The Melodious Song Of The Gods' Great Drum -
A Sorrowful Request For The Quick Return Of The Incredibly Kind Father Lama
Lama Chakrasamvara, you the all pervasive and all encompassing, whose holy mind is bound with great compassion, have gone to the pure land of Takpa Kacho. Like a child in barren lands separate from the caring parents we wonder: don't you see us, pitiful disciple transmigrating beings left out guideless and without refuge? Please listen to our sorrowful cry.
We remember that the kindness of happiness, peace and perfection of the past, present and future is received only from you, the Savior. With these unbearable thoughts and eyes filled with tears we beseech you to give us a moment of attention. May the reincarnation that benefits sentient beings and Buddha's teachings quickly descend!
How many times without count parents nourish children with compassion? Even this can not compare with you granting us numberless profound teachings, subduing the mind and eliminating the root of our suffering, bringing us to higher realms temporary and to the ultimate state of omniscience.
You gave us the root, precise instructions on devotion to the Spiritual Friend. You have granted the common teachings on Bodhicitta and the uncommon profound teachings with initiations and commentaries quickly causing the state of unification. Even more, you have nourished us with great compassion. The unbearable remembrance of your kindness raises devotion in our hearts. In order to increase the uninterrupted continuity of realizations: May the reincarnation that benefits sentient beings and Buddha's teachings quickly descend!
We are guideless pitiful transmigrating beings imprisoned in the flaming house of self grasping, bound with the barbed chains of delusions and karma, possessed by the demon of three delusions and tormented by the beginningless ocean of samsaric suffering: How can you forsake us! May the reincarnation that benefits sentient beings and Buddha's teachings quickly descend!
In the past we have collected only negative karma, surely taking us to lower realms in future lives. If you don't protect sentient beings like us, downfallen and guideless, for whom do you have love and compassion? May the reincarnation that benefits sentient beings and Buddha's teachings quickly descend!
In general the teachings of Buddha are waning, in particular the time of the doctrine of the Victorious Soft Savior Tsong Khapa, that is like refined gold, is extremely thin. Considering this very sad situation quickly reveal the smiling holy face of the supreme exalted body of transformations, benefiting all sentient beings and the doctrine, increasing and pervading all directions.
By raising all the appearances of form as the Wheel of Supreme Bliss (Chakrasamvara) lama, all sounds in the music of mantra, the melodious holy speech of the lama, and by seeing all thoughts arising as the dharmakaya of great bliss, may the yoga of the three secret vajras come to completion.
In the pure land of Ogmin, the indestructible raising light radiates: by seeing directly the holy face of the definitive lama, the primordial clear light uncontrived and free from mental fabrications, may the state of supreme lama be achieved!
Due to the words of truth fulfilling all wishes, sustained by the unison melody proclaimed by the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from the Dharmakaya, and the dependent arising perfect collection of the meeting of Guru-disciple, may the great perfect auspiciousness come to fruition!
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The actual Chakrasamvara Supreme Kyabje Ribur Rinpoche Gyalten Ngawang Gyatzo (also) Tenzin Gelek, dissolved into the Dharmakaya. The reincarnation of the teacher of the Supreme Kyabje, the disciple Tenzin Rinpoche, who always accompanied the savior without separation and with pure samayas, and who possesses an indestructible faith like a diamond, the Tsawa Kamzen of Sera Mey, the monks of Ribur Monastery, the previous abbot (of Gyume) Losang Champa Rinpoche, and the supreme emanation Oser Rinpoche have made a request to Thubten Zopa Rinpoche with offering of scarves and mandala, to compose a prayer for quick return. Some of the verses endowed with great blessing have been taken from the quick return of Kyabje Trichang Rinpoche. With the motivation that a quick return would benefit the doctrine and sentient beings I have written what was in my mind and actual facts. Also because the previous Supreme Kyabje always displayed great affection and being pleased with me I thought it would be particularly auspicious and beneficial to write a quick return so to meet the Holy face of the precious reincarnation. Just like the prayers in the exalted mind of the previous reincarnation, may there be benefits as vast as the sky for the doctrine and sentient beings! May the countless sentient beings of this world meet with the precious doctrine of the whispered lineage of the Soft Savior!
May the perfect virtue increase!