Good idea using dharmadictionary.net and find out the entries. I would
recommend anyone who is not sure to use that resource and find out how
close you get compared with various other translations -- you learn a
lot just by trying. --Kent
On Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Richard <roo-1@...> wrote:
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> Dear m. brudov and all...
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> The entire context (see below) reveals more completely what you may perhaps
> be looking for? (that's a question) At any rate, I'm hoping you and others
> may enjoy this a bit. Courtesy of
> <http://www.lotsawahouse.org/chariot_of_vidyadharas.html> Lotsawa House. If
> you read this in html format, it makes the accessing of the several links
> much easier. You can always access it this way online at this list.
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> To answer your question...it's not so much which is more or less correct
> than the other...but more importantly what we may gain from each or either.
> Translations differ, vastly at times...and yet still at some point or other
> these may perhaps reveal a commonality of depth and meaning...in their
> essence.
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> Well, at any rate...that's my little take on it at present...please enjoy
> this little offering...and also marvel a bit at what can be accomplished
> with our most beautiful RYWiki
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Main_Page> DharmaDictionary. Feel free
> to click the links and perhaps these may offer even a little more clarity
> and light to your sojourn here...
>
> The Chariot of the Vidyadharas
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> Namo Guru!
>
> An Aspiration Prayer for Travelling to the Realm of Lotus Light
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> by <http://www.lotsawahouse.org/wangpo.html> Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
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> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/om_A_hUM> OM AH HUM
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/vajra> VAJRA
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/gu_ru_pad_ma> GURU PADMA
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/siddhi> SIDDHI HUM
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> The wisdom of the great, indestructible
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/thig_le> tiglé
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> Shines in the limpid sky of <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/%27od_gsal>
> innate clear light,
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> And the <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Pristine_Awareness> unity of
> space and wisdom, like a rainbow, appears for all to see
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> As the supreme, naturally emanated realm of
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/pad_ma_%27od> Lotus Light.
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> In an expanse of rings of rainbow light, the direct realization of
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/dharmata> dharmata,
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> Rises the great mansion, the increasing of experience,
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> Where throngs of <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/daka> dakas and
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/dakini> dakinis, awareness reaching
> fullness,
>
> Enact <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/rdo_rje%27i_gar_rgya> vajra
> dances and song, the
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/ka_dag_chos_zad_blo_%27das_chen_po>
> exhaustion of phenomena beyond the mind.
>
> In its centre preside the primordial lord
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Amitabha> Amitabha,
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> The great treasure of compassion,
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/phya_na_pad_mo> Padmapani,
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> And the <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/three_kayas> three kayas
> all-embodied, the immortal
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Padma_Totreng_Tsal> Tötreng Tsal,
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> With his <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/gu_ru_mtshan_brgyad> eight
> principal emanations and others, all manifesting to tame beings each in
> their own way.
>
> Here, in this gathering–place of the
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/gtso_bo_bcu_gnyis> great magical net
>
> Of your <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/%27byams_su_klas_pa> infinite
> display of aspects and forms,
>
> May I and others, the ocean of sentient beings pervading space,
>
> All be born the instant we depart this life.
>
> Once there, taking the special path of the
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Four_Vidyadhara_Levels> four vidyadhara
> stages,
>
> May we swiftly attain the level of the lake-born Guru,
>
> Who embodies oceans of
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/sku_dang_ye_shes> kayas and wisdom,
>
> And spontaneously fulfil the benefit of ourselves and others!
>
> These were the words of the holy one among the
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/vidyadhara> vidyadharas,
> <http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Jamyang_Khyentse_Wangpo> Jamyang
> Khyentse Wangpo. Siddhirastu!
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> Richard
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