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A PRAYER TO AVERT NUCLEAR WAR
BY CHATRAL RINPOCH

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NAMO GURU RATNA TRAYA
To the Teacher and the Three Jewels, I bow.
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KAL ZANG ZHING GI NAM DREN SHAKYAI TOK
True leader of the golden age Crown of the Sakyas;
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SANG GYAY NYIY PA OR GYEN TSHO KYEY J
Second Buddha, Prince of Oddiyana, Lake-Born Vajra;
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PHAK CHHOK CHYEN RAY ZIK DANG JAM PAL YANG
Bodhisattvas eight closest spiritual heirs high Nobles, Avalokitesvara and Manjushri,
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CHHYAK DOR LA SOK JYANG SEM NY SAY GYAY
Vajrapani and the rest;
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DROL MA NYER CHIK NAY TEN PHAK PAI TSHOK
Twenty-one Taras, host of Noble Elders;
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TSA GY LA MA YI DAM ZHI THR LHA
Root and lineage lamas, yidam deities, peaceful and wrathful deities;
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NAY SUM KHAN DRO Y SHEY LAY DRUB PAI
Dakinis in the three sacred places (the earth, the heavens, and the pure lands);
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CHH SUNG CHHYOK KYONG PAL GN DUN CHU SOK
You who through wisdom or karma have become Defenders of the Doctrine; Guardians of the Directions;
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NGN SHEY DZU THRUL THU TOB NGA WA NAM
Seventy-five Glorious Protectors; you who are clairvoyant, powerful, magical and mighty;
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TS DEN DRO LA JIK SHING GONG SU SOL
Behold and consider the beings of this age of turmoil!
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KAL DEN D THAI KY DRO CHYI THUN GYI
We are beings born at the sorry end of time;
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LAY NGEN DRAY B TSHO CHHEN DOL WA LAY
An ocean of ill-effects overflows from our universally bad actions.
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KAR CHHYOK YEL ZHING NAK CHHYOK D D YIY
The forces of light flicker. The forces of darkness, a demon army,
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KHA DRAK WANG TSEN MI CHHEN SEM TSA GUL
Inflames great and powerful men,
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DZAM LING PHUNG JY DUL TSHN MAK THRUK LANG
And they rise in conflict, armed with nuclear weapons that will disintegrate the earth.
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LOK MN THRUL GYI TSHN CHHAI THOR LUNG CHHEY
The weapon of perverse and errant intentions has unleashed the hurricane.
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N CH THAL WAI DUL DU KAY CHIK LA
Soon, in an instant, it will reduce the world
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LAK PAR GYUR NYEI TAY NGEN JYA MA TA
And all those in it to atoms of dust.
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NANG DRAK TOK PAI CHY YUL NGN GYUR KYANG
Through this ill-omened devils tool, it is easy to see, to hear, and to think about,
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MA RIK KY WO MONG DANG TH TSHOM GYAR
Ignorant people, caught in a net of confusion and doubt,
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RAB THUM DA DUNG DR DU CHANG MA TSHOR
Are obstinate and still refuse to understand.
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TH DANG DREN PA TSAM GYIY JIK KY PAI
It terrifies us just to hear about or to recall
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NGAR MA JYUNG WAI DZAM LING PHO GYUR GANG
This unprecedented thing. The world is filled with uncertainty.
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DOK PAI THAB DANG R SA ZHEN NI M
But there is no means of stopping it, nor place of hope,
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LU M KN CHHOK TSA SUM KHY NAM LA
Other than you, undeceiving Three Jewels and Three Roots.
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KH- PHA MAR B DRAI M NGAK KYIY
If we cry to you like children calling their mother and father,
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SOL DEB O D B PA DI LAK NA
If we implore you with this prayer,
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KHY NAM NGN GYI DAM CHA MA NYEL WAR
Do not falter in your ancient vows!
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LOK TAR NYUR WAI THUK JI CHHYAK KONG LA
Stretch out the lightning hand of compassion!
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GN M DRO DI SUNG KYOB JIK DROL DZ
Protect and shelter us defenseless beings, and free us from fear!
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DZAM LING KY DR D KYI THROK JY PAI
When the mighty barbarians sit in council of war
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TOB CHHEN LA LO YUL GY DR SHAM TSH
barbarians who rob the earth of pleasure and happiness
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TSO WO NAM DANG D YI KHA LO WA
barbarians who have wrong, rough, poisonous thoughts
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MA RUNG DUK TSUB SAM NGEN CHHANG WA NAM
Bend their chiefs and their lieutenants
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ZHI D THUN PAI CHHYOK SU GYUR DU SOL
To the side of peace and happiness.
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GAL KYEN MAK THRUK RANG SAR ZHI WA DANG
Pacify on the spot, the armed struggle that blocks us.
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D DI DUL TSHN DOK CHING ZHOM PAR DZD
Turn away and defeat the atomic weapons of the demons messengers,
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D YI THU LAY DZAM LING SA CHHEN DIR
And by that power, make long the life of the righteous,
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TEN DZIN ZHAB TEN SHAY DRUB CHHYOK KUN DAR
And spread the theory and practice of the doctrine to the four corners of this great world!
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TEN DROR TSH JY MI DANG MI MIN GYI
Eliminate root, branch and leaf even the names
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NAK P TSA LAK DER CHAY MING TSAM TONG
Of those dark forces, human and non-human,
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JIK TEN KHAM SU D LEK GYA CHHEN P
Who harm others and the teaching.
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YONG KHYAB D ZHI PAL LA LONG SU CHY
Spread vast happiness and goodness over this fragile planet.
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DZOK DEN D ZHIN THAB THRUK TSH M PAR
Elevate it truly with the four kinds of glory. And as in the golden age, with all strife gone,
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KUN KYANG D GAI GAR GYIY DREL GYUR CHIK
Let us be busy only with the dance of pleasure, the dance of joy!
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KYAB NAY CHHOK SUM GYA TSH THUK J DANG
We pray with pure thoughts by the compassion of that ocean, the three supreme refuges
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CHH YING NAM KUN CHHOK DEN DEN TOB KYIY
And the power of the Realm of Truth, the completely sublime truth,
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DAK CHAK SAM PA DAK PAI SOL TAB DN
Achieve the goal of this, our prayer,
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JI ZHIN R MN YI ZHIN DRUB GYUR CHIK
Magically, just as we have hoped and dreamed!
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TAYATHA PENTSA DRIYA AWA BODHANIY SOHA


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Translated from the Tibetan by Richard Kohn and Lama Tsedrup Tharchin.










Bero Jeydren Publications, Vajrayana Foundation. Reprinted March 14, 2011.