by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Homage to the guru! Glorious one, pervading all the world and its inhabitants,Vajrasattva, who binds the whole of reality in great bliss,Omnipresent guru, in your illusory wisdom form—Great Jetsün Kunga Nyingpo, to you I offer praise. A pure and magical manifestation beyond imagining,A protector who guides the oceanic multitudes of beings,A great Bodhisattva heir of the victorious, Lord of Secrets,Appearing as this great Jetsün guru—to you I bow down. With your vast intellect, the result of prior training,You studied the outer and inner fields of knowledgeAnd comprehended them all perfectly right away,With your fully developed strength of wisdom—to you I bow. Above all, for the profound and vast meaning of sūtra and tantra,You did not rely on others but used your own discernment,To perceive clearly and unerringly the ultimate intentOf the genuinely learned and accomplished of India and Tibet—to you I bow. The Lord of Sages, the Close Sons, Tārā, Padmākara,Ḍombīheruka and the noble Candragomin,The goddess Sarasvatī, a hundred adepts, Abhaya,And the Kulika kings all cared for you—to you I bow. Dark red Mañjuśrī Vajrabhairava,Kālacakra, Guhyasamāja, Vārāhī, and othersAppeared to you in visions, empowered you and issued prophecies.To you, the infinite and inconceivable light of wisdom, I bow. As the glorious Heruka VajrasattvaAnd Vajrayoginī, mother of the victorious ones,Granted, you’re the secret treasury of ocean-like tantras,You are inseparable from Vajradharma—to you I bow. During this final age of fivefold degeneration,You stand tall, as prominent as Mount SumeruAmidst hundreds of learned and accomplished ones—Glorious and mighty Vajradhara, to you I bow. When those with honest, impartial minds investigate,No one can compare to you throughout the three worldsAt revealing definitive secrets in this turbulent age—Guru Kṛṣṇācārya, to you I respectfully bow down. Abhayākara in the land of the Āryas,And Tāranātha in the land of snows—In the act of compiling the oceanic tantra teachings,There is no difference between you—to you, I bow. Through applying the supreme vajra path to the vajra body,You traversed the vajra stages according to the vajra vehicle,And gained the four vajra kāyas of vajra sovereignty—Vajra guru, Vajrasattva, to you I bow. To you, who in the future, in