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Tea Offering
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NAM DAG TSUG GI NOR BU LHAG PA'I LHA
The best of all food-and-drink nectars in this pure land of the
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JIG TEN WANG CHUG CHOG GI SHING KHAM DIR
fully pure crown jewel, superlative deity Chenrezig --
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SA TUNG D TSI TUNG WA KN GYI CHOG
like the fruit of the tree with leaves, roots, and
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MAR GE DAB DN TSA WA DONG BUR JE
trunk of emerald, the perfectly effective medicine;
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DRE BU NAM BAR GYL WA'I MN TA BU
with the flavor of god-realm nectar, excellent resplendent
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SUM TSEN D TSI RO YANG SIL NN PA'I
color, and an aroma which pervades a thousand worlds;
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KHA DOG SANG SHING DRI NGE TONG KHAM KHYAB
a dispeller of all four hundred four diseases, having all
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RO DRUG N GYE YN TN JU DN DZOG
six tastes, eight efficacies, and
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SHI GYA TSA SHI NE KUN SEL WAR CHE
seventeen medicinal qualities --
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DE TAR TUNG WA'I CHOG GYUR CHA YI NGO
Such a perfect drink is the actuality of this tea.
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D TSI GYA TSHO CHEN POR NGN TRUL NE
This offering is manifested to a great ocean of nectar and
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NANG TONG YER ME G PE BUL WA NI
respectfully offered in inseparable appearance-emptiness:
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TSA GY LA MA DAM PA CH PAR GYI
We make this offering to the sublime root and lineage lamas;
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TONG DANG TSA NYI SANG GYE CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to the one thousand and two buddhas;
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CHANG SEM NYN RANG TSHOG NAM CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to all bodhisattvas, hearers, and solitary realizers;
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KA GY SER GYI TRHENG WA CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to the golden rosary of the Kagyu lineage;
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KA TER RIG DZIN GY PA CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to the lineage of kama and terma knowledge holders;
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GY SHI YI DAM LHA TSHOG CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to all the yidam deities of the four tantras;
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CH KYONG MA GN JAM DRL CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to dharma guardian Mahakala with consort and retinue;
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TN SUNG CH KYI DRL MA CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to dharma protector Achi Chkyi Drlma;
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PA WO KHA DRO CH SUNG CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to the dharma-protecting viras and dakinis;
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KA D DAM JN TER SUNG CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to the oath-bound attendant deities and terma guardians;
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GN KYAB PHA ME GY SUNG CH PAR GYI
we make this offering to our own family-lineage forebears.
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DE TAR RO GYA D TSI PUL WA'I TH
By the power of this hundred-taste nectar offering:
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THUB TN CHOG GYAR DAR SHING GYE PA DANG
may the Sage's teachings spread and flourish in a hundred directions;
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DRUB GY TSUG GYN GYL WA DRI GUNG PA'I
may the teachings of the practice lineage's crown ornament,
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TN PA KHOR LO SHI YI PEL WA DANG
Gyalwa Drigungpa, be propagated through the four wheels of practice;
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TN DZIN KYE BU SHAB PE TN GYUR JIG
and may the great beings who uphold the teachings have long lives.
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GE DUN LAB SUM CH JUR TSN PA DANG
May the sangha make effort in the three trainings and the ten virtues;
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DRO NAM LONG J DZOG DN D TA BUR
may all migrators closely pacify all discordances
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MI THN CHOG KN NYE WAR SHI NE JING
while enjoying resources like those of the perfect era; and
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KHYAB DAG DZOG PA'I SANG GYE THOB PAR SHOG
may all attain sovereign, complete buddhahood.
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RANG RIG RANG SL SHE KAR ME LONG NGOG
In the self-aware, self-luminous surface of a crystal mirror, the resplendent
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KHOR DE RI MOR TRA WA NANG TONG TSAM
variegated detail of samsara-nirvana is mere appearance-emptiness;
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SUNG JUG CHU DA TA BUR DZIN ME KYI
through unification -- moon-in-water-like non-fixation --
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NYI ME CH KU'I NGANG DU DRL GYUR JIG
may all be liberated into the state of non-dual dharmakaya.
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BE DUR SA SHIR LHA WANG SUG NYN TAR
Just as the reflection of Indra appears in the lapis lazuli ground of his heavenly realm,
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DRO SEM NANG NGOR THUB PA'I NANG NYN SHAR
so the Sage's image arises in the mind-appearance of migrators;
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RANG RANG M PA'I GANG DUL CHO TRHUL GYI
ripened and freed by miraculous displays suited to our individual inclinations,
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MIN DRL NGE PA'I NAM THAR TN GYUR JIG
may our certain, complete liberation be revealed.
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LEG SHE DANG RI TRA WA LUNG RIG G
May victory banners of the Sage's teachings -- scripture and reasoning brocade
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NAM J LAB SUM YU WE LEG TEG JING
embroidered with elegant exposition, hung on poles of careful investigation and
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NGE DN GOM CHA'I TOG GI RAB DZE PE
three trainings, and beautified by crest-ornaments of
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THUB TN GYL TSHN CHOG GYAR TRENG PAR SHOG
habituation to definitive-meaning -- be hoisted in a hundred directions!
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Composed by the
Drigungpa Chkyi Drakpa at Karseng Trhigar as an aspect of self-and-other dharmic conduct.
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NA MO GU RU
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CHANG CHUB NYING PO DUL DRL SHING KHAM SU
Self-arisen conqueror, authentically perfected buddha,
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RANG CHUNG GYL WA YANG DAG DZOG SANG GYE
Unequaled, masterful turner of the dharma-wheel
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TSHUNG ME CH KYI KHOR LO RAB KOR WA
in the enlightenment-quintessence stainless pure land --
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THUB WANG DRI GUNG RIN CHEN CH PA BL
Lord of Sages, precious Drigungpa, we make this offering to you!
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DRIB SUM RAB RIB KHA TAR NAM PAR DAG
Gloom of the three obscurations dispelled to blue sky;
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KHYEN NYI JN DN DRIB ME YE SHE KYI
Possessor of the eye of the two knowledges; with non-obscured wisdom
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D SUM SHE CHA MA L NAM SIG PA
completely beholding all objects of knowledge of the three times, without remainder --
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KN KHYEN DRI GUNG RIN CHEN CH PA BL
Omnicient One, precious Drigungpa, we make this offering to you!
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NYE TSHOG NYA NGN KHOR WA'I CHU WO GL
Forder of the river of samsaric faults and miseries;
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NGN SHE DZU TRHUL RIG PA'I PHA ROL SN
Perfector of clairvoyance, miracle power, and rigpa;
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NYAM NYI MI TRHUL SHI WAR TAG NE PA
Unmistaken peaceful dweller in equal-ness --
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DE SHEG DRI GUNG RIN CHEN CH PA BL
Sugata, precious Drigungpa, we make this offering to you!
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SI PA KN CHOR NYN MONG CHING WA J
Cutter of the fetters of existence, worldly entanglement, and mental afflictions;
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SHE CHA'I B SHING SEG PA CH KYI KU
Burner of the firewood of objects of knowledge, Dharmakaya;
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MI SE D PUNG DE JE RAB JOM PA
Overcomer of intolerable maras and their minions--
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GYL WA DRI GUNG RIN CHEN CH PA BL
Conqueror, precious Drigungpa, we make this offering to you!
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DUG NGL SI SUM DROG GN KHYAM PA YI
Teacher-Pilot for the worlds of those wandering through the
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JIG TEN DN PA KHA LO GYUR WA PO
desolation of the three realms of suffering,
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SHAB SEN LHAR JE J PN TSER LANG PA
the gods bend their be-ribboned crowns to your feet --
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DREN PA DRI GUNG RIN CHEN CH PA BL
Guide, precious Drigungpa, we make this offering to you!
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GONG PA NAM DAG KA DANG THN PA YI
By all the unmistaken-advice merit you generated --
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MA NOR LAM TN GE WA JI DRUB PE
all accordant with the Sage's Teachings and fully-pure Thought --
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SA JU'I GN PO DRI GUNG RIN CHEN GYI
may your teachings, tenth-stage Protector,
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TN PA DAR SHING YN RING NE GYUR JIG
precious Drigungpa, spread far and last long!
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Composed by Chn-nga Drigung Lingpa on the shore of Ever-Cool Lake (Manasarovar).
Translated from the Tibetan by Konchog Dorje, Terence Barrett, in Burlington, Vermont, as a tool to assist the
western sangha in their accumulations of merit and wisdom during the 2007 Spring Retreat at the Tibetan
Meditation Center of Frederick Maryland. May we all use it well!

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Notes:
1) These prayers are translated as "we make this offering" since they are often chanted in group
assemblies. When chanting these prayers by oneself, one can substitute "I make this offering" in
those places.
2) The standard practice in the monasteries is to recite only one of these two prayers for each tea
offering: If there are two tea offerings in an assembly, the first prayer is recited for the first tea
offering, and the second prayer for the second tea offering; if there is only one tea offering in an
assembly, the second prayer is recited.

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