A Short Guru Yoga on the Seventeenth Karmapa
Translation: Thomas Sherab Drime, Erik Pema Kunsang
Recitation: Kyabje 3rd Tenga Rinpoche
This Short Guru Yoga on the Root Lama Karmapa by the Third Kyabje Dorlop Tenga Rinpoche is a guru yoga for making your own body, speech, and mind inseparable from three vajras of body, speech and mind of the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa. The text encapsulates the meaning in a few words and is easy to practice regularly. Originally, Tenga Rinpoche asked the Gyalwang Karmapa several times to write his own short guru yoga. The Karmapa said he would look into it, but did not write one. Later, Kyabje Rinpoche himself prayed with one pointed faith and devotion and wrote this short guru yoga. He showed it to the Karmapa and asked whether it would be permissible to use it for practice, and the Karmapa gave his blessings, saying it would be permissible to use this text for practice. Tenga Rinpoche also composed a melody for it, which is included in the EPUB file.
The Yearning Song of Remembering the Guru is a supplication that is related to the guru yoga of the Gyalwang Karmapa. One night when Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche was at the Benchen Dharma Center in Belgium, he had a dream in which he remembered his root guru the Karmapa repeatedly and, unable to bear it, shed many tears. He wrote this supplication with the devotion of seeing his guru as an actual buddha. The commentary on text was written by the Tenth Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche at the request of the retreatants of Benchen Retreat Center.