Praise to the 17 Masters of Nalanda

The Seventeen Paṇḍitas of Nālandā

A Prayer to Kindle the Three Kinds of Faith

Addressed to the Seventeen Great Paṇḍitas of Glorious Nālandā

by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

འགྲོ་ལ་ཕན་བཞེད་ཐུགས་རྗེས་རབ་བསྐྲུན་པའི། །

dro la pen shyé tukjé rab trun pé

Perfectly arisen through the compassionate wish to benefit beings, Continue reading »

Vasubandhu: Karikas On The Three Natures

Vasubandhu

Vasubandhu

Vasubandhu: Karikas On The Three Natures Trisvabhavakarika

trisvabhAvakArikA AcAryavasubandhukrtA nevArAksaralikhitA prAcInatApatrodgatA namo maNjuSriye kumArabhUtAya
The karikas on the three natures composed by Master Vasubandhu, written in Newari characters, coming from an old manuscript.
Homage to the Virgin Youth Manjusri

1 kalpitah paratantras ca parinispanna eva ca /
trayah svabhAvA dhIrAnAm gambhIram jneyam isyate //1//
It is admitted that the three natures, the imaginary, the dependent and the absolute one, are the profound object of the wise men’s knowledge.
The imagined, the other-dependent and
The consummate.
These are the three natures Continue reading »

Light on the Path of Liberation: Vasubandhu

Vasubandhu

Light on the Path of Liberation

The Life of the Second Buddha Vasubandhu

by Khenpo Shenpen Nangwa

The Root Tantra of Mañjuśrī says:

Dwelling thereafter
Will be a brahmin in the south,
Whose name begins with Ba [Va],
[1]
The foremost exponent of the Buddha’s teachings.
He will reside at the Arama Stūpa.
As a delightful reflection of the buddha
He will adorn everywhere,
As far as the limits of earth and ocean.

As this suggests, the great master Vasubandhu appeared in order to spread the teachings of Abhidharma. At a certain time, when the gong was struck at the great temple of Nālandā in the noble land [of India], it was heard by a non-Buddhist expert in grammar, who realized that the Buddhist teachings had become predominant. He led an army that set fire to many temples, as a result of which the Abhidharma teachings were largely consumed by flames. Continue reading »

Vasubandhu: In Praise of the Three Jewels

Three Jewels

In Praise of the Three Jewels

by Ācārya Vasubandhu

རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། ཏྲི་རཏྣ་སྟོ་ཏྲཾ།

In the language of India: Triratnastotra

བོད་སྐད་དུ། དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་གྱི་བསྟོད་པ།

In the language of Tibet: Könchok sum gyi töpa (dkon mchog gsum gyi bstod pa)

In the English language: In Praise of the Three Jewels

དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །

Homage to the Three Jewels!

དམིགས་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ། །

mikmé chö kyi ku

To the referenceless dharmakāya, Continue reading »