Tibetan Buddhist Prayers

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Dharmasherab
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Tibetan Buddhist Prayers

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Can someone recommend me a source/book with Tibetan Buddhist prayers which have prayers/chants common to all Tibetan schools?
What are the complete set of prayers common to all schools of Tibetan Buddhism?

I need help.
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Complete set of prayers? I doubt that there is such a thing. It is not like each school has a few pages of prayers and you can then look and see which ones are identical between them.
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This one!
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A Book of Common Tibetan Buddhist Prayers
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Tibe ... 0980173035
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Nyedrag Yeshe wrote: Sat Oct 20, 2018 1:45 pm This one!
A Book of Common Tibetan Buddhist Prayers
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Tibe ... 0980173035
There is also a third edition:

https://shop.blazingwisdom.org/index.ph ... rayers-3rd
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Each Tibetan school and many individual lineages within those schools have their own Daily Prayer Book (Cho Jyod). For instance, in Nyingma, there's the Mindroling prayer book, Shechen Prayer book, Dudjom prayer book, etc. Nevertheless, there are many prayers in these books common to all, such as Zang Chod Monlam and the Sutra of the Three Heaps. IME, mostly these common prayers come from the sutras or from such great Teachers such as Nagajuna Who are revered by all.
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In addition to to all the good advice in this thread, the Kagyu Monlam Prayer Book is a good source for prayers in English. Some are specific to Kamtsang, but many are shared by all Tibetan lineages.
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རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
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