24/06/2026
🪷 Happy Guru Rinpoche Day 🪷
On this sacred anniversary of the birth of Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava, we pay homage to the Lotus-Born Master who tamed negative forces, transformed obstacles into wisdom, and illuminated the path to liberation for countless beings.
Born miraculously from a lotus in the land of Oddiyana, Guru Rinpoche manifested in this world to benefit sentient beings and establish the Dharma during times of darkness and uncertainty. Through his boundless compassion, profound wisdom, and fearless activity, he subdued obstacles and revealed the path to enlightenment.
Today, as we honor his birth, may his blessings protect all beings, bring peace to troubled hearts, harmony among nations, and healing to our precious Earth. May we cultivate wisdom, compassion, courage, and unwavering faith for the benefit of all sentient beings.
The Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche
༄༅། །གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཚིག་བདུན་གསོལ་འདེབས་བཞུགས་སོ། །
The Seven Line Prayer
ཧཱུྂ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔
hung orgyen yul gyi nubjang tsam
Hūṃ! In the north-west of the land of Oḍḍiyāṇa,
པདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔
pema gesar dongpo la
In the heart of a lotus flower,
ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས༔
yatsen chok gi ngödrub nyé
Endowed with the most marvellous attainments,
པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གྲགས༔
pema jungné shyé su drak
You are renowned as the ‘Lotus-born’,
འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔
khor du khandro mangpö kor
Surrounded by many hosts of ḍākinīs.
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྱི༔
khyé kyi jesu dak drub kyi
Following in your footsteps,
བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔
jingyi lab chir shek su sol
I pray to you: Come, inspire me with your blessing!
གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྂ༔
guru pema siddhi hung
The Vajra Guru Mantra
OM AH HUNG BENZA GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG
May the blessings of Guru Rinpoche dispel all obstacles, pacify suffering, and awaken wisdom in every heart.
May all beings be free from suffering.
May the Dharma flourish.
May peace and compassion prevail throughout the world.
Tashi Delek!