KH Members Practicing Tara Puja Today
This is when the monks were training our people the art of torma making… around two months back.
I have requested monks from Gaden to teach a whole series of very important pujas that our members here can do for the public. These pujas have been done for the last 600 years in Gaden! I wanted the pujas to be authentic and have a lineage from Gaden. So that our members and the public will be confident. So Monks came for 5 weeks to train our members. In the near future our members will be able to do real, authentic, effective 600 year old pujas in Kechara House for those who request.
THE PICTURES BELOW WERE TAKEN TODAY JUST A FEW HOURS AGO.
A group of students or the puja group made their own tormas without the monks who returned to Gaden already. For each of the pujas they learned they will practice making tormas, offerings, recitation, mudra, ritual and visualization.
In the future when they are requested, it will be traditional pujas done with great blessings for the sponsors and the puja ppl themselves.
So they just made the tormas below in the ladrang kitchen! Today’s practice puja is Drolchok or Green Tara Puja!!! Fantastic!!
Making Tara tormas on their own
After they made the tormas, I decided to give them a short talk on the benefits of pujas and how they derive. This is the group and of course Mumu joined in the talk.
Mumu listened very carefully during the talk..hehe
After the dharma talk (below), the puja group are now practicing the actual blessed holy Tara puja together. The Gaden monks were very kind to teach these to us with open hearts, love and great care. We appreciate them so much. We love the sangha!!
How wonderful that lay people can spend the time to learn, practice and do powerful pujas at the request of the public at our blessed Kechara House who’s lineage stems from the incomparable Gaden Monastery of Lord Tsongkapa.
I want Kechara House to be a one-stop get all you need in the spiritual world place that just benefits, benefits and benefits!
Tsem Rinpoche
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Don’t lose opportunities when it comes. The monks come all the way from Gaden Monastery to teach our lay KH members how to make tormas and do Tara pujas. We have to prepare ourselves for KWPC when it manisfest. KWPC will need a lot of young local people to do pujas so we do not have to go into the hassle of doing in Ga den by Tibetan monks when requested. We already have our own members doing pujas independent of Rinpoche. Rinpoche will just have to guide them. The Pujas that are done now in Kechara are Tara Puja, Dukkar Puja,Menlha Puja, Setrap Puja Manjushri Puja and Guru Puja.
Dear Rinpoche,
I am sorry. I will start again for what I have started and bring dharma to others and myself again.
I will seek forgiveness from people I hurt.
Roland Yap.
I’d like to share that a few of us had the great, great, great privilege of working directly with the monks from Gaden, non stop 24/7 for a month when they were here in KL – to transliterate the prayers and learn the accompanying rituals and recitations.
THANK YOU RINPOCHE for making it possible for us to learn from the monks, for free, in such easy and beautiful conditions. We really have it so easy these days to receive these ancient teachings; we literally just sit there with our beaks open and receive it! It was the best one month of my life and, as it fell across the Chinese new year period, it was also the best new year I’d ever had – the most meaningful, beneficial and one full of love.
It was a lot of work too though haha! We went through the transliteration of the prayers dozens of times, and still couldn’t tell the different between the words “Dhi” or “Di”, “Gyi” or “Kyi”! We couldn’t figure out the complicated rituals, the monk didn’t understand English and some people almost broke their fingers trying to figure out how to make the tormas! hehe
But now, after the monks have left, we have started practising the pujas and, in turn, teaching it to other people within the centre. I am proud to say that we are the only Tibetan Buddhist centre in Malaysia now where laypeople are being taught to do these authentic prayers, and also doing them within our centre regularly.
It is a tremendous honour that the Sangha would entrust these prayers to us laypeople and to allow us to hold these lineage prayers and teachings. And for this, I am just so very grateful. May we do the Sangha proud by upholding these practices and pujas in the best possible way, and perform them to benefit as many people as possible.
Y’all are very fortunate to have a lama that is really a hands on kind of Guy!
I share in your Joys and it makes me smile all the way to the top of the mountains overlooking the deserts down to the Pacific and across to your Sangha!
It is a real pleasure and honour to be part of this Puja Group, to be able to learn what ha been passed down from generations of monks and now, to us. It is such a precious gift in itself, to be learning everything associated with this puja – knowing we will be doing it next time for others and in turn, become a true help to others. What an amazing opportunity of a lifetime!
Roland,
Create the causes to achieve. Never run, never ignore, never avoid, never escape.
If you take refuge in Buddha, accept doctrine of karma. Hence there’s no way to run away from karma this or any other lifetimes.
Be stable, finish what you start. Practice great patience and ask true forgiveness from ppl you have hurt. And start what you started again and bring dharma to many and to yourself. I wish you always the best.
Then good things will come,
much care,
Tsem Tulku
This is very nice. Hope I have the merits to learn the art of making Torma.
The tormas are very nice. What a rare opportunity to be able to learn the art of traditional torma making. I am happy for you all.
The pictures are great. Mumu is adorable of course.