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Sublime Offerings

Outer, Inner, and Secret Prayers and Offerings of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
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Outer Refuge and Awakening

Buddha, Dharma, Supreme Collective
We take refuge 'til enlightenment
By merits of giving, perfections
Become buddha benefitting beings!

General Offering

Unsurpassed teacher, precious Buddha
Unsurpassed protector, precious Dharma
Unsurpassed guide, precious Sangha
Sources of refuge, Three Rare Supremes, we make offerings!

Buddhist symbol representing the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha). Triratna.
Motif of Three Rare Supremes (the Triple Gem as the source of refuge)

Maṇḍala Offering (Long 37 Mound)

OṂ VAJRA BhŪMI ĀḤ HŪṂ!
The firmament is universally pure, ruled and golden is the ground!

OṂ VAJRA REKhE ĀḤ HŪṂ!
Outside iron mountains surround, in the middle of the platted revolution: HŪṂ!

King of Mountains, Mount Meru
Eastern Superior Body, Videha
Southern Rose Apple Isle, Jambudvīpa
Western Boundless Cows, Aparagodānīyaḥ
Northern Unpleasant Sound, Uttarakuruḥ
Deha and Videha, Superior Body
Cāmaradvīpa and The Other Yaktail Plume
Śāthā Shift and Uttaramantriṇa Conjured on High
Uttarakuruḥ and Unpleasant Sound's Moon

Precious Mountain, Wishing Tree 
Desirable Cow, Spontaneous Crop
Precious Wheel, Precious Jewel
Precious Consort, Precious Minister
Precious Elephant, Precious Horse
Precious General, Grand Treasure Vase

Charming Goddess, Garland Goddess
Goddess Song, Goddess Dance
Flower Goddess, Incense Goddess
Lamplight Goddess, Goddess Perfume

Sun, Moon 
Precious Parasol, Victory Banner Victorious in Every Way

All the gods' and humans' glorious riches and excellencies, none the lacking, we actually offer to the glorious root and lineage gurus, holy ones, as well as our chosen deity, the victorious one and hosts of the maṇḍala, buddhas and spiritual heroes altogether, it's all offered now!

[is recited in practice]

All the gods' and humans' glorious riches and excellencies, none the lacking, we actually offer before the guru, none other than chief of the maṇḍala, as an emblematic request for the profound, ripening empowerment, it's all offered now!

[is recited during empowerment]

Please accept with compassion for the purpose of souls; once accepted, grant blessings please!

Short Mandala Offering

Golden ground anointed, flowers strewn
Mount Meru, Four Cont'nents, Sun and Moon
Buddha-realm imagined, then offered
All souls also course onto pure realms!

TRAṂ  GURU RATNA MAṆḌALA PŪJA MEGhA SAMUDRA SPhARAṆA SAMAYE  ĀḤ HŪṂ

Lamp Offering

This lamp's vessel encompasses the third-order thousandfold world system realm! Its filament is King of Mountains, the bit of Mount Meru! Melted butter extends to the limit of the seas! Light beams the peak of existence down to Unwavering Avīci Hell, and up again to clear away all the veils of ignorance; all the Buddhas' and Spiritual Heroes' pure lands of ten directions are clear to the eye!

OṂ VAJRA ALOKE ĀḤ  HŪṂ!

EMAHO! Marv'lous fantasy, this lamp so clear
Eon's fortune, thousand buddhas, more
Universal pure lands ev'rywhere
Guru, deva, dāki, dharma guards
Offers to their various maṇḍalas
Parents made supreme: all sentient beings
Generations now and all births hence
Having glimpsed the perfect buddhaland
Boundless Light, our guard, pray never part
Three Rare Supremes', Three Roots' collectives'
Their truth's force this aspiration found 
Please grant blessings this prayer's quick and sure!

TADYAThĀ PAÑCADRIYA AVABODhANAYE SVĀHĀ!

Jowo, the glorious Lord Atīśa, master of ceremonies, is famous for chanting this with his entourage throughout the shrine homes of Ü and Tsang. 
File:Freshly lit candle offering in a Tibetan Buddhist style butter lamp, silver, like a tear, Mahabuddha Temple, Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal

Prayer to Skull Garland (& Incense Offering)

HRĪḤ! Long yore, at this eon’s fore
Way in Oddiyan’s northwest
At Dhanakosha’s island
On a blooming lotus bed
Most amazing siddhi found
Lotus Born you are renowned
Circled round by dakinis
Siddhis follow after you
Come and grant your blessings, pray
Rain on this supreme abode
Bestow four empowerments
Clear obstructions, obstacles
Grant the two accomplishments

OṂ ĀḤ HŪṂ VAJRA GURU PADMA Thöd Threng Tsal VAJRA SAMAYA JAḤ SIDDhI PhALA HŪṂ ĀḤ!

OṂ ĀḤ HŪṂ VAJRA GURU PADMA Skull Strung Spunk VAJRA SAMAYA JAḤ SIDDhI PhALA HŪṂ ĀḤ!

Incense Offering

This virtuous scent, sacred incense
By samadhi-mantra-mudra’s grace
Wafts with curls throughout the buddhafield
Delighting victorious ones and hosts!

NAMAḤ SARVA TAThĀGATA VAJRA DhŪPE PRATĪṢṬhA PŪJA MEGhA SAMUDRA SPhARAṆA SAMAYE  ĀḤ  HŪṂ!

Mass Incense Offering at Choying Dzong, USA

Outer and Inner Refuge & Awakening

NAMO! In Three Rare Supremes, Three Roots
Go for refuge to the source
So for souls to buddha place
Rouse supreme awakening!

Seven Branch Prayer

Our refuge is Three Supremes
Disclose ev'ry sinful deed
Celebrate all souls' virtue
Buddhas, heroes, keep in mind
Buddha, Dharma, Sangha to
Go for refuge 'til the end
One another's best intent
Proves to rouse supreme awakening
In all acts of rousing hero's mind
Keep all sentient ones as special guests
This great way being delightfully tread
All souls' purpose Buddha shall present!

Blessing the Offerings

Manifest from pure expanse
Off’ring clouds fill heaven, earth
Substances with goddesses
Be they endless — PŪJA HO!

OṂ VAJRA AMṚTA KUṆḌALĪ HANA HANA HŪṂ PhAṬ!
OṂ SWABhAWA ṢUDDhAḤ  SARVA DhARMA SWABhAWA ṢUDDhO HAṂ!

Our Body of Victorious Peace and Wrath’s Tea Offering

From the Profound Cycle of Protector Amitāyus

RAṂ YAṂ KhAṂ has cleansed all taints impure
Gnostic face kapala’s inner core
Taste and smell, colorful amṛta
Gnostic, great ambrosia blessed to touch
Offer to throat’s bode of magis, gods
Make off’rings to heartcore’s gods of peace
Offer to crowncrypt’s bloodguzzler gods
Make off’rings to channels’ braves, angels
Offer massing thoughts in oathbounds' sea
Grant abundance, all accomplishments

Guru Loden Chogsred [Smarts Crave] actually spake as His Eminence, Mingyur Dorje [Immutable Vajra] was thirteen years old in Year Cock, with the Moon in Antares on the twentieth day. Please, would it have become the cause of virtue for souls of the three realms, all sentient beings!

Brief Collective Offering

RAṂ YAṂ KhAṂ!  
OṂ ĀḤ HŪṂ! 

Gem of the collective, gnostic play
Lord and master, guru's vivid 'wares
Three seats' circles, twenty-four abodes
Heroes, angels, oathbouds, dharma guards
Come! Collective wealth we offer here
Ign'rance, errors, pledges breach'd disclose
To the dharmasphere obstructions LOOSE
Take remains, enact activities!

GURU DEVA ḌĀKINĪ GAṆACAKRA PŪJA UCChIṢṬhA BALIṆTA KhĀHI

Fulfillment

In the reach of alpha purity 
Veh'cles aren't accomplished sep'rately
Though to train toto-fictional selves
We'll fulfill our pledge to rise all nine!

By Vidyadhara Jigme Lingpa

Body Offering: The Kusali's Secret Wake

From the Heart Repository of Sky Dharma, A Profound Cycle of the Hearing Lineage: The Body Offering, Condensed in Order of Observance

NAMO VAJRAWARĀHI!

NAMO! My conscious-awareness is
PhAṬ! Emitted up, out my crown
PhAṬ! Become bean-size Vajra Sow
PhAṬ! Then expanded, finger-size
PhAṬ! Then expanded, cubit-height
PhAṬ! Heaven, earth, full Vajra Sow
Right hand hook-knife, on your mark
Cleave our corpse's head, and then
Placing corpse-head to the right
Hook-knife – corpse-head – on your mark
Scalp do flay and bhandha make
Within that our stuff is placed
Right-hand hook-knife, on your mark
Become five meats, five amrits
PhAṬ! PhAṬ! From our heart-center
Vajra Sows, just like ourself
Countless—rights wield jew'ld ladle
Lefts hold bhandha—are emit
Offer to the gurus, gods
PhAṬ! Offer to ḍākinīs, guards
PhAṬ! Offer to all world-guards
PhAṬ! Offer to all non-humans
PhAṬ! Offer to six types, all souls
PhAṬ! 'Specially karmic creditors
Off'rings to all harmdoers, done
PhAṬ! Having made this off'ring, gift
Gurus and the gods are pleased
Ḍākiṇīs, dharma/world-guards
All heart pledges be restored
Souls of six types, satisfied
Karmic debts also being purged
Harmdoers' wishes be sated
PhAṬ! PhAṬ! PhAṬ!

Tulku Mingyur Dorje was thirteen in Year Cock, Month Puṣya when, on the tenth day of its waning, red phase, Sow, Lady of Two Faces, clearly appeared and spake this text.

Departure of Guests and Dedication

Guests go back their places, VAJRA MU
Myself, guests, off'rings are unobserved
Way, nature, purity, completion*
One another's virtue's proven so

* One another's virtue is proven in the way of abiding, the natural state, in the alpha purity of the completion stage.

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