DUNG YU

very sad

crying and snivelling

like a child

KYI

with

Completely heart broken, with a sad whimper,

ME NGAG

O DO<

sorrowing
words

BO< GO

save me!
cry for help

necessary
to say

DU JUNG NGO

the time has come ( to pray to Padmasambhava)

I cry for help with the sorrowing words that must be said.

Whatever I think about makes me very sad. Completely heart broken, with a sad whimper, I cry
for help with the sorrowing words that must be said.

REQUESTING HELP FROM PADMASAMBHAVA TO SEND TROUBLES AWAY

PHA CHIG

my sole father,
Padmasambhava

KHYE<

LA

you

MI BO<

to

SU

not ask

LA

who

BO<

to

ask (for help)

My only father, if I do not cry out to you then who else can I ask?

TSE CHEN

KHYE

very great
compassion

you

KYI

by

MI ZI<

not see

SU

who

YI

by

ZI<

look (on me and all sentient beings)

If you who have great compassion do not look on me then who will?

THU< DAM

NA< NAE

your minds
vow

very strong,
imperatively

KUL LO

invoke,
arouse him

THO< TRENG TSAL

Padmasambhava

Thod Treng Tsal, I strongly invoke your bond with us.

YING

NAE

inside
from
(dharmadhartu)

GONG PA

connection,
intention

KYO< CHI<

move (i.e. become

active)

DRO WO LO

Dorje Trolo

Dorje Trolo, in unimpeded spaciousness manifest your connection.

James Low

www.simplybeing.co.uk

Imploring Padmasambhava 23-03-2012

THU

sharp effective
power

TO<

NU PAI

power,
strength

TSAL SHUG

force

CHUNG RE RAN

energy,
force

you must do as much as possible,

utilise all your powers

Using the energy of your sharp, effective power you must do everything possible.

MI DO<

KYE< NGAN

DI LA<

without desire *
bad circumstances from this
*without clinging to our present situation

NYUR DU

quickly

DROL

save

Save me quickly from these bad circumstances towards which I have no desire, and

BAR CHA<

DU<

KYI

MAG PUNG

CHIR LA DO<

obstructions
maras* of
army, horde
* demons that keep the mind from enlightenment

send back, repulse

Turn back the warring hosts of obstructing demons.

My only father, if I do not cry out to you then who else can I ask? If you who have great compassion
do not look on me then who will? Thod Treng Tsal, I strongly invoke your bond with us. Dorje
Trolo, in unimpeded spaciousness manifest your connection. Using the energy of your sharp,
effective power you must do everything possible. Save me quickly from these bad circumstances
towards which I have not desire and turn back the warring hosts of obstructing demons.

REQUESTING BENEFIT FROM PADMASAMBHAVA

DUG CHEN

very bad, dangerous

people, trouble-makers

LUNG SEM

NANG WA

mind
(wrong ideas)

WONG DU DUE

thinking,
ideas

put under your power

Please put all dangerous beings, impulses and erroneous ideas under your power.

KYE DROI

sentient
beings

LO YI<

mind,
intellect

PHEN

DROG

help

friendship

GE

virtue

LA

to

GYUR

become, go

Turn the minds of sentient beings towards helpfulness, friendliness and virtue.

DOR NA

briefly

DAG SOG

KHYE< KYI

we (potentially
your
all beings in samsara)

DUL JA NAM

followers, the ones open to your influence, those

willing to be educated

In brief, for myself and all your followers,

James Low

www.simplybeing.co.uk

Imploring Padmasambhava 23-03-2012

LAE

KYEN

actions

NGAN PAI

causes,
reasons

bad

WONG

DU

power

MA

under

not

TANG WAR

send (i.e. allow us to go by our own

wrong impulses)

Do not send us under the power of bad actions and circumstances, but

CHI

outer

NANG

inner

MI DO<

disagreeable

NYE TSHOG

bad things

YING SU SOL

make empty in the sky, dissolve in

the open expanse of emptiness

Dissolve all outer and inner disagreeable problems and tendencies in the infinity of
spaciousness.

Please put all dangerous beings, impulses and erroneous ideas under your power. Turn the
minds of sentient beings towards helpfulness, friendliness and virtue. In brief, for myself and all
your followers, do not send us under the power of bad actions and circumstances, but dissolve all
outer and inner disagreeable problems and tendencies in the infinity of spaciousness.

PRAYING FOR BUDDHAHOOD AND THE SPREADING OF THE DHARMA

DO< DON

what we want

SAM GU

what we think
of, pleasure

BA< ME

without
trying

YI< ZHIN

as we desire

DRU<

be accomplished

Grant us what we want, what we think of, without effort, just as we desire.

GANG GI

RING LUG

Padmasambhava,
dharma
the second Buddha
system
*here this means the whole world

DZAM LING

Jambudvipa*

KHYA< PAR PEL

spread and fill

Padmasambhavas dharma system must spread and fill the whole world, and

DON

benefit (i.e
buddhahood)

NYI

LHUN DRU<

two (self
effortlessly
and others)

CHO< LAE

everywhere

NAM PAR GYAL

completely victorious(the dharmas

truth must overcome all wrong views)

Effortlessly accomplishing the welfare of myself and others, must be completely victorious
everywhere.

GU RU

KHYE

DANG

NYAM PA NYI<

Padmasambhava you
and
equal
* all beings in samsara must gain this stage

GYUR

become *

NAE

then

Padmasambhava, bless us that we may become equal to you, and thus

James Low

www.simplybeing.co.uk

Imploring Padmasambhava 23-03-2012

KHOR WA

samsara

DONG TRUG

upturn and empty

NU PAR

power

JIN GYI LO<

bless

Gain the power to upturn and empty samsara.

Grant us what we want, what we think of, without effort, just as we desire. Padmasambhavas
dharma system must spread and fill the whole world, and , effortlessly accomplishing the welfare
of myself and all others, must be completely victorious everywhere. Padmasambhava, bless us
that we may become equal to you, and thus gain the power to upturn and empty samsara.

Due to inner and outer causes, some troubles came in my mind one sad time. Then without
trying, this fervent cry for help arose by itself in my mind. Jigtral Yeshe Dorje.

James Low

www.simplybeing.co.uk

Imploring Padmasambhava 23-03-2012