CONFESSION OF DOWNFALLS TO THE 35 BUDDHAS .

CONFESSION OF DOWNFALLS TO THE 35 BUDDHAS (Tibetan Tradition)

"I, [..say your name..], throughout all times, take refuge in the Gurus;
I take refuge in the Buddhas;
I take refuge in the Dharma;
I take refuge in the Sangha.
To the Founder, the Transcendent Destroyer, the One Gone Beyond, the Foe Destroyer, the Fully Enlightened One, the Glorious Conqueror from the Shakyas, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Great Destroyer, destroying with Vajra essence, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Jewel Radiating Light, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the King with Power over the Nagas, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Leader of the Warriors, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious Blissful One, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Jewel Fire, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Jewel Moonlight, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, whose Pure Vision Brings Accomplishments, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Jewel Moon, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Stainless One, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious Giver, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Pure One, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Bestower of Purity, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Celestial Waters, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Deity of the Celestial Waters, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious Good, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious Sandalwood, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the One of Unlimited Splendor, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious Light, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious One without Sorrow, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Son of the Desireless One, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious Flower, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, who Understands Reality, Enjoying the Radiant Light of Purity, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, who Understands Reality, Enjoying the Radiant Light of the Lotus, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious Gem, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious One who is Mindful, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious One whose Name is Extremely Renowned, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the King Holding the Banner over the Senses, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious One who Subdues Everything Completely, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Victorious One in All Battles, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious One Gone Beyond to Perfect Self- control, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Glorious One who Enhances and Illuminates Completely, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Jewel Lotus who Subdues All, I bow down.
To the One Gone Beyond, the Foe Destroyer, the Fully Enlightened One, the King with Power over Mount Meru, always Remaining in the Jewel and the Lotus, I bow down. (3X)
Alternatively, in Tibetan:
Dag [.. say your name ..] zhe gyi.wa
du.tag.tu la.ma la kyab.su.chi.wo
sang.gya la kyab.su.chi.wo
cho la kyab.su.chi.wo
ge.dun la kyab.su.chi.wo
Ton pa chom.dan.da de.zhin.sheg dra.chom yang.dag.pa dzog.pa sang.gya pal.gyal.wa shakya tub.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa dor.je.nying.po.rab.tu.jom.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa rin.chen.o.tro.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa lu.wang.gyi.gyal.po.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa pa.wo.de.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa pal.gye.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa rin.chen.me.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa rin.chen.da o.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa tong.wa.don.yo.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa rin.chen.da.wa.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa dri.ma.me.pa.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa pal.jin.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa tsang.pa.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa tsang.pa.jin.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa chu.lha.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa chu.lha.lha.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa pal.zang.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa tsan.dan.pal.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa zi.ji.ta.ya.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa o.pal.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa nya.ngan.me.pa.pal.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa se.me.kyi.bu.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa me.tog.pal.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa tsang.pa.o.zer nam.par rol.pa ngon.pa kyen.pa.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa pa.ma.o.zer.nam.pa rol.pa ngon.par kyen.pa.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa nor.pal la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa dran.pa.pal.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa tsan.pal.shin.tu.yong.dag.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa wang.po.tog.gi.gyal.tsan.gyi.gyal.po.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa shin.tu nam.par non.pa.pal la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa yul.la.shin.tu.nam.par gyal.wa.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa nam.pa.non.pa.sheg.pa.pal.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa kun.na.nang.wa.ko.pa.pal.la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa rin.chen pa.ma nam.par non.pa.pal la chag.tsal.lo
de.zhin.sheg pa dra.chom yang.dag.pa.dzog.pa sang.gya rin.po.che dang.pa.ma la rab.tu.zhug ri.wang.gi.gyal.po.la chag.tsal.lo"
Foe Destroyers, fully enlightened Ones and transcendent Destroyers, who are existing, sustaining and living throughout the ten directions of sentient beings' worlds - all you Buddhas, please give me your attention.
In this life and throughout beginningless lives in all the realms of samsara, I have created negative karma, caused others to create it and rejoiced at it.
I have stolen offerings to holy objects, offerings to the sangha and offerings to the sangha of the ten directions.
I have caused others to steal these and rejoiced at such theft.
I have committed the five heinous crimes, caused others to do them and rejoiced at their doing.
I have committed the ten non-virtuous actions, involved others in them and rejoiced in their involvement.
Being obscured by all this karma, I've created the cause for myself and other sentient beings to be reborn in the hells, as animals, as pretas, in irreligious places, amongst barbarians, as long-living gods, with imperfect senses, holding wrong views and being displeased with the presence of a Buddha.
Now before these Buddhas, transcendent destroyers who have become transcen- dental wisdom, who have become the compassionate eye, who have become witness, who have become valid and see with their omniscient minds, I am confessing and accepting all these actions as negative.
I will not conceal or hide them and from now on I will refrain from committing these negative actions.
Buddhas and transcendent destroyers, please give me your attention.
In this life and throughout beginningless lives in all the realms of samsara, whatever root of virtue I've created through even the smallest act of charity such as giving one mouthful of food to an animal, whatever root of virtue I've created by keeping pure morality, whatever root of virtue I've created by abiding in pure conduct, whatever root of virtue I've created by fully ripening sentient beings' minds, whatever root of virtue I've created by generating bodhicitta and whatever root of virtue I've created of the highest transcendental wisdom, bringing together all these merits of both myself and others, I now dedicate them to the highest of which there is no higher, to that even above the highest, to the highest of the high, to that which is higher than the foe destroyer.
Thus I dedicate them completely to the highest, fully accomplished enlightenment.
Just as the Buddhas and transcendent destroyers of the past have dedicated, just as the Buddhas and transcendent destroyers of the future will dedicate and just as the Buddhas and transcendent destroyers of the present are dedicating, in the same way I make this dedication.
I confess all my negative karmas separately and rejoice in all merits.
I implore all the Buddhas to grant my request that I may realize the ultimate, sublime, highest transcendental wisdom.
To the sublime kings of human beings living now, to those of the past and to those who have yet to appear, to all those whose knowledge is as vast as an infinite ocean, with palms joined, I go for refuge.

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GENERAL CONFESSION (Tibetan tradition)

Ah, woe is me! Great Guru Vajradhara and all other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas dwelling in the ten directions, and venerable Sangha, please pay attention to me!
I, [..say your name..], for beginningless samsaric lifetimes until now, owing to the defilements - greed, hate and delusion - have committed by body, speech and mind the ten non-virtuous actions;
I have created the five immediate karmas;
I have created the five similar to them;
I have broken the Pratimoksha vows;
I have broken the Bodhisattva's training;
I have broken my tantric pledges;
I have been disrespectful to my parents;
I have been disrespectful to my Preceptor and Teachers;
I have been disrespectful to companions in the celibate life;
I have done actions harmful to the Three Jewels;
I have rejected the true Dharma;
I have abused the Sangha of Aryas;
I have done actions harmful to sentient beings and so forth.
This accumulation of non-virtuous actions that I have done, asked others to do, or rejoiced in when others have done them and so forth; in short, my entire accumulation of faults and offenses that hinder higher rebirth and liberation and cause samsara and evil rebirth, I confess before the great Guru Vajradhara and all the other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas dwelling in the ten directions, and the venerable Sangha; I do not conceal them, I reveal them; henceforth I take up restraint.
If I confess and reveal them, I shall dwell in pleasant contacts; but if I do not confess and reveal them, I shall not. (3X) .END=RESEARCH BUDDHIST DHARMA BY BACH LIEN HOA.( TAM THANH ).NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).MHDT.OM MANI PADME HUM.( 3 TIMES ).1/4/2012.