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JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2008 ISSUE |
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Wishing all devotees a beautiful, auspicious and a blessed
year!
With
Warmest Wishes,
Venerable Khenpo Tashi Dhargye Rinpoche,
Lama Rinchen Khandu, Lama Yeshe Gyatso
and the Management Committee
This year,
the Chinese Lunar New Year coincides with the Tibetan Losar
(New Year). With the advise of our Resident Spiritual
Teacher, We have lined up a series of auspicious activities
for you and your family to usher in the New Year.
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Date |
Program |
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01/01 |
Riwo Sang Chot |
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22/01 |
Chenrezig Chang Chog & Smoke Puja |
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04/02 to
05/02 |
Vajrakilaya Gutor |
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06/02 |
Amitayus Long Life Prayers &
Lüd Tangwa
10.00am - 12.00pm & 1.00pm - 3.30pm |
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Sakyamuni
Puja & Khatag Offering (10.30pm) |
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07/02 |
21
Dzambala Puja & Treasure Vases Blessing Ceremony |
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10/02 |
Gya Na Kar
Thok
(Clearing of Obstacles for the new year) |
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14/02 to
21/02 |
The 1.2
Millions Vajra Guru Mantra Recitation Program |
You may also
accumulate merits in our monthly pujas (e.g. Medicine Buddha
Puja, Green Tara Puja & etc.) by making lamp offering to the
Buddhas, which is available at S$5 per lamp.
Interested participants can fill up the attached form and
mail it to us with your payment.
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RIWO SANG CHÖT
Riwo Sang
Chöt,
“The Mountain of Burnt
Offering”, is a form
of smoke offering made to all the Buddhas, Deities, Dharma
Protectors and Dakinis. It was a terma teaching
concealed by Guru Rinpoche in order to benefit the future
generations. He gave explicit prophecies regarding the
future manifestation of this sacred teaching, and
accordingly, it was revealed by Terton Lhatsun Namkha
Jigme.
This powerful puja enables participants to
accumulate merits and blessings. It facilitates the
purification of our bad karma, sicknesses and obstacles,
paying off the karmic debts of our previous lives, as well
as increasing wealth and life spans for our present and
future lives.
Our Resident
Spiritual Teacher, Venerable Khenpo Tashi Dhargye Rinpoche
will lead this prayer together with the Resident Monks on
1st January between 10am to 12pm in our Centre.
Participants may register for the puja at $10 for
Individual, $20 for Family or $50 for Company. The
registration included offering items like biscuits, fruits,
butter, milk and etc.
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LUNGTA
PRAYER FLAGS
To mark
the beginning of year 2008, it is auspicious to raise
lungta flags on the 1st day of the year. Lungta is a
tibetan word, meaning wind-horse. Lungta prayer flags
are usually raised high in the air to catch the wind and
thereby release the prayers and mantras into the air as
offerings to the deities. It is known to bring success,
peace, knowledge, wisdom, prosperity, and long life to
all in proximity of the raised flags.
As a part
of welcoming the auspicious New Year as well as raising
fund for building maintenance needs, we encourage
devotees to write their names on the Lungta. The Lungta
is available at $20 per set. Devotees may
choose to hang the Lungta in their homes or to request
the centre to send it to hang at the mountain areas in
Bhutan.
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CHENREZIG CHANG CHOG &
SMOKE OFFERING PUJA
It is of
importance for one to pay respect to their ancestors or
deceased loved ones before the Chinese Lunar New Year. With
this in mind, our Resident Spiritual Teacher, Venerable
Khenpo Tashi Dhargye Rinpoche, together with the resident
monks will perform the Chenrezig Chang Chog Puja on
22nd January 2008.
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Date |
Time |
Program |
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22/01/2008
(Tue) |
2.00pm -
5.00pm |
Chenrezig Chang Chog Puja & Smoke Offering |
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8.00pm -
9.30pm |
Registration
is needed for the prayer.
Click here to download
puja's registration form
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Per
Deceased Name |
S$5 per
name |
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Per
Ancestors |
S$10 per
surname |
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Smoke
Offering |
S$5 each |
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VAJRAKILAYA GUTOR
The
Vajrakilaya Gutor is a ritual for pacifying negativities and
eliminating obstacles of the current year for a smooth new
year ahead. Our centre is pleased to invite H.E. Tulku
Mugsang Kuchen Rinpoche to preside over the 02/02
& 03/02 Vajrakilaya Gutor.
The ritual
will be performed according to the Terma text of
Terton Ratna Lingpa. During the ritual, there
will be prayer sessions with tsok offerings. The
Lamas will make a large Torma (in the form of Vajrakilaya)
together with 46 retinue Tormas representing various sacred
hand emblems for this particular event.
At the end of
the 4 days ritual, the Tormas will be burnt, symbolizing the
purification of our obstacles and negativities. The
schedule of this ritual is set out as follows: -
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Date |
Time |
Program |
02/02 to 04/02
Sat to Mon |
10am -
12pm |
Vajrakilaya Gutor |
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2pm - 5pm |
Vajrakilaya Gutor
&
Mahakala Puja |
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8pm -
10pm |
Vajrakilaya Puja |
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05/02
Tue |
10am -
12pm |
Vajrakilaya Gutor |
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2pm - 5pm |
Vajrakilaya Gutor
& Burning of Torma |
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AMITAYUS LONG LIFE PRAYERS
& LÜD TANGWA
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Date |
Time |
06/02/2008
(Wed) |
10.00am -
12.00pm |
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1.00pm - 3.30pm |
Amitayus
Buddha (the Buddha of long life, merits and wisdom) is
considered the Sambhogakaya aspect of the widely known
Amitabha Buddha. The main practice of Amitayus is to
prolong or extend one's lifespan. Longevity is seen as a
contributing condition that will allow us more time and
opportunity to practice the Dharma so that we can fulfill
our true human potential - the achievement of ultimate
happiness. It is therefore very important to do the Amitayus
Long-life practice.
The ritual of
Lüd Tangwa is performed to eradicate untimely death due to
obstacles caused by evil spirits & other negativities.
During this
ritual, participants will place their cut nails, hair,
unwashed worn clothing, len-chag (a type of mold used for
rubbing on unwell body parts) into a receptacle (Lüd)
containing a figurine of a human being. The figurine
actually represents the obstacles and negativities of
participants, just like the various substances that we place
into the Lüd. Other offerings like food and etc are also
placed into the Lüd, with the aim of pacifying the evil
spirits and other negativities.
Traditionally, at the end of this ritual, the Lüd will be
thrown at crossroads, but due to legal constraints here, the
Lüd will be burnt instead, thus eliminating all causes of
untimely death.
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REGISTRATION FOR
VAJRAKILAYA GUTOR & LÜD TANGWA
Participants who are interested to join the
Vajrakilaya Gutor and Lüd Tangwa are required to register
and contribute as follows: -
Click here to download
puja's registration form
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Category |
Individual |
Family |
Company |
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Lamp Offering (5 days) |
S$40 |
S$80 |
S$138 |
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Clearing of Obstacles (5 days) |
S$30 |
S$60 |
S$128 |
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Flowers offering |
S$10 each |
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Tsog Offering |
S$10 each |
Please do not miss this opportunity to embark
on a promising New Year!
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SAKYAMUNI PUJA & KHATAG OFFERINGS TO H.H. PENOR RINPOCHE
On
the eve of the Chinese Lunar & Tibetan New Year on 6th
February at 10.30pm, our center will conduct the
Sakyamuni prayers followed by a session of khatag (Tibetan
silk scarves) offerings to the portrait of His Holiness
Penor Rinpoche.
There will be
a countdown session before the Khatag offering to welcome
the year of Rat. Devotees may bring along their mandarin
oranges to pay respect to Venerable Khenpo Tashi Dhargye
Rinpoche and the Lamas. Khen Rinpoche will also give out red
packets to all devotees, wishing them a peace, prosperous
and auspicious year!
Come and join
us in this once a year meaningful event to receive the
blessings and to welcome the Chinese Lunar & Tibetan New
Year!
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TWENTY ONE DZAMBALA PUJA
& TREASURE VASE BLESSING CEREMONY
In order to
welcome an auspicious new year that bring better achievement
and prosperity to all, our Resident Spiritual Teacher,
Venerable Khenpo Tashi Dhargye Rinpoche and Resident Monks
will conduct the Twenty One Dzambala Puja and Treasure
Vases' blessing ceremony on 7th February at 11.00am.
Conditions for the Treasure
Vase Blessing Ceremony:
Blessing
ceremony of treasure vases requires special prayers. Thus,
please adhere to the following conditions:
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Only treasure vases that acquired from our
centre are allowed
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Treasure vase must have name tag and receipt
numbers, and to be collected on the same day after the
blessing.
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Registration fee for each vase is S$10.00
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GYA NAG KAG DOK
This prayer is done for clearing obstacles in relation with one's life for
specific age of the year,
like the age of 13, 25, 37 and so forth for every twelve years, where it is called
"KAG" in Tibetan. This is explained according to astrological calculation in the Tibetan
tradition.
The benefits of this puja helps
to clear one's obstacles in general and even specific way.
It helps to smooth one's activity, obstacles get
reversed and help to prevent one's from sickness. Normally
things will be better for oneself during the year after doing the Gya Nag Kag Dok puja.
The
prayer will be performed by our resident spiritual teacher
together with the monks on 10th February 2008 from
10am - 12pm. Registration for this prayer is at
$10 per name.
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NEW YEAR VEGETARIAN
LUNCH GATHERING
Our centre is
delightful to have all devotees to gather together during
the New Year for a POT LUCK vegetarian lunch on on 10th
February 2007 @ 12pm. If you wish to contribute your
specialty dishes or dessert on this joyous event, please
register with Shiyun at 9877 0726 (hp).
We will have
vegetarian Yu Sheng for everyone to “LOU HEI” together with
our Resident Spiritual Teacher and monks. Don’t miss this
chance to welcome an auspicious new year together!
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Guru Mantra :
Om Ah Hung Benzar Guru
Padma Siddhi Hung
The first
month of the Tibetan calendar is known as "the multiplying
of the blessings month." During the life of Shakyamuni,
many people asked him to perform miracles to prove his
enlightenment. He ignored their requests and moved from town
to town giving teachings. Finally, when he taught in
Shravasti, the people beseeched the King to order Shakyamuni
to hold a contest of spiritual or miraculous feats to prove
his greatness. The Buddha agreed and as it so happened the
first day he began these demonstrations was the first day of
Losar till the last day, which falls on the full moon.
This
auspicious period is also known as Chotrul Duchen. Whatever
good deeds one performs or merits one accumulates during
this period, those actions will be multiplied by 100,000
times.
We has
arranged a Vajra Guru Mantra Recitation program from
14th to 21st February 2008. You are strongly
encouraged to engage in this wholesome activity with us!
The general objectives of this program are to
pray for:
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Buddha Dharma to be ever-flourishing even
during this degenerate age,
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Peace, happiness and harmony to prevail in
this world,
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Warfare, famines and sicknesses to be
eliminated.
The core objectives of this program are:
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To pray for the longevity and good health of
His Holiness Penor Rinpoche. May He live as long as the
space endures and may his glorious path be constantly
obstacles-free!
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To pray for the longevity of all the great
masters of Buddhism.
The schedule for group practice is as
follows:
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Date |
Time |
Program |
14/02
Thu |
8pm -
9.30pm |
Teaching &
Oral Transmission on Vajra Guru Mantra |
15/02, 18/02 to
20/02
Fri, Mon to Wed |
8pm -
9.30pm |
Group
Practice |
16/02
Guru Rinpoche Day
Sat |
2pm - 4pm |
Guru Rinpoche Tsok Offering Puja
& Group Practice |
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8pm -
9.30pm |
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17/02
Sun |
10am -
12pm |
Group
Practice |
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21/02
Thu |
10am -
12pm |
Group Practice |
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2pm - 4pm |
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8pm - 9.30pm |
Dedication of Merits & Wish Fulfilling Lamp
Offering Prayer (Marme Monlam) |
On the last
day of the recitation program, that is, 21 February 2008,
all participants shall dedicate their merits according to
the objectives set. Khenpo Tashi Dhargye Rinpoche will also
be distributing the Dharma pills, which have been put on the
shrine for blessing during the full 7 days recitation
program.
Sponsorship of Lamp Offerings
Due to overwhelming respond
and sincere requests from devotees on the sponsoring of the
S$200 per piece large candles, our centre has decided to
accommodate their request by increasing it to 21
exclusive large candles. These large candles will be
based on first come first served basis. Interested devotees
who wish to sponsor it must come to our centre for
registration.
The lamp
symbolises the light of wisdom that dispels the darkness of
ignorance. This specific offering is made with the sincere
motivation of cultivating pristine awareness and wisdom in
the hearts of beings, thereby eliminating from its very root
the shadow of ignorance that is the source of all misery in
the world.
During the 7
days recitation program, there will be five exclusive
large candles available for sponsorship at S$200 per
piece, which will be constantly replenished throughout
the 7-days recitation program. We will also be lighting at
least 100 tealight candles on every recitation session
conducted in the centre. You are welcome to contribute at
S$2 per tealight candle for each recitation session. Do
encourage all your family and friends to light as many
candles as possible during the merits multiplying month.
Your generous
sponsorship will be greatly appreciated, as the sponsorship
funds would tremendously aid in defraying the expenses
incurred for the full 7-days event. Surpluses, if any, will
be channelled to our centre’s building fund.
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E-Newsletter
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www.palyulsg.org. If you would like to help us reduce
the financial burden of bimonthly printing, envelopes and
stamp costs, kindly indicate your wish to opt out of the
hardcopy newsletter mailing service by emailing your
particulars to
enews@palyulsg.org. Thank you.
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For cheque payment, please made payable to
Palyul Nyingma Buddhist Association
and mail
it to 721 Geylang Road, Singapore 389632.
Please
indicate your name(s) and the respective items/events that
you are registering for together with contact numbers for
our reference. Alternatively, you can come personally to our
Centre for registrations and payments. |
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