Zangdokpalri - A Prayer of Aspiration for the Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory

Zangdokpalri - The Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory is the pure land where Guru Rinpoche now dwells, said to be located in Ngayab Ling. At the peak of the Copper-Coloured Mountain, Padmasambhava liberated the king of the rakshasas, Raksha Thötreng, and assumed his form. Now he dwells in Zangdokpalri as a ‘vidyadhara of spontaneous presence,’ the fourth vidyadhara level.

There,” writes Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche, "he manifested the inconceivable Palace of Lotus Light, and presides as a king, with one of his emanations in each of the eight continents of the rakshasas, giving teachings like the Eight Great Methods of Attainment of the Kagyé, and protecting the people of this world of Jambudvipa from fears for their life.

Even to this day, he reigns as the regent of Vajradhara, the ‘vidyadhara of spontaneous accomplishment of the ultimate path’; and thus he will remain, without ever moving, until the end of the universe.

About the Copper - Colored Mountain

While Pure Land Buddhism is generally thought of as an East Asian tradition with an Indian origin, the Copper-Colored Mountain is in fact the first and only pure land with scriptural origins entirely in the Tibetan tradition. 

It represents Tibetan culture’s fascinating intersection of traditional history with the liturgical Tantric practice. The Copper-Colored Mountain is understood to be the current abode of Padmasambhava, the Indian master credited with first bringing Buddhism to Tibet and founding Tibet’s first monastery, Samye.

After leaving Tibet, it is said that Padmasambhava set up residence on Cāmara, one of the two islands on either side of the continent of Jambudvipa, our world according to Buddhist cosmology. After taming the resident ogres of Cāmara and converting them to Buddhism, he then built an octagonal palace where Buddhist practitioners may be transported in visions and dreams or reborn through aspiration prayers.

Zangdokpalri - A Prayer of Aspiration for the Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory

(By Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa)

Dömé shi dang yermé pema jung

Lotus-Born, you are inseparable from our original nature.

Rangnang dakpé zangdok palri zhing

Your realm, the Copper-Coloured Mountain of Glory, is our experience in its purity.

Nang rik yermé machö nyukmé ngang

May we take birth in this primordially pure realm.

Döné namdak zhing du kyewar shok

May all be born in the original pureland.

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May it arise and not decrease

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By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

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