Offering Series

• Teaching on the Offering of Flowers by Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima

This unusual text, which the author playfully suggests was requested by a bouquet of flowers, discusses the qualities and benefits of floral offerings. The translation is by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche and Philip Richman.

• Töpa Gyatsoma Offering Prayer by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen

It is said that Chögyal Pakpa composed these famous verses of inner offering known as Töpa Gyatsoma (thos pa rgya mtsho ma) following a vision of Sakya Paṇḍita.

• The Wish-Granting King of Jewels: An Essential Garland of Offerings by Mipham Rinpoche

This poetic offering is one of a series of related 'offering garland' (mchod phreng) texts that Mipham composed, all with titles based on the fabled cintāmaṇi, or wish-granting gem.

• Great Clouds of First-Portion Offerings for Prosperity by Mipham Rinpoche

This brief 'first-portion' offering (phud mchod) to Gesar and his retinue for the sake of prosperity, which Mipham composed in 1872, is said to bring about "the four treasures of longevity, glory, wealth and prosperity," and fulfilment of all wishes and requirements.

• Brief Red Sur Offering by Dudjom Rinpoche

A short practice for presenting red sur (dmar gsur) or burnt offerings for those who crave flesh and blood, including the various types of spirit and demon who obstruct virtuous practice.

• Brief Sur Offering by Dudjom Rinpoche

A simple practice of sur (gsur) offering to the four types of guest: those invited out of respect, those invited on account of their qualities, those invited out of compassion, and those to whom we owe karmic debts.

• A Means of Offering Sur to the Damsi, Gyalgong and Others by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

A very short practice of giving sur (burnt offerings) to potentially harmful spirits, who have arisen through the conceit of self-grasping, and compelling them to depart.

• Freedom from All Adversity: A Sur Offering to Harmful Influences, Obstacle-Makers and Elemental Spirits by Mipham Rinpoche

A popular sur text, for dedicating burnt offerings to spirits and obstacle-makers in order to eliminate adversity, which Mipham composed following a dream.

• The Verse for Offering Water from the Pure Vision, An Ocean of Accomplishments by Dudjom Lingpa

The single verse to be recited when offering bowls of water was spoken by the ḍākinī Sukhāsiddhī to the treasure-revealer Dudjom Lingpa during a dream.

• Light Offering Prayers

• Maṇḍala Offering

• Sang Offering

• Seven Branches Series

• Tsok Series