This poem is a prayer for world peace written by Kyabje Chadral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche. It calls upon Buddhist figures like the Buddha, Bodhisattvas, and protectors to help prevent nuclear war from destroying the world. The poem warns that powerful people inflamed by dark forces may spark conflicts using nuclear weapons, reducing the world and all its inhabitants to dust. It asks the enlightened beings to observe the troubled times and consider how beings suffer due to bad karma in this degenerate age.

1. A Prayer for World Peace (1)
by Kyabje Chadral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche
Namo Guru Ratnatraya!
The forces of quick jerks,
The forces of darkness -- like an army of
demons -- inflame important and powerful
people,
That will rise in conflicts, armed with nuclear
weapons,
That will disintegrate the world.
To the Teacher and the Three Jewels, I
bow !
True Leader of the Golden Age -Crown of
the Shakyas !
Second Buddha, Prince of Oddiyana, LakeBorn Vajra !
Bodhisattvas, eight closest spiritual heirs,
The High Noble Ones, Avalokiteshvara,
Manjushri, Vajrapani and the others !
Twenty-one Taras, Host of Noble Elders,
Root and Lineage Lamas, Deities of
Peaceful and Wrathful Ones !
Dakinis in the Three Realms !
You who through wisdom or karma have
become Defenders of the Holy Doctrine !
Guardians of the Four Directions !
Seventy-five Glorious Protectors !
The weapons of perverse and erring
intentions,
Have released this violent wind-storm.
Through this ill-omened devil’s tool,
It will soon reduce the world, within a split
second,
And all those in it to atoms of dust.
It is easy to see, hear and think about
Ignorant people, caught in a net of confusion
and doubt,
Who are stubborn and still refuse to
understand.
It terrifies us in just hearing about it, or to
remember
This thing that has never occurred before,
The world is so full of uncertainties !
You who are clairvoyant, powerful, magical
and almighty !
Behold and consider the beings of this time
of disturbance !
We are beings born in this sorrowful
Degenerate Age;
An ocean of ill effects overflows from our
universally bad karmas.
...To be Continued
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Issue no. 25
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