The FPMT Essential Prayer Book contains prayers and practices common in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition recommended for the FPMT by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. It also features Rinpoche’s quintessential advice on the benefits and practice of some of those prayers.

As such, the FPMT Essential Prayer Book is a must-have for all FPMT centers and study groups. For the individual student, it is an invaluable—and inspiring—resource for devotional practice on a daily basis, and during retreat.

With additional practices composed, compiled or arranged by Rinpoche, and others frequently included by Rinpoche at his teachings and events, this 2021 publication (available in digital format only) presents an extensive update of the 2011 collection, Essential Buddhist Prayers, Vol 1, which has been discontinued. Read about prayer books updates here. 

Contents (in English translation and Tibetan transliteration):

Morning Prayers

• Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (including Enlightenment)
  
• Blessing the Speech
  
• Daily Mantras
  
• Preliminary Prayers
  
• Ritual for Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts
  
• Confession of a Bodhisattva’s Downfalls to the Thirty-Five Buddhas

Everyday Dharma

• Food Offering Prayers
  
• Mantras for Special Occasions
  
• Miscellaneous Mantras
  
• The Bodhicitta Mindfulness Practices

Prayers for Teaching Occasions

• General Teaching Prayers
  
• Extensive Teaching Prayers
  
• Abbreviated Prayers to the Lineage Gurus

Lamrim Prayers

• Calling the Guru from Afar
  
• A Direct Meditation on the Graduated Path Containing All the Important Meanings
  
• The Foundation of All Good Qualities
  
• The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
  
• A Hymn of Experience

Deity Practices

• A Daily Meditation on Shakyamuni Buddha
  
• Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga
  
• Everflowing Nectar of Bodhicitta (a Chenrezig practice with Eight Verses of Thought Transformation)
  
• A Short Vajrasattva Meditation
  
• Praises to the Twenty-One Taras
  
• Common Mantras

Long Life Prayers, Name Mantras, and Swift Return Prayers

• Prayers for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and for His Wishes to be Fulfilled and Holy Name Mantra and Request
  
• Swift Return Prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Holy Name Mantra of Lama Zopa Rinpoche
  
• Long life Prayer for Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche

The Eight Prayers

• King of Prayers
  
• A Daily Prayer to Maitreya
  
• The Dedication Chapter from Bodhicaryavatara
• A Prayer for the Beginning, Middle, and End of Practice
  
• Prayer to Be Reborn in the Land of Bliss
  
• Until Buddhahood
  
• Prayer for a Statue of Maitreya
  
• Prayer for Spontaneous Bliss

Dedication Prayers

• Dedication Prayers
  
• Lamrim Prayer (Lam rim mön lam, Der ni ring du)
  
• Prayer for the Flourishing of Je Tsongkhapa’s Teachings (Lo zang gyäl tän ma)
  
• Causing the Teachings of the Buddha to Flourish (Tän bar ma)
  
• Prayers for Multiplying Merit
  
• Migtsema Prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa

322 pages, 2023 Reissue.

We also make available most of these prayers and mantras as downloadable audio.