༄༅། །ཨོ་རྒྱན་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཀའི་ཐང་ཡིག་གི་དོན་བསྡུས་གསོལ་འདེབས་ངོ་མཚར་ཨུ་དུམྦ་རའི་ཕྲེང་མཛེས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །
A Beautiful and Wondrous Udumbara Garland: A Supplication and Summary of the Chronicles of Padma, The Life and Liberation of the Precious Guru of Uddiyana by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
By Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
This prayer beautifully summarizes the Padma Kathang (The Chronicles of Padma), one of the most famous and influential of Guru Padmasambhava’s many biographies. It reveals how Guru Rinpoche manifests in an infinite variety of forms in order to protect and spread the Buddhadharma.
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