Song of the Elixir of Immortality
A Prayer for the Long Life of The 4th Incarnation af Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye,
Jamgon Lodro Chokyi Nyima Tenpey Dronme

May all be auspicious! Noble Lama, you are the great treasury of the compassion and blessings

Of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas, the three sources and wisdom dakinis

May White Tara, the Wish-fulfilling Wheel, who imparts the splendour of immortality,
and the deities with the power of life

Bring to fulfillment these virtuous prayers for your long life.

Simply to see you in the youthful resplendence of your major and minor marks of perfection liberates us

Simply to hear your soothing, melodious voice with its sixty qualities liberates us

Simply to think of you, sovereign of love and knowledge, and refuge for beings, liberates us

May Amitayus, the Buddha of Limitless Life, create all that is auspicious for you.

While never moving from dharmadhatu’s expanse

You remain the protector of all Buddhist teachings and their essence, the practice lineage

Out of the breadth of your realisation of the ultimate and relative, the thousand-fold radiance of your wisdom blazes

Its luminous warmth, inconceivably deep and tranquil

Completely burns away the thickness of the two obscurations

And the brilliance of your inexhaustible, compassionate activity shines forth.

Supreme and precious sun who illuminates the practice instructions

May you remain forever in your vajra form.

In the line of the jewel rosary for the transmission of meaning

of the impeccable Karma Kamtsang teachings

May you the naturally-present glory of the flawless expanse of totality

Remain for a hundred aeons upon your Dharma throne.

Firmly rooted in the ground of your discipline, the three types of Buddhist training

Is the wish-fulfilling tree of your mind of awakening

It is laden with the fruit of your vajrayana practice.

On your throne for the teaching of the three yanas, may you remain long.

Your expedient and ultimate instructions, like cool, refreshing streams of nectar

Extinguish the torment of all beings.

May you fill the three levels of existence with the brilliance of all traditions

And may you live long as the Lord of beings and the Buddhist doctrine.

The essence of the final cycle of the Buddha’s teaching is profound and true

Free from conceptual extremes, it is the great middle way

It is not refuted by the three means of analysis, but is realised directly.

May you the embodiment of this extraordinary truth live long.

The essential truth does not reject projections of the conceptual mind

The key point of naturalness is freedom from intellectual analysis of conditioned phenomena

Intrinsic wisdom is effortless; this is the great result

Which you the perfect embodiment of enlightened form and wisdom

Directly reveal to your students

Through your undiminishing, deep, vast radiance and melodious words.

Great embodiment of the eight capacities to bring others to spiritual maturity and liberation

May you remain forever for a hundred aeons on your vajra throne.

You are Ananda, Vairocana, Taranatha and

Jamgon Lodro Chokyi Senge and others.

As the culmination of your previous aspirations and your path as a bodhisattva

You are now the youthful epitome of them all, a sacred being.

May you the essence of the three sources and deities with the power of life live long

May the thunder of Dharma resound throughout the three levels of existence

May the ancient tradition of the ultimate meaning swirl powerfully like the Ganges river

Through our noble intentions and words of aspirations with the power of truth like that of the sages

May the brilliance of the fulfilment of these wishes bring liberation throughout all the worlds!

This prayer of aspiration for the long life of Jamgon Lodro Chokyi Nyima Tenpey Dronme, the Fourth incarnation of Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, has been adapted from the Prayer for the swift rebirth of the Third Jamgon Kongtrul by His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Urgyen Trinley Dorje, at the request of Tenzin Dorjee, Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche’s general secretary. May all virtue and goodness blossom!

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