H.E. the 4th Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Karma Lodro Chokyi Nyima
H.E. the 4th Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche,
Lodro Chokyi Nyima

Song of the Elixir of Immortality
A Prayer for the Long Life of The Fourth 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
OM SOTI SIDDHAM! GYAL WA SE CHE TSA SUM LHAG PEI LHA
Of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas, the three sources and wisdom dakinis
JIN LAB THUG JEI TER CHEN LA MA JE
May White Tara, the Wish-fulfilling Wheel, who imparts the splendour of immortality,
and the deities with the power of life
CHI ME PAL TER YI SHIN KHOR LO DANG
Bring to fulfillment these virtuous prayers for your long life.
TSE YI LHA TSOG NAM KYI GE LEG TSOL

Simply to see you in the youthful resplendence of your major and minor marks of perfection liberates us
THONG DROL TSEN PEI LANG TSO PAL BAR SHING
Simply to hear your soothing, melodious voice with its sixty qualities liberates us
THO DROL DRUG CHUI YANG NYEN NA WE SO
Simply to think of you, sovereign of love and knowledge, and refuge for beings, liberates us
DREN DROL KHYEN TSEI NGAR DAG DRO WEI KYAB
May Amitayus, the Buddha of Limitless Life, create all that is auspicious for you.
GYAL CHHOG TSE PAG ME KYI SHI PA DRUB

While never moving from dharmadhatu’s expanse
CHO YING NAM KEI LONG NE MA YO KYANG
You remain the protector of all Buddhist teachings and their essence, the practice lineage
GYAL TEN CHI DANG DRUB GYU NYING POI GON
Out of the breadth of your realisation of the ultimate and relative, the thousand-fold radiance of your wisdom blazes
KHYEN NYI KHA LE YE SHE O TONG BAR
Its luminous warmth, inconceivably deep and tranquil
SAB SHI SAM MI KHYAB PE TSA SER LE

Completely burns away the thickness of the two obscurations
DRIB NYI BU SHING RAB SEG MI SE PE
And the brilliance of your inexhaustible, compassionate activity shines forth.
THUG JE CHEN POI TRIN LE SHAR WE CHI
Supreme and precious sun who illuminates the practice instructions
DRUB TEN SAL WEI NYIN JE RIN CHEN CHHOG
May you remain forever in your vajra form.
JI SI DOR JE KU RU SHAB TEN SOL

In the line of the jewel rosary for the transmission of meaning
KHYE PAR DRI ME KARMA KAM TSANG GI
of the impeccable Karma Kamtsang teachings
DON GYU NOR BUI TRENG WA TER SHIN DU
May you the naturally-present glory of the flawless expanse of totality
CHO YING MA ME LHUN GYI DRUB PEI PAL
Remain for a hundred aeons upon your Dharma throne.
CHO KYI DRI LA KAL GYAR TSO SHE SOL

Firmly rooted in the ground of your discipline, the three types of Buddhist training
GYAL TEN LAB SUM TRIM KYI SA SHI LA
Is the wish-fulfilling tree of your mind of awakening
JANG SEM PAG SAM JON SHING TAG TU TEN
It is laden with the fruit of your vajrayana practice.
SANG WA NGAG KYI DRE BU YUR SA SHING
On your throne for the teaching of the three yanas, may you remain long.
THEG SUM CHO KYI TRI LA TSO SHE SOL

Your expedient and ultimate instructions, like cool, refreshing streams of nectar
DRANG NGE SHI SIL DUD TSII GYUN CHHOG GI
Extinguish the torment of all beings.
DRO WE TSA DUNG MIG ME JOM NE KYANG
May you fill the three levels of existence with the brilliance of all traditions
RI ME NANG WE SA SUM KUN KHYAB NE
And may you live long as the Lord of beings and the Buddhist doctrine.
TEN DANG DRO WE DAM PAR TSO SHE SOL

The essence of the final cycle of the Buddha’s teaching is profound and true
KHOR LO THA MEI NYING PO SAB YANG DAG
Free from conceptual extremes, it is the great middle way
THA DANG DRAL WEI U MA CHEN PO LE
It is not refuted by the three means of analysis, but is realised directly.
CHE SUM RIG PE GOG MIN NGON SUM GI
May you the embodiment of this extraordinary truth live long.
THUN MIN CHO KU DAG NYI TSO SHE SOL

The essential truth does not reject projections of the conceptual mind
KU DANG YE SHE CHEN POI DAG NYID CHHOG
The key point of naturalness is freedom from intellectual analysis of conditioned phenomena
KUN TAG NANG WA MA PANG DE SHIN NYID
Intrinsic wisdom is effortless; this is the great result
SHEN WANG RIG PE DRUB ME RANG SEI NE
Which you the perfect embodiment of enlightened form and wisdom
YONG DRUB YE SHE JAR ME DRE BU CHEI

Directly reveal to your students
NUB ME SAB GYE DRA YANG O GYA PE
Through your undiminishing, deep, vast radiance and melodious words.
DUL JEI SHING DER DUL CHE NGON SON PA
Great embodiment of the eight capacities to bring others to spiritual maturity and liberation
MIN DROL YON TEN GYE KYI DAG NYID CHE
May you remain forever for a hundred aeons on your vajra throne.
DOR JEI DRI LA KAL GYAR TSO SHE SOL

You are Ananda, Vairocana, Taranatha and
KUN GAR BE RO RANG JUNG NA THA DANG
Jamgon Lodro Chokyi Senge and others.
JAM GON LO DRO CHO KYI SENG GE SOG
As the culmination of your previous aspirations and your path as a bodhisattva
NGON MON CHANG CHUB LAM GI SHUNG SHING GI
You are now the youthful epitome of them all, a sacred being.
CHIG DU SHON NU NYID CHANG DAM PEI NE

May you the essence of the three sources and deities with the power of life live long
TSA SUM TSE LHEI NGO WOR TSO SHE SOL
May the thunder of Dharma resound throughout the three levels of existence
CHO KYI YAR NGA DRAG PE SA SUM KHYAB
May the ancient tradition of the ultimate meaning swirl powerfully like the Ganges river
NGE DON RING LUG GANGEI GYUN SHIN KHYIL
Through our noble intentions and words of aspirations with the power of truth like that of the sages
LHAG SAM DRANG SONG DEN PAI MON TSIG GI
May the brilliance of the fulfilment of these wishes bring liberation throughout all the worlds!
SHI PEI NANG WE GE LEG RAB GYE SHOG

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 Gyalwang Karmapa, Urgyen Trinley Dorje, at the request of Tenzin Dorjee, Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche’s general secretary.
May all virtue and goodness blossom!   (Translated by Ingrid McLeod)

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