General Offering to Local Deities

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English | བོད་ཡིག

Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

Machen Pomra

༄༅། །གཞི་བདག་སྤྱིའི་གསོལ་མཆོད།

General Offering to Local Deities1

by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

 

ཀྱཻ།

kyé

Kyai!

ཡུལ་སྐྱོང་གཞི་བདག་ཆེ་གེ་འཁོར་བཅས་ལ།  །

yulkyong zhidak ché gé khor ché la

So-and-so,2 protector of the locality, master of the land, together with your retinue,

བསང་དང་གསེར་སྐྱེམས་མཆོད་པ་འདི་འབུལ་བས།  །

sang dang serkyem chöpa di bulwé

Through presenting to you these offerings of incense-smoke and golden drink,

ཡུལ་རིས་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་མཐའ་དག་བསྲུང་བ་དང་།  །

yul ri gyalkham tadak sungwa dang

Carry out your activity of guarding all regions and domains within this territory,

ལོ་ཕྱུགས་རྟག་ཏུ་ལེགས་པའི་ཕྲིན་ལས་མཛོད།  །

lo chuk taktu lekpé trinlé dzö

And ensuring that livestock always prosper and harvests are forever bountiful!

 

༧ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་པས་སོ།།  །།

By Chökyi Lodrö.

 

| Translated by Adam Pearcey with the generous support of the Khyentse Foundation and Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2023.

 

Source: 'Jam dbyangs chos kyi blo gros. 'jam dbyangs chos kyi blo gros kyi gsung 'bum. 12 vols. Bir: Khyentse Labrang, 2012. (W1KG12986). Vol. 11: 451

 

Version: 1.0-20230213

  1. The original is untitled; this title has been added by the translator.
  2. The name of the particular deity may be inserted at this point.

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