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Chod Dudjom

Chod sadhana

Mantra Chanting

A teaching of the Dharma chanted in Pali, the Dhammapalam Gatha translates as ‘verses that protect the truth’. Set to music, this is a piece that beautifully evokes the heart of the Buddha’s teachings.

Bodhivajra recorded this chant; listen for enjoyment, or listen to learn the words (reproduced below).

Dhammapalam Gatha
Verses that Protect the Truth 

Verses in Pali

Sabbapapassa akaranam
Kusalassa upasampada
Sacittapariyodapanam
Etam Buddhanam sasanam.

Dhammam care sucaritam
Na nam duccaritam care.
Dhammacari sukham seti
Asmim loke paramhi ca.

Na tavata dhammadharo
Yavata bahu bhasati.
Yo ca appam pi sutvana
Dhammam kayena passati,
Sa ve dhammadharo hoti
Yo Dhammam nappamajati.

N’atthi me saranam annam
Buddho me saranam varam
Etena saccavajjena
Hotu me jayamangalam

N’atthi me saranam annam
Dhammo me saranam varam
Etena saccavajjena
Hotu me jayamangalam.

N’atthi me saranam annam
Sangho me saranam varam
Etena saccavajjena
Hotu me jayamangalam.

Namo Buddhaya
Namo Dhammaya
Namo Sanghaya

Sadhu sadhu sadhu

English translation

Not to do evil
To cultivate the good
To purify the mind
This is the Teaching of the Buddhas.

Lead a righteous life
Not one that is corrupt.
The righteous live happily
Both in this world and the next.

He is not versed in Dhamma who
Merely speaks much. He who
hears but a little (of the teaching) but
sees the Truth and observes it well
indeed he is truly called
‘one versed in Dhamma’.

No other refuge than the Wake
Refuge supreme is there for me.
Oh by the virtue of this truth
May grace abound and victory!

No other refuge than the Truth
Refuge supreme is there for me.
Oh by the virtue of this truth
May grace abound and victory!

No refuge but the Fellowship
Refuge supreme is there for me.
Oh by the virtue of this truth
May grace abound and victory!

Hommage to the Buddha!
Hommage to the Dhamma!
Hommage to the Sangha!

Dhammapalam Gatha

Sound-clip taken from the Tröma Nagmo Concise Sadhana with Sangye Khandro of Light of Berotsana.

This short and hauntingly beautiful ganachakra practice was compiled by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. On this audio CD, the melodies are chanted and the instruments are played by Sangye Khandro. 

The CD is available at www.berotsana.org

Troma Nagmo Concise Sadhana: Refuge And Bodhicitta sound-clip

Liberation Upon Hearing chanted by 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche

Liberation Upon Hearing mantra (聽即解脫咒)

བླ་མ་མཁྱེན།
ཆབ་བྲག་ཕོ་ཉ།
		
དཀོན་མཆོག་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་རྒྱལ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་མཁྱེན། རང་དབང་མེད། ཆོས་དད་རང་དབང་མེད། སྨྲ་བརྗོད་རང་དབང་མེད། བླ་མ་ལགས། ཐུགས་རྗེས་གཟིགས།
		དཀོན་མཆོག་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་རྒྱལ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་མཁྱེན། འདྲ་མཉམ་མེད། ཐོབ་ཐང་འདྲ་མཉམ་མེད། མི་རིགས་འདྲ་མཉམ་མེད། བླ་མ་ལགས། ཐུགས་རྗེས་གཟིགས།
		དཀོན་མཆོག་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་རྒྱལ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་མཁྱེན། སྡུག་བསྔལ་མང། ལུས་ལ་གཅར་རྡུང་མང། སེམས་ལ་རྨ་ཁ་མང། བླ་མ་ལགས། ཐུགས་རྗེས་གཟིགས།
		དཀོན་མཆོག་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་རྒྱལ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་མཁྱེན། ངོ་རྒོལ་བྱེད། འཚེ་མེད་ངོ་རྒོལ་བྱེད། རང་སྲོག་མཆོད་པ་འབུལ། བླ་མ་ལགས། ཐུགས་རྗེས་གཟིགས།
		དཀོན་མཆོག་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་མཁྱེན། བླ་མ་རྒྱལ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་མཁྱེན། མཇལ་ན་འདོད། གཞིས་བྱེས་མཉམ་འཛོམས་འདོད། རང་ཁྱིམ་མཉམ་སྐྱོང་འདོད། བླ་མ་ལགས། ཐུགས་རྗེས་གཟིགས། བླ་མ་ལགས། ཐུགས་རྗེས་གཟིགས། ཐུགས་རྗེས་གཟིགས།
		༢༠༡༡།༡༡།༣ལ།
My Lama
 
Think of me the precious one, my lama, O Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso
Denied freedom, deprived religious rights, without freedom of speech,
O lama, look upon me with kindness!
Think of me the precious one, my lama, O Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso
No equality, refused equal rights, discriminated against,
O lama, look upon me with kindness!
Think of me the precious one, my lama, O Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso
Too much suffering, physical tortures, psychological hurts,
O lama, look upon me with kindness!
Think of me the precious one, my lama, O Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso
Resistance, non-violent resistance, I offer my body on fire,
O lama, look upon me with kindness!
Think of me the precious one, my lama, O Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso
Want to meet, meet of all Tibetans, want to rule my own country,
O lama, look upon me with kindness!
Look upon me with compassion!
Look upon me with empathy!!
Translated by Buchung D. Sonam

Transliteration
Kun cho khen, lama khen
Lama Gyawa Tenzin Gyatso

བླ་མ་མཁྱེན། My Lama

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