Tibetan-Translations.com: Tibetan Translations by Erick TsiknopoulosErick Tsiknopoulos (b. 1981) is an American translator of Tibetan, a scholar, researcher and postgraduate student in Buddhist Studies, a teacher and tutor of Tibetan language, a writer and editor, a voracious reader in various subjects, and an experienced world traveler. He is the founder and primary Tibetan translator of the Sugatagarbha Translation Group, and the creator of their main website, Tibetan-Translations.com, which currently features English translations of over 400 Tibetan texts. Many of his translations have been published in various forms, including as books.
He has been a student of Buddhism since 1999, a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 2003, and a student of Tibetan language since 2005. He has been translating Tibetan texts into English since 2007, has been based in India and Nepal studying Tibetan language and Buddhism intensively and translating Tibetan texts since 2008, and has been working professionally as a Tibetan-English translator and interpreter since 2009.
He is available for contact via email at: EmptyElephant@yahoo.com and SugatagarbhaTranslations@gmail.com
Yellow, Red and Black Parṇaśavarī Mantra Practices for Pacifying the Pandemic Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos Introduction In light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic, the practice of the female deity Parṇaśavarī, who has the unique power to destroy contagious diseases, has been recommended by many Tibetan spiritual teachers, including many of the […]
༈ནད་རིམས་ཀུན་ཐུབ་སྔགས་རྒོད་ཟབ་མོ་བཞུགས། The Profound Warrior Mantra for Overcoming All Epidemics by the Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoché, Tubten Trinlay Pelzangpo (1927-) Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos ཨོཾ་བྷེ་ཧུ་ན་ཁེ༔ ཙ་ན་དུ་ཧེ་ཧུ༔ བྷི་ཤ་མ་ཧི་ར་ཧོཾ༔ ཏྲི་ན་དུ་ཁེ༔ བྷི་ཤེ་ན་ཏ༔ བྷི་ན་ཡ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔1 OṂ BHEHUNAKHE/ CANADUHEHU/ BHIŚAMA HIRAHOṂ/ TRINADUKHE/ BHIŚENATA/ BHINAYA SVĀHĀ [Tibetan pronunciation: OṂ BHEHUNAKHE/ TSANADUHEHU/ BHISHAMA HIRAHONG/ TRINADUKHE/ BHISHENATA/ BHINAYA SWŌHĀ] སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྡོ་གྲུབ་ཆེན་གྱི་ཞལ་གསུངས་ལ་ཕབས་པའོ།། This was transcribed […]
A Practice of Yakṣiṇī Döndrupma to Dispel Pandemics by the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso (1617-1682) Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos NYIY-MEY NYIY-SU NANG-WA’Y GYU-DRA YIY Through the magical net in which the non-dual appears as duality, ZAK-DREL DÉ-WA CH’EN-PO KYEY-PA’Y YUM Comes the mother who gives birth to immaculate great bliss; […]
This is the currently list of published work available for purchase on the website amazon.com. The list is alphabetically organized for better navigation. We’re constantly adding new titles to it. 1. A Brief Biography of Ngawang Yéshey Tubten 2. A Long Life Prayer for Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche 3. A Long Life Prayer for the […]
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One month ago (in late August 2019), we began the long-awaited process of publishing all the translations from Tibetan into English of Erick Tsiknopoulos. All the translations of Erick Tsiknopoulos which were previously posted on their official website are currently in the process of being published on Amazon.com, where they are available for purchase. They […]
The creator of delusion and liberation in Saṃsāra and Nirvāṇa is one’s own mind.
Please bestow the spiritual attainments (siddhi) of the Awakened Body, Speech and Mind of the Guru, the Vajradhara, the Reverend Lord, Jampel Ngakwang Lozang Yéshey Tendzin Gyatso Pelzangpo (His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama).
OṂ ĀḤ GURU VAJRADHARA BHAṬṬĀRAKA MAÑJUŚRĪ VĀGINDRA SUMATI JÑĀNA ŚĀSANADHARA SAMUDRA ŚRĪBHADRA SARVA SIDDHI HŪṂ HŪṂ
Chapter 28: The Praise to All Tathāgatas Then the Bodhisattva Ruciraketu rose from his seat, placed his upper robe over one shoulder, planted his right knee on the ground, bowed toward the Bhagavān with folded palms; and thereupon praised the Bhagavān deeply with these verses: Lord of Sages, you are adorned by hundreds of […]
Chapter 27: The Praise Made by All the Bodhisattvas Then those many hundreds of thousands of Bodhisattvas went to where the Tathāgata Suvarṇaratnakaracchatrakuta was; and having gone there, they bowed their heads at the feet of the Tathāgata Suvarṇaratnakaracchatrakuta, and sat down to one side. Then, having sat down to one side, those many […]
Chapter 21: Excellent Manifestation (legs par byung ba’i le’u) (Volume Nine) Then, at that moment, the Bhagavān gave teaching in these verses: Whenever I became a world-turning king, At those times I offered the earth with its oceans, And even its four continents, filled with precious things, To all Jinas of the past. In […]
Chapter 19: Samjñāya, Lord of Yakṣas Then the supreme commander of the Yakṣas, Samjñāya, along with twenty-eight great Yakṣa generals, rose from his seat; and putting his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt on his right knee. Bowing with folded palms toward the Bhagavān, he addressed the Bhagavān in the following words: “Lord Bhagavān, now […]
Chapter 18: The Earth Goddess, Dṛḍhā Then the Earth Goddess, Dṛḍhā, addressed the Bhagavān in the following words:“Lord Bhagavān, now and in the future, wherever this Sovereign King of Sūtra Teachings, the Transcendent Golden Light exists, whether in towns, cities, villages, valleys, in the vicinities of monasteries, mountain medicinal valleys, or towns which abide in the […]
Photo by Fancycrave.com on Pexels.com Chapter 17: Vast Increase in Wealth by the Great Goddess Śrī Then the Goddess Mahāśrī spoke the following words to the Bhagavān:“Bhagavān, I dwell not far from here in the northern direction, in the retinue of the palace of Vaiśravaṇa, the Heavenly World called ‘Interwoven’, in the transcendent pleasure […]
Chapter 16: The Goddess Śrī Then the Great Goddess Śrī spoke the following words to the Bhagavān: “Lord Bhagavān, always and ever, I, the Great Goddess Śrī, shall bring an abundance of all necessary items to the monk who expounds the Dharma. He will have freedom from busy work and poverty, attain an expansive mind; and […]
Chapter 14: The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Dhāraṇī Then the Bhagavān gave this teaching to the Venerable Ānanda: “Ānanda, all lightning is warded off by you [oneself]. All previous Samyaksaṃbuddhas, appearing individually, one following the other, have taught this; and so I, too, shall now explain it. Please bear it in mind.” “Ānanda, in the eastern […]
Chapter 13: The Dhāraṇī of Non-Attachment The Bhagavān then gave this teaching to the Venerable Śāradvatiputra:“Śāradvatiputra, it is a fact that this Dharma Discourse known as ‘The Dhāraṇī of Non-Attachment’ is the mother of Bodhisattvas who meditate on all Dharmas, is the preliminary conduct of the Bodhisattvas; and is thoroughly retained by the Bodhisattvas.” […]
Chapter 11: The Meticulous Observation of Gods and Humans By the Four Great Kings Then the Great King Vaiśravaṇa, the Great King Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the Great King Virūḍhaka, and the Great King Virūpākṣa rose from their seats, put their upper robes over one shoulder, kneeled placing their right knee on the ground, bowed with joined […]
Chapter 9: Voidness Then after the Bhagavān had taught that Dhāraṇī, for the benefit and happiness of those assembled retinues of Bodhisattva Mahāsattavas, gods, humans and so on, in order to demonstrate the characteristics of voidness, the ultimate truth, at that time he spoke the following verses: In inconceivably many other Sūtras, I have […]
