August 14 Saturday
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja
Time :10.00am - 12.00pm
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja & Mahakala Puja
Time :2.00pm - 5.00pm
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja & Smoke Offering
Time :8.00pm - 9.30pm
August 15 Sunday
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja
Time : 10.00am - 12.00pm
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja, Mahakala Puja & Smoke Offering
Time : 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Venue : 721 Geylang Road, Singapore 389 632 (opposite Lorong 42 Geylang)
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Vajrakilaya Empowerment and Gyazhi Puja by Tulku Gyang Khang Rinpoche
Event : Vajrakilaya Empowerment
Date : August 28 Saturday
Time : 8.00pm - 9.30pm
Event : Gyazhi Puja (The Four Hundred Offering Puja)
Date : August 29 Sunday
Time : 10.00am - 12.00pm, 2.00pm - 5.00pm
The Sangha members will chant Buddha Amitabha Prayer for the benefit of all the deceased. During the ceremony, the Lama will make offerings to Buddha Amitabha where merits are accumulated. The merits will be transferred to the deceased to help them in their karma purification and liberation. The prayer will also help awaken the consciousness and eliminate the desire of the souls in the Bardo (intermediate period between death and rebirth) so that they may be liberated and may take rebirth in Amitabha Buddha's Pure Land.
At the end of the ritual, the paper tablets with the names of the deceased are burnt by wisdom fire. The act of burning purifies all subtle defilements, obscurities and negative karma of the deceased thereby providing them the condition to reborn in Amitabha's Pure Land.
Vajrakilaya is a manifestation of Vajrapani, who is the essence of wisdom of Buddhas of three times and ten directions, thus possessing great power. In the age of degeneration, sentient beings are in the great disturbance of their mental defilements. An ordinary manifestation of Buddha or Bodhisattvas in a peaceful form, is difficult to subdue beings with such defilements. Therefore, Vajrapani, the holder of the vajra, manifests in a wrathful form to subdue such beings. Vajrakilaya has three heads, six arms and four legs. Each represents three kayas (dharmakaya, sambogakaya, nirmanakaya), six paramitas, and four immeasureables (loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity). He is adorned with eight kinds of ornaments of a wrathful deity, with a pair of wings which represents fast action. Another name of Vajrakilaya is Dorje Shonnu. Dorje means unmoving, unchanging; Shonnu means forever youth, not aging, not sick. The consort of Vajrakilaya called Khorlo Gyedun Ma, is a manifestation of Green Tara, who is the essence of all dakinis. Her body is blue in colour which represents unchanging and unmoving. She bestows blessings for all activities to be accomplished swiftly.
The Gyazhi Puja
"Gyazhi" means "Four Hundred Offerings". All obstacles that we experienced were caused by the Four Maras. These are the Mara of Aggregate which is represented by yellow torma, the Mara of Heaven-Son represented by white torma, the Mara of Defilement represented by red torma and the Mara of Death represented by black torma. They symobolised the 4 types of obscurations.
Through making the offering, it help to pacify the following:
1) Offering of 100 lamps, one would have pacified the Mara of Heaven-Son and be freed of obscuration of knowledge
2) Offering of 100 tsha-tsha, one would have pacified the Mara of Defilement and be freed of the obscuration of the five poisons.
3) Offering of 100 ransoming effigies, one would have pacified the Mara of Aggregates and be freed of the obscuration of habitual tendencies.
4) Offering of 100 tormas, one would have pacified the Mara of Death and be freed of obscuration of karmic causes
Approaching to the final part of puja, these tormas accompanied by offerings will be ousted from the shrine to specified locations according to instructions. The act symoblized departure of all troubles and problems from you.
Therefore, the puja is excellent in dispelling the following
1) Diminishing of life forced, or bad omens of untimely death;
2) Hard luck
3) Harms from powerful spirits and demons;
4) Robbery, thievery, quarreling and unrests;
5) Epidemics.
Participants interested to participate in this puja are requested to bring fingernail cutting, a small piece of fabric worn by the participant and strands of hair.