Dalai Lama attends long-life prayer offered to him in Dharamshala- Diarytimes

A long-life prayer was offered for Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama by the members of the Sakya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism at Tsuglagkhang temple in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala on Wednesday. The offering ceremony was led by the hierarchs of both palaces– the Dolma Phodrang and Phuntsok Phodrang– headed by Sakya Dagtri Rinpoche.

After the text of the long-life prayer was recited, statues of the deities of longevity, White Tara, Amitayus and Ushnishavijaya, were presented to the 14th Dalai Lama (His Holiness), and he was offered a bowl full of long-life pills by Rinpoche.

“Thank you for this long-life offering. If I don’t live long, there’s a chance the Tibetan people’s wishes and aspirations will not be fulfilled. For this reason, I pray that I will live to be more than a hundred and I ask you too to make the same prayer,” Dalai Lama told the congregation.