Common Ingredients: Vegetable oil, Kusha stalks and grass, medicinal grass, wooden sticks
Seeds: Sesame, unhusked rice (paddy)
Grains: Barley berries, wheat berries, beans, rice
Food: Tsampa or rolled oats, honey, milk, molassess
Others: To be specified according to text, or Lama's instructions
Photos taken during Vajrayogini Fire Puja performed
by H.E. Jetsun Kusho-la at
Sakya Tenphel Ling, Singapore
21 Feb 2010
In a monastery, monks traditionally perform prayer ceremonies and Pujas for the long life, health and success of their lamas, friends, benefactors and all sentient beings, as well as for world peace.
The smoke emanating from the fire is charged with vibrations and the vibrations travel for miles creating peace and harmony in the world.
The Vajrapani Fire Puja is very powerful and has many benefits. For the living, a Vajrapani fire puja ceremony fulfills wishers, removes obstacles, improves health, and increases merit and wealth. For Buddhist practitioners, making offering to the fire deities helps the practitioner gain accomplishments on the path, stabilize one's meditation concentration and improve one's spiritual practice. For the deceased, the ceremony is an excellent method of purifying negative karma and attaining higher rebirth.
The Vajrapani Fire Puja also helps to avert or purify three kinds of obstacles:
- External adversities that manifest from karmic imprints and affect our daily life, relationships, job, business, etc:
- Internal hindrances arising from fear, doubts and superstition that affect our health or mental state; and
- Secret/hidden obstacles of inherent ignorance that obstruct our ability to realize the true nature of reality
Sakya Tenphel Ling programs, Singapore, offers a couple of Fire Pujas throughout the year. For programs,
http://www.sakyatenphelling.org/
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