This puja is performed to remove all obstacles for one's long life.
Namgyalma is one of the three Long-life Deities (white Tara, Amitayus, Namgyalma) Making requests to these deities helps to remove obstacles to one's lifespan (for example accidents, possibly fatal illness, as well as improve the quality of one's life. During this puja extensive offerings are made to accumulate merit and to purify all the hindrances to one's long life.
