LONG LIFE LAMA CHOPA with Request to the Dakinis, Root text composed by the First Panchen Lama Losang Chokyi Gyaltsan

LONG LIFE LAMA CHOPA with Request to the Dakinis

Root text composed by the First Panchen Lama Losang Chokyi Gyaltsan

The Long Life Puja is a traditional offering puja to a teacher. Based on the practice of the Lama Chöpa Guru Puja, it creates the cause for the lama to live long and remain among us. This edition contains all the most up-to-date prayers and order of prayers as done in our tradition in an easy to follow format, as well as extensive advice on organizing a long life puja, a teaching on the long life dakinis, and other useful information.

"To understand why a long life puja is essential, we must understand the value of the teacher. He is our guide in this life, the bardo, and future lives. He is immensely important to us. It is not a case where, if we ask him to live, he will, and vice versa, but that to offer such a ceremony purifies our own broken samayas with him. When we break samaya--looking like practitioners on the outside, but not acting like practitioners on the inside--the dakas and dakinis come and make many requests to the lama: 'Leave these disciples and come to the pure realms!' This is also one reason why Guru Shakyamuni Buddha passed away, because of a lack of requests from his disciples to stay, and many requests from arhats and so forth for him to pass away."--Geshe Lama Konchog