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Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche is in poor physical health and likely to soon transition.

He has been one of the most important sources of authentic Dzogchen teachings in the West and has directly or indirectly touched many of our lives.

I'd like to share this Long Life Prayer for him, recently written by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

 

ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཞབས་བརྟན་གསོལ་འདེབས་སྨོན་ལམ།
Long Life Prayer for Dharmaraja.


འགྱུར་མེད་དབྱིངས་ལས་གཡོས་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ། །
དགོངས་རྟོགས་མཐའ་དང་བྲལ་བ་ནམ་མཁའི་ཀློང་། །
འཕྲིན་ལས་ཐོགས་པ་མེད་པའི་ནོར་བུའི་འོད། །
དུས་མཐའི་མུན་པ་སེལ་བའི་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། །

Unwavering Dharma King, from the unchanging space of your knowledge and realizations beyond limit
in the expanse of the sky ( Namkhai ),
Your enlightened activities are the constant shining Jewel ( Norbu )
Banishing darkness for all times, O Precious One (Rinpoche)

 

འཁོར་བའི་ནད་གདོན་འཇོམས་པའི་བདུད་རྩི་སྨན། །
ཐར་པའི་ལམ་གྱི་བར་ཆོད་ཟློག་པའི་གྲོགས། །
མ་རིག་སྨག་རུམ་གཞིལ་བའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་འོད། །
ཞབས་པད་བརྟན་ཅིང་མཛད་འཕྲིན་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཤོག །

You are the medicine which eliminates disease and obstructions,
You are the friend who clears away obstacles to freedom.
You are wisdom’s light, removing the darkness of ignorance.
May you live long, and completely accomplish your enlightened activities.


མི་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་ལས་སྒྲོལ་བའི་སྟོབས་ལྡན་ཕ། །
ལུས་སྲོག་ནུས་པ་གསོ་བའི་བྱམས་ལྡན་མ། །
ཉམས་རྟོགས་བོགས་འདོན་བསྐྱེད་པའི་དགེ་བའི་སྤུན། །
ཞབས་པད་བརྟན་ཅིང་མཛད་འཕྲིན་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཤོག །

You are the powerful father who frees us from negative circumstances
You are the kind mother who nourishes our body and life force.
You are the Dharma brother who supports and increases our insights and realizations
May you live long and completely manifest your enlightened activities.

 

རྟག་ཏུ་ཉམས་མེད་སྙིང་གི་ལྡུམ་རའི་དབུས། །
བཅོས་མིན་དད་པའི་མེ་ཏོག་དཀར་པོ་འདི། །
བརྩེ་ཆེན་ཆུ་ཡིས་གསོས་ཏེ་ཁྱེད་ལ་འབུལ། །
ཞབས་པད་བརྟན་ཅིང་མཛད་འཕྲིན་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཤོག །

In the unblemished garden of our heart center,
This white flower of genuine devotion,
Is sustained by the water of great love; this I offer to you,
May you live long and completely manifest your enlightened activities.


ཀ་དག་གཡོ་བ་མེད་པའི་ཀློང་དབྱིངས་ན། །
ལྷུན་གྲུབ་འགག་པ་མེད་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱས། །
འོད་གསལ་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་གདམས་པ་སྤེལ། །
ཞབས་པད་བརྟན་ཅིང་མཛད་འཕྲིན་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཤོག །

In the space and expanse of unwavering primal purity
The spontaneous presence of continuous wisdom increases
And there you spread the message of clear light Dzogpa Chenpo,
May you live long and completely manifest your enlightened activities

 

ཅེས་དུས་མཐའི་རྫོགས་ཆེན་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐུ་ཚེའི་ཞབས་བརྟན་གསོལ་ཞིང་མཛད་འཕྲིན་མཐའ་རུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་དྲི་མེད་སྨོན་ལམ་འདི་ཉིད་གང་གི་ཞབས་འོག་པ་བསྟན་འཛིན་དབང་རྒྱལ་གྱིས་ལྷོ་ཀོ་རི་ཡའི་རྒྱལ་ས་སོལ་ལ་འགྲུལ་བཞུད་སྐབས་(༢༠༡༨།༩།༡༧) གསོལ་བ་ཕུར་ཚུགས་སུ་བཏབ་པའོ།། །།

This is our sincere prayer.

 

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Composed in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, on the occasion of my journey there, on September 17, 2018.

Translated September 21, 2018 by Steven Goodman

 

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That is very sad news. He is a very valuable light and teacher for the world.  Thank you for sharing.

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Thanks for sharing.  It is indeed sad news. On the bright side, I am sure the Light from Norbu will keep shining, no matter what form he is in.

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https://mailchi.mp/dzogchencommunity/mandarava-ganapuja-tomorrow-monday-21-may-birth-of-buddha-anniversary-1305749

 

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Dear friends,
Tonight, Thursday 27 September, at 9 pm our beloved Master left this earthly existence in a serene and peaceful way, at his residence, Gadeling, Merigar.
The Namkhai Family


We ask everyone to respect the privacy of the Family and the request for silence and reflection.
 
Students from all over the world are coming to Merigar to be together and practice. The daily collective practices are continuing and as soon as we receive directions from the Namkhai Family we will let you know how you can pay your respects and honor our beloved and precious Master.
Please remember that at the moment the Master is in Thugdam (Samadhi), a phase that lasts from 3 to 7 days that should not be disturbed.
 
Merigar Gakyil

 

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This is a great loss. A stupendously skilfull and accomplished teacher that I had the fortune to meet. He has many incredible students so the legacy and wisdom will go on and bless the world.

 

 

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I am not gonna lie, this is heartbreaking for me. 6 and half years ago I have received my first teachings from Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and I cannot say I was a good student. I have barely moved since those days but I am incredibly thankful and grateful for the little I have learned and for opening the treasure of dharma to me. Namkhai Norbu Khyenno! 

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On 9/22/2018 at 6:32 PM, s1va said:

On the bright side, I am sure the Light from Norbu will keep shining, no matter what form he is in.

 

True. I sense no difference in his presence whether he is physically alive or dead.

 

Though I must say I still have affection for him as one of my masters and for his passing I feel great sadness.

 

Thanks to Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche for his great service to all beings :wub:

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