十万荟供

In a house opposite Shechen Monastery in Bauda, Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche and his wife were sleeping peacefully when an emissary from Rigpa arrived to ask questions about how to do a ‘one hundred thousand tsok offering’. Rinpoche sat up instantly, wrapped himself in his bedclothes to keep warm, and began to speak... This short teaching was originally translated by Matthieu Ricard, but unfortunately the recording has been misplaced.

在博达雪谦寺对面的一所房子里，乌金督佳仁波切与夫人正在安睡。这时，一位本觉会的使者来到，询问应当如何举行“十万荟供”。仁波切立刻坐起来，将被褥裹在身上保暖，开始讲解……这篇简短开示最初由马修·李卡德口译，但遗憾的是，录音已经遗失。

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche said that making a one hundred thousand tsok offering wasn’t part of the ancient tsok tradition. It developed later, when Jikmé Lingpa’s short tsok prayer was used (Tsok dzé dö yön...) to offer 100,000 tsoks. Before then, it was more usual to make just 100 or 1,000 tsok offerings.

顶果钦哲仁波切说，十万荟供并不属于古老的荟供传统，而是后来用吉美林巴的简短荟供祈请文（Tsok dzé dö yön...）作十万次荟供，才逐渐发展起来。在此之前，通常只作一百或一千次荟供。

Just as there’s an elaborate, a medium and short way of doing a 1,000 tsok offering, there are also three ways of doing a 100,000 tsok offering.

如同一千次荟供有广、中、略三种作法，十万次荟供也有三种作法。

For the elaborate ritual, the sadhana is recited 1,000 times, with one material tsok offered for each repetition. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche told me that before Minling Chung Rinpoche went to China^[1] , he made 1,000 tsok offerings, and the Mindroling monks recited the sadhana from Lama Sangdu 1,000 times, and made 1,000 tsok offerings. Therefore, the elaborate way of offering 1,000 tsoks is to recite the sadhana of whichever of the Three Root deities you want to practise, and for each recitation make one offering of tsok substances.

广轨的作法，是念诵成就法一千遍，每念一遍，就献上一份实物荟供。顶果钦哲仁波切告诉我，敏林炯仁波切前往中国之前^[1]，曾作一千次荟供；敏卓林的僧人将《上师密集》成就法念了一千遍，并作了一千次荟供。因此，一千次荟供的广轨作法，就是念诵你想修持的任何一尊三根本尊的成就法，每念一遍，就献上一份荟供供物。

For the medium-length ritual, the sadhana is recited 100 times, and for each recitation ten tsoks are offered. So you first recite the confession, then ten tsok prayers, then the aspiration prayers, and so on.

中轨的作法，是念诵成就法一百遍，每念一遍，作十次荟供。也就是说，先念忏悔文，再念十遍荟供祈请文，随后念发愿文等。

For the short ritual, the relevant sadhana is recited and 1,000 tsok prayers and material offerings accumulated.

略轨的作法，是念诵相应成就法，并积累一千遍荟供祈请文和一千份实物供养。

Nowadays, accumulations are usually based on the amount of tsok prayers you recite.

如今，积累通常以念诵荟供祈请文的遍数为依据。

If you want to practise the elaborate approach, you accumulate recitations of the whole tsok section of your practice text accompanied by one material tsok offering. So you recite the tsok section of your text and offer a tsok, then go back to the beginning of the tsok section or prayer and repeat the recitation and offering.

如果你想采用广轨，就积诵法本中整个荟供部分，每遍配合一份实物荟供。也就是说，念诵法本的荟供部分，献上一份荟供，再回到荟供部分或祈请文的开头，重复念诵与供养。

If you want to follow the shorter approach, once you’ve completed 100 recitations, go back to Yeshe Kuchok and practise it again, followed by the tsok prayers, from ‘blessing the tsok’ to the ‘remainder offering’. This is how to count your accumulations.

如果你想采用较简略的作法，每念满一百遍，就回到不可言说究竟忏悔文再修一遍，接着念荟供祈请文，从“加持荟供”一直念到“余供”。这就是积累的计数方式。

Gona Tulku said that this is the method of accumulation Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö often used. If you want to make 100 tsok offerings, cut the tsok torma into ten pieces, put each slice on a plate with the other tsok substances, then recite ten tsok prayers for each plate, to make a total of 100 tsok offerings.

贡纳祖古说，这是钦哲确吉罗卓常用的积累方式。如果你想作一百次荟供，就把荟供朵玛切成十块，将每块与其他荟供供物一起放在一个盘子上，然后为每盘念十遍荟供祈请文，总共便是一百次荟供。

Traditionally, Tibetans make tsok tormas from tsampa dough. If you want to make 100 offerings, you will need 100 tsok tormas; to make 1,000 offerings, you will need 1,000 tormas. And also add as many offerings as you can gather. You must include a little of meat and a little alcohol—“Without meat and alcohol a tsok is incomplete”—and as much of the other kinds of offerings as possible.

传统上，藏人用糌粑团制作荟供朵玛。如果想作一百次供养，就需要一百个荟供朵玛；作一千次供养，就需要一千个朵玛。此外，还应尽可能多地增添能筹集到的供品。必须有少量肉与少量酒——“没有肉和酒，荟供便不完整”——其他种类的供品也应尽可能多。

Less rigorous practitioners cut a square in the tsok torma on which they write the number of offerings they accumulate, then offer that. This tradition of offering 100,000 tsok also exists.

不那么严格的修行者，会在荟供朵玛上刻出一个方形，在上面写下所积累的供养数量，再作供养。十万荟供也有这样的传统。

Whichever method you use, you should gather as many offerings as possible and generate the tsok visualization.

无论采用哪种方式，都应尽可能多地准备供品，并生起荟供的观想。

If Dzongsar Khyentse bases his accumulation on the elaborate approach of reciting the whole tsok section of the practice text, he gathers rice and barley, etc. whatever’s available, and pours it from a plate or a cup into a large receptacle, then counts the number of cups or plates he offers. I’ve seen him make a 100,000 tsok offering of rice in this way. Another way is to count the kilos of rice you offer—this is a new way of counting. Which means it should also be OK to offer 100,000 cakes, for example.

宗萨钦哲若以念诵法本整个荟供部分的广轨方式作积累，就会收集大米、青稞等一切可得之物，从盘子或杯子里倒入一个大容器，再计算所供的杯数或盘数。我见过他这样以大米作十万荟供。另一种方式，是按供养大米的公斤数来计数——这是新的计数方式。这也就是说，例如供养十万个蛋糕，应当也是可以的。

These are the ways we count tsok offerings. This is all I know.

这些就是我们计算荟供次数的方法。我知道的就是这些。