ང་ཡི་བླ་མ།
My Lama
ཚིག བློ་འཇམ་དབྱངས།
དབྱངས། བདུད་བྷེ།
ལེན་མཁན། ཀུན་དགའ།
Lyrics: Lo Jamyang
Melody: Dubhe
Singer Kunga
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
ཕྱག་ན་པདྨོར་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Chakna
Pemor khyenno
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Yibshin
Norbu Khyenno
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Yibshin
Norbu Khyenno
Think of
me, lama, think of me
Holder of
the lotus flower [1], Think of me
Think of
me, lama, think of me
Wish
Fulfilling Jewel, think of me
Think of
me, lama, think of me
Wish
Fulfilling Jewel [2], think of me
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Tsawey
lama khyenno
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
འཇིག་མེད་ཕུན་ཚོགས་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Jigme
Phuntsok khenno
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
འཇིག་མེད་ཕུན་ཚོགས་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Jigme
Phuntsok Khyenno
Think of
me, lama, think of me
My root
lama, Think of me
Think of
me, lama, think of me
Jigme
Phuntsok[3], think of me
Think of
me, lama, think of me
Jigme
Phuntsok, think of me
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
དྲིན་ཆེན་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Drinchen
lama khyenno
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
བསྟན་འཛིན་སྐྱེས་བུ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Tenzin
kyebu khyenno
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
བསྟན་འཛིན་སྐྱེས་བུ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Tenzin
kyebu khyenno
Think of
me, lama, think of me
Lama of
great kindness, think of me
Think of
me, lama, think of me
Promoter
of the Dharma[4], think of me
Think of
me, lama, think of me
Promoter
of the Dharma, think of me
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
དུས་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བའི་རྣམ་འཕྲུལ།
Düsum
gyalwey namtrül
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
ང་ཡི་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Ngayi
lama khyenno
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
ང་ཡི་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Ngayi
lama khyenno
མཁྱེན་ནོ་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Khyenno
Lama Khyenno
ང་ཡི་བླ་མ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།
Ngayi
Lama Khyenno
Think of
me, lama, think of me
Victorious
emanation of the three times
Think of
me, lama, think of me
My lama,
think of me
Think of
me, lama, think of me
My lama,
think of me
Think of
me, lama, think of me
My lama,
think of me
Note: This
song is replete with visual and written symbolism. To better understand
this, I have made some notes regarding the lyrics:
[1]
Holder of the lotus flower refers to Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig, the
Bodhisattva of Compassion
[2]
Yibshin Norbu or "Wish fulfilling jewel" is used for extremely
high lamas, most notably any "His Holiness" within their school, and
the Dalai Lama among much of the Tibetan community.
[3]
Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok was a relatively recent lama who staged one of the
largest revivals of Tibetan Buddhism in recent history. He built Serta
Larung Gar, the largest Buddhist university in the modern world, and passed
away in 2004, not long before this song was published.
[4] While
Tenzin kyebu would be translated as "noble holder of the dharma" or
"promoter of the dharma" it can also be broken down as "The
great man, Tenzin"
Visually,
in the first verse, during the second half, when it says "Wish fulfilling
jewel, think of me" an overlaid image of an elderly lama. It is in
fact this image of the 13th Dalai Lama:
During
the second verse, we see Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, and during the 3rd, the
previous Panchen Lama
