Dear Erick,

it's great that you are working so hard on translating texts!

To help us all, do try to transcribe the tibetan into extended wylie:

For example:

"bla ma" for "la ma",
"gsum" for "sum",
"pa'i" for "pay",
"nas" for "nay"

and so on. That way it can be rendered back into actual tibetan
letters when required.

You might think about doing a "translation" first, based on the words
that are actually in the tibetan text and then a fuller "interpreted"
version based on commentaries and oral tradition.

That way everyone gets the full "value" out of your good works!

Cheers

Roger Wright












--- In lotsawa@yahoogroups.com, sherab zangpo <emptyelephant@...> wrote:
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> The Noble Path to Awakening: A Concise Ngondro
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> NA MO
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> Homage!
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> DAG SOG DRO KUN JANG CHHUB BAR
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> Until awakening, I together with all beings,
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> TSA WA SUM LA KYAB SU CHHI
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> Go for refuge in the Three Roots.
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> ZHEN DON SANG GYAY T'HOB JAY CHIR
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> In order to attain buddhahood for the sake of others
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> MON JUG DON DAM JANG SEM KYEY
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> I generate relative and ultimate bodhicitta.
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> DAG NYID CHI WOR PAY DAY TENG
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> On the crown of my head, upon a lotus and moon
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> LA MA DOR SEM YAB YUM GYI
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> Is Guru Vajrasattva father and mother
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> T'HUG KAY NGAG LAY DUD TSII GYUN
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> From the mantra at their heart center, a stream of deathless nectar
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> BAB PAY NAY DON DIG DRIB JANG
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> flows downward, purifying my sickness, demonic energies, negative
actions, and obscurations.
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> {Recite the hundred-syllable mantra.}
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> DOR SEM OD ZHU RANG LA T'HIM
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> Vajrasattva melts into light, and dissolves into me.
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> OM AH HUNG
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> OM AH HUNG
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> KU SUM ZHING KHAM LONG CHOD DANG
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> The purelands of the three kayas, my enjoyments,
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> CHI NANG SANG WAY CHOD PAY TRIN
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> KON CHHOG TSA WA SUM LA BUL
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> I offer these to the Three Jewels and the Three Roots --
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> ZHEY NAY CHHOG T'HUN NGO DRUB TSOL
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> Through accepting these, please bestow supreme and ordinary
spiritual attainments!
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> OM AH HUNG GURU DEWA DAKINI SAPARIWARA RATNA MANDALA PUDZA MEGHA
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> OM AH HUNG GURU DEWA DAKINI SAPARIWARA RATNA MANDALA PUDZA MEGHA
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> RANG DUN NAM KHAR JA OD LONG
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> In the space in front of me, amidst a vast expanse of rainbow light,
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> TSA WAY LA MA T'HOD TRENG TSAL
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> Is my Root Guru, in the form of Padma T'hod Treng Tsal.
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> GYUD SUM RIG DZIN GYA TSO KHOR
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> Surrounded by an oceanic retinue of the awareness-holders of the
Three Lineages,
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> KYAB KUN DU PAY NGO WOR ZHUG
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> He abides as the essence and embodiment of all sources of refuge.
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> {Practice the Phase of Approach with the Seven-Line Prayer and the
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> NAY SUM TRU SUM OD ZER GYIY
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> From the three syllables at the Guru's three places, light-rays
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> JIN LAB WANG DANG NGO DRUB T'HOB
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> And I receive blessings, empowerments, and spiritual attainments.
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> LA MA OD ZHU RANG LA T'HIM
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> The Guru melts into light and dissolves into light
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> YER MEY MA CHO LHAG PAR ZHAG
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> And I completely relax within uncontrived inseparability.
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> This was written by Khyentse Wangpo.
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