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A Prayer to Avert Nuclear War


by Chatral Rinpoche

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NAMO GURU RATNA TRAYAYA
To the teacher and the Three Jewels I bow.
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KAL ZANG ZHING GI NAM DREN SHAKYAI TOG
True leader of the golden age Crown of the Sakyas,
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SANGYE NYI PA ORGYEN TSHO KYE JE
Second Buddha, Prince of Oddiyana, Lake-Born Vajra,
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PHAG CHOG CHENREZIG DANG JAMPAL YANG
Bodhisattvas the eight closest spiritual heirs high
Nobles, Avalokiteshvara and Majushri,
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CHAG DOR LA SOG JANG SEM NYE SE GYE
Vajrapani and the rest,
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DRLMA NYER CHIG NE TEN PHAG PAI TSHOG
Twenty-one Taras, host of Noble Elders,
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TSA GY LAMA YIDAM ZHI THROI LHA
Root and lineage lamas, yidam deities, peaceful and
wrathful deities,
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NE SUM KHANDRO YESHE LE DRUB PAI
Dakinis in the three sacred places (the earth, the heavens
and the pure lands),
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CH SUNG CHOG KYONG PAL GN DN CHU SOG
You who through wisdom or karma have become
Defenders of the Doctrine, Guardians of the Directions,
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NGN SHE DZU THRL THU TOB NGA WA NAM
Seventy-five Glorious Protectors, you who are clairvoyant,
powerful, magical and mighty,
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TS DEN DRO LA ZIG SHING GONG SU SL
Behold and consider the beings of this age of turmoil!
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KAL DEN D THAI KYE DRO CHI THN GYI
We are beings born at the sorry end of time.
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LE NGEN DRE BUI TSHO CHEN DL WA LE
An ocean of ill effects overflows from our universally bad
actions.
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KAR CHOG YEL ZHING NAG CHOG D DE YI
The forces of light flicker. The forces of darkness, a
demon army,
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KHA DRAG WANG TSEN MI CHEN SEM TSA GUL
Inflames great and powerful men,
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DZAM LING PHUNG JE DL TSHN MAG THRUG
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And they rise in conflict, armed with nuclear weapons that
will disintegrate the earth.
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LOG MN THRL GYI TSHN CHAI THOR LUNG CHE
The weapon of perverse and errant intentions has
unleashed the hurricane.
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N CH THAL WAI DL DU KE CHIG LA
Soon, in an instant, it will reduce the world
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LAG PAR GYUR NYII TE NGEN JA MA TA
And all those in it to atoms of dust.
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NANG DRAG TOG PAI CH YL NGN GYUR KYANG
Through this ill-omened devils tool, it is easy to see, to
hear, and to think about.
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MA RIG KYE WO MONG DANG THE TSHOM GYAR
Ignorant people, caught in a net of confusion and doubt,
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RAB THUM DA DUNG DRE DU CHANG MA TSHOR
Are obstinate and still refuse to understand.
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TH DANG DREN MA TSAM GYI JIG KYE PAI
It terrifies us just to hear about or to recall
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NGAR MA JUNG WAI DZAM LING PHO GYUR DANG
This unprecedented thing. The world is filled with
uncertainty.
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DOG PAI THAB DANG RE SA ZHEN NI ME
But there is no means of stopping it, nor place of hope,
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LU ME KNCHOG TSA SUM KHYE NAM LA
Other than you, undeceiving Three Jewels and Three
Roots.
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KHYE- PHA MAR B DRAI ME NGAG KYI
If we cry to you like children calling their mother and father,

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SL DEB WO D B PA DI LAG NA
If we implore you with this prayer,
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KHYE NAM NGN GYI DAM CHA MA NYEL WAR
Do not falter in your ancient vows!
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LOG TAR NYUR WAI THUG JEI CHAG KONG LA
Stretch out the lightning hand of compassion!
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GN ME DRO DI SUNG KYOB JIG DRL DZ
Protect and shelter us defenseless beings and free us
from fear!
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DZAM LING KYE DROI DE KYI THROG JE PAI
When the mighty barbarians sit in council of war,
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TOB CHEN LA LO YL GYE DR SHAM TSHE
barbarians who rob the earth of pleasure and happiness,
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TSO WO NAM DANG DE YI KHA LO WA
barbarians who have wrong, rough, poisonous thoughts,
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MA RUNG DUG TSUB SAM NGEN CHANG WA NAM
Bend their chiefs and their lieutenants
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ZHI DE THN PAI CHOG SU GYUR DU SL
To the side of peace and happiness.
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GAL KYEN MAG THRUG RANG SAR ZHI WA DANG
Pacify on the spot the armed struggle that blocks us.
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D DEI DL TSHN DOG CHING ZHM PAR DZ
Turn away and defeat the atomic weapons of the demons
messengers,
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DE YI THU LE DZAM LING SA CHEN DIR
And by that power, make long the life of the righteous
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TENDZIN ZHAB TEN SHE DRUB CHOG KN DAR
And spread the theory and practice of the doctrine to the
four corners of this great world!
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TEN DROR TSHE JE MI DANG MI MIN GYI
Eliminate root, branch and leaf even the names
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NAG POI TSA LAG DER CHE MING TSAM TONG
Of those dark forces, human and non-human,
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JIGTEN KHAM SU ME LEG GYA CHEN P
Who harm others and the teaching,
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YONG KHYAB DE ZHII PAL LO LONG SU CH
Spread vast happiness and goodness over this fragile
planet.

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DZOG DEN D ZHIN THAB THRUG TSE ME PAR
Elevate it truly with the four kinds of glory, and as in the
golden age, with all strife gone,
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KN KYANG DE GAI GAR GYI DREL GYUR CHIG
Let us be busy only with the dance of pleasure,
the dance of joy!
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KYAB NE CHOG SUM GYATSHOI THUG JE DANG
We pray with pure thoughts by the compassion of that
ocean, the three supreme refuges,
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CH YING NAM KN CHOG DEN DEN TOB KYI
and the power of the Realm of Truth, the completely
sublime truth,
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DAG CHAG SAM PA DAG PAI SL TAB DN
Achieve the goal of this, our prayer,
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JI ZHIN RE MN YI ZHIN DRUB GYUR CHIG
Magically, just as we have hoped and dreamed!
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TAYATHA
PETSA DRIYA AHWA BODHANIYE SO HA


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Translated from the Tibetan by Richard Kohn and Lama Tsedrup
Tharchin