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) Tibetan Phonetics Dön dam chö ying ö säl chag gya che Tshan pe röl pa gyu me shin lag gar Nyi me dra wa dom pa tshe yi lha Je ts?n la ma ku tshe kal gyar pel Lo sang nyin mor je pa ö tong gi Lig me thub ten lha lam kyön sal zhing Dam chö du tsi pa tshal yong je pa Kyab dag pal dän la mar söl wa deb Lo sang gyal wa dam pa dzö chang yang Jig me ba pa tul zhug tsul zung te Dam cho ka dam tsang ma nam thar zhin Dzin dza ton pa chen po zhab tän shog Do ngag zhung gyar ma wa zeng tho mo Mo kham dang tun ji pa lob pön tshul Chir yang zung zhing lar yang ba tha ru Drub pa gyal tshan dzin khyo zhab tän shog Tan yo khor lo chig tu dag pa shi Rab jam lha yi ngo wor rol na yang Zhi dul trim tsun phag pa rig shir na Tsung me dul dzin chen po zhab tän shog Tha go dul ja zhing sab theg chog gi Sa bon sa chir thug je chu ter gyi Mön jug sem kyi nyu gu nyer trun pa Lab chen gyal sa pa wo zhab tän shog.