Fulfilling All Wishes: A Prayer to Guru Rinpoche
Our November text of the month was Fulfilling All Wishes: A Prayer to the Embodiment of All Refuges, Guru Rinpoche—a guru yoga liturgy composed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.
This concise practice brings together all the essential elements of guru yoga—visualization, the seven branches, supplication, Padmasambhava’s twelve-syllable mantra, and a brief visualization of receiving the initiations—within a single, complete text. Khyentse Wangpo created it as a shorter form of Le’u Dünma, the famous Seven-Chapter Prayer to Guru Rinpoche, making it easy to integrate with other practices or recite on its own daily.
Explore the full text and related materials in our reading room.
Teaching with Khenpo Sonam Tsewang
For our November Text of the Month, we were honored to have Khenpo Sonam Tsewang as our special guest teacher. Continuing our celebration of Guru Rinpoche, Khenpo la offered a profound teaching on Fulfilling All Wishes: A Prayer to the Embodiment of All Refuges, Guru Rinpoche—a guru yoga liturgy composed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.
This concise practice brings together all the essential elements of guru yoga—visualization, the seven branches, supplication, Padmasambhava’s twelve-syllable mantra, and a brief visualization of receiving the initiations—within a single, complete text. Khyentse Wangpo composed it as a shorter form of Le’u Dünma, the famous Seven-Chapter Prayer to Guru Rinpoche, making it easy to integrate with other practices or recite on its own daily.
Khenpo Sonam Tsewang, trained at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies and the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, also founded the translation and editorial committees at Namdroling Monastery. At KVP, he serves as a traditional scholar, bringing extensive knowledge and experience—particularly in translating complex Nyingma texts. As interpreter for Khenpo Pema Sherab Rinpoche, he continues to travel worldwide sharing the Dharma.
❗️Khenpo la has kindly requested that those who wish to watch the recording of this teaching do so only if they have already received any Guru Rinpoche empowerment—there’s no need to specify which one.
Tutorial on Fulfilling All Wishes with Philippe Turenne, Dr. Amelia Hall and Arne Schelling
Following Khenpo Sonam Tsewang’s teaching on Fulfilling All Wishes, we held an in-depth tutorial exploring how this text functions as a concise, practice-ready distillation of the Seven-Chapter Prayer.
KVP alumni translator Philippe Turenne, in-house editor Dr. Amelia Hall, and research coordinator Arne Schelling discussed practical concerns: why short and potent practices are especially relevant today, how practitioners can approach the prayer in English, and what challenges arise in translation. They then offered a historical and doctrinal reflection on the terma tradition, showing how Padmasambhava’s activity operates across time so that the prayer remains rooted in its treasure lineage while continuing to meet the needs of practitioners today.