Text number

Drangsong 050

Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། བར་དོའི་འབྱུང་བ་འཇིག་ལུགས་བཞུགས་པའི་དབུ་ཕོགས་ལེགས་སོ།།

Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

bar do’i ’byung ba ’jig lugs bzhugs pa’i dbu pyogs legs so/

A brief summary of the item’s contents

After death, pray for the blessing of the guru in the bardo stage, and finally get happiness.

Number of folios

7

Item numbers

V050_IMG_2245 – 2250, 2609

Translation of title

Prayer for overcoming fear at the bardo stage

Transcription of colophon

nyin re la nyi shu rts 1 re brjod na mna’i nyes pa ni nyi mas ba mo ’joms pa zhin[bzhin] du bdag[dag] par the tshom med/ gnams[gnam] mtsho’i rdo la zhang zhung stong rgyung mthu chen dben gnas mdzad pa’i dus su mtsho’i phar kha la hor bkra shis kyi[kyis] rta sngon po 1 zhon/ sha khyi rgya rgya 1 khrid/ mda’ zhu[gzhu] ‘khor gsum rtags/ brag phreng ’jigs po la/ stong rgyung mthu chen la gsol ba ’debs zer nas rta rgyug rgyug byed kyin ’dug/ zhang zhung stong rgyung mthu chen ni kun bzang gi dgogs pa ’od gsal la gnas rigs drug gling 4 gling ’phran ’das ma ’ong da lta thams cad gsal srgibs med pas thugs rje[rjes] gzung[gzigs] nas skyobs/ de nas hor bkra shis kyi[kyis] lung pa 1 na shing chung ’doms grangs nas nyal pa mthong nas zung nas bsad snyams ’dug pas/ zhang zhung stong rgyung skad 1 la hor khro bo ’o bkra shis kyi spyi gtsug du zhal ’dzungs[’dzum] mdang dang bcas nas ’phen nas bzhugs/ pho pho zhis chung ’di ma bsod gtong dgos/ khyod daci chu g.yang la thugs rjes bzungs[kyang] ’di ’drai las byed pa gsungs/ lab rtsas srta ru mna’ tho bcad nas tshe thar btang/ slar lo mgo nas khos shing chung bsad/ de’i rnam smin gyis lo dgu la mna’i mun ’khrigs/ nyin langs gyang[kyang] nyi ma mthong/ mtshan nyal gyang[kyang] zla ba ma mthong/ lo dgu la nyi zla ma mathong/ na rag ’dab rdzab gnas su nyal dgos ’byung/ de nas zhung zhung stong rgyung mthu chen las gser dkar yol gang phul nas bshags pa phul/ zhang zhung stong rgyung mthun chen gyis/ dkar yol yu ban as gnam nas gser bla ma yi dam mkha’ ’gro bon skyong mchod gsungs nas nam mkha’ la gtor bas/ gser sa la ma babs so/ de nas hor ngan ’dul ba’i dus la babs nas/ mna’ bshags mdzad nas khos bston[bstan] ma thag du[tu]/ hor kyi[gyi] bshags sdig sgrib man’ mtsho bshags pas bdag gis/ gser gyi nyia ma shar/ dung gis[gi] zla pa tshes/ khos sdig spangs dge ba bon la spyod pas/ hor khro bo bkra shis kyis ‘khor g.yog thams cad mngon par sangs rgyas so// sa ma ya rgya rgya rgya/ phyi dus ma rig sems can rnams/ tshr lnga bcu bton nas khro bo rnama kyi zhal ’jal par ’gyr ro/ bkra shis/ dge’o/

Translation of colophon

If you recite it 21 times each day, there is no doubt that it will eliminate the sin caused by the oath. when master Zhang zhung stong rgyung mthu chen was meditating on the shore of the gNam mthso lake, Hor bkra shis appeared on the other side of the lake on a blue
horse, leading a grey hound, and carrying a bow and arrow. When he passed the cliffs, he said that he wanted to pray to Master sTong rgyung mthu chen for rush over like a horse. Zhang zhung stong rgyung mthu chen has all-positive of mind, then can use his
compassion to observe the six realms of reincarnation and all the past, present and future of the world systems, therefore (hor bkra shis) was rescued. After, Hor bkra shis saw a young deer in a ravine, he caught it and wanted to kill it, in an instant, Master Zhang
zhung stong rgyung smiled came to the top of Hor bkra shis’s head and said: “Don’t kill this young deer, let it go! I saved you just now when you passed the cliff, so you can’t do that.” In this way, [hor bkra shis] swore in front the mountain god and released the deer.
However, at the beginning of the following year, he killed the deer, so because of breaking the oath, he was contaminated by the sin of breaking the oath for nine years, he couldn’t see the sun during the day and the moon at the night, as long as for nine years,
and can only sleep in a muddy and dirty place like hell. Therefore, he offered a bowl of gold to master sTong rgyung mthu chen as a confession, and master sTong rgyung mthu chen said: “Sprinkle the gold in the bowl to the Gu ru, meditation deity and protector
deity in to sky,” then [hor bkra shis] sprinkled the gold in to sky, the gold didn’t fall on the ground. In this way, the time to tame the ferocious hor [Mongolian? 】has come, then after he [stong rgyung mthu chen] made a confession of transgression of oath, hor
people [Mongolia? ]’s sins are all cleaned up, the golden sun began to rose, the white moon began to shone, because of abandoning evil and practicing the good deeds of Bon doctrine, Hor khro bo bkra shis and all of his followers were released. Sa ma ya, rgya rgya rgya. In the future, the foolish people, if they recite the confession of oath for fifty
times, then they will realize the true nature of the peaceful and wrathful meditation deities. Auspicious, and good virtue.

Remarks

Pages 1-2, belong to the blessing of the Guru in the bardo stage, and the following ones belong to the confession of violating the oath, there are two texts not affiliated with each other and are incomplete.

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