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The Gyazhi Puja
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Our centre will conduct the "Gyazhi" means
the "Four Hundred Offerings" on 27th September (Saturday).
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.
The origins of Sher Nying Dud
Dhog
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During the time of Sakyamuni Buddha, there
was a Hariti (known as the mother of bhutas) and her five
hundred sons. In order to feed her sons, she would abduct
and killed the human's children. Buddha knew about it, stole
one of her son and hid him under his rice bowl. She realised
that one of her son was missing and went desperately
throughout the universe to search for him. Finally, she went
to the Buddha and pleaded for his help. The Buddha pointed
out that she was suffering because she had lost one of her
sons and asked if she could imagine the suffering of parents
whose only child had been devoured. She replied contritely
that their suffering must be many times greater than hers,
and vowed not to abduct or killed the children and pleaded
with Buddha to return her missing son. Hariti was also
worried that without food, her sons would be hungry. Buddha
knowing this, took out the leftover food from his rice bowl
and gently pressed it together to form the imprint of his 5
fingers, blessed it and gave it to Hariti to release the
hunger of her sons. Buddha also mentioned that he will
preach the offering of "len-chang" which mean the leftover
potion of the food, as an offering to Hariti and her five
hundred sons and hope that they will not caused harmed to
the human again.
Thus our centre will conduct the puja on
28th September (Sunday). Sher Nying Dud Dhog is known
as dispelling obstacles through Prajna Paramita. Sher means
Paramita, Nying means Essence, Dud means Maras and Dhog
means Obstacles.
The benefits of this puja is:
1) To reverse diseases and harms generally.
2) To remove obstacles like bad dreams, bad
signs and omens.
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.
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