Long-Life Offering from The Three Roots Combined to Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche (2025)
From June 28th to July 1st, monastics and lay practitioners gathered at Tek Chok Ling nunnery in Kathmandu to offer long-life practices to Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche during the Year of the Snake (2025).
The Three Roots Combined
Leading up to the final day, Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen shared that these practices were especially recommended by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, for this occasion. The main ritual was the Sādhana of the Three Roots Combined, newly compiled by His Holiness and deeply rooted in the Karma Kamtsang lineage.
Shared Devotion
This was the first time this particular practice was offered as a long-life prayer for Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. Nuns from Karma Drubdey (Bhutan) and Tek Chok Ling, monks from Pullahari, Dilyak, and other monasteries, along with many monastics and lay Dharma practitioners and students of both Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, came together with shared devotion to practice for four days.
On the concluding day, we were honored to welcome Rinpoche in person to the Tārā shrine room on the first floor of Tek Chok Ling’s beautiful temple. Many others joined online from around the world. Together, as one mandala of practitioners, we made vast traditional mandala offerings and long-life prayers.
Long-Life Prayer
As Lama Tenpa reminded us the day before, while there are many prayers we can offer, the guru is the root of all practice and blessing, so we begin with prayers for the guru’s longevity.
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all the nuns at Tek Chok Ling for kindly hosting this event, to everyone involved in organizing the practices, and to all who generously made special donations to make these offerings possible.
May our precious Rinpoche’s life be long and healthy, and may his compassionate activity continue to inspire and benefit all beings!
