Namo Buddhaya!

Homage to Our Compassionate Teacher, Śākyamuni!

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Butter Lamp Offering

With this light offering, may the darkness of ignorance be dispelled.

May the luminous wisdom of great compassion arise in every realm, and may all beings swiftly attain awakening.

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Homage to Śākyamuni Buddha

Our Compassionate Teacher, Śākyamuni

from Verses of Homage to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas

by Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche

With your great compassion, you embraced this turbulent and degenerate world, and made five hundred mighty aspirations. You are as exalted as the white lotus; whoever hears your name shall never return to saṃsāra—most compassionate teacher, to you I pay homage!

Supreme teacher, bhagavān, tathāgata, arhat, complete and perfect buddha, glorious conqueror, Śākyamuni, to you I bow! To you I pay homage! To you I make offerings! In you I take refuge! Grant your blessings, I pray!

tadyathā oṃ mune mune mahāmunaye svāhā

Rigpa Translations, 2011, revised 2016.

Refuge and Bodhicitta

༄༅། །སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད།

Verses of Refuge and Bodhichitta

by Śākyaśrībhadra

dro nam dral dö sampa yi

Motivated by the wish to free all beings,

sangye chö dang gendün la

Continually, I shall take refuge

changchub nyingpor chi kyi bar

In the Buddha, Dharma and Saṅgha,

takpar dak ni kyab su chi

Till the essence of enlightenment is reached.

sherab nying tsé dang chepé

With wisdom and with heartfelt love,

tsönpé semchen döndu dak

Diligently, for the sake of sentient beings,

sangye dündu né gyi né

I shall place myself before the buddhas,

dzokpé changchub semkyé do

And generate the perfect mind of bodhicitta.

Composed by the great Kashmiri paṇḍita Śākyaśrībhadra.

Rigpa Translations. Revised 2012.

Please pair this recitation with prostrations—even seated prostrations are perfectly suitable.

Dedication of Merit

The Dedication of Merit

from the Jātakas

sönam di yi tamché zikpa nyi

Through this merit, may all beings attain the omniscient state of enlightenment,

tob né nyepé dra nam pamjé shing

And conquer the enemy of faults and delusion,

kyé ga na chi balong trukpa yi

May they all be liberated from this ocean of saṃsāra

sipé tso lé drowa drolwar shok

And from its pounding waves of birth, old age, sickness and death!

Taken from the Jātakas.

Rigpa Translations

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