Final Tara Puja for KH Renovation work…
Left to right: Eddie, Lee Ho, Paris, Wee Liang, Gim Lee, Jace, Elaine, Ling, Choi Sheem…also Karen (not in pic)
Tormas made for Tara by our members!
Today Wednesday June 2, 2010 10pm, at KH 2 taken in front of the Setrap shrine.
Kechara House will be expanding our prayer hall to fit 700 hundred people. The current one can seat 250 comfortable and it is way too small.
Before commencing on our expansion work starting very shortly we have a series of pujas to do to make everything smooth. For example we have to read the lam rim 100 times or so, and doing Tara Pujas 10 times, etc etc and many other pujas being done by our members and in Gaden Monastery..
The picture above was sent to me 30 minutes ago and this group has just finished the Tara Puja the 10th and final time. Now they are going to run to KH 1 to do recitation of Lam Rim Texts. How beautiful.
Our renovation work will be nice because of the genuine care and love our members put into it. Keep it up everyone.
Tsem Rinpoche
P.S the group has learned how to make their own tormas to offer to Tara for the pujas too!!!
KH Ng with his sixteen year old son Billy at KH reciting the sacred Lam Rim text to collect merits for the renovation of our larger Gompa. What a wonderful way to spend time with your children and a great example we show them to think about when their adults.
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It is said of Green Tara that not only will she give to beings whatever they may need, but also that she is able to allay each of the major fears of beings, such as the eight or sixteen common fears of beings which include fear of robbers and thieves, fear of water, of snakes, of poison, of imprisonment, and so on, as well as all the inner fears. Whatever fears beings suffer from, whenever they would recite the twenty-one praises to Tara, or even merely recite her ten-syllable mantra, OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA, their fears have been pacified, and their needs have been fulfilled.
When I think of Tara Puja, I automatically think of Paris. I think it is because of the hardwork that she put into transcribing, correcting and checking with Kating Rinpoche and Geshe-la not too long ago when the monks came to teach us these pujas. It was amazing dedication on Paris’ part for these pujas to be realised because she put in a lot of her effort to make it happen. I think these pujas is really embued with such dedication and truly blessed by Paris’ shining example.
Tara puja is a special puja especially for those seeking to get attain a certain wish and she is very efficious for that like those wishing to get a child, for the growth of one’s business etc. Tara is also particularly efficacious for those seeking to get extra help in spreading the Dharma like those of any of the 13 departments. After all, Tara is the embodiment of the activity aspect of all the Buddhas. Hence, one of the pujas for Rinpoche’s long life is Tara. This is because Rinpoche’s life is only dedicated to the spread of the Dharma and if obstacles are cleared, Rinpoche’s life get’s extended.
This was such a fun, enriching and uniting experience. It was the first time that this new set of authentic Tibetan pujas (as we had learnt from Kating Rinpoche and Gen Lobsang Yeshe) were being taught in Kechara House – a history in the making!
We had a group of about 10 totally nutty (but very enthusiastic) people, all joining together to learn the rituals, recitations and puja. And boy, was it a challenging few days, trying to coordinate 10 people for every of the 10 sessions; making tormas for every new session and learning the recitations well. But when everyone finally got it, it was magic: the new part of bringing Gaden’s 600-year-old lineage to local, lay practitioners right here in Malaysia.
(We’ve gone to train Kechara members in the Menlha puja too, which is now being done every week in the centre.)