Event : CNY Triple Blessing Puja by HEDagyab Rinpoche
Date : Feb 2
Time 10:30pm - 12:30am
Venue : Gaden Shartse Dro-Phen Ling
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Chinese New Year Eve Pujas start on 10pm to 12:30am on 2nd Feb, 2011 (Wed). So happy and soo lucky we have Eminence Dagyab Kyabgoen Rinpoche leading 20 monks for our CNY Puja this year. This is the very first time!! We are really excited, join us in the obstacle-clearing pujas for the new year, attracting all the luck, wealth, happiness and protection of 2011
Together with senior Old Geshe Ngawang Longtho, as
well 19 Lamas conducting the NEW YEAR PUJAS, we feel extremely blessed
and fortunate! We pray for healthy body and mind; we pray for
smooth-sailing power which overcomes all obstacles; we also pray for
prosperity of both material and spiritual wealth. We pray not only for
ourselves, for our family, we also pray for all sentient beings.
May this New Year be a fresh auspicious beginning, and may all of us,
start by receiving the divine blessings of the Three Jewels.
As of our tradition, on the eve, the Lamas will be conducting 3 puja
rituals to usher in the New Year. These pujas are performed for a smooth
& blessed year ahead freed of all obstacles. The 3 must-have pujas for
the New Year are the Heart Sutra Obstacle-Clearing Puja, Namtose Fortune
& Wealth-Recharge Puja, as well as the Protector Setrap Puja for close
guidance.
BLESSINGS OF THE 3 PUJAS SPECIALLY FOR THE NEW YEAR
1) Heart Sutra Obstacle-Clearing Puja
Should we wish to enjoy a fulfilling year 2011 ahead, whereby all our
goals and targets can be achieved smoothly, we must first purify the
negativities and bad karma that we have committed in the past year as
much as we can. Because obstacles arise from the ripening of bad karma.
Obstacles cause us unhappiness and hindrances in achieving our aims; and
to avoid obstacles, we must avoid accumulating bad karma or purify them
before they ripen. Through participating in the Heart Sutra
Obstacle-Clearing Puja, we are able to purify negativities in the past
year, and is a powerful ritual to swiftly eradicate any on-coming major
obstacles for us in the New Year.
2) Namtose Fortune & Wealth-Recharge Puja
Namtose is a famous protector and wealth deity of Esoteric Buddhism,
for centuries great Buddhist practitioners and yogis relied on his
practice for wealth, protection and cultivation of the path. And
needless to say, Namtose Wealth Pujas are one of the must-have
auspicious pujas for the New Year. This puja summons immense positive
wealth energies upon the puja participants, and is a very effective
method to invoke positive wealth energy of the surroundings. For those
who own wealth vases or fortune wands, do bring them along for
re-energizing of wealth blessings for the New Year.
3) Protector Setrap Protection Puja
Protector Setrap is a wrathful emanation of Buddha Amitabha, and was
the great Protector who successfully guarded and brought the
Prajnaparamita and Pramanavartika teachings from India into Tibet. He is
also the special Protector of our mother monastery - Gaden Shartse
Monastery.
Though wrathful in appearance, Protectors are actually full of
compassion and loving kindness for all beings who are trapped within
this uncontrolled cyclic existence of sufferings. Protectors manifest a
wrathful form towards the three poisons (greed, hatred, ignorance) and
all other negativities of sentient beings. Their fierce appearances
instill terror in evil spirits and also serve to remind us of the
violence and ugliness of the three poisons prevalent in all of us.
The main functions of a Protector are to avert the inner and outer
obstacles that prevent practitioners from gaining spiritual
realizations, and to arrange all the necessary conditions for their
practice. Due to the ripening of our negative karma accumulated
previously, various obstacles will arise to hinder us. Protectors
utilize the most immediate means to prevent the most immediate troubles.
When one is practicing Dharma well, Protectors will follow closely,
blessing and guiding you wherever you are.