  The 16th Karmapa and
the 14th Dalai Lama
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Glorious
T?lung Tsurphu[1]
is Akanishta,[2]
pure realm of Chenrezik.
On the mountain in front is a vast and dense forest,
The mountain between is Tushita, the joyful mind for all people.
[Dalai Lama ], pillar of all the Buddha's teachings, you are a great wish-fulfilling jewel. Pervading the world with myriad lights, [May you be] permanent, stable, and unchanging as a diamond In the red palace of Lhasa on the golden throne held high by lions. Your melodious teachings pour forth in the tones
of Brahma.[6] mind, sees without hindrance into the three times.
You maintain the Buddha's teachings without prejudice May you [reign] as the three Dharma kings, [7] with Dharma
and worldly power entwined in a silken knot. How joyful, how happy are sentient beings. The
teaching of the Buddha spreads; rain
of Dharma falls, Through they prize happiness, sentient beings in
number as vast as space gather only suffering.
With
the first moment of self-awareness, comes
freedom from the net of the three realms.
Let us bring the vast universe into joy¡§C-that is called true peace. From the expanse of the inexpressible nada[8] sprang this joyous song. Let us join in a happy dance, graced with the melody of delight. On
the seventeenth day of the fifth Tibetan month in the year of
the iron ox (1961-62), this was spoken by the XVI Gyalchok [Karmapa].
As these words are filled with blessing, Damch? Yongd¡§1
earnestly and respectfully requested permission to print them
in letter press. Following the Gyalwang Karmapa's kind
granting of permission, this edition was published by the
Source:
Official Website of HH the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa - http://www.kagyuoff
The Dalai Lama offering one of several major empowerments to the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Sikkim, India. ____________
Prayer for the
Long Life of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama,
Great Omniscient
One, the Excellent Victorious One, called
"PLEASING TUNE OF THE NECTAR OF
IMMORTALITY"
By Jamyang Khyentse
Chokyi Lodro **
(1893-1959)
(**The Root Teacher of the
present Sakya Trizin,
the late 16th Karmapa and
the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. )
Om Svasti!
The bodies of great compassion
and transcendental knowledge of all the Victorious Ones
Incorporated into one, who is
as white as a snow-mountain,
The Emanation Body of Lokeshvara,
the supreme Holy One;
May the master of sentient beings
in the three realms be victorious!
Matchless and marvellous in the
three worlds,
The Omniscient One, who is as
exalted as an Udumvara flower,
The great crown-jewel of all
beings and teachings on the earth,
We beseech Padmapani, the excellent
Victorious One, to live long.
In the era of conflict, though
you attained Buddhahood long ago
You uphold the beings with the
limbs of your hands,
Your resolve and vow are as firm
as a vajra,
We beseech the Great Lord on
the Tenth Stage to live long.
All the knowledge of the gradual
path of enlightenment,
Is merged inseparably with the
three aspects,
The qualities of knowledge and
compassion are inconceivable,
We beseech the Second Buddha
of the northern land to live long.
You have no attachment and entanglement
in exposition, debate or composition,
The eight great treasures of
confidence are unbound,
You teach Dharma through the
perfect individual awareness,
We beseech the Great One, Victorious
in all directions, to live long.
The precious teachings of the
Victorious Lobsang Dragpa,
Are disseminated in all directions
through the wheels of exposition, practice and activites.
The brains of the devil-elephants,
the evil opponents, are shattered,
We beseech the Fearless Lion
of Speech to live long.
The gradual path of the Secret
Mantra, Three Visions and Three Tantras,
Absorbed into four modes through
the profound yoga of the four empowerments,
You have attained directly the
transcendental knowledge of the four Kayas,
We beseech the Lord, the All
Pervading Vajradhara, to live long.
Mahamudra, the actual mode of
being of all entities,
Is the nonduality of profundity
and luminosity,
The sun of the innately born
transcendental knowledge dispels the darkness of Samsara and
Nirvana,
We beseech the Great Lord of
Yoga to live long.
The treasure of all the secret
aspects of the ocean of Tantras,
The virtuous current of the four
rivers of maturing and liberating,
Is drawn into the fields of fortunate
disciples,
We beseech the Lord of the Holders
of Secret to live long.
All the phenomena of Samsara
and Nirvana appear as the play of independent origination.
Though they appear so, they are
unborn and tranquil from the beginning,
This is the profound middle way,
devoid of all conceptual elaborations,
We beseech the Lord of Nagas,
skilful in teaching this, to live long.
Kalachakra, the non-differentiation
of the external, internal and the rest,
Kulika Pundarika, who was erudite
in demonstrating this perfectly,
Manifested himself as a virtuous
friend in the Land of Tibet,
We beseech the Quintessence of
the Primordial Buddha to live long.
All the phenomena of Samsara
and Nirvana remain in the luminous sphere,
The great innate completion without
decrease and increase,
You have reached the city of
fruition through self-liberation and without effort,
We beseech the Primordial Lord,
Samantabhadra to live long.
In short, the great chariots
of the whole doctrine of the Buddha,
You are fearless in pulling them
with your hands without confounding them,
The only refuge of all the beings
and teachings,
We beseech the Lord Tenzin Gyatso
to live long.
By the crown-jewels of all the
great ones of the three worlds,
On the auspicious wheels of the
lotuses of your feet,
Bowing down a hundred times with
reverence and awe,
We beseech the Great Religious
King to live long.
The Lord of Gods, who defeats
the evil force of the demigods,
With the hundred-pointed vajra
of strength, power and vigour,
The rocky mountains of perverted
and faulty views are destroyed,
We beseech the Fearsome Shri
Heruka to live long.
As long as the earth, Mount Meru,
sun and moon remain,
The three secret aspects are
changeless,
The celestial mansion of Potala
which pleases the supreme Holy One,
We beseech you to remain secure
and indestructible on the vajra throne.
By the blessings of the Three
Supreme Long Life Deities,
And by the power of truth of
the Gurus, Tutelary Deities, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas,
Whatever objectives we have prayed
for,
May they be accomplished without
any obstacles.
Thus bowing down
with all the three doors, this was written by Jamyang Khyentse
Chokyi Lodro**,
the holder of
the name of the reincarnation of Jamyang Khyentse, from the
Eastern Region of
Dokham, while
praying with great respect, at the residence of Samdrup Phodrang,
South of Rasa
Tulnang Temple
(Jokhang), in Lhasa, Central Tibet. Thereafter, this was offered
to the Great
Omniscient One,
His Holiness the Dalai Lama. May this cause him to live for
an ocean of aeons.
SARVADA KALYANAM SUSHREYO BHAVATU
English translation by Ven. Khenpo Migmar Tsering, Principal,
Sakya College with Dr. Peter Della
Santina prepared in honour of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's
visit to Sakya College, November 1992.
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