Trulshik Rinpoche Series

• Advice for Tenzin Jamchen | Advice

This short instruction on relative and absolute bodhicitta was composed at the request of the English monk Tenzin Jamchen (Sean Price).

• Advice in Four Lines | Advice

These four lines of advice that encapsulate the entire path were requested by Tulku Pema Wangyal Rinpoche on behalf of his students.

• A Prayer for Translators | Aspiration Prayers

Composed in Lerab Ling, France in 2005 at the request of several translators, led by Tenzin Jamchen (Sean Price) and Chökyi Nyima (Richard Barron), this is a prayer of aspiration to be recited by modern-day lotsāwas.

• A Prayer for the Spread of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s Termas | Aspiration Prayers

A four-line aspiration prayer for the spread of the terma revelations of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991), composed at the request of Lama Jigme of Khawalung Monastery.

• Prayer of the View, Meditation and Conduct | Aspiration Prayers

Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche composed this short prayer for the realisation of the ultimate view, meditation and conduct at the request of a devoted student by the name of Changchub Chökyi Drolma.

• The Quintessential Blessing: A Guru Yoga | Guru Yoga

Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche composed this simple guru yoga, which focuses upon himself, at the request of Khachö Tsering Palmo while he was bestowing the Nyingma Kama transmissions at Shechen Monastery in Nepal.

• Long Life Prayer for Alak Zenkar Rinpoche | Long Life Prayers

Kyabje Rinpoche composed this short prayer for the long life of Alak Zenkar Rinpoche at the request of the Rigpa saṅgha in December 2005.

• Long Life Prayer for Lodi Gyari Rinpoche | Long Life Prayers

Trulshilk Rinpoche wrote this prayer for the longevity of Lodi Gyari Rinpoche in December 2005 in France, at the request of Sogyal Rinpoche and the Rigpa saṅgha.

• Long Life Prayer for Mayum Tsering Wangmo | Long Life Prayers

This long-life prayer for Mayum Tsering Wangmo of the Lakar family, who is renowned as an emanation of Uṣṇīṣavijayā, was composed in France in 2003.

• Prayer for the Long Life of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche | Long Life Prayers

A four-line prayer for the longevity of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche (b. 1951), who is the seventh in the line of Gar Drupchen incarnations.

• Prayer for the Long Life of Dilgo Khyentsé II of Shechen, Urgyen Tenzin Jigme Lhundrup | Long Life Prayers

Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche wrote this prayer for the longevity of Urgyen Tenzin Jigme Lhundrup (b. 1993), the incarnation of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991), at the sacred Māratika cave in Nepal on Friday, 29 December 1995.

• Prayer for the Long Life of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama | Long Life Prayers

This five-line prayer is constructed around the syllables of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's full name: Jetsün Jampal Ngawang Lobzang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso.

• Prayer for the Long Life of Sogyal Rinpoche—chimé kunnyé | Long Life Prayers

This prayer for the long life of Sogyal Rinpoche was composed in 1995 in Māratika Cave, Nepal. At that time, Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche had completed a retreat focused on longevity and gave a long-life empowerment to Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche and Sogyal Rinpoche.

• Prayer for the Long Life of Sogyal Rinpoche—sönam jewé | Long Life Prayers

Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche wrote this four-line prayer for the longevity of Sogyal Rinpoche in September 1999.

• Prayer for the Long Life of Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche | Long Life Prayers

This longevity supplication, written in 2000, incorporates the syllables of Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche's full name: Shedrup Trinlé Nyinjé Pal Zangpo.

• The Attainment of Immortality | Long Life Prayers

This extensive prayer for Sogyal Rinpoche's longevity, entitled The Attainment of Immortality ('chi med grub pa), was written at Kyabje Rinpoche's monastery of Tupten Chöling in Nepal in 2005.

• A Homage to His Holiness the Dalai Lama | Praise

Written to coincide with Holiness the Dalai Lama's visit to Lerab Gar in France in 2000, this short text pays tribute to His Holiness's qualities and achievements in this and previous lifetimes.

• Verses of Homage | Praise

These verses of praise were written as a prologue to His Holiness the Dalai Lama's book The Vision of Enlightenment, published in 2006.

• Verses of Homage to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Together with their Mantras | Praise

Trulshik Rinpoche compiled these brief verses of praise and mantras so that all those connected with him could recite them daily or on special occasions. The deities included are Buddha Śākyamuni, Vajrasattva, Amitāyus, Amitābha, Ratnaśikhin, Medicine Buddha, Maitreya, Avalokiteśvara, Mañjuśrī, Vajravidāraṇa, Vijayā, Tārā, Guru Padmasambhava, and the union of Hayagrīva, Vajrapāṇi and Garuḍa.

• A Record of the Successive Incarnations | Prayers

Written in verse, this is a list of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche's previous incarnations and a prayer to receive their inspiration and blessing.

• Gateway for the Faithful: A Supplication Recalling the Lives and Liberation of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö | Prayers

A supplication prayer that recalls Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche's thirty previous incarnations and their major accomplishments, as well as the master's own life and future emanations.

• A Brief Daily Practice of Damdrip Nyepa Kunsel | Ucchuṣma

The basic practice of Damdrip Nyepa Kunsel (which derives from the revelations of Trengpo Sherab Özer) based on the deity Ucchuṣma, with added preliminary and concluding sections.

• Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche by Fourteenth Dalai Lama | Swift Rebirth Prayers

His Holiness composed this prayer for the swift rebirth of his teacher Trulshik Rinpoche Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö (1924–2011) in an airport in Argentina in 2011, shortly after the master's parinirvāṇa.