Wednesday

Kagyu Monlam – Special Prayers

In conjunction with the Kagyu Monlam this year, special longevity prayers will be recited for Thrangu Rinpoche, Tenga Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso Rinpoche. The prayers, to be aired live via webcast on http://www.kagyumonlam.tv/, will request these great teachers to remain and continue to propagate the dharma.

In November, the Kagyu Monlam Organizing Committee announced, “With the aim of praising the greatness of their lives and qualities, exhorting them to continuously turn the wheel of Dharma, and completely fulfilling their greatly compassionate wishes, on the morning of December 22nd, the eighth day of the Twenty-Eighth Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya, the vast gathering of sangha headed by the Gyalwang Karmapa and his heart disciples will perform the practice of Prostrations and Offering to the Sixteen Elders and offer the three Rinpoches a special long-life puja that combines sutra and tantra. His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa will further bestow upon each of them a certificate of encomium.”

His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa has issued the following instructions:

All those connected to the three Rinpoches all over the world, from east to west—including monasteries, Dharma centers and disciples who have relationships of Dharma and of samaya—are requested to participate on that day from wherever they may be, however near or far, by performing the Prostrations and Offering to the Sixteen Elders while supplicating with intense longing. Those who are unable to do so are asked to recite the short or long dharani mantra of Amitayus for long life, engage in Vajrasattva recitation to remove any stains to their samaya, and to perform the Padmasambhava supplication to remove obstacles. In addition, with wholesome devotion, they should accumulate recitations of the prayers that already exist for the long life of the three Rinpoches, as well as the long-life prayers that have been specially composed for the occasion this year by the heart disciples who are lords of refuge.

On December 22, the ceremony will be broadcast live from India at 6:00-8:30 am (India time).
View the ceremony live at: http://www.kagyumonlam.tv/

For more information, visit: Kagyumonlam.org.

Photos courtesy of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra and Thrangu House.