Fulfilling All Wishes: A Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

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.

✨ Watch the full recording of this teaching and revisit Khenpo la’s clear, inspiring explanation of this essential guru yoga practice: