Join Geshe Tenley to Do Prayers Recommended by His Holiness the Dalai Lama During Covid-19

White Tara painted by His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, www.kagyu.org.

Every day of the week but Wednesday Geshe Ngawang Tenley goes live on Facebook for thirty minutes to offer viewers encouragement in these challenging times and the opportunity to pray together for all sentient beings.

Thirty-minute Practice Livestreaming Every Day but Wednesday

On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays you can go to Geshe Tenley's Facebook page at 4:30 PM PT to join in on the Tara practice requested by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

I try to join every day.

Geshe Tenley Facebook.

Geshe Tenley's Facebook page says:

"We are doing this practice for the benefit of the entire world population, especially those who are affected by the pandemic.

OM TARA TUTTARE TURE SOHA

ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།"

To make sure you don't miss the session log into Facebook, go to the event and click "Interested." Facebook will alert you when Geshe Tenley goes live.

Tara Prayers

༄། སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་དང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཆོག་རྣམས་ལ།།
བྱང་ཆུབ་བར་དུ་བདག་ནི་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི།།
བདག་གིས་སྦྱིན་སོགས་བགྱིས་པའི་བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱིས།།
འགྲོ་ལ་ཕན་ཕྱིར་སངས་རྒྱས་འགྲུབ་པར་ཤོག། །

SANG GYÄ CHHÖ DANG TSHOG KYI CHHOG NAM LA
In the Buddhas, Dharma and Sangha,

JANG CHHUB BAR DU DAG NI KYAB SU CHHI
Until enlightened I seek refuge.

DAG GI JIN SOG GYI PÄI SÖ NAM KYI
Through merit from giving and the rest,

DRO LA PHÄN CHHIR SANG GYÄ DRUB PAR SHOG
To aid all may I become Buddha.

ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཉི་མ་ཟླ་བ་རྒྱས་པའི།།
སྤྱན་གཉིས་པོ་ལ་འོད་རབ་གསལ་མ།།
ཧ་ར་གཉིས་བརྗོད་ཏུཏྟཱ་ར་ཡིས།།
ཤིན་ཏུ་དྲག་པོའི་རིམས་ནད་སེལ་མ།།

CHHAG TSHÄL NYI MA DA WA GYÄ PÄI
Homage! She whose two eyes bright with

CHÄN NYI PO LA Ö RAB SÄL MA
Radiance of sun and full moon!

HARA NYI JÖ TUTTĀRA YI
With twice HARA and TUTTĀRE

SHIN TU DRAG PÖI RIM NÄ SEL MA
She dispels severe contagion!

། ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha

དགེ་བ་འདི་ཡིས་མྱུར་དུ་བདག།།
འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་འགྲུབ་གྱུར་ནས།།
འགྲོ་བ་གཅིག་ཀྱང་མ་ལུས་པ།།
དེ་ཡི་ས་ལ་འགོད་པར་ཤོག།

GE WA DI YI NYUR DU DAG
Through the merits of these virtuous actions

PHAG MA DRÖL MA DRUB GYUR NÄ
May I quickly attain the state of Ārya Tārā

DRO WA CHIG KYANG MA LÜ PA
And lead all living beings, without exception,

DE YI SA LA GÖ PAR SHOG
Into that enlightened state

སེམས་ཅན་ནད་པ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ།།མྱུར་དུ་ནད་ལས་ཐར་གྱུར་ཅིག།འགྲོ་བའི་ནད་རྣམས་མ་ལུས་པ།།རྟག་དུ་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་ཤོག།

Watch a recording of a recent 4:30 PM PT practice in which Geshe Tenley explains the meaning of the Tara mantra.

Geshe Tenley taught the 21 Praises to Tara in a series of three lectures at Kurukulla Center in 2013. The teachings were given in Tibetan with English translation. Watch the videos on the Kurukulla Center YouTube channel.

Geshe Ngawang Tenley

"Geshe Ngawang Tenley was born in 1969 and in 1989 began preparation to become a monk under the guidance of his uncle, Geshe Tsulga. He was ordained by the late Gyume Khensur Geshe Urgyen Tseten Rinpoche in 1990 and began the program of studies to become a geshe at Sera Je Monastery. During the course of his studies, he has received many teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama as well as other highly qualified masters. 

"In 1998, he received his full ordination (gelong) vows from His Holiness, and in November 2008, after eighteen years of rigorous studies, he completed his final exams to be conferred the geshe degree at Sera Je Monastery. 

Continue reading his biography on the Kurukulla Center website.

Watch recordings of his Wednesday and Sunday teachings on the Kurukulla Center YouTube channel.

See more artwork by His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje on his website.