ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ།

Who Is Guru Rinpoche?

Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava, “the Lotus-Born”) is the master who is said to have brought Vajrayana Buddhism from India to Tibet in the eighth century. In the Nyingma school he is revered as the “Second Buddha” and is honored as the root teacher of every practice.

On this page we introduce Guru Rinpoche's mantra and the “Seven-Line Prayer.”

The Mantra of Guru Rinpoche

ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ།

Om Ah Hung Benza Guru Pema Siddhi Hung

Tibetan scriptPronunciationMeaning
ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ།Om Ah HungThree seed syllables representing the body, speech, and mind of the Buddhas
བཛྲ་གུ་རུ།Benza GuruVajra Master
པདྨ།PemaLotus (Padmasambhava)
སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ།Siddhi HungGrant us accomplishment. Hung

The Seven-Line Prayer

This is a short prayer that invites Guru Rinpoche. In the Nyingma school it is recited at the beginning of many ceremonies and practice sessions.

Reciting It Straight Through

ཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔ པདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔ ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས༔ པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གྲགས༔ འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔ ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྱིས༔ བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔ གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔

Hung / Ugyen Yul gyi Nub Chang Tsam / Pema Gesar Dongpo La / Yatsen Chok gi Ngödrub Nyé / Pema Jungné Shé su Drak / Khor du Khandro Mangpö Kor / Khyé kyi Jé su Dak Drub kyi / Jin gyi Lab chir Shek su Sol / Guru Pema Siddhi Hung

The Meaning, Line by Line

Tibetan scriptPronunciationMeaning
ཧཱུྃ༔Hung(The seed syllable of invocation)
ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔Ugyen Yul gyi Nub Chang TsamIn the northwest of the land of Uddiyana
པདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔Pema Gesar Dongpo LaUpon the stem and pistil of a lotus flower
ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས༔Yatsen Cho(k) gi Ngödrub NyéYou attained the wondrous, supreme accomplishment
པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གྲགས༔Pema Jungné Shé su Da(k)Known by the name “Lotus-Born”
འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔Khor du Khandro Mangpö KorSurrounded by a retinue of many dakinis
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྱིས༔Khyé kyi Jé su Da(k) Drub kyiFollowing in your footsteps, I too will practice
བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔Jin gyi Lab chir Shé(k) su SolTo bestow your blessings, please come
གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔Guru Pema Siddhi HungLotus Master, grant us accomplishment. Hung

When You Recite

The pronunciations are given in Latin letters, following the way the mantra is read in Tibet. At ceremonies and the like, please follow the way the presiding teacher recites.

Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava, “the Lotus-Born” / Pema Jungné, padma 'byung gnas)
“Precious Master.” He is said to have brought Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet in the eighth century, and is honored as the founder of the Nyingma school.