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The Excellent Stream of Nectar of Immortality
A long life
prayer for the supreme tulku Sogyal Rinpoche, heart-son of the all knowing, precious Vajradhara Lama Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi
Lodrö, and a great pioneer in bringing the sun-like teachings of the Buddha to the West. Om svasti
siddhi bhavatu! Omnipresent
primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, ‘Twelve
Dzogchen Teachers’ and thousand buddhas of this Fortunate Age— Through the
great purity and equalness of the all-pervasive wisdom mind transmission, Shower down
your blessings of eternal stability, and indestructible non-transference, So that the
life of the supreme emanation Sogyal Rinpoche[1] May remain forever
firm, and all his wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! The bodhisattvas
of the three supreme families, the five great sages, The three kings
called Ja, then Kukkuraja and Gomadevi, Gods, nagas
and humans of the sign transmission, gathered like a mandala; Out of your
spacious expanse of non-dual, great equality, May the life
of the supreme emanation Sogyal Rinpoche Remain forever
firm, and all his wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! Garab Dorje,
Mañjushrimitra, Shri Singha and Jñanasutra, The twenty-one
learned masters, and all those empowered with the great aural lineage of mind, space and pith-instruction classes That liberates
upon hearing, Vidyadhara masters,
through your blessings and power, May the life
of the supreme emanation Sogyal Rinpoche Remain forever
firm, and all his wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! Immortal Padmakara,
with your disciples—the king, the subject and the consort, The two supreme
ones, the five sovereigns and the twenty-five called ‘Lingpa’, The twenty-one
endowed with special powers, the hundred major And the thousand
minor tertöns—through your mastery of the secret treasury, May the life
of the supreme emanation Sogyal Rinpoche Remain forever
firm, and all his wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! Amitayus, Tara
‘the Wish-fulfilling Wheel’, Ushnishavijaya
and the immortal Vimalamitra, Thangtong Gyalpo,
Mandarava, Yeshe Tsogyal and the rest, Through the
power and blessings of infinite long-life deities, May the life
of the supreme emanation Sogyal Rinpoche Remain forever
firm, and all his wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! Universal ruler
over an ocean of great, incarnate tertöns, Empowered with
the space-like treasury of profound termas, Was the great
terma revealer Lerab Lingpa, and you are his compassionate rebirth, Supreme emanation,
Sogyal Rinpoche, may your life Remain forever
firm, and all your wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! Lord over Yama’s
hordes, Mañjushri in human form, Was Pema Yeshe
Dorje,[2] who empowered you, a vidyadhara, With the blessings
of his secret body, speech and mind— Supreme emanation
Sogyal Rinpoche, may your life Remain forever
firm, and all your wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! Empowered by
Padmasambhava as keeper of the profound treasures, A buddha for
this age of degeneration, was the Vajradhara Jikdral Yeshe
Dorje[3]. You who are his great Dharma regent, Supreme emanation
Sogyal Rinpoche, may your life Remain forever
firm, and all your wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! Holder of all
the victorious buddhas’ secret treasury, Crowning ornament
of many million learned and accomplished vidyadharas, Was the all-knowing
Rabsal Dawa[4], and you are the foremost of his heart-sons— Supreme emanation
Sogyal Rinpoche, may your life Remain forever
firm, and all your wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! The pioneer
of the three classes and the nine sections of Longdé was Longchen Rabjam, Inseparable
from whom was Jamyang Dorje[5], Who appointed
you as a holder of his wisdom mind’s secret treasure— Supreme emanation
Sogyal Rinpoche, may your life Remain forever
firm, and all your wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! Through study
you were liberated, and realized reality as-it-is, Now with vast
love and care you work for the benefit of others, A precious lama
endowed with wisdom, love and spiritual power— Supreme emanation
Sogyal Rinpoche, may your life Remain forever
firm, and all your wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! In the dense
darkness of the lands in the west, You were among
the first to shed the light of Buddha’s teachings, And skilfully
to make a rain of sacred Dharma fall— Supreme emanation
Sogyal Rinpoche, may your life Remain forever
firm, and may your wishes be spontaneously fulfilled! With the transferring,
subtle body of channels, inner air and tiklés Sealed within
the great bliss of non-transference, Garbed in white
robes, and with the long, diademed hair of a yogi, May you place
your lotus-feet, unmoving, on the lion throne! The unceasing
melody of Brahma is your vajra speech, As you turn
continuously the Dharma-wheel of Profound and
secret teachings, attuned to the mentality of beings, May it remain
secure for countless aeons to come! Free from all
concept, unchanging and sky-like is your wisdom mind, Unobscured by
signs of birth and death, May it remain
steadfast and indestructible, For as long
as the light of sun and moon continue to shine! May all the
hostile, malevolent jungpo demons, Succumb to glorious
Vajrakumara’s might and power So that not
even their names remain. And at the very same time, May you be fully
empowered with the Boundless Life of Amitayus, May the Lotus-Born
scatter flowers of auspiciousness, And may the
Queen of Space, with blood-red eye and copper face, Watch over you
and grant you the blessings of her protection! In the Water
Sheep year of the seventeenth calendrical cycle (2003), in the glorious Dharma encampment of Lerab Ling in France, as soon
as we had finished a ceremony for increasing wealth and prosperity called ‘The Excellent Vase of Jewels’ (a wealth
practice from the Thukdrup Barche Kunsel cycle, which was unearthed in Tibet), three dakinis offered me a long silk scarf
and a small silver brooch bearing the auspicious symbols. Full of joy, they said it would be extremely auspicious if I were
to compose a long-life prayer for Sogyal Rinpoche. Thus it was that this garland of words arising to my mind appeared on a
sheet of white paper, written by one whom Vajradhara Pema Yeshe Dorje (Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö), Gyalwang Karmapa and
other sublime beings recognized as Gyalchen Tulku, the activity incarnation of Taksham Samten Lingpa, but who in reality is
just an inferior person whose thoughts are not beyond sensual pleasure, and who, having been given the name Orgyen Sonam Tobgyal
by Sakya Dakchen of the Puntsok Podrang, is known simply as Orgyen Tobgyal. May it be meaningful! Sarva mangalam! [1] Sonam
Gyaltsen is Sogyal Rinpoche’s full name, which, when abbreviated, becomes Sogyal. It was given to him by his master
Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, even before he recognized him as the incarnation of Tertön Sogyal, Lerab Lingpa. [2] Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö [3] Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche [4] Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche [5] Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche |
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