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JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2012 ISSUE

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

First of all, let us wish you & your family a marvelous 2012!

To welcome the year of Dragon, our centre has lined up a series of programs in January & February for all devotees and students to participate with us.

Below is a quick glance of the program. You may find out more information on all these programs in the newsletter.

Date	Programs
01/01	Riwo Sang Chot
19/01 to 21/01	Vajrakialaya Gutor
22/01	Amitayus Long Life Prayers & Lud Tangwa
22/01	Sakyamuni Puja & Khatag Offering
23/01 & 24/01	21 Dzambala Puja & Treasure Vase Blessing Ceremony
29/01	Gya Na Kar Thok (Clearing Obstacles for the new year.)

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.

Click to download monthly pujas lamp offering sform.

RIWO SANG CHOT

Date: 01 January 2012 (Sunday)
Time: 10am to 12pm

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.

Participants may register for the puja at $10 per person. The registration included offering items like biscuits, fruits, butter, milk and etc.

VAJRAKILAYA GUTOR

The Vajrakilaya Gutor is a ritual for pacifying negativities and eliminating obstacles of the current year for a smooth new year ahead.

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 3 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: -

Date	Time	Program
19/01 & 20/01 Thu & Fri	10am - 12pm	Vajrakilaya Gutor
	2pm - 5pm	Vajrakilaya Gutor & Mahakala Puja
	8pm - 10pm	Vajrakilaya Puja
21/01 Sat	10am - 12pm	Vajrakilaya Gutor
21/01 Sat	2pm - 5pm	Vajrakilaya Gutor & Burning of Torma

AMITAYUS LONG LIFE PRAYERS & LÜD TANGWA

* Pls note there a slight change in puja timing. The new timing is as below. *

Date	Time
22/01 Sun	8.00am - 9.30am
	9.30am to 12pm
	1pm to 2.30pm

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 or sent away instead, thus eliminating all causes of untimely death.

Registration for Vajrakilaya Gutor & Lud Tangwa

Participants who are interested to join the Vajrakilaya Gutor and Lüd Tangwa are required to register and contribute as follows: -

Category	Individual	Family	Company
Lamp Offering (for 4 days)	S$40	S$80	S$138
Clearing of Obstacles (for 4 days)	S$30	S$60	S$128
Flowers offering	S$5 each
Tsog Offering	S$10 each

Please do not miss this opportunity to embark on a promising New Year!

SAKYAMUNI PUJA & KHATAG OFFERINGS

Date: 22 January 2011 (Sunday)
Time: 11pm to midnight

Lamp offering is available at $5 per lamp.

On the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, our center will conduct the Sakyamuni prayers followed khatag (Tibetan silk scarves) offerings to the portrait of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche (the 11th Throne Holder of Palyul Lineage) and His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche (the 12th Throne Holder of Palyul Lineage).

There will be a countdown session before the Khatag offering to welcome the year of Dragon. Come and join us in this once a year event to receive blessings and welcome Chinese Lunar New Year together with our resident Rinpoche & lama!

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 centre will conduct the Twenty One Dzambala Puja on the 1^st & 2^nd day of the Chinese Lunar New Year as follows:

* Pls note that there's a change in program timing. There will be no afternoon puja on 24/01 from 2pm to 4pm. *

Date	Time
23/01 Mon	11.00am - 12.30pm
23/01 Mon	2.00pm - 4.00pm
24/01 Tue	11.00am -12.30pm

For these two days puja, devotees may bring their treasure vases and da dhar (the 5 colors cloth with ceremonial arrow) that were previously acquired from our centre for once a year blessing. Registration for blessing is at S$10 per item.

Conditions for the Treasure Vase Blessing Ceremony:

Blessing ceremony of treasure vases requires special prayers. Thus, please adhere to the following conditions:
- Only treasure vases & da dhar that are acquired from our centre are allowed
- Treasure vase & da dhar must be collected on 04/02/11 after the puja has ends.
- Registration fee for blessing of treasure vase / dhar da is at S$10.00 each.

Registration for participation of Twenty One Dzambala Puja is available as follows:

Category	Individual	Family	Company
Lamp Offering (for 2 days)	S$20	S$40	S$128
Tsog Offering	S$10 each
Register your Wealth Vase / Da Dhar for Blessing Ceremony	S$10 per item

Devotees are encourage to light a lamp on 1^st & 2^nd day of Chinese Lunar New Year to offer to Buddha and pray for a wonderful year ahead.

GYA NA KAR THOK

Date: 29 January 2012 (Sunday)
Time: 10am to 12pm

Registration for this prayer is at $10 per name. Devotees may also offer a lamp at $5 per name.

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 "kar" 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 Na Kar Thok puja.

CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR VEGETARIAN LUNCH GATHERING

Date: 29 January 2012 (Sunday)
Time: 12.00pm

We will like to invite you to join us in our vegetarian lunch gathering & “Lou Hei” (vegetarian yu sheng) in centre together with our resident Rinpoche & lama.

We will be glad if you can contribute a dish for this lunch gathering. Please contact or send an SMS to Shiyun at 98770726 if you wish to contribute your signature dish!

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Registrations & Payments

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.