So I just read one or two pages from, the oral transmission from the sutra.

[Rinpoche recites the seven-limb prayer in Tibetan, followed by short mandala offering.]

By this merit having offered the mandala to kind, compassionate Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, it is your kindness that this time I have met the teaching of the peerless founder. By this merit may all sentient beings meet the teaching of the sublime leader, you, the Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, and, you, the Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, you trained your mind in compassion for numberless eons, sacrificed your life, your wealth, surrounding family, so forth, for three countless great eons and completed two types of merit and actualized the two kayas and revealed to us sentient beings the unmistaken path. May I bring all the sentient beings in this unmistaken path and cause them to achieve enlightenment as quick as possible.

Idam guru ratna....

[Rinpoche recites verse of praise to Buddha: Phun tsog ge leg…sha kya tso wo de la sol wa deb, followed by mantra to multiply recitations, Refuge and Bodhicitta three times.]

So as I mentioned before about compassion, so if there’s compassion within oneself, if there’s compassion within one’s own heart then the numberless sentient beings, starting from one’s own family members, the people, animals who are around oneself, from there, numberless sentient beings, they don’t receive harm from you, and that’s peace and happiness what they’re receiving from you.

First of all, just stop giving harm others, due to compassion. Then on top of that by developing strong compassion, the numberless sentient beings they receive additional benefit, peace and happiness. So numberless sentient beings peace and happiness what they receiving from you up to, say, up to enlightenment, temporary happiness, ultimate happiness, up to enlightenment, what they receive from you, from you, the one person, so that is completely in your hand. Depending on whether one generate compassion toward others or not, totally depend on that.

So therefore, every one of us here has full responsibility the happiness of all the, happiness, peace, of all the sentient beings, temporary and ultimate, liberation from samsara, enlightenment, everything, which they receive from you, that one has responsibility. Which they receive from you, you have responsibility.

So therefore now, now here, so the greatest benefit to the sentient beings that is to bring them in full enlightenment, the peerless happiness. This is what they need to achieve. By checking, by checking everyday life what they wish, how they seek happiness, one can understand from that. For example, when they go, when they go for shopping they look, when they buy, they buy something that which last a long time, best quality. Up to what they can afford, they buy the best quality material, up to what they can afford. That long lasting, better quality. So greater happiness, longer lasting. So that shows, even they don’t know about enlightenment can be achieved, but this is what they need, it expresses this is what they need to achieve.

So then to do that, no way other to do that, without oneself first, without achieving full enlightenment. For that then, to achieve that then one need to actualize the path. It doesn’t happen without cause, conditions, one need to actualize the path to enlightenment. So the graduate path of the higher capable being, that depends on the preliminary, actualizing the graduate path of middle capable being, that depends on actualizing the preliminary graduate path of lower capable being, so all that. From the root, correctly devoting to the virtuous friend.

So here, therefore, I’m going to take oral transmission of the Golden Light Sutra, the most precious teaching of the, one of the most precious teaching of the Buddha, Golden Light Sutra. So by listening the reading, listening to the Golden Light Sutra, it directs one’s own life toward enlightenment. It doesn’t go down, only up. The benefit comes in the text. And then reading the Golden Light Sutra, for example, Barcelona, here, if you read the Golden Light Sutra it becomes healing, it becomes healing all the sick people, how many sick people there are in Barcelona, it becomes healing for them, all the sick people at Barcelona, it is mentioned there. And this, reading this text, just listening to this it’s great, it’s unbelievable purification, purifying all the negative karma. And then reading this text, here, this Golden Light Sutra, this particular text, the particular benefit of this is very much to bring peace and happiness in the world, in the country where one lives, in the area to bring peace and happiness. So particular this Golden Light Sutra, that’s the particular benefit. So it’s very, I think it’s very important, very important especially the present world situation problems, I think it’s very important to, as many people can read this, many people can read this, I think it’s so important. So this, reading this teaching has all this power. There it talks about so much, how it brings so happiness in the country by reading the text.

So I wish, in those, in those countries where there’s a lot of violence, a lot of killing, if somebody can read this in that country, will be great benefit. Like Iraq where there’s constantly bombing and constant, the recent, just a few days ago, suicide bomber, so many people died, but then 600 people they run away and then they run away on the bridge, then the bridge broke, all the 600 people drowned in the water, in Iraq. Can you imagine? So all these are constantly happening.

So from Singapore, some armies, Singapore armies some went to Iraq recent time. So one, one student from Amitabha Buddhist Centre, one of the FPMT centers, he was leader of the army, leader of the army. His target is to liberate one hundred million animals, one hundred million, he dedicated for His Holiness’s long life. So up to now he liberated, I don’t know how many. How many? Huh? Up to now he liberated forty million animals. So his target is to liberate one hundred million animals.

So some people who tell me that they have cancer, so I tell them to send their name there, put some donation. So some people get recovered because a lot of animals he liberates. You buy from the place where they are going to be killed and then you, not only you put them back to water but the method to, you put many stupas on the table and many statues, then take them round in the truck. You put all those fish, frogs, in the truck. So truck goes around, whole truck goes round, you set up all the altar for them, all the stupas, with all the powerful mantras, then water offerings. The truck, inside the truck there’s all these many, many, so then truck whole time goes around.  So it’s very easy, go round. Then go back to liberate. So some people, who sent their name there, they get recovered because for cancer, liberating animals, causing others to have long life that’s one method, one method for you to have long life.

Then the other one is, the other meditation and mantras, against, deities who are against nagas, then able to heal.

Anyway, so this army, this, so when he was doing training, sometimes they have to stop, they do training, then sometimes they have to stop a few minutes, then he does his prayers, he does his mantras, he does his commitments while he is standing, while he is standing,  he does his mantras while he’s standing, sit down. And then he does, before he goes away, he does four or five hours practice in the morning, all his commitments, all the things, then he goes for army. But in the army he gives advice for them, compassion, his talks, advice to the army, education is compassion.

So anyway, what I was going to tell, the point is…? Oh, yeah, so some army from Singapore went to Iraq, so of course, because of my advertising the Golden Light Sutra, I think, they know very well. So I think they gave some texts, I think, took text to Iraq to, maybe among those armies, there’s some who, I think, read. I think this, especially present world situation like this, nothing, so insecure. I think many people can read this, as much as possible. You don’t have to finish all, even a few lines, every day you read even one page, it’s so good. It’s yum yum.  It’s yum yum.  It’s really yum yum.

So a page missing, the top part is, I don’t know what happened, maybe taken by the wind, or I’m not sure. The first chapter, the very beginning page missing. Maybe I may find tomorrow that. Sorry, I didn’t check before. I brought missing text.

So I do from the second chapter I read just some.

[Rinpoche begins the oral transmission.]

There’s one letter kind of not clear this, end of the text. So maybe I check tomorrow with other text.

[Rinpoche continues the oral transmission.]

So I stop here.

This is shorter, there’s elaborate version, middle version, short version, this is short version, I think the one, sorry, what’s the name, who translated the book?

[Inaudible comments from students]

So some, quite a number of years ago, maybe, I don’t know how many years, one of the times when I was in Spain, I asked him to translate in Spanish, so this is the first translation that was done in the organization. So I think there’s translation of the shorter version, this one. Of course, my one is the first chapter, some missing, the first one, I think, I’m not sure. So I will look for the page that’s missing.

So I stop here.

So this how I found out, this was in Mongolia. I went to one doctor’s, Mongolian doctor’s house, who is married with the sister of the Dr. Renuka Singh, who is the director of Tushita Mahayana Centre in Delhi. So I met him there in the past. So didn’t happen to go to see his house the first time, but it happened second time, I think maybe second time, or second or third I’m not sure.

So in his house, the Golden Light Sutra is very famous in Mongolia due to maybe some past, whether the Seventh Dalai Lama, because there’s incredible help to Mongolia, to propagate Dharma, such strong Dharma, Buddhism established in Mongolia for so many years. One monastery, Gaden Monastery had one hundred thousand monks, one hundred thousand monks, the Gaden Monastery near Ulaanbataar, and they said, that when the monks went out for pipi, they said that in the ditch where pipi goes, even the small baby get carried out, small baby taken away by pipi, because so many monks, a lot of pipi. In the ditch, a small baby, that’s what they say. The pipi, in the ditch the small baby get carried away.

Anyway, I think, unbelievable the, for so long, so strong Buddhism was established there and particularly Lama Tsongkhapa tradition. However, maybe due to kindness of the Seventh Dalai Lama, seems this was introduced there in Mongolia and it is said that almost everybody, many people’s house they have this text. So this doctor’s house they have the text piled up, put very high, very high, put very high. So I said I want to look at those texts. Very, very high up.

So the first text that I opened was the Golden Light Sutra. So then the first line I saw, the very first line that I saw, what inspired me was, “Just by hearing this, all your negative karma get purified.” This is the very first time, the first line I saw. Probably if I’d seen some other line, I may not have, I many not have, may not be inspired or may not have gone through the text. So the first line, I saw that one. So then I didn’t bother to read. I just said, “Can I borrow this?”

Then I brought in my room, then I thought to read in the market like the past, like Khunu Lama Rinpoche used to read, give teachings in the road, in Sarnath, where people go, outside, on the ground, Rinpoche gave teachings. So I thought, since it has that benefit, people hearing their negative karma get purified, so to go in the market and read loudly. So I went in the market to read, probably bigger than this, maybe this hall, Mongolian boot, Mongolian boots, full of Mongolian boot, there was no place to sit. Outside there are cars going round, so came back, then I thought to read outside the house because some people going back and forth. But that didn’t happen.

Then went to, went back to New York, Richard Gere’s house, that time Ribur Rinpoche was doing retreat there, so Rinpoche asked me to come there to do retreat. So I went there to do retreat. So that time, I didn’t have the text, I borrowed, there is from Sera Me, one American monk, Geshe Michael Roach, he went to Mongolia, he just come back. So I thought he might have. So one of his students borrowed, so I read.

It’s amazing, so the main thing is it brings peace and happiness in the world, in the country, unbelievable benefit. So then I put on the head, said that I will spread this teaching, many different languages translate, available in the world. To offer service to Buddha.

So this has been translated now in a few languages. Spanish, this is the first time, then a few other languages, I think. Maybe some are finished, maybe some are, anyway, I’ve forgotten now.

Dag gi ji nye sag pai ge wa di….

[The group chants the short mandala offering.]

Due to all the three-time merits collected by me and by others, may the bodhicitta be generated in one’s own heart, in one’s own family members, all of us here, in the hearts of all the sentient beings, in particular in this world, and in particular in the hearts of all the leaders of the world. And as well as in the hearts of all the terrorists, those sentient beings, their hearts, as well as anybody who has vicious thought, vicious thought to harm others, may the bodhicitta be generated in all their hearts, without delay even a second. And in whose heart bodhicitta is generated may it be increased.

Jang chhub sem chhog rin po chhe….

That we have all this incredible opportunity for me to collect merit, to give this teaching, and for you also to listen, all this, unbelievable purification by listening to this and collect unbelievable merit, directs life towards enlightenment, all this. Then opportunity we have is due to solely by Buddha of Compassion, His Holiness’s kindness. As well as every day that we have incredible opportunity to practice Dharma and make, each time make closer to, each time make closer to enlightenment each day. That is by His Holiness’s kindness. So therefore we dedicate the merits His Holiness to have stable life, all the holy wishes be succeed immediately.

Gang ri ra wai khor wa zhing kham dir….

Then all the gurus, other gurus, also to have stable life, all the holy wishes to be succeed immediately.

Pal dan la mai ku tshe tan pa dang….

Due to all the three-time merits collected by oneself, by others, that which are empty from its own side, may the I, who is also empty from its own side, achieve Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s enlightenment, which is also empty from its own side, lead all the sentient beings, who are also empty from their own side, to that Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s enlightenment, which is also empty from its own side, by myself alone, who is also empty from its own side. 

I dedicate all the merits to be able to follow holy extensive deeds of bodhisattvas Samantabhadra, Manjugosha, as they realizes.

I dedicate all the merits to be able, in the same way as the three-time buddhas dedicate their merits.

And due to all the three-time merits collected by others, by oneself, may the general teaching of Buddha, particularly Lama Tsongkhapa’s teaching, may it be spread in all the directions, may it be flourished in this world, by completely actualizing within one’s own heart, by completely actualizing within one’s own heart, in the heart of all of us here, in the hearts of everyone in this world.

Chho kyi gyal po tsong kha pai….

Dag dang zhan gyi du sum dang….

So, gracias. So, good night, thank you.

[End of discourse]