Long Life Puja for His Holiness The Dalai Lama Offered by FPMT

May 24, 2023 

Long Life Puja for His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Namgyal Monastery, Dharamsala, India, offered by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)

On May 24, 2023, FPMT has the incredibly precious opportunity to offer a long life puja to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Namgyal Monastery, Mcleod Ganj, India. All are welcome to attend in person or also join online. The puja starts at 08.00 a.m. (Indian standard time).

The Kopan monks and nuns have been working so hard to perfect the actual puja, as they will be offering the chanting and it will be based on Lama Chopa Long life puja. We will share the text with you soon so that everyone can be familiar and able to join the prayers.

The 1,000 statues of Shakyamuni Buddha which will be offered to His Holiness are well underway being created, as well as the two life-sized Namgyalma and Padmasambhava statues. These statues are being filled, gold gilded, and the faces are being painted in preparation for the offering. During the actual puja we will have more than 400 of the 1,000 statues to offer, and the remaining statues will be offered to His Holiness as soon as they are completed.

Thank you so much to everyone who has offered toward the statues and puja so far. There is still an opportunity to participate by offering statues and other offerings in the puja.

This puja is extremely poignant at this time, For many years Lama Zopa Rinpoche had made the request to offer a long life puja to His Holiness the Dalai Lama— who in actuality is Chenrezig Buddha—on behalf of FPMT. Now we have the opportunity to fulfill this request and unbelievably moved to offer this puja on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s behalf. Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi will be offering all the symbolic long-life items during the puja, and Khen Rinpoche and Venerable Roger Kunsang will offer the mandala and body, speech, and mind to His Holiness. The puja also falls on the forty-second day of Rinpoche having showed the aspect of passing.

We very much hope that everyone can attend this heartfelt long life offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in person or online, to join this puja on Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s behalf and in order to fulfill one of Rinpoche’s recent heart wishes.

“By offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, you are making offerings to all the buddhas and numberless bodhisattvas. This generates limitless skies of merit—every day and every second. It is unbelievably precious to be part of offering one thousand buddhas directly to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
By maintaining this close connection with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, all of our future lives will be like the sun shining. We will always be in the company of buddhas and achieve the highest realizations. This becomes the cause to achieve greater accomplishments and offer more extensive benefit to sentient beings in this and future lives.
These holy objects help other sentient beings easily purify inconceivable negative karma and create the causes for happiness and extensive merit, which brings them to enlightenment quickly by realizing the path up to enlightenment. The moment holy objects, such as statues of Buddha, are completed they become a field of merit for sentient beings. They become only a cause for others to achieve happiness. Imagine these 1,000 statues benefiting others around the world.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche

May this offering create the cause for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to remain in this world for as long sentient beings remain.

  • The Long Life Puja can also be watched via live webcast: dalailama.com/live
  • The text that will be used: Lama Chopa Long Life Offering to His Holiness

You can learn more about Offering One Thousand Buddhas to His Holiness the Dalai Lama from FPMT and join the offering.
You can follow important and inspiring news about His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the official website of His Holiness: https://www.dalailama.com/

  • His Holiness’s teachings are not organised or hosted by Tushita.
  • On foot, Tushita is ~30 minutes up the hill from His Holiness’s Temple or ~15 minutes from McLeod Ganj.
  • Tushita avoids scheduling conflicting sessions, and usually also offers review sessions later in the day.

Check Programs > Drop-In Sessions > Review Sessions, to see if Tushita has scheduled Review Sessions.