Wangdu Vocabulary

Vocabulary Lists May 11, 2025
Wangdu - The Magnetizing Prayer

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To support practitioners and students of Tibetan language, we have created a comprehensive vocabulary list extracted from the Wangdu prayer text. The vocabulary includes:

  • 136 Tibetan terms with their English translations
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Sample Vocabulary

དབང་དུ་ - to magnetize/bring under control
སྡུད་པའི་ - gathering/collecting
གསོལ་འདེབས་ - prayer/supplication
བྱིན་རླབས་ - blessings
སྤྲིན་ཆེན་ - great cloud

Wangdu (དབང་སྡུད་), or "The Great Cloud of Blessings: The Prayer which Magnetizes All that Appears and Exists," is a profound magnetizing prayer composed by the great Nyingma master Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche (1846-1912). This powerful supplication is addressed to the nine deities of the Padma family who embody the magnetizing activity of enlightened awareness. The prayer has gained widespread popularity and is practiced across various Tibetan Buddhist traditions for its extraordinary ability to draw in positive conditions, remove obstacles, and empower spiritual practice.

The Wangdu prayer was particularly championed by the great contemporary master Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche (1933-2004), who established Larung Gar, one of the world's largest Buddhist academies in eastern Tibet. Recognizing its immense spiritual power, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok encouraged its daily recitation among his thousands of disciples, stating that it was "the most effective means" for benefiting sentient beings.