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 tsϋn 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.