Calling the Guru from Afar

By Pabongka Rinpoche

Calling the Guru from Afar is a heartfelt request to the guru for blessings to realize all the stages of the path to enlightenment, as well as a meditation on the nature of the guru. There is both an extensive version and a brief version of this profound and moving prayer.

A practice booklet containing the long and short versions of Calling the Guru from Afar, and an audio file of Lama Zopa Rinpoche chanting this prayer are available from FPMT.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama with Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Calling the Guru from Afar (Brief Version)

LA MA KHYEN

Guru, think of me.

LA MA KHYEN

Guru, think of me.

LA MA KHYEN

Guru, think of me.

 

MA RIG MÜN SEL PÄL DÄN LA MA

Magnificently glorious guru, dispelling the darkness of ignorance;

THAR PÄI LAM TÖN PÄL DÄN LA MA

Magnificently glorious guru, revealing the path of liberation;

KOR WÄI CHU DRÖL PÄL DÄN LA MA

Magnificently glorious guru, liberating from the waters of samsara;

DUG NGÄL NÄ SEL PÄL DÄN LA MA

Magnificently glorious guru, eliminating the diseases of the five poisons;

YI ZHIN NOR BU PÄL DÄN LA MA

Magnificently glorious guru, the wish-granting jewel;

KYE LA SÖL DEB JIN GYI LOB SHIG

I beseech you, please bless me.

MI TAG CHI WA NYING NÄ DREN PA

Magnificently glorious guru, please bless me

PÄL DÄN LA MÄ JIN GYI LOB SHIG

To remember impermanence and death from my heart.

GÖ ME LO NA GYU LA KYE PA

Magnificently glorious guru, please bless me

PÄL DÄN LA MÄ JIN GYI LOB SHIG

To generate the thought of no-need in my mind.

EN PAR TSE CHIG DRUB LA NÄ PA

Magnificently glorious guru, please bless me

PÄL DÄN LA MÄ JIN GYI LOB SHIG

To abide one-pointedly in practice in isolated places.

DRUB LA BAR CHHÄ GANG YANG ME PA

Magnificently glorious Guru, please bless me

PÄL DÄN LA MÄ JIN GYI LOB SHIG

To not have any hindrances to my practice.

THRÜL ME NÄ LUG TA WA TOG PA

Magnificently glorious Guru, please bless me

PÄL DÄN LA MÄ JIN GYI LOB SHIG

To realize, without error, the view of the fundamental nature of reality.

KYEN NGÄN TAM CHÄ DROG SU CHAR WA

Magnificently glorious guru, please bless me

PÄL DÄN LA MÄ JIN GYI LOB SHIG

So that all bad conditions appear as a support.

DAG ZHÄN DÖN NYI LHÜN GYI DRUB PA

Magnificently glorious guru, please bless me

PÄL DÄN LA MÄ JIN GYI LOB SHIG

To accomplish effortlessly the two works of self and others.

 

DA TA NYUR DU JIN GYI LOB SHIG

Please bless me now, quickly.

NYUR WA NYUR DU JIN GYI LOB SHIG

Please bless me quickly, very quickly.

DÄN THOG DIR RU JIN GYI LOB SHIG

Please bless me on this very cushion.

THÜN THOG DIR RU JIN GYI LOB SHIG

Please bless me in this very session.

 

After reciting either the extensive or brief version of Calling the Guru from Afar, recite the following request:

 

PÄL DÄN LA MÄI NAM PAR THAR PA LA

May I not give rise to heresy for even a second

KÄ CHIG TSAM YANG LOG TA MI KYE SHING

In regard to the actions of the glorious guru.

CHI DZÄ LEG PAR THONG WÄI MÖ GÜ KYI

May I see whatever actions are done as pure.

LA MÄI JIN LAB SEM LA JUG PAR SHOG

With this devotion, may I receive the guru’s blessings in my heart.

 

Then recite the following verse and meditate on the guru entering your heart.

 

PÄL DÄN TSA WÄI LA MA RIN PO CHHE

Magnificent and precious root guru,

DAG GI NYING KHAR PÄ MÖI TENG ZHUG LA

Please abide on the lotus seat at my heart,

KA DRIN CHHEN PÖI GO NÄ JE ZUNG TE

Guide me with your great kindness,

KU SUNG THUG KYI NGÖ DRUB TSÄL DU SÖL

And grant me the realizations of your holy body, speech, and mind.


ColophonS:

Read colophons for both the extensive and brief versions here.