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The Melody of the Nectar of Immortality
The vast love and primordial
wisdom of the buddhas All are embodied in Lokeshvara,
white like a dazzling snow mountain, Sublime and holy Lord of the
World. You who are his emanation, A guru for each and every being
in the three realms: may you be victorious!
Wondrous and without equal in
the three worlds, Omniscient and as unique as the
udumbara flower, Great crown jewel for the teachings
and all beings on earth: Supreme victorious one, Holder
of the Lotus—I pray for your long life! Always and forever enlightened,
yet in this age of conflict You gather living beings within
your embrace, Your resolve and your commitment
unshakeable like a vajra: Great lord on the tenth bhumi—I
pray for your long life! All the realizations of the stages
of the path to enlightenment Are merged as one with your secret
body, speech and mind, Your qualities of knowledge and
love inconceivable: Second buddha of the north—I
pray for your long life! Of teaching, debate and composition,
your mastery is unimpaired, In you the eight great treasures
of brilliance have opened wide, With ‘specific perfect
understanding’, you teach the Dharma: You who are victorious in every
direction—I pray for your long life! Through your explanation, accomplishment
and activity, you spread The enlightened Tsongkhapa’s
precious teaching in a hundred directions, Annihilating the deluded arguments
of malicious opponents, Fearless Lion of Speech, Manjushri—I
pray for your long life! On the secret mantra’s
gradual path of the Triple Vision and Triple Tantra, As the four mandalas are absorbed
through the profound yogas of the four empowerments, You realize directly the wisdom
of the four kayas: All-pervading lord Vajradhara—I
pray for your long life! Mahamudra is the natural state
of all things, Profound emptiness and clarity,
indivisible: With the sunlight of its innate
wisdom you dispel the darkness of samsara and nirvana: Great lord of yogins, Milarepa—I
pray for your long life! From the treasury of all the
mysteries in the ocean of tantras You make the exquisite water
of the four rivers that mature and liberate Flow into the fields of fortunate
disciples: Vajrapani, Lord of Secrets—I
pray for your long life! Everything in samsara and nirvana
occurs as the play of interdependence, Arising yet primordially unborn,
a state of utter peace: Wise teacher of this profound
Madhyamaka that is free from all conceptual elaboration, ‘Lord of Nagas’—Nagarjuna—I
pray for your long life! Kulika Pundarika, skilled and
perfect exponent of the Kalachakra, With its inseparable outer, inner
and alternative cycles, Has appeared in the You who are in essence the original
buddha, Kalachakra—I pray for your long life! All phenomena of samsara and
nirvana are the expanse of the sphere of luminosity— Unfluctuating, spontaneously
Great Perfection: In self-liberation, beyond all
action, you attain the kingdom of fruition, Primordial lord Samantabhadra—I
pray for your long life! Fearless, and without mixing
or confusing them, You steer onwards the great chariot
of all the Buddha’s teachings; Sole refuge for the teachings
and for all beings: Lord Tenzin Gyatso—I pray
for your long life! A hundred times with reverence
and awe, The jewelled heads of the mighty
ones of the three worlds, Bow to the auspicious wheels
of your lotus feet: Great sovereign of Dharma—I
pray for your long life! As the lord of the gods, annihilating
the demonic forces of the asuras With the hundred-pointed vajra
of power, energy and strength, Destroying the rocky mountains
of wrong and perverted views, Fearsome Shri Heruka—I
pray for your long life! As long as this earth, May you remain secure, invincible,
on your vajra throne In the celestial Your secret body, speech and
mind forever changeless! Through the grace of the three
supreme deities of Long Life, And the power of the truth of
masters, yidams, buddhas and bodhisattvas, May all that we have prayed for
be blessed And so accomplished without any
obstacle! Paying reverence with his
body, his speech and his mind, the one who bears the name of the incarnation of Jamyang Khyentse, Jamyang Chökyi Lodrö from
the realm of Dokham in the east, wrote this as he prayed with fervent devotion, at the Samdrup family house, to the south
of the great temple of Rasa Trulnang (the Jokhang), in Lhasa in Central Tibet. He then offered this prayer to the great omniscient
one himself. May it become a cause for his life to be secure for countless aeons! Sarvada kalyanam sushreyo
bhavatu: All is perfectly complete! Based on the
translation made by the late Khenpo Migmar Tsering, Principal of Sakya College, and Dr. Peter Della Santina, to mark His Holiness
the Dalai Lama’s visit to © Rigpa Translations,
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