Prayer

Lama, think of me!

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

My kind, precious root Lama, essence of all Buddhas in one, to you I pray.

Bless my mindstream, I beseech you!

Grant your blessings that the essence of leisures and opportunities remain.

Grant your blessings that I remember death and impermanence.

Grant your blessings that trust in karma arises.

Grant your blessings that my attachment to samsara collapses.

Grant your blessings that I see my Lama as Buddha.

Grant your blessings that my mind blends with the Dharma.

Grant your blessings that I become free from attachment to this life.

Grant your blessings that I have no unfinished business in my mind at death. Grant your blessings that I have no extreme pain at death.

Grant your blessings that I be adept in the profound path of transference.

Grant your blessings that I be liberated in the intermediate state’s clear light.

Grant your blessings that I recognize the nature of phenomena (chos nyid).

Grant your blessings that delusion be liberated within itself.

Grant your blessings that I receive supreme assurance of rebirth in the pure lands.

Grant your blessings that I awaken to my true nature, awareness itself.

Grant your blessings that I accomplish the immortal vase body.

Grant your blessings for the spontaneous completion of the two goals!

I, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, wrote this in to a request by the faithful lady Dechen Tso. May this prove virtuous!

The Purification of Obscurations with the Vajrasattva Recitation and Meditation

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

At the Pema Osel Light Shrine Room, we begin all our practice sessions with The Praise to Lama Vajrasattva, the Lord of all the Buddha Families. So today, this post begins with sharing the link for this most auspicious prayer. Following this prayer, is a video of Lama Sonam Rinpoche from 2016 giving a Vajrasattva teaching with reference and resource materials for the Vajrasattva Section, The Purification of Obscurations, Vajrasattva Recitation and Meditation of the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Practice.

 Praise to Vajrasattva the Lord of all the Buddha Families
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Ngondro Teaching: Vajrasattva with Lama Sonam Rinpoche and translator, Cy Cassoff at the Pema Osel Ling Shrine Room, March 2016

English Translation of the Vajrasattva Mantra 

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OM (the supreme mantra, most excellent praise)
the tantric vowof Vajrasattva.
O Vajrasattva, grant me your protection.
Abide firmly in me.
Make me totally satisfied. Increase perfectly within me.
Please hold me with your compassion.
By your blessing, bestow the attainments on me.
Also, may I attain the power of all activities.
Make my mind virtuous.
HUNG (the essence of the wisdom heart)
HA HA HA HA
(represent the four boundless wishes of bodhicitta,
the four joys, the four empowerments, and the four kayas)
HO (is the exclamation of joy)
Victorious One who embodies all the Tathagatas,
may Vajrasattva never abandon me.
I pray, please make me a vajraholder.
O great precept deity.
AH (is to unite inseparably).
Translation by Dungse Tinley Norbu Rinpoche

Link to the Vajrayana Foundation Concise Ngondro
produced by Bero Jeydren Publications.
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Lama Sonam Rinpoche talks about malas.

Vajrasattva and mala links from the Dharma Treasures Bookstore
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Dudjom Incarnations

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

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Dudjom Incarnation Key: Compliments of Shambhala Publications

The Dudjom Incarnation Line is based on a prayer Dudjom Rinpoche wrote himself, which lists his previous incarnations. This prayer is called A Chariot of Devotion, A Supplication to the Lives and Liberation of the Great Nirmanakaya Treasure Revealer Heruka Dudjom Lingpa.

  • Yogi Nuden Dorje Chang
  • Shariputra
  • Saraha
  • Krishnadhara: chief minister of Indrabhuti of Uddiyana
  • Humkara
  • Khye’u Chung Lotsawa
  • Smritijnana
  • Rongdzom Pandita Chokyi Zangpo (1012-1088)
  • Dampa Deshek (1122-1192)
  • Palden Ling Je Repa
  • Sakya Trizin Chogyal Phakpa (1235-1280)
  • Drum Khar Nagpopa: 
  • Hewa Chojung: Khampa 
  • Traktung Dudul Dorje (1615-1672)
  • Katok Gyalse Sönam Deutsen (1679-1723)
  • Dudul Rolpa Tsal: yogin, teacher of Jikme Lingpa
  • Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1904)
  • Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987)

View and order Kumar Lama’s  Dudjom Refuge Tree
at the Vajrayana Foundation’s  Dharma Treasures Bookstore
located at the Pema Osel Ling Retreat Center
in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Heads up!  The Preliminary Practices of the Dudjom Tersar published by Bero Jeydren Publication includes both the Sater and Concise Ngondro with color photos that would support you in each stage of your Ngondro Practice. 

Bero Jeydren Publications was founded by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche to compile, translate and make available important texts of the Nyingma tradition with a particular emphasis on the New Treasures of Dudjom.