GANDEN LHA GYAMA
The Hundred Deities Of The Land Of Joy
Invocation
From the heart of the Protector of the hundreds of deities of the land of joy,
Comes a cloud that resembles a mass of fresh white curd.
Omniscient Lozang Drakpa
King of the Dharma, together with your sons,
I request you to come on its tip.
1.Beseeching
0 venerable Gurus with white smiles of delight,
Seated on lion-thrones, lotus and moon in the space before me,
I request you to remain for hundreds of eons
In order to spread the teachings,
And be the supreme field of merit for my mind of faith.
2.Prostration
Your minds have the intellect that comprehends the full extent of what can be known,
Your speech, with its excellent explanations, becomes
the ear-ornament for those of good fortune,
Your bodies are radiantly handsome with glory renowned,
I prostrate to you whom to behold, hear, or recall is worthwhile.
3.Offering
Pleasing water offerings, various flowers,
Fragrant incense, light, and scented water,
This ocean of such cloud-like offerings,
Both actually arranged and mentally created,
I present to you, 0 supreme Field of Merit.
4.Confession
Whatever non-virtues of body, speech and mind
l have accumulated since beginningless time,
And especially any transgressions of my three vows,
I confess over and again with fervent regret from my heart.
5.Rejoicing
From the depths of our hearts we rejoice, 0 Protectors,
In the great waves of your deeds, you who
Strove to learn and practice in this degenerate age
And who made your fully-endowed life worthwhile
by abandoning the eight worldly feelings.
6.Requesting Teachings
You, the great Masters, may your sky of Dharmakaya
Develop the clouds of love and compassion and
Shower the profound and deep teachings
As suitable, on the ground of your disciples.
7.Dedication
I dedicate whatever virtues I have ever collected
For the sake of the teachings and of all sentient beings,
And in particular for the essential teachings
Of Venerable Lozang Drakpa to shine forever.
O glorious and precious root Guru, come take your
Lotus and Moon seat placed here on my head
And keep me safe in your great kindness.
Bestow on me please the powerful attainments of your body,speech and mind.
MIK ME TZE WAI TER CHEN CHEN RE ZIK
DRI ME KYEN PAI WANG PO JAM PEL YANG
DU PUNG MA LU JOM DZE SANG WAI DAK
GANG CHEN KE PAI TZUK GYEN TSONG KHAPA
LoZANG DRAK PAI ZHAB LA SOL WA DEB (3x, 21x, 108x or more)
You are Avalokiteshvara, great treasure of compassion not aimed at dualistic existence,
And Manjushri, master of flawless wisdom,
As well as Vajrapani, destroyer of all the demons without exception.
0 Tsongkhapa, crown jewel of the sages of the Land of Snows,
Lozang Drakpa, I make request at your feet.
May the wisdom which follows learning, thinking
and meditating increase,
And may the wisdom of teaching, debating
and composing increase.
May I achieve ordinary and extraordinary accomplishments.
Bless me to quickly become like you.
May the simultaneously born great bliss shine immediately
And the delusion shadow of inherent existence be cleared.
Cut the net of doubts of the true nature of mind.
Bless me to quickly become like you.
O glorious and precious root Guru, come take your
Lotus and Moon seat placed here on my head
And keep me safe in your great kindness.
Bestow on me please the powerful attainments of your body, speech and mind.
O glorious and precious root Guru, come take your
Lotus and Moon seat placed here at my heart
And keep me safe in your great kindness.
Help me to achieve ordinary and extraordinary accomplishments.
O glorious and precious root Guru, come take your
Lotus and Moon seat placed here at my heart
And keep me safe in your great kindness.
Remain steadfast until I achieve Buddhahood.
