Phonetics of Seven Line prayer

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Mnbair
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Phonetics of Seven Line prayer

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Hi all, hope you're doing well.


Would like to know if someone has a recording, would be able to show me or write out the phonetics of each word in the Seven Line prayer?

I would greatly appreciate the help 🙏🏻
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There must be shorter examples out there, but from last year's Guru Rinpoche empowerment. You'll have to do a bit of searching through the video. See here: https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.p ... 41#p545141
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There are many available videos and transliterations online. I learned a nice melody from a local Nyingma center.

Here are a couple:

Transliteration:
http://acalavidyaraja.blogspot.com/2013 ... rayer.html

Transliteration with Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jczsIm7hRvk
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Here is a useful PDF from a link found on Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's Heart Teachings website:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1025/ ... 5359127744

The link is from here under Seven Line Prayer: https://www.heartteachings.com/pages/resources
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What's wrong with English?

There was a poetic translation in White Lotus

It's perfect. That's the one I say.
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Crazywisdom wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:03 pm What's wrong with English?

There was a poetic translation in White Lotus

It's perfect. That's the one I say.
There is nothing wrong with English, it's something I would like to learn how to recite in Tibetan/Sanskrit.
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Mnbair wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:09 pm
Crazywisdom wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:03 pm What's wrong with English?

There was a poetic translation in White Lotus

It's perfect. That's the one I say.
There is nothing wrong with English, it's something I would like to learn how to recite in Tibetan/Sanskrit.
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Crazywisdom wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:47 pm
Mnbair wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:09 pm
Crazywisdom wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:03 pm What's wrong with English?

There was a poetic translation in White Lotus

It's perfect. That's the one I say.
There is nothing wrong with English, it's something I would like to learn how to recite in Tibetan/Sanskrit.
Cool
I do think it is worth while. My own teacher who is usually all about English English English (because you understand what you are reciting then!) recommends reciting the 7 Line Prayer in Tibetan (although he said you can also do English along with that). But YMMV probably depends on what your teacher says

Also to OP, I would recommend finding 7 Line Prayer on You Tube and singing along. That is how I learned, melody really helps. Keep in mind that many consonants at the ends of syllables are often not pronounced in Tibetan. And tr and dr are usually one sound (like a T or D but with the tongue curled back, kind of like chinese CH and ZH or Indian retroflex consonants). Also there are contrasts between aspirated and unaspirated (t versus th, tr versus thr etc.....) but these are usually not marked very consistently, in transliteration... and for practitioners purposes it probably is not too big of a deal to be a perfectionist about that

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karmanyingpo wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 3:43 am
Crazywisdom wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:47 pm
Mnbair wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:09 pm

There is nothing wrong with English, it's something I would like to learn how to recite in Tibetan/Sanskrit.
Cool
I do think it is worth while. My own teacher who is usually all about English English English (because you understand what you are reciting then!) recommends reciting the 7 Line Prayer in Tibetan (although he said you can also do English along with that). But YMMV probably depends on what your teacher says

Also to OP, I would recommend finding 7 Line Prayer on You Tube and singing along. That is how I learned, melody really helps. Keep in mind that many consonants at the ends of syllables are often not pronounced in Tibetan. And tr and dr are usually one sound (like a T or D but with the tongue curled back, kind of like chinese CH and ZH or Indian retroflex consonants). Also there are contrasts between aspirated and unaspirated (t versus th, tr versus thr etc.....) but these are usually not marked very consistently, in transliteration... and for practitioners purposes it probably is not too big of a deal to be a perfectionist about that

KN
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17th Karmapa recites GR 7 Line Prayer








Blessings will always follow from recitation of the Seven Line Prayer
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