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22/04/2026

༄༅། །གེ་སར་རྒྱལ་པོའི་གསོལ་མཆོད་བསམ་དོན་མྱུར་འགྲུབ་བཞུགས།
The Swift Fulfilment of Wishes

A Brief Offering Prayer to King Gesar

by Mipham Rinpoche


གེ་སར་རྒྱལ་པོའི་གསོལ་མཆོད་བསམ་དོན་མྱུར་འགྲུབ་ནི།
The offering prayer to King Gesar that swiftly fulfils wishes is as follows:

ཧཱུྂ། དབྱིངས་ནས་ཐུགས་རྗེས་མ་གཡེལ་སེང་ཆེན་རྗེ། །
hung, ying né tukjé mayel sengchen jé
Hūṃ! From out of all-pervading space, your compassion unwavering, the Great Lion, Lord Gesar,

རྩ་གསུམ་ཀུན་འདུས་ནོར་བུ་དགྲ་འདུལ་རྩལ། །
tsa sum kündü norbu dradul tsal
You who embody all gurus, devas and ḍākinīs: Jewel Who Subdues Foes,

ཆོས་སྐྱོང་དགྲ་ལྷ་ཝེར་མའི་འཁོར་དང་བཅས། །
chökyong dralha wermé khor dangché
Together with your assembly of protectors, dralas and wermas,

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཐུགས་དམ་དབང་གིས་འདིར་གཤེགས་ལ། །
tukjé tukdam wang gi dir shek la
Through the force of your compassionate pledge, come now,

དམ་རྫས་བདུད་རྩི་གཏོར་མའི་མཆོད་པ་བཞེས། །
damdzé dütsi tormé chöpa zhé
And accept these offerings of samaya substances, amṛta and torma;

སྒྲུབ་པའི་རྟགས་མཚན་དངོས་སུ་བསྟན་པ་དང༌། །
drubpé taktsen ngö su tenpa dang
Show us real signs of accomplishment,

རེ་བའི་འབྲས་བུ་ཡིད་བཞིན་འགྲུབ་པར་མཛོད། །
rewé drebu yizhin drubpar dzö
And fulfil all our hopes and aspirations.

མཆོག་དང་ཐུན་མོང་དངོས་གྲུབ་སྩལ་དུ་གསོལ། །
chok dang tünmong ngödrub tsal du sol
Grant us supreme and ordinary siddhis, we pray!

ཨོཾ་མ་ཧཱ་སིང་ཧ་མ་ཎི་རཱ་ཛཱ་ས་པ་རི་ཝཱ་ར་ཨི་དཾ་བ་ལིངྟ་ཁཱ་ཧི། །
om maha singha mani radza saparivara idam balingta khahi
oṃ mahāsiṃha maṇirāja saparivāra idam baliṃ te khāhi



འདི་ནི་ཤིང་སྤྲེལ་དགུ་པའི་སྐོར་ཞིག་ཏུ་བྲིས། འདི་བཞིན་ནན་ཏན་བཅོལ་ཞིང་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་ན་མི་འགྲུབ་པ་གང་ཡང་མེད། བྱིན་རླབས་ཕྲིན་ལས་ཤིན་ཏུ་མྱུར་ཞིང་ཚན་ཆེའོ། །མངྒ་ལཾ། །
This was composed during the ninth month of the Wood Monkey year (1884). There is nothing that cannot be accomplished by praying assiduously in this way. Blessings and accomplishment will follow thick and fast! Maṅgalam.


| Rigpa Translations

Link and free download here at Lotsawa House:
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/mipham/brief-offering-prayer-to-king-gesar

Painting: King Gesar of Ling, art by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa

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22/04/2026

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The Dharani of The Essence of Dependent Arising

According to Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, when we recite a mantra or dharani for ourselves, the benefit will not be as great as if we recite it for the benefit of another person. However, if our recitation is for the benefit of someone who themselves has the power to benefit many more people – someone such as His Holiness Karmapa who has been predicted to perform the activities of all the Buddhas – then the blessing or benefit for all will be even further multiplied.

OM YE DHARMA HETU-PRABHAVA HETUM TESHAM TATHAGATO HYAVADAT TESHAM CHA YO NIRODHA EVAM VADI MAHASHRAMANAH SVAHA

ये धर्मा हेतु प्रभवा हेतुं
तेषां तथागतः ह्यवदत्
तेषां च यो निरोध
एवं वादी महाश्रमण

ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་རྒྱུ་ལས་བྱུང་། །
དེ་རྒྱུ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པས་གསུངས། །
རྒྱུ་ལ་འགོག་པ་གང་ཡིན་པ། །
དགེ་སྦྱོང་ཆེན་པོས་འདི་སྐད་གསུངས། །

ཨོཾ་ཡེ་དྷརྨཱ་ཧེ་ཏུ་པྲ་བྷ་བཱ་ཧེ་ཏུནྟེ་ཥཱཉྟ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏོ་ཧྱ་བ་དཏ། ཏེ་ཥཱཉྩ་ཡོ་ནི་རོ་དྷ་ཨེ་ཝཾ་བཱ་དཱི་མ་ཧཱ་ཤྲ་མ་ཎཿསྭཱ་ཧཱ:

All dharmas originate from causes.
The Tathagata has taught these causes,
And also that which puts a stop to these causes—
This too has been taught by the Great Shramana.

Listen to the Essence of Dependent Origination dharani chanted by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche here:
https://bodhicharya.org/wp-content/uploads//2016/01/YeDharma_dharani_RTR.mp3

More here:
https://karmapafoundation.eu/prayers/the-dharani-of-the-essence-of-dependent-arising/

Photo: His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Bodhicharya Berlin, Germany, September 2015. Photo by Filip Wolak

22/04/2026

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18/04/2026

Long Life Prayer for Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

རི་འགུལ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུའི་ཞབས་བརྟན།
འོད་གསལ་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཞི་བའི་རང་བཞིན་ལས།།
འཕོ་འགྱུར་བྲལ་བ་སྒྱུ་མ་ལྟ་བུའི་སྐུ།།
ནམ་ཡང་བགྲེས་རྒུད་མཚན་མ་མི་བཞེས་པར།།
འཆི་མེད་ཚེ་ལྷའི་ངོ་བོར་འཚོ་བཞེས་གསོལ།།
ཀརྨ་པ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཕྲིན་ལས་པས།
༢༠༠༩་༡་༡༧

Osel shintu shiwai rangshinley
phogyur dralwa juma tabu ku
namyang dregu tsenma mishey par
chime tse-lhay ngowor tsoshe sol

Unchanging illusion-like appearance
Manifesting from the luminosity of perfect natural harmony
Always unmarked by the signs of ageing and decline
May you remain in the essence of the deity of immortality

Composed by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley, 2009.1.17

Translated by Ngodup Burkhar

18/04/2026

Expanding Our Global Library🌍: New Translated Editions Now Available

We are very excited to announce a significant expansion of Ringu Tulku’s library at Bodhicharya Publications.

To help make these teachings more accessible to our global community, many of our books have now been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Norwegian.
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This is just the beginning of our current expansion; we also have six additional French and German editions currently in progress and nearing completion.

You can browse the full list of available translations and find links to purchase them here:

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How to Purchase

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Centres (or individuals) can contact us directly to place larger orders of 10 books or more to qualify for a 35% discount:

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A Note of Gratitude

This project would not be possible without the incredible dedication of our volunteer translation teams. We want to extend our deepest thanks to our diligent translators for their hard work in bringing these books to life:

Marie-Pierre Douchet, Betty Krebs, Nils Andreas Erstad, Denis Mangin, Pat Little, Marie N***e, Maria José Cunha, Betty Lamenca, Tsering Paldron and our new translators (Kristina Heitkamp, Kati Yahoual, and Uwe Schneider) who are currently working on upcoming translations.

We also want to thank all the behind-the-scenes proofreaders that helped bring these books into being. Thanks also to Paul O’Connor for project managing all the translations, typesetting the books and managing the production and distribution channels. Your service helps ensure these precious teachings can reach hearts and minds all over the world.

18/04/2026

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Live Webcasts: Long Life Offering Ceremony
www.dalailama.com/live

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will attend a Long Life Prayer offered to him by Dhasa Dhotoe Welfare Society and Lodrik Welfare Association at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, HP, India on April 22, 2026.

Webcasts also available in Tibetan, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Italian, Japanese, and Mongolian.

All times Indian Standard Time (IST=GMT+5:30)

April 22nd - Long Life Prayer
Time: 8:30am - 10:00am IST
www.dalailama.com/live

For times in your area 8:30am IST on April 22nd in Dharamsala, India is the same as 4:00am BST on April 22nd in London, UK; and 8:00pm PDT on April 21st in Los Angeles, California, USA. Other times can be found using Time Zone Converter (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html).

17/04/2026

The Four Harmonious Friends 🙏🏻✨❤️

The Four Harmonious Friends

"Buddha said harmony is very important and the main blessing of the sangha is the harmony. So if people are in harmony then whatever they pray will be accomplished. Whatever they aspire can be easily accomplished. And all the positive deeds they do will be multiplied by millions times. So the harmony is the most important positive element of a society. And then if you have harmony, even among a small group of people, that will create circumstances that there will be peace, there will be prosperity and there will be auspicious things happening in the whole country. So to illustrate that, he told a story... (the story of The Four Harmonious Friends)”—Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

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Listen to "The Four Harmonious Friends", a tale from the Jataka Stories (Jataka, Sanskrit for "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories", the past lives of the Buddha), told by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche here:

- on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AJDTu6UknM

- on soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/soundsofthedharma/four-harmonious-friends

🎨🖌 ‘The Four Harmonious Friends’, art by Relax Petso

14/04/2026

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THE SEVEN LINE PRAYER TO GURU RINPOCHE

"[...] Guru Padmasambhava is supposed to be some kind of emanation of Avalokiteśvara and also of Amithaba, and he said, it is understood, that the time the world that we live in can go, can become more and more 'degenerated' - and 'degenerated' in this sense means that people's negative emotions become stronger, and more raw, and more kind of difficult to control - and when that happens, then it's very difficult to maintain peace, peace of the mind, peace in the society, peace in the world. So there will be lots of conflicts, lots of negative actions, atrocities, wars, different kind of problems, and it will be very difficult to change this situation, to change this kind of societies, because people have so strong negative emotions and habitual tendencies. And it is said that Guru Padmasambhava has been dedicating all his positive actions for like kalpas after kalpa with one focus, that when the people become more and more infected and strongly affected by negative emotions and negative habitual tendencies, generally the dharma becomes weak, the blessings of the enlightened beings become weak because we can not receive their influence, their positive influence ; so Guru Padmasambhava's dedications is, that when this happens, when people's negative forces becomes stronger, their negative emotions becomes more raw, and their addiction becomes stronger, that his power, his blessings, his kind of activities become even more stronger instead of reducing. So therefore, it is said that in the degenerate time, when everything is very violent and confuse, and lots of negativity you know, strong greed, strong jealousy, strong pride, strong ego, strong atrocities and strong negative deeds, then his power will become even stronger. So therefore, he is regarded as the guru, the teacher, the savior of the degenerate time. So therefore, it is often said that when the time is bad it's Guru Padmasambhava whose activity, whose blessing can be stronger and more effective."—Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

(Edited transcription from the teaching 'Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal', all mistakes are our own)

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༄༅། །བླ་མ་གསང་འདུས་ལས་གསུངས་པའི་ཁྱད་པར་བླ་སྒྲུབ་ཚིག་བདུན་གསོལ་འདེབས་བཞུགས།

Accomplishing the Lama through the Seven-Line Prayer
A Special Teaching from the Lama Sangdü
The terma revelation of Guru Chöwang


ཐུགས་དམ་ལྷ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ༔

Homage to the yidam deity!

ཕྱི་རབས་སྐལ་ལྡན་རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་བདག་ལ་སྐྱབས་འཚོལ་ན༔ དབེན་པའི་གནས་སུ་རང་འདུག་ནས༔ མི་རྟག་སྐྱོ་བ་སྐྱེ་བ་དང་༔ འཁོར་བས་སུན་པ་རབ་ཏུ་གཅེས༔

Fortunate men and women of the future, sons and daughters of an enlightened family, when you turn to me, the Guru of Orgyen, for refuge, take yourself to an isolated place, and make deep feelings arise of melancholy at impermanence, and disgust with saṃsāra—this is vital.

བློ་སྙིང་བྲང་གསུམ་ང་ལ་གཏོད༔ གཞན་ཡང་སྐྱབས་གྱུར་རེ་ས་རྣམས༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་བདག་ལ་རྫོགས་པར་སོམས༔ སྐྱིད་སྡུག་རེ་ལྟོས་ཁྱེད་ཤེས་ཀྱིས༔

Then rely on me completely, heart and soul. Reflect how every kind of refuge, all your hopes, are all fulfilled and complete within me, the Guru of Orgyen. Whether in happiness or in sorrow, have total trust and confidence in me.

མཆོད་བསྟོད་མི་འཚལ་རྒྱུ་གསོག་སྤོངས༔ ལུས་ངག་ཡིད་གསུམ་གུས་པ་ཡིས༔ ཚིག་བདུན་འདི་ཡིས་གསོལ་བ་ཐོབ༔

No need to make offerings or praise; set aside all accumulating; simply let devotion flood your body, speech and mind, and pray, pray with these seven lines:

ཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔

hung, orgyen yul gyi nubjang tsam

Hūṃ! In the north-west of the land of Oḍḍiyāna

པདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔

pema gesar dongpo la

In the heart of a lotus flower,

ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས༔

yatsen chok gi ngödrub nyé

Endowed with the most marvellous attainments,

པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གྲགས༔

pema jungné zhé su drak

You are renowned as the ‘Lotus-born’,

འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔

khor du khandro mangpö kor

Surrounded by many hosts of ḍākinīs.

ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྱི༔

khyé kyi jesu dak drub kyi

Following in your footsteps,

བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔

jingyi lab chir shek su sol

I pray to you: Come, inspire me with your blessing!

གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔

guru pema siddhi hung

guru padma siddhi hūṃ

ཞེས་པས་ཡང་ཡང་གསོལ་བ་ཐོབ༔

Pray in this way, over and over again.

གདུང་བ་དྲག་བསྐྱེད་མཆི་མ་ཕྱུང༔ དད་པས་ཁམས་འདུས་འབྱུང་སྲིད་ན༔ ཧག་གིས་ཐོབ་ལ་ས་ལེར་ཞོག༔ སང་ངེ་ཡེ་རེ་མ་ཡེངས་ལྟ༔

Create a feeling of yearning and longing so intense that tears spring from your eyes. If the rapture of devotion overwhelms you, breathe out strongly, and then leave everything as it is. Clear and awake, focused and undistracted, look within.

འདི་ལྟར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་པའི་བུར༔ ང་ཡིས་སྐྱོབ་པ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས༔ དུས་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་སུ་འགྱུར༔ དབང་ཆེན་རང་རིག་སེམས་ལ་ཐོབ༔ ཏིང་འཛིན་མཐུ་བརྟན་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱས༔

For children of mine who pray like this, it goes without saying that they will have my protection, for they will be the sons and daughters of the buddhas of past, present and future. They will receive complete empowerment into the awareness of their own enlightened mind. Their samādhi will be so powerful and stable, that wisdom will naturally blossom and expand.

བྱིན་རླབས་རང་བྱུང་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིས༔ རང་སྨིན་གཞན་སྤྱོད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་སེལ༔ རང་ཉིད་འགྱུར་ཚེ་གཞན་སྣང་རྣམས༔ དུས་མཉམ་འགྱུར་ཞིང་ཕྲིན་ལས་འགྲུབ༔ ཡོན་ཏན་ཐམས་ཅད་རང་ལ་རྫོགས༔

This great blessing, which arises of its own accord, will dispel all the suffering that will ripen on you, or be experienced by others. When your mind is transformed, others’ perceptions will simultaneously change, you will accomplish enlightened activity, and all noble qualities will be complete within you.

བདག་ཉིད་ཆེན་པོ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུར༔ སྨིན་ཅིང་གྲོལ་བའི་ཐབས་ཆེན་འདི༔ ཐུགས་ཀྱི་སྲས་དང་འཕྲད་པར་ཤོག༔

May the sons and daughters of my heart meet with this extraordinary skilful means, one which ripens and liberates into the dharmakāya realization of my enlightened being.

ཁྱད་པར་བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱི་སྒྲུབ་པ་ཚིག་བདུན་མའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཟབ་ཕྱིར་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཡང་གཏེར་གསང་བར་གདམས་པ༔ ཤེས་རབ་བློ་ལྡན་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཆེ༔ ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་དེ་དང་འཕྲད་པར་ཤོག༔ ཅེས་སོ།། །།

A practice with a uniquely powerful blessing, the Seven Line Prayer is exceptionally profound; so let this instruction be an extremely secret treasure of my enlightened mind. May it meet with one who possesses a mind of wisdom, and is endowed with great compassion, called Chökyi Wangchuk.

| Rigpa Translations, 2004

Text from Lotsawa House, free download here:
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/guru-chowang/seven-line-prayer

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14/04/2026

🙏🏻✨❤️Mahāmudrā, Pointing Out the Dharmakāya

A Manual of Instruction on the Union of Connate Mahāmudrā; The Torch that Illuminates the Heart Essence; The Innermost Nectar Essence.

ཕྱག་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྐུ་མཛུབ་ཚུགས།

By the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje
Translation: Gelong Sherab Drime

Mahāmudrā, Pointing Out the Dharmakāya
Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje

The present text, Mahāmudrā, Pointing out the Dharmakāya, by the ninth holder of the black vajra crown, Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje [1556-1603], is among the profoundest teachings which the practice lineage of the Karma Kamtsang has to offer. It is designed as a practice manual for practitioners to take on a secluded retreat to apply these instructions and gain hands-on experience through personal practice. This is a text that needs to be practised, not just studied or read casually.

https://dharmaebooks.org/mahamudra-pointing-out-the-dharmakaya/

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10/04/2026

Long Life prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, for His Holiness Karmapa, for Ringu Tulku Rinpoche and General Long Life prayer 🙏🏻✨❤️