Words of Truth
A Prayer Composed by His Holiness Tenzin
Gyatso,
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet
Honoring and Invoking the Great Compassion
of the Three Jewels;
the Buddha, the Dharma (the Teachings),
and the Sangha (the Spiritual Community)
O Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and disciples of the past, present, and
future:
Having remarkable qualities
Immeasurably vast as the ocean,
Who regard all helpless sentient beings as your only child;
Please consider the truth of my anguished pleas.
Buddha's full teachings dispel the pain of worldly existence and
self-oriented peace;
May they flourish, spreading prosperity and happiness throughout
this spacious world.
O holders of the Dharma: scholars and realized practitioners;
May your tenfold virtuous practice prevail.
Humble sentient beings, tormented by sufferings without cease,
Completely suppressed by seemingly endless and terribly intense,
negative deeds,
May all their fears from unbearable war, famine, and disease be
pacified,
To freely breath an ocean of happiness and well-being.
And particularly the pious people of the Land of Snows who, through
various means,
Are mercilessly destroyed by barbaric hordes on the side of darkness,
Kindly let the power of your compassion arise,
To quickly stem the flow of blood and tears.
Those unrelenting cruel ones, objects of compassion,
Maddened by delusion's evils, wantonly destroy themselves and others;
May they achieve the eye of wisdom, knowing what must be done and
undone,
And abide in the glory of friendship and love.
May this heartfelt wish of total freedom for all Tibet,
Which has been awaited for a long time, be spontaneously fulfilled;
Please grant soon the good fortune to enjoy
The happy celebration of spiritual with temporal rule.
O protector Chenrezig, compassionately care for
Those who have undergone myriad hardships,
Completely sacrificing their most cherished lives, bodies, and
wealth,
For the sake of the teachings, practitioners, people, and nation.
Thus, the protector Chenrezig made vast prayers
Before the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
To fully embrace the Land of Snows;
May the good results of these prayers now quickly appear.
By the profound interdependence of emptiness and relative forms,
Together with the force of great compassion in the Three Jewels
and their Words of Truth,
And through the powers of the infallible law of actions and their
fruits,
May this truthful prayer be unhindered and quickly fulfilled.
This prayer, Words of Truth, was composed by His
Holiness Tenzin Gyatso,
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, on 29 September
1960
at his temporary headquarters in the Swarg Ashram
at Dharamsala, Kangra District, Himachal State, India.
