Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Song of Immortality: Celebrating the Dalai Lama – Ep. 298
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Song of Immortality: Celebrating the Dalai Lama – Ep. 298
Opening with a detailed definition and explanation of the Tibetan terminology used for the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman gives a close line reading of “Song of Immortality: Prayer for the Long Life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama” using the text to give a teaching on the history of the Avalokiteshvara great compassion Bodhisattva reincarnation tradition and on its importance to our modern global society.
Recorded to celebrate the 87th Birthday of Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Thurman begins with a linguistic exploration of the title of Dalai Lama to give an introduction to the rich history and culture of Tibet, of Buddhism and of the gods and divine pantheon used in the art and spiritual teachings of wisdom and compassion in Buddhist philosophy.
Song of Immortality Prayer for the Long Life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
OM May all be well!
O our gurus, and your line of lamas, for whom we have the deepest gratitude,
You who are the repository of the three: secret powers of body, speech, and mind of innumerable buddhas,
Who manifest in a miraculous way to each devotee according to his capacity,
To you, who are the wish-fulfilling gems, the source of all virtues and good qualities,
We offer our prayers with intense devotion
That our protector of the great land of snows,
Tenzin Gyatso, upholder of the Dharma, the great ocean,
May he live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
The dharmadhatu, the inexpressible reality, which pervades all things like the heavens,
Immaculate, full of great bliss and transcendental wisdom,
Manifests like a cloud the numberless abodes of the higher divinities,
The mandalas of the heavenly beings.
To all the higher forms of the divine ones, the yidams.
We offer our prayers with intense devotion
That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great land of snows,
May live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
O you numberless buddhas of the past, present, and future,
Who are the masters of the ten powers and teachers of the gods,
Whose attributes of perfection, free from defilements and born of realization,
Are the source of the buddha-activity
Which appears for all time in the ocean of the suffering of the world
For the sake of all sentient beings.
To you we offer our prayers with intense devotion
That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great land of snows,
May live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
O sacred Dharmas of the three yanas
That liberate us from the sufferings of the three worlds,
Supremely calm, the jewel treasure of the fully enlightened ones,
Without impurities, unchanging, eternally good, the peak of virtues,
To you we offer our prayers with intense devotion
That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great land of snows,
May live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
O all you arya Sangha, awakened and unsullied,
Of highest valor in conquering the suffering of the wheel of life,
With the transcendental wisdom that directly intuits the deeper truth
Never departing from the indestructible vajra abode of nirvana,
To you we offer our prayers with intense devotion
That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great land of snows,
May live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
View all episodes
By Robert A.F. Thurman
4.8
183183 ratings
Opening with a detailed definition and explanation of the Tibetan terminology used for the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman gives a close line reading of “Song of Immortality: Prayer for the Long Life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama” using the text to give a teaching on the history of the Avalokiteshvara great compassion Bodhisattva reincarnation tradition and on its importance to our modern global society.
Recorded to celebrate the 87th Birthday of Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Thurman begins with a linguistic exploration of the title of Dalai Lama to give an introduction to the rich history and culture of Tibet, of Buddhism and of the gods and divine pantheon used in the art and spiritual teachings of wisdom and compassion in Buddhist philosophy.
Song of Immortality Prayer for the Long Life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
OM May all be well!
O our gurus, and your line of lamas, for whom we have the deepest gratitude,
You who are the repository of the three: secret powers of body, speech, and mind of innumerable buddhas,
Who manifest in a miraculous way to each devotee according to his capacity,
To you, who are the wish-fulfilling gems, the source of all virtues and good qualities,
We offer our prayers with intense devotion
That our protector of the great land of snows,
Tenzin Gyatso, upholder of the Dharma, the great ocean,
May he live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
The dharmadhatu, the inexpressible reality, which pervades all things like the heavens,
Immaculate, full of great bliss and transcendental wisdom,
Manifests like a cloud the numberless abodes of the higher divinities,
The mandalas of the heavenly beings.
To all the higher forms of the divine ones, the yidams.
We offer our prayers with intense devotion
That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great land of snows,
May live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
O you numberless buddhas of the past, present, and future,
Who are the masters of the ten powers and teachers of the gods,
Whose attributes of perfection, free from defilements and born of realization,
Are the source of the buddha-activity
Which appears for all time in the ocean of the suffering of the world
For the sake of all sentient beings.
To you we offer our prayers with intense devotion
That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great land of snows,
May live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
O sacred Dharmas of the three yanas
That liberate us from the sufferings of the three worlds,
Supremely calm, the jewel treasure of the fully enlightened ones,
Without impurities, unchanging, eternally good, the peak of virtues,
To you we offer our prayers with intense devotion
That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great land of snows,
May live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
O all you arya Sangha, awakened and unsullied,
Of highest valor in conquering the suffering of the wheel of life,
With the transcendental wisdom that directly intuits the deeper truth
Never departing from the indestructible vajra abode of nirvana,
To you we offer our prayers with intense devotion
That Tenzin Gyatso, protector of the great land of snows,
May live for a hundred eons.
Pour on him your blessings
That his wishes may come true!
More shows like Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!
View all
On Being with Krista Tippett
10,406 Listeners
Tara Brach
10,442 Listeners
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
1,842 Listeners
Ram Dass Here And Now
2,569 Listeners
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
502 Listeners
Tricycle Talks
358 Listeners
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
1,442 Listeners
Pilgrim Heart with Krishna Das
248 Listeners
Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg
686 Listeners
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
921 Listeners
The Wisdom Podcast
326 Listeners
Living Myth
969 Listeners
This Jungian Life Podcast
1,565 Listeners
Mind & Life
267 Listeners
The Way Out Is In
1,248 Listeners