༄༅། །གསོལ་འདེབས་བྱིན་རླབས་སྤྲིན་ཕུང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས།
Cloud Banks of Blessings: A Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava
By His Holiness the Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lopsang Gyatso
The Great Fifth Dalai Lama wrote this prayer to Guru Padmasambhava in his eight manifestations, calling upon him to remember his pledge to Tibet and its people, for recitation on the tenth day of each lunar month.
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