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The
Long-Life Prayer for Mipham Choekyi Lodro, the 14th Supreme Red Crown
Holder of the Shamar Lineage -
entitled
"the Melodious Voice Perfectly Bloomed with Vajra Youth"
written by
HH16 Karmapa

HH Shamar Rinpoche and HH16 Karmapa
OM
SVASTI
GELEK KUN GYI JUNG NE DRO WAI GON
THA YE NAM PAR PAG ME NGO TSAR GYI
NAM ROL JI SID DE NYED DER KU TAM
ZAB YANG KHA KYAB DRO LA JE TSE WAI.
The source
virtue and fundamental goodness, the Lord of beings,
Through infinitude of wondrous emanations you manifest in as many forms,
Diffusing Love & Compassion to beings as vast as the sky,
PHAG CHOG GANG CHEN GON PO CHEN RE ZIG
NGO WO CHIG DU PAL DEN KARMAPA
SANG SUM YER ME RIG SUM GON POI TSUL
GANG DEI NAM THRUL CHOG TRUL NYIN JED WANG
The living
embodiment of supreme Arya Avalokiteshvara,
The Lord Protector of the Land of Snow,
With three Secrets inseparable with the glorious Karmapa,
In the form of three Lord families,
Whose emanation, the Sun-Like eminent incarnation,
DRUB GYU TEN PAI DAG POR NGA SOL ZHING
GELEK SHI PAI ME TOG THOR WA DANG
DRANG SONG DEN PAI DEN TSIG ZUNG DEL THU
TEN PAI DAG POR TAG TEN RAB GYE SHOG
Initiated
and enthroned in the sovereign master of the doctrine of the Practice
Lineage
Thus strewing continual rain of auspicious flowers as symbol of virtue
and well being,
Conjoined with the power of True Speech accomplished by the Sages,
May you be firm, eternal and flourish as the Master of the Teaching.
KAL PA DRANG ME SUM DU TSOG NYI KYI
THAR SON ZHEN PHEN JANG CHUB THUG KYE KYI
GANG DUL DUL JED THRIN LE PAL NGA WA
NYIN JED WANG PO GANG DEI ZHAB TEN SOL
Within the
three countless kalpas you have accomplished the Two Accumulations,
And have generated the Bodhicitta benefiting others,
You, the Sun-like one, who possess the glory of Virtuous Activity, and
who
Appropriately tame and discipline,
May your Lotus-Feet be firm.
KHE PAI TSER SON KUN KHYEN MI KYOD ZHAB
TSUN PAI PAL NGA CHO DRAG GYA TSO DE
DRUB PAI TSUG GYEN GONG MA NAM SUM DANG
SANG SUM YER ME CHOG THRUL DA ZHON GYI
Mikyo Dorje,
the Omniscient One who reached the peak of scholastic mastery,
Chodrak Gyatso, glorious in diligence of morality,
Your three secrets inseparable with the three Supreme Ones, the crown-ornament
of Siddhas,
ZHAB ZUNG MI JIG SENG GEI THRI KHOD DE
SA SUM NGE DON CHO KYI KHOR LO NI
GYUN CHE ME PAR RANG NANG TSAL GYI KHOR
YI GE TSOG CHEN NGO WOR TEN ZHUK SOL
You thus
unceasingly turn the Wheel of Dharma on ultimate meaning throughout the
three realms;
Through the power of self-realised Wisdom,
May you live long in the nature of indestructible Vajra Body,
TOB CHUI NGANG ROL DUL CHIG ZHING GYA TSOR
MA GAG NA TSOG NAM ROL DEI DAG NYID
NGO WO NYID KU SANG SUM GAG ME KYI
THA YE ZHING GO GON POR TSO ZHE SOL.
Revelling
in the Ten Wielding Powers, you emanate multitude of forms unobstructed,
Within the ocean of infinite realms and continents,
Unstirring from the essence of Svabhavikaya, yet with the Three Secrets
unimpeded,
May you live long as Lord protector for the limitless fields.
TSIG GI DEN PE MOD PA DENG BOR WE
TSA SUM LU ME DEN PAI THU KUL TE
MAHAKALA CHAM DAL DREG PAI TSOG
CHOG GI TRUL KUI LU DANG DRIB ZHIN DROG
By the strength
of the truth of words here expressed,
And with ardent urge to the unfailing truth of the Three Roots,
May Mahakala & Mahakali and hosts of noble retinue,
Accompany and escort the perfect incarnation like a shadow inseparable
from the Body,
DE YI THU LE DRUB TEN DAR ZHING GYE
TEN DZIN KYE BUI KU TSE SID NA TEN
NGO KUN KYAB DAG TSEN MA BAR WAI ZI
TEN YO KUN LA SHI PA DRUB GYUR CHIG.
By virtue
of which, may the teaching of the Practice Lineage flourish and bear fruit.
The lives of Great Beings, the Holder of the Doctrine, be firm within
this world.
Through the brilliant glory of pervasive phenomena, the primordial innate
Wisdom,
May both outer world and inner beings be auspicious, virtuous and wholesome.
This long
life prayer for the 14th holder of the Shamar Lineage known as Karma Dragpa
Ten Pay Tsa Lag Pal Den Chog Ley Nam Gyal Thrin Ley Kun Khyab Pal Sang
Po was written on the 4th month of waxing full moon day at glorious Tashi-Choeling
Dharma Chakra Centre, Karmapa's main seat in Sikkim, believed to be blessed
as the heart of Akanishtha pure land, by His Holiness 16th Gyalwa Karmapa.
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