Today, for the forthcoming commemoration on the 19th August 2024 of the parinirvāṇa of Karma Kagyu founding forefather, Dagpo Gampopa, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa published a new Offering Praise in Tibetan.
As there is no English translation of the praise, I have provided one here (see below). Apologies for any errors in meaning or intent! Interesting to note that the 17th Karmapa writes ‘here’ in the land of Tibet.
བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་གཙུག་རྒྱན་མཉམ་མེད་སྒམ་པོ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་
ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་སྐུར་བཞེངས་པའི་དུས་མཆོད།
Offering for the ‘crown jewel’ of Kagyu, the erection of the Sambhogakāya, the unequalled, great Gampopa
གངས་ཀྱིས་རི་བོས་བྲེས་པའི་ཁོར་ཡུག་འདིར། །
ཐེག་མཆོག་ངེས་དོན་བསྟན་པའི་སྲོལ་ཕྱེས་ནས། །
གྲུབ་པའི་ཚང་ཆེན་གཏོལ་བའི་མི་བོ་ཆེ། །
ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན། །
— ཀརྨ་པ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེས།
“Here, in the land enveloped by mountains and snow,
A great man ‘opened up’ the supreme vehicle of definitive meaning teachings,
and erected [1] the great abode (Tsang-chen) [2] of accomplishment.
Remembering the Dharma-King, Youthful Brilliant-moon (Dawo Zhonu).
by Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje”
Translated by Adele (Zangmo) Tomlin, 16th August 2024.
The 17th Karmapa also wrote a different Praise for Gampopa’s commemoration in 2023, which I translated here.
For original articles and research on Dagpo Gampopa and his Collected Works, see the website section here.
Endnotes
[1] This word གཏོལ་བ can also be translated as disclosed, revealed and even built. I used penetrated as it seems to have more a sense of piercing, slashing through something.
[2] Tsang-chen is the name in Tibet of a plain in the Upper Do valley.