Regular
Saturday Afternoons
| 1pm to 5pm |
The center is open, with Ven. Drimay
on duty |
| 5pm to ~ 6pm |
Various pujas (see below)* |
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*Upcoming pujas:
Apr. 26 - no puja (Yoga
Day)
May 3 - sutra recitation
May 10 - no puja (Movie
screenings)
May 17 - Medicine Buddha
May 24 - Tara & Protectors
May 31 - puja leader
away
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* When coming to a tsog, bring
a food offering to share. This is usually a snack
item that can be easily passed out.
(We have a request from some participants to consider
bringing more healthful offerings, perhaps nuts,
crackers, fruit.)
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Puja is a Sanskrit word
which means offering. A puja is a ritual that generally
involves:
• chanting--verses of
praise, reviewing the points of the path, and so forth,
and
• making offerings--both
actual and imagined.
When
a Saturday fall on or near one of the lunar dates for
offering tsog*,
we will perform the Guru Puja with Tsog. If you don't
know what this means, then this probably isn't a practice
for you. If you have taken a Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment,
then you should probably come to this, unless you are
already going to one at another Dharma center.
Sutra recitations
Approximately once a month,
it will be a sutra recitation; not an actual puja.
Why do pujas?
Performing pujas and sutra
recitations creates merit and purifies obstacles for:
• the Dharma center
• the people who are doing
the recitation
• the whole community,
and
• the whole world
Why Medicine Buddha and
Tara pujas?
Years ago, Lama Zopa Rinpoche
recommended these two pujas to our group (and to the FPMT
centers in general) because they each cover so many situations.
Each of the twenty-one Taras and each of the seven Medicine
Buddhas addresses specific types of problems and brings
specific types of success, which taken all together cover
just about everything we could want.
