In Praise of the Three Jewels
Translation of དཀན་མཆག་གསམ་གྱ་བསྟད་པ (དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་གྱི་བསྟོད་པ)
- Language
- English
- Date
- 2019 CE
- Translator
- Adam Pearcey
- Extent
- 17 passages, 152 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- lotsawahouse · Adam Pearcey (tr.), In Praise of the Three Jewels, Lotsawa House (version 1.2-20250325) · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site
Contents
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p1
To Buddha the foremost, I pay homage!
p2
To the Dharma that protects, I pay homage!
p3
To the great Saṅgha, I pay homage!
p4
To these three, I offer continuous veneration!
p5
You have perfectly amassed the two great stores and accomplished fourfold wisdom and the three kāyas;
p6
You lack conceptual thought but know everything with perfect clarity;
p7
You possess the sky-like dharmakāya and beautiful form kāyas—
p8
To the Buddha, who is like a wish-granting tree, I pay homage!
p9
The twelve branches of excellent teaching are causally concordant with dharmatā;
p10
The Dharma has no arising or ceasing; it is devoid of conceptual elaboration;
p11
Focusing on this, all qualities are accomplished—
p12
To the sacred Dharma, the cause of excellence, I pay homage!
p13
With afflictive obscurations and cognitive obscurations
p14
Gradually eliminated through their remedies, you abide on the bhūmis,
p15
Bring benefit to sentient beings, and purify buddha-realms—
p16
To the great and noble Saṅgha, I pay homage!
p17
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