Offering prayer before a meal

Offering prayer before a meal or mealtime prayer, prayer before eating

To the Unsurpassable Guide, the Precious Buddha.

TON PA LA ME SANG GYE RINPOCHE

To the unsurpassable Protector, the Precious Dharma.

KYOB PA LA MED DAM CHO RINPOCHE
To the Unsurpassable Savior, the Precious Sangha.

DREN PA LA MED GENDUN RINPOCHE

I offer to Three Supreme Sources of Refuge.

KYAB NE KON CHOG SUM LA CHOD PA BUL

By the power of this prayer and hymn of praise.

CHED NAM CHOD JIN SOL WA TOP PI THUI

May I and all others, wherever they may be, in every direction of the earth,

DAG TSOK GANGDO NI PI SA CHOG DER

have all our poverty, illness, obsessions and wars pacified.

NAY DON OL PONG THOB ZOD SHI WA DANG

And may the holy Dharma and good fortune increase without end.

CHE DANG TASHI PEL WAR DZAY DU SOL