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Chokgyur Lingpa’s Prayers for Rebirth in Zangdok Palri

Chokgyur Lingpa’s Prayers for Rebirth in Zangdok Palri

I hope this message finds you well, healthy and happy. To conclude our Copper-Colored Mountain series on this last Guru Rinpoche day of the year of the pig, I would like to share with you a very special prayer for rebirth in Zangdok Palri, written by the great tertön Chokgyur Lingpa himself.

Pema Lingpa’s Visionary Journey to the Copper-Colored Mountain

Pema Lingpa’s Visionary Journey to the Copper-Colored Mountain

One morning before dawn, as Pema Lingpa was in a dream-like meditative state, three ḍākinīs came to him, leading a white horse. They invited the tertön to mount the horse and follow them to Zangdok Palri, and so they journeyed to the summit of a snow mountain…