Chenrezig Puja

The blessing of Chenrezig or Avaloketesvara (Skt.) is invoked through the King of Mantras, OM MANI PEME HUNG. The vibrations from the syllable OM remove pride; MA, jealousy; NI, egotistical desire; PE, ignorance; ME, greed and avarice; and HUNG, hate and anger of ourselves and all beings. By constantly repeating this mantra and mentally sending light and love to all, we and all beings receive limitless benefit.

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Tara is a female meditation deity often called the mother of all Buddhdas. Also considered patron saint of Tibet. Green Tara is associated with protection and white Tara is associated with healing and long life. The Morning Puja comprises the following prayers:

1. Bless Shrine and Offering
   To begin a puja, we chant prayers to enable the blessings and offerings to multiply to benefit all sentient beings.
2. Namjom
   This is the root of all tantras. The chanting of this dharani will purify all the sins of one and remove all suffering of all sentient beings.
3. Tashi Prayer
   If one recites this when waking, all one’s aims for that day will be achieved. If one recites this when going to bed, one will witness excellent dreams. If one recites this when entering into battle, one will have utter victory. If one recites this when starting work, one’s wishes for objectives will be accomplished. If one recites this regularly, long life, abundance, fame, wealth, splendour, felicitous happiness and all the most wonderful things will be accomplished according to one’s contemplated aims, as one wishes. Sins and obscuration will be cleared away, and all benefits will be achieved through the definite goodness in the higher realms.
4. Four Dharma of Gompopa
   Pay homage to the great master Gompopa who bestows blessings so that one and all sentient being may be one with the Dharma, so that Dharma may progress along the path, so that the path may clarify confusion and so that confusion may appear as wisdom.
5. Lineage Prayer
   Pray to the Lineage. Starting with a short prayer of Dorje Chang, then pay homage to the great Master of the lineage, Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa, the Lord of Gharma Gampopa, the Karmaps, holders of the four greater and eight lesser lineages and all the Kagyu lama from who we will follow their path. From blessings bestowed by the great lineage holders, the lineage will continue and never be broken.
6. Three Skandhe Sutra (35 Buddhas)
   We make prostrations, offering, confession and prayers to the 35 Buddhas beginning with Buddha Shakyamuni from whom we obtain purification of our negative karma and progress to attain enlightenment.
7. Green Tara Sadhana
   This is a prayer to the Green Tara, the Exalted Liberator who is of great power and great compassion. We pray to rid of our negative emotions and the obscuration of the mind and attain perfect awakened Enlightenment. Every obstacle to our attainment of complete knowledge, such as demons, epidemics, sickness and all other obstacles – untimely death and all other incidents – bad dreams, evil omens, the eight fears and all other dangers will be removed by prayer to the Green Tara.
8. Sang
   This is making offerings. First, a variety of precious substances, having been blessed with prayers, are offered to the lamas, yidams, dakini, guardians of Dharma, the mandala of the Glorious Ones, countless and from all ten directions, the local gods of Dzambuling, the six families of beings and the creditor guests. The offerings are to repay those who rob one of life and steal one’s life force, spirits who cause illness and instigate obstacles, those who bring bad signs and indications in dream and bad omens. Then gifts are burned to offer to beings of the three lower realms which are to liberate them from unceasing torment, to liberate all beings from conditioned existence and to direct them to the refuge of the three Jewels, namely, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. By giving the offering of sang, we wish that all our previous karmic debts are cleared away; that our illness, demons, obscuration and impure conduct be purified; that inauspicious omens and terrors of the world be averted.
9. Prayer of Orgyen
   This is to pray that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions and the four times, Lamas, Yidams, Dakinis and Dharma Protectors all to come. To whom we make offering outwardly, inwardly, secretly and ultimately. We remorse for harmful past and present actions and we vow to turn away from them hereafter. We rejoice in all merit and all virtue. We pray to the Buddhas not to go into Nirvana and to turn the Wheel of Dharma of the Three Collections (Tripitaka) and of the unsurpassable Teaching. We dedicate all virtues, without exception, to all beings.

Short Morning Puja

• Short Morning Puja includes the chanting of Namjom, Namjal, Tashi Prayer, Lineage Prayer, Praises of  The Twenty One Tara and Sang Offering.

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Mahakala and all the Protectors of the Dharma are supplicated to protect all beings from serious negativities, especially those accumulated from aggression. Through the practice we pray that Mahakala's enlightened protection may pervade everywhere. We pray that while in the circle of samsara all beings without exception may experience long life, health, and happiness and that they may attain perfect awakening. Thus, this ritual is performed for the benefit of every single living being.

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The aspirations of the Medicine Buddha are to pacify the suffering of all sentient beings and to liberate them from samsara and sickness. This puja practice is not only extremely effective in the removal of sickness, it have the following benefits as explained by the Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche:.  

"If you are ordained, your discipline will be maintained; though there might be an occasion when it is not, having purified this obscuration, you will not fall into the lower realms. Having purified the negative karma of being born as a hell being, a hungry ghost, or an animal, you will not take such a birth. Even if you do, immediately liberate, you will take a felicitous rebirth in a higher realm, and gradually attain awakening. In this life as well, you will easily obtain food and clothing and not be harmed by disease, negative spirits, sorcery, or the punishments of rulers. You will be protected and guarded by Vajrapani, Brahma, the Great Kings of the four directions, and the twelve great Yaksha chiefs each with their 700,000 assistants. You will be freed from all harm; from the eighteen kinds of untimely death, the harm of enemies, carnivorous beast, and so forth. All your wishes will be fully realized and so forth."

Furthermore, we are practicing the Medicine Buddha in order to attain states of mental and physical health, not merely for our own benefit, but for the benefit of others as well.

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