Long Life Prayer 
for
Venerable Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche 

O great seal of the clear light, ultimate reality of all phenomena, 
You sport the major and minor marks in an illusion-like dance. 
O venerable Lama, may the long life deities neutralising the conceptual 
minds with non-duality, 
Increase your lifespan by hundreds of eons! 
 
Your noble mind illuminating it with thousands of light rays, 
You clarify completely and without fear the divine path shown by the 
Sage. 
You are a garden of fully bloomed lotuses laden with the nectar of the 
holy dharma. 
O magnificent and excellent lama, to you I make this request! 
 
Although your noble mind is a treasure of the Victorious One's 
instructions, 
You follow secretly and without fear an ascetic way of life. 
You practice the holy dharma like the pure Kadampas of the past. 
O great teacher, may you live long! 
 
Wherever you show the manner of a master acting in accordance with 
the aspiration and the natures of his disciples, 
You also uphold the victory banner of realizations in places far from 
there. 
O sublime expounder of hundreds of treatises of sutra and tantra, may 
you live long! 
 
Although the animate and inanimate worlds are unified in their pure 
nature, 
A playful display of countless deities, you dwell, calm, subdued, 
restrained and noble, amongst the four types of Aryas. 
O great, unequalled holder of the vinaya, may you live long! 
 
In order to awaken the seed of the supreme vehicle, your great deeds 
make grow, with the precious water of your compassion, the sprouts of 
the aspiring and engaging minds in the fields of the wild ones 
who are to be subdued.                                                                                 
O heroic son of the Victorious Ones, may you live long! 
 



Arisen from the sphere of total peace, you are an illusory dance free 
from illusions, 
Numberless clouds of magically created residents and resident mandalas, 
A great variety of mandalas being emanated and reabsorbed. 
O lord over all the glorious (Buddha) families, may you live long! 
 
By the blessing of the non-deceptive Three Jewels, 
By the power of the truths of cause and effect and interdependent 
origination, 
And by my pure special intention, 
May this result come about easily and exactly according to your wishes! 

 
Translated from Tibetan by Gelong Thubten Lodroe (Hermes Brandt)