Prayer to Tutob Lingpa
༄༅། །མཐུ་སྟོབས་གླིང་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།
A Short Prayer to Tutob Lingpa1
by Khenchen Ngawang Palzang
གསང་བདག་དཔའ་བོའི་དངོས་སྣང་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ །
sangdak pawö ngö nang heruka
O Heruka, you are the heroic Lord of Secrets2 appearing in person.
ཕུར་པ་མཆོག་གྲུབ་དགོངས་པའི་གདེང་ཚད་བརྙེས། །
purpa chok drub gongpé dengtsé nyé
Through the supreme accomplishment of Vajrakīlaya, you found absolute confidence in the enlightened perspective.
པདྨའི་རྗེས་བཟུང་ཟབ་མོ་གཏེར་གྱི་བདག །
pemé jezung zabmo ter gyi dak
O, lord of profound treasures who is cared for by Padmasambhava,
མཐུ་སྟོབས་གླིང་པས་བདག་རྒྱུད་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས།། །།
tutob lingpé dak gyü jingyi lob
Tutob Lingpa, please grace the stream of my being!
| Translated by Joseph McClellan, 2025
Source
ngag dbang dpal bzang. “gsol ʼdebs” In gsung ʼbum ngag dbang dpal bzang, p. 91. Khreng tuʼu, n.d. BDRC MW22946_2E3B92.
Version: 1.1-20260615
Notes
- The original prayer is untitled. This title has been added by the translator. Tutob Lingpa is known by many other names, including Nyoshul A-ngak Rinpoche (smyo shul a ngag rin po che), Tertön Orgyen Wangpo Jigdral Tutob Lingpa (gter ston o rgyan 'jigs bral mthu stobs gling pa), or Tutob Lingpa Ngawang Tenzin (mthu stobs gling pa ngag dbang bstan 'dzin), and Lama Ngakchen (bla ma ngag chen). He was a student of Nyala Perna Duddul (nyag bla pad+ma bdud 'dul), the Third Drimé Zhingkyong (dri med zhing skyong), and the Second Kathog Situ (kaH thog sit u). For his biography, see Nyoshul Khenpo, A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems (Junction City: Padma Publishing, 2005), pp. 511–513. ↑
- Vajrapāṇi ↑
