Ani Choying Drolma - 01

Tenzing Tsewang and Daryl Chonka combining ancient Tibetan Chanting with some subtle new world sound scape.

OM AH HUNG BENZA GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG

This piece of art is an award winning song under the religion category at Taiwan music festival in 2001.  A brief description of this song is that a monk has left his Guru(master) and gone to a distant land.  He misses his Guru and expresses his urge in singing.
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《遙喚根本上師》是堪布貝瑪千貝仁波切榮獲第12屆台灣金曲獎作品，表達對上師的思念感恩彷如天國音聲

歌詞大約是有一天，我離開了上師，到了很遠的地方，這時憶念起上師的恩德，上師的功德，上師的慈悲，內心充滿著信心，唱誦起《遙喚根本上師的祈禱文》，“我心中具德的根本上師是貝諾法王。他是金剛薩垛、金剛手菩薩、貝瑪那密渣三者共同的化身，也是大圓滿瑜珈成就者。”

Rinpoche - To my Guru at far away / 堪布貝瑪千貝仁波切 - 遙喚根本上師

MANTRA - Om Benza Guru Padma Siddhi Hum
Om Ah Hum have no conceptual meaning.

Om is often regarded as being the primeval sound, and in fact the sound-symbol of reality itself. It represents the universal principle of enlightenment. You can read about Om in more detail on the page about the Om Shanti mantra.

Ah, in traditional explanations, is usually said to be connected with speech (more about that in a moment) but in Sanskrit “ah” is a verb meaning “to express , signify ; to call (by name).” So it suggests evoking, or calling forth, the manifestation of enlightenment.

Hum is often thought of as representing the manifestation of enlightenment in the individual human being. This may be a complete coincidence, but hum is similar to the first person singular “aham,” which means of course “I.”

Often these syllables are associated with body, speech, and mind respectively (i.e. the whole of one’s being). So there’s a suggestion that we are saluting the qualities that Padmasambhava represents with all of our hearts (and minds, and bodies).

Vajra means thunderbolt, and represents the energy of the enlightened mind. It can also mean diamond. The implication is that the diamond/thunderbolt can cut through anything. The diamond is the indestructible object, while the thunderbolt is the unstoppable force. The vajra also stands for compassion. While it may seem odd to have such a “masculine” object representing compassion, this makes sense in esoteric Buddhism because compassion is active, and therefore aligned with this masculine symbol. (The term “masculine” does not of course imply that compassion is limited to males!)

Guru, of course, means a wise teacher. It comes from a root word, garu, which means “weighty.” So you can think of the guru as one who is a weighty teacher. Padmasambhava is so highly regarded in Tibetan Buddhism that he is often referred to as the second Buddha.

PadmasambhavaPadma means lotus, calling to mind the purity of the enlightened mind, because the lotus flower, although growing in muddy water, is completely stainless. In the same way the enlightened mind is surrounded by the greed, hatred, and delusion that is found in the world, and yet remains untouched by it. The lotus therefore represents wisdom. Again, while westerners would tend to assume that the flower represents compassion, the receptive nature of the flower gives it a “feminine” status in esoteric Buddhism, and to the lotus is aligned with the “feminine” quality of wisdom. And once again, there is no implication that wisdom is in any way limited to those who are female. The words masculine and feminine here are used in a technical sense that’s completely unrelated to biology.

And Siddhi means accomplishment or supernatural powers, suggesting the way in which those who are enlightened can act wisely, but in ways that we can’t necessarily understand. Padmasambhava is a magical figure, and in his biography there are many miracles and tussles with supernatural beings.

MANTRA - Om Benza (Vajra)Guru Padma Siddhi Hum

I made this music arrangement of the "Song of Vajra" with the voice of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu at the retirement of Lima-Perú in 2013

Song of Vajra by Namkhai Norbu

WHEN I AM HAPPY, IT IS YOU WHOM I HONOR AND REVERE.
WHEN I SUFFER, IT IS YOU WHOM I CALL UPON FOR HELP.
YOU ARE MY SOURCE OF HOPE FOR THIS LIFE AND PROTECTION FOR THE NEXT-LORD
AVALOKITESVARA

ZHEGYEL STUDIO 77303078

CHENREZIG CHANT by CHAGZAMPA

Unborn, yet continuing without interruption, neither coming nor going, omnipresent,
Supreme Dharma, unchangeable space, without definition, spontaneously self-liberating 
- perfectly unobstructed state - existing from the very beginning, self-created, without location, with nothing negative to reject, and nothing positive to accept, infinite expansion, penetrating everywhere, immense, and without limits, without ties, with nothing even to dissolve, or to be liberated from
present beyond space and time, existing from the beginning, immense 'yin' (*), inner space, radiant through clarity like the sun and the moon, self-perfected,
indestructible like a Vajra, stable as a mountain, pure as a lotus, strong as a lion, incomparable pleasure beyond all limits, illumination, equanimity, peak of the Dharma, light of the universe, perfect from the beginning.

Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche- The Song of the Vajra

Changdud Tulku Rinpoche - The Vajra Guru Mantra Chant 05 Extended Version

Tibetan text by Thangtong Gyalpo.
English Translation by Shamar Rinpoche & Pamela Gayle White.
Music by Sanford Garner.
Vocals by Wendelin Wagner.
Arrangement by Jonathan Chapman Cook
Copyright: Bodhi Path Wisdom Foundation

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MANTRA - Om Benza (Vajra)Guru Padma Siddhi Hum

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