The Tibetan Book of the Dead · Reading 168 of 170

The Appendix

IV: The Path of Good Wishes which Protecteth from Fear in the Bardo

Verses 9–11


When I behold the future parents in union,
Let it come that I behold them as the [Divine] Pair, the Conquerors, the Peaceful and the Wrathful Father and Mother;
Obtaining the power of being born anywhere, for the good of others,
Let it come that I obtain the perfect body, adorned with the signs and the graces.

Obtaining for myself the body of a male [which is] the better,
Let it come that I liberate all who see or hear me;
Allowing not the evil karma to follow me,
Let it come that whatever merits [be mine] follow me and be multiplied.

Wherever I be born, there and then,
Let it come that I meet the Conquerors, the Peaceful and the Wrathful Deities;
Being able to walk and to talk as soon as [I am] born,
Let it come that I obtain the non-forgetting intellect and remember my past life [or lives].