Translated by Gavin Kilty from Je Tsongkhapa’s A Prayer for the Beginning, Middle, and End of Practice (thog ma dang bar dang tha mar dge ba'i smon lam; thog mtha' ma) in The Splendor of an Autumn Moon: The Devotional Verse of Tsongkhapa, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001, 193–207. Reprinted here with permission from the publisher.

7 pages, 2010 edition.