This prayer is also used for prostration.

༄༅། །སྐྱབས་སུ་འགྲོ་བ། །

དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་དངོས་བདེ་གཤེགས་རྩ་བ་གསུམ། །
རྩ་རླུང་ཐིག་ལེའི་རང་བཞིན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། །
ངོ་བོ་རང་བཞིན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ལ། །
བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོའི་བར་དུ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །

Translation

དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་དངོས་བདེ་གཤེགས་རྩ་བ་གསུམ། །
In the Three Jewels, and their essence, the sugatas, in the three roots: lama, yidam, and khandro,

རྩ་རླུང་ཐིག་ལེའི་རང་བཞིན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། །
In the channels, inner air, and bindus, and their nature, the bodhicitta,

ངོ་བོ་རང་བཞིན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ལ། །
In the mandala of essence, nature, and compassion,

བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོའི་བར་དུ་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །
I take refuge until enlightenment is fully realized.

Explanation

This refuge prayer is very complete because it’s about taking various refuges at once:

Outer, Inner and Secret Refuge

RefugeObjectsTibetanExplanation
OuterBuddhaསངས་རྒྱས།The supreme guide and historical teacher who demonstrated complete awakening.
Dharmaཆོས།The actual teachings, methods, and the truth of cessation from suffering.
Sanghaདགེ་དུན།The spiritual community of realized practitioners who assist and accompany you on the path.
Guruབླ་མ།The root of blessing. Living embodiment of the Three Jewels who directly points out the nature of mind.
Yidamཡི་དམ།The root of accomplishment (དངོས་གྲུབ།). Enlightened forms that the practitioners visualizes and identifies with to awaken their own inherent pure qualities.
Dakiniམཁའ་འགྲོ་མ།The root of enlightened activity (འཕྲིན་ལས།). These protectors clear away inner and outer obstacles, creating conductive conditions for practice.
InnerChannelsརྩ།The paths through which energy flows.
Windsརླུང་།The kinetic force, breath, or intelligence moving through the channel.
Dropsཐིག་ལེ།Subtle liquid essence, physical-spiritual concentrates stored within the channels (white, red, ultimate essence [union of primordial purity དག་པ། and spontaneous presence ལྷུན་གྲུབ།])
SecretEssenceངོ་བོ།Emptiness, primordial purity (ཀ་དག). Mind's nature has no solid, findable substance. Paired with the dharmakaya (ཆོས་སྐུ།).
Natureརང་བཞིན།Luminosity or clarity, spontaneous presence (ལྷུན་གྲུབ།). Although empty, mind is vividly aware and knowing. Paired with the sambhogakaya (ལོངས་སྐུ།).
Compassionཐུགས་རྗེ།The all-pervading, unobstructed responsiveness of awareness: the dynamic expression of the union of emptiness and clarity. Paired with the nirmanakaya (སྤྲུལ་སྐུ།).
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