The Tibetan Book of the Dead · Reading 169 of 170

The Appendix

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

Verses 12–14


In all the various lores, great, small, and intermediate,
Let it come that I be able to obtain mastery merely upon hearing, reflecting, and seeing;
In whatever place I be born, let it be auspicious;
Let it come that all sentient beings be endowed with happiness.

Ye Conquerors, Peaceful and Wrathful, in likeness to your bodies,
[Number of your] followers, duration of your life-period, limit of your realms
And [in likeness to the] goodness of your divine name,
Let it come that I, and others, equal your very selves in all these.

By the divine grace of the innumerable All-Good Peaceful and Wrathful [Ones],
And by the gift-waves of the wholly pure Reality,
[And] by the gift-waves of the one-pointed devotion of the mystic devotees,
Let it come that whatsoever be wished for be fulfilled here and now.

'The Path of Good Wishes Affording Protection from Fears in the Bardo' is finished.