Prayer of Kuntuzangpo

The Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra

Prayer of Kuntuzangpo (Tib. Kunzang Mönlam; Wyl. kun bzang smon lam) — a famous Dzogchen aspiration prayer from the Gongpa Zangthal. It is to be recited especially during a solar or lunar eclipse, an earthquake or at the solstices.

Commentaries

• a Tibetan commentary was written by the 15th Karmapa, Khakhyap Dorje (1870/1-1921/2)

English Translations

• Bhakha Tulku and Steven Goodman in Quintessential Dzogchen: Confusion Dawns as Wisdom (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2006), Ch. 9 'The Prayer of Kuntuzangpo'

Teachings on the Prayer of Kuntuzangpo

• Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Rigpa London, November 1991 & 8-9 February 1992.
• Garchen Rinpoche, Rigpa Berlin, 3-5 October 2008.

Further Reading

• Dzogchen Pönlop Rinpoche, Penetrating Wisdom: The Aspiration of Samantabhadra (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2006)
• Keith Dowman, The Flight of the Garuda, Wisdom, 1994
• Matthew Kapstein, 'The Prayer of the Original Buddha' in Buddhism in Practice edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr. Princeton, 1995

External Links

• Tibetan Text