Lama Je Tsong Khapa: Prayer for the Flourishing of Je Tsong Khapa’s Teachings

Though he’s the father, producer of all conquerors,
As a conqueror’s son, he produced the thought of upholding
The conqueror’s Dharma in infinite worlds. Through this truth
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!
When of yore before [Buddha] Indraketu
He made his vow, the conqueror and his offspring
Praised his powerful courage. Through this truth
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!
That the lineage of pure view and conduct might spread,
He offered a white crystal rosary to the Sage,
Who gave him a conch and prophesied. Through this truth
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!
His pure view free of eternity or destruction;
His pure meditation cleansed of dark fading and fog;
His pure conduct practiced according to conquerors’ orders:
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!
Learned, since he extensively sought out learning;
Reverend, rightly applying it to himself;1
Good, dedicating all for beings and doctrine:
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!

Through being sure that all scriptures, definitive and
Interpretative, were, without contradiction,
Advice for one person’s practice, he stopped all misconduct:
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!
Listening to explanations of the three pitakas,
Realized teachings, practice of the three trainings –
His skilled and accomplished life story is amazing.
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!
Outwardly calmed and subdued by the hearer’s conduct,
Inwardly trusting in the two stages’ practice,
He allied without clash the good paths of sutra and tantra:
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!
Combining voidness, explained as the causal vehicle,
With great bliss, achieved by method, the effect vehicle,
Heart essence of eighty thousand Dharma bundles –
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!
By the power of the ocean of oath-bound doctrine protectors,
Like the main guardians of the three beings’ paths –
The quick-acting lord, 2 Vaishravana, Karma-yama –
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!
In short, by the lasting of glorious gurus’ lives,
By the earth being full of good, learned, reverend holders
Of the teaching, and by the increase of power of its patrons,
May the conqueror Losang’s teachings flourish!

Notes:
1. Literally, “…since he rightly applied the meaning of what he heard to
[his own] continuum…”
2. Mahakala.
Colophon:

Gyäl wa ma lü kye päi yab gyur kyang
Gyäl sä tshül gyi zhing kham rab jam su
Gyäl wäi chhö dzin thug kye den päi thü
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
Ngön tshe wang pöi tog gi chän nga ru
Dam chä tshe na nying tob chhen po zhe
Sä chä gyäl wä ngag jö den päi thü
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
Ta chö tsang mäi gyü pa pel wäi chhir
Thub päi drung du shel kar threng wa phül
Chhö dung nang zhing lung tän den päi thü
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
Ta wa nam dag tag chhä tha lä dröl
Gom pa nam dag jing mug mün pa sang
Chö pa nam dag gyäl wäi ka zhin drub
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
Mang du thö pa gya chher tsäl wä khä
Thö dön ji zhin gyü la jar wä tsün
Kün kyang tän dröi dön du ngo wä zang
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
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6 Prayer for the Flourishing of Je Tsong Khapa’s Teachings
Lama Tsong Khapa in tantric aspect on a tiger
Drawing by Andy Weber
4 Prayer for the Flourishing of Je Tsong Khapa’s Teachings

Drang nge sung rab ma lü gäl me du
Gang zag chig gi nyam len dam pa ru
Nge pa nye pä nye chö tha dag gag
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
Lung chhö de nö sum gyi chhä nyän dang
Tog päi tän pa lab sum nyam len te
Khä shing drub päi nam thar mä du jung
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
Chhi ru nyän thö chö pä zhi zhing dül
Nang du rim nyi näl jor deng dang dän
Do ngag lam zang gäl me drog su khyer
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
Gyu yi theg par shä päi tong pa nyi
Drä büi thab kyi drub päi de chhen dang
Nyam jor chhö phung gyä thrii nying pöi chü
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
Kye bu sum gyi lam gyi sung mäi tso
Nyur dzä gön dang nam sä lä shin sog
Tän sung dam chän gya tsöi thu tob kyi
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig
Dor na päl dän la mäi ku tshe tän
Khä tsün tän dzin dam pä sa teng gang
Tän päi jin dag nga thang dar wa yi
Lo zang gyäl wäi tän pa gyä gyur chig

Translated by Martin Willson, Nalanda Monastery, August 1985. Taken from Rites and Prayers,
Wisdom Publications, London, 1985.
Lightly edited, FPMT Education Department, June 1999.

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Secondary Compilation Source: The Seeker’s Glossary of Buddhism, 2nd ed., San Francisco, California: Sutra Translation Committee of the United States and Canada, 1998: www.budaedu.org.tw

Secondary Compilation Source: Muller, Charles, editor, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism [DDB], Toyo Gakuen University, Japan, 2007: Username is "guest", with no password.
http://buddhism-dict.net/ddb - Based in large part on the Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms with Sanskrit and English Equivalents (by Soothill and Hodous) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, 1997.

Secondary Compilation Source: Ehrhard, Diener, Fischer, et al, The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen, Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, 1991. 296 pages. ISBN 978-0-87773-520-5 www.Shambhala.com, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0877735204/ref=ase_medicinebuddh-20,
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Updated May 10, 2008

Prayer for the Flourishing of Je Tsong Khapa’s Teachings
Lo-sang gyäl-tän-ma

by Gung-tang Tän-päi Drön-me

Prayer for the Flourishing of Je Tsong Khapa’s Teachings Lo-sang gyäl-tän-ma

by Gung-tang Tän-päi Drön-me

Prayer for the Flourishing of Je Tsong Khapa’s Teachings
Lo-sang gyäl-tän-ma