In gratitude for all the generous support and kind assistance you have given us over the years, we would like to offer this short prayer from Sga ston ngag dbang legs pa, Dezhung Rinpoche’s root guru, as we light lamps and dedicate them in your honor:
We consider that this lamp is made of the finest precious metal,
And is as vast as the entire billion-fold universe.
It is filled completely with the finest essence of butter,
And in its center is planted a wick as large as Mount Meru.
Its flame is alight and has the nature of the five wisdoms;
In appearance, it blazes with the dazzling splendor of a billion suns,
Its light pervading everywhere throughout all the realms of the ten directions.
Out of this radiant expanse, appear vast clouds of offerings like Samantabhadra’s,
To make gifts throughout all eternity, until the very ends of time,
So that the objects of our prayers, be they living or dead,
Gather the two accumulations, purify the two kinds of obscuration,
And swiftly attain unsurpassable awakening.
From Adam, on behalf of the Lotsawa House team.