The Bodhicitta Prayer
སེམས་བསྐྱེད་སྨོན་ལམ།
Pronunciation Guide
| བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་མཆོག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། ། | changchub semchok rinpoché |
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| མ་སྐྱེས་པ་རྣམས་སྐྱེ་གྱུར་ཅིག ། | ma kyépa nam kyé gyur chik |
| སྐྱེས་པ་ཉམས་པ་མེད་པར་ཡང་ ། | kyépa nyampa may par yang |
| གོང་ནས་གོང་དུ་འཕེལ་བར་ཤོག ། | gong nay gong du pelwar shok |
OR
| བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་མཆོག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། ། | changchub semchok rinpoché |
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| མ་སྐྱེས་པ་རྣམས་སྐྱེ་གྱུར་ཅིག ། | ma kyépa nam kyé gyur chik |
| སྐྱེས་པ་ཉམས་པ་མེད་པ་དང༌། ། | kyépa nyampa maypa dang |
| གོང་ནས་གོང་དུ་འཕེལ་བར་ཤོག ། | gong nay gong du pelwar shok |
This very well-known prayer is recited in many Tibetan traditions and has been translated many times in slightly different ways. In case you prefer to chant it slightly differently than the above, here are some other options from reliable sources:
Adam Pearcey of Lotsawa House
O precious and sublime bodhicitta,
May it arise in those in whom it has not arisen,
May it never decline where it has arisen,
But go on increasing, further and further!
Padmakara Translation Group in The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech
May bodhichitta, precious and sublime,
Arise where it has not yet come to be.
And where it has arisen may it never fail,
But grow and increase ever more and more.
Andreas Kretchmar
May the precious and supreme bodhicitta
Arise in those in whom it has not yet arisen;
And where it has arisen may it not decrease
But ever increase more and more.
Eric Pema Kunsang
May the precious and sublime awakened mind
Arise in those where it has not arisen.
Where it has arisen may it never wane
But continue to increase forever more.
