Ongoing List of Prayers, Practices, and Pujas

December 6 2013

Following the request sent out in April 2013 for specific practices to be done by FPMT students on behalf of Rinpoche’s health and long life, we invite you to rejoice in these totals of practices done!  This is the total being offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the long life puja at Kopan Monastery, Nepal on Dec 9th!

Hayagriva mantras – 13,026,822 
Praises to Tara (within a Tara puja) – 13,901
Recitations of the Golden Light Sutra – 1155
Animal Liberation – 7,500,695 sea creatures (with rejoicing that Amitabha Buddhist Centre/Ven Drachom liberated 7.4 million!); 74,547 worms; 4 sheep; 16 goats; 3 birds; 29,663 snails; 1000 minnows; 18 chickens; 2 puppies; 1kitten; 1 rabbit; 1660 crickets; 100 killifish; 4524 miscellaneous animals; plus many $ donated to animal liberation
Tendil Nyersel Prayer Flags – hung at 31 centers, projects, services and study groups

PLUS many other meritorious practices offered on behalf of Rinpoche’s health and long life.

THANK YOU ALL.

 

2012

Upon hearing the news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s manifestation of a stroke in April 2011, many high lamas close to Rinpoche and hundreds of students from around the world began organizing pujas, reciting prayers and mantras, and making commitments for practices dedicated to Rinpoche’s good health and long life. The following is a list of some of the prayers, practices and pujas, and is an inspiring collective effort truly worth rejoicing in.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Private Office sent a message to Sera Je requesting

1. Extensive Hayagriva Tsog Kong for 2 days – all the monks of Sera Je
2. 4 Mandala offering to Tara – all the monks of Sera Je
3. Recite 3 long life deity mantra – all the monks of Sera Je
4. Medicine Buddha mantra – all the monks of Sera Je
5. Extensive Hayagriva Tsog  puja for one day by the special Hayagriva committee

Geshe Sopa Rinpoche

1. Offered 2 xMedicine Buddha puja
2. 1 x Tara 4 Mandala Offerings Puja

 Choden Rinpoche

1. Extensive Hayagriva Tsog with Geshe Ngawang Drakpa and all the students in the Bay area
2. Extensive Hayagriva puja by the Hayagriva committee at Sera Je Monastery x 7
3. Students to recite praise and mantra of Most Secret Hayagriva

 Khadro la Namsel Dolma

1. Sera Je monks Tara puja and Extensive Hayagriva puja
2. Khadro la herself did many Tara pujas, Tsog offering, Tea offering, Incense offerings, water purification (dorje Namjom)
3. Extensive animal liberations and to count the numbers and to offer them to Rinpoche and request Rinpoche to live long.
4. For students to do Tara Puja, Tara mantra and Tara praises with extensive offerings
5. Medicine Buddha puja and practice

Khadro la Chhochen

1. To recite 100,000 x Vajra Armor mantra – this was done by students at Atisha Center, Australia
2. To recite Phurba Setop

Dagri Rinpoche

1. Students to do Long Life sutra –as much as possible

Oser Rinpoche

1. 1,000 Offerings to Namgyalma
2. 1,000 offerings to Medicine Buddha
3. King of Prayers betraying the death puja

His Holiness Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche

1. Medicine Buddha
2. Lama Chopa
3. 16 Arhant Puja

Sera Je Abbott requested the Sera Je monastery to do

1. Heart Sutra puja and White Umbrella – by all the monks
2. Extensive Hayagriva puja – by all the monks. Video of the puja
3. Medicine Buddha Puja – by all the monks
4. Tara Puja – by all the monks
5. 2 days Hayagriva extensive puja by the special Hayagriva monks

Sera Mey Monastery offered

1. Medicine Buddha puja

Bati Khangtsen offered

1. Namgyalma Tsechok (long life puja)
2. 4 Mandala Tara puja and Tara mantra

Osel Labrang

1. 100 x Drukchuma by Gyurme Monastery – many times

Sera Me, Tsawa Khangtsen

1. Many Medicine Buddha pujas

Kopan Monastery and Nunnery, Nepal

1. Extensive Medicine Buddha Pujas – many
2. 16 Arhant Pujas
3. 21 Tara praises 100,000 x
4. Dukkar (White Umbrella ) x 2
5. Namgyal Tonchoe (offered by Kopan)
6. Hayagriva mantra (offered by Hong Kong center)
7. Medicine Buddha Puja and Tara puja 3 times (offered by Hongkong Center)
8. Drukchuma 1000 times (offered by Kopan)
9. Reading of Sungdu 2 times( offered by Kopan)
10. 1000 offering Medicine Buddha puja (offering by FPMT students)
11. Namgyal Tonchoe, Sangcho Chilu (offered by Klaus Liu, Taiwan)
12. Kangyur Recitation and recitation of Golden Light sutra (offered by FPMT IOF and FPMT students)
13. 16 Arhat Puja (offered by Tibetan Thangka Treasure)
14. Dode Kelsang 5 times  (offered by FPMT students)
15. The nuns are in the process of reading golden light sutra  many timest.

Additionally, daily mantra recitation of Amitayus, White Tara, Hayagriva, during all pujas performed at Kopan Kopan is  continuing doing the pujas as recommended by Loche Rinpoche.

Kopan will continue with weekly  Medicine Buddha puja, and the nuns with weekly Tara puja.

Lawudo Gompa, Nepal

1. Every day Medicine Buddha Puja

Idgaa Choinzinling Monastery, Mongolia

1. All the monks did extensive Medicine Buddha puja and long life mantras

Eastern Tibet

1. People in Eastern Tibet area liberated over 100 goats and sheep, three four from each family in that area
2. Also they are reciting one Billon times Guru Rinpoche mantra

Gen Wangchen

1. Medicine Buddha puj at Phara Khangtsen

Tsum Rachen nuns and Mu monks, Nepal committed to do:

1. Daily for 1 year – extensive 4 mandala offering Tsitamani Tara puja by 200 over Tsum Sangha.
2. 8 full sets of Nyunye Retreat in Sakadawa both by Tsum sanghas and lay
   practitioners from Tsum village. 
3. One million Guru Rinpoche mantra within Sakadawa month by Tsum Sanghas
   and Tsum villagers. 
4. Vajra Cutter Sutra, Long life sutra and Long life deity mantra daily
   for 1 whole year by Tsum sanghas for 1 year.
5. Vajrayogini Self initiation and Vajrayogini Long life retreat practices
   on 10th & 25th of every month for 1 year. 

Sakya College, Dheradhun, India (offered by Dr.Huang, Meida Cheng and students in Taiwan)

1. Shernyi Do Dok
2. Recitation of the Prajnaparamita
3. Namgyal Tse Chok
4. 4 x Mandala Tara x 100
5. Recitation of the Tsung Du
6. Protectors Puja (Sungme Khangwa)

Cham Tse Ling, Hong Kong

1. 7 time four mandala Tara puja
2. 7 times Medicine Buddha puja
3. 3 times sixteen Arhant puja
4. Recitation of Hayagirva Mantras 1,000,0000 times.
5. liberated 850 sheep and goats and 25 Yaks in Easter Tibet.

Losang Dragpa Center, Malaysia – ongoing practices

1. Offering Haryagriva 1000 Tsok offering puja
2. Long Life Guru Puja
3. 1000 offering Medicine Buddha Puja
4. Several sessions of four mandala offering Tara Pujas
5. Recitation of Most Secret Hayagriva mantra, recitation of Long life deity mantras, protector pujas, 1000 tsok offering Guru Rinpoche pujas, and many LDC members and students will go in to Long life deity retreat ‘ Tse Drup’.

Chokyi Gyatsen Center, Malaysia

1. Offering Hayagriva 1000 Tsog offering puja

Maitripa College, Portland USA

1. Offering Medicine Buddha Puja each night

Hayagriva Center, Perth, Australia

1. Liberated 10 x nine month old sheep

The Hari Krishna cooks who were cooking for the retreat at Atisha Center in Bendigo  upon hearing of Rinpoches stroke orgaznied a puja dedicated to Rinpoche, as they said their teacher had once had a stroke and they had done this puja and he had recovered.

Sai Baba students were requested to recite Medicine Buddha mantra and made prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, also offered a whole day Medicine Buddha and Ksitigarbha prayers.

The Pastor at St John of God Hospital in Bendigo led a prayer session for Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Young people in Amsterdam between the ages of 18 and 23 who were born to Dutch dharma parents gathered from the far south, the east and the north of our country to liberate about a thousand worms by taking them around Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, and other deities, a stupa, Liberation in the Palm of Your Hands and offerings, reciting different mantras.

Amitabha Buddha Center, Singapore and Fred Cheong

1. Liberating 15 million lives
2. Liberated 180 Baramundi fishes
3. Liberated 80,000 other animals

Tibetan Association of Northern California, USA

1. Extensive Medicine Buddha puja and Tsog

Sera Je Secondary School

1. The School children numbering around 680 and staff congregated and offered prayers of Dolma, Sherab Ningpo, appreciation of Dieties and others.

Sangha at Kachoe Dechen Ling and Buddha Amitbha Pure Land – ongoing

1. Daily Medicine Buddha puja, sometimes up to 3 x Medicine Buddha Pujas a day
2. 12 inch Medicine Buddha tsa tsa is being made every day

Tashi Chime Gatsal Nuns, Nepal

1. 70 Nuns offering Tara Puja every day
2. White Umbrella and Tara puja
3. Kangso for a full day

Retreaters at Atisha Center, Bendigo, Australia

1. 110,000 x Vajra Armor mantra
2. Extensive Medicine Buddha puja every 2nd day
3. Tara Puja every alternative day
4. All night Tara puja
5. All night sutra recitation (Golden Light Sutra, Vajra Cutter Sutra and Sangatasutra)

Nalanda Monastery, France

1. Namgyalma Tong Chu – with extensive offerings, offering 1000 offerings of each, each monk reciting 1000 x long Namgyalma mantra

Tibet – offered by Sangye

1. Prayers at Sera, Gaden and Drepung  in Tibet
2. Offered gold for whole body of Jowo Shakyamuni, Lhasa, Tibet
3. Offered robes of Jowo Shakyamuni, Lhasa, Tibet
4. Offered golden light in front of Jowo Shakamuni, Lhasa, Tibet
5. Offered prayer flags in hill area of Lhasa

Kopan House, Sera Je Monastery, India

1. Extensive Medicine Buddha Puja
2. Three Long-life Deities Mantra recitation
3. Invocation to Guru Rinpoche for the Immediate Clearing of Obstacles

Tsangpa Khangtsen, India

1. 1000 x Medicine Buddha Puja, by all the monks of Tsangpa Khangtsen
2. Namgyal Tsechok ( Long Life) Prayer

Maratika Amitayus Long Life Cave, Nepal

1. Maratika Lama is offering prayers and light offerings at Maratika Amitayus Long Life Cave for Rinpoche’s long life

Chenrezig Nuns, Australia

1. Daily Medicine Buddha puja

Boudhanath Stupa, Nepal (offered by Ven.Jamyang Wangmo, Elea, Josh, Marie, Michel Henry and family, Nicole Perrin and Michelle Maviel)

1. Offered full whitewash, clothes and tsog at the Boudha stupa

Land of Medicine Buddha, CA, USA

1. Tara Puja once a week – ongoing
2. Extensive Medicine Buddha once a week- ongoing

Langri Tangpa Center, Brisbane, Australia

1. Medicine Buddha mantras – 243 malas
2. Manis – 6 malas
3. Long amitayus mantra – 26 malas
4. White tara mantras – 100 malas
5. Vajrasattva – 20 malas
6. 21 Tara Praises – 143
7. Nyung-Ne retreat – 2
8. Medicine Buddha sadhana – 32 x
9. 2 x Medicine Buddha puja – 29 attendees and 36 attendees
10. Tara Puja – 56 attendees over 3 pujas
11. White tara sadhana – 11 x
12. Vajrasattva sadhana – 12 x
13. 50 Tara praises offered by the Armidale community
14. 21 Tara Praises x 30

Adviced by Geshe Ngawang Drakpa – offered by Lillian Too

1. Offer paint to Boudanath stupa, Nepal
2. Offer gold to the face of Bodh Gaya Buddha, India
3. Offer gold to the face of Jowo statue, Tibet
4. 100 x Sixty four torma offering Kalarupa (Drukchuma) offered by Kopan Sangha

Center Jampa Ling, Mongolia

1. Medicine Buddha mantra-6537
2. Longevity Buddha mantra-6684
3. Tara mantra-6537
4. Hayagriva mantra-6537
5. Recitation of mantra to increase-6537
6. Tara-180 (Ichinnorov- an individual recited at home)
7. Longevity Buddha mantra-147 (Ichinnorov- an individual recited at home)

Manjushri Lineage Buddha Dharma Centre, USA

1. Liberated 1.9 million animals dedicated for Rinpoche’s long life

Institut Vajra Yogini, France

1. 14 x Sangye Menla (Medicine Buddha) pujas
2. 3 full days of intensive Sangye Menla practise
3. 12 x Cittamani Tara pujas
4. One Tara night
5. One animal liberation practise (worms and crickets)
6. Sponsoring of 1 million animals to be liberated in Singapore
7. One Vajra Yogini self-initiation + 2 x 250 tsoks offerings to Vajra Yogini
8. 4 Nyung-Nais
9. Extensive water offerings in the main gompa everyday
10. Recitation of Hayagriva, Sangye Menla and White Tara mantras at the end of each puja
11. Full whitening of the Kadampa stupa

Instituto Lama Tsong Khapa, Italy

1. Extensive offerings in front of throne
2. Every Day Medicine Buddha puja (till 2nd May) plus and additional 2 more pujas
3. 30 minutes of prayers everyday during Master Program study (Hayagriva short praise with mantra, long Amitayus mantra (from the “Long Life Sutra”) and the short praise to Tara (equalising the qualities of the 21 praises).

Gyuto Tantric College, South India (sponsored by Robin Quinn and the Quinn-Watson Family)

1. Medicine Buddha Puja
2. Cittamani Tara and 4 Mandala Offering Puja
3. Hayagriva Puja

Gyuto Tantric College, Mcleod Ganj, India (sponsored by Robin Quinn and the Quinn-Watson Family)

1. 2 x Medicine Buddha Pujas

Tharlam Monastery in Yunnan, China (sponsored by Robin Quinn and the Quinn-Watson Family)

1. Medicine Buddha puja  and mantras

Geshe Dawa and Lab Rinpoche and Tashi Choling Buddhist Institute Students in Sydney, Australia

1. 2 x Medicine Buddha puja

Enlightenment for the Dear Animals in partnership with MAITRI Charitable Trust

1. Liberated 10 goats

VTK Ong

1. 100,008 Green Tara mantra
2. 140 rounds of 21 Tara praises

Longku Center, Switzerland

1. More than 58 Medicine Buddha pujas

Thich An Thanh, in prison in Arizona, USA

1. 3,000 White Tara mantras
2. 3, 000 Amitayus mantras
3. 3, 000 Medicine Buddha mantras
4. Daily Medicine Buddha sadhana practic
   

Elena D

1. 10,000 Mitrugpa’s mantra recitations
   

Sheldon G. and Charmaine H.

1. Made 1020 tsa tsas (Stupas, Migrukpas, Green Taras, and Long Life Deities) and 200 water tsa tsas

Ven.Nyima has pledged:

1. 100,000 White Tara mantras
2. 100,000 Hayagriva mantras
3. 1000 Long Namgyalma mantras
4. 1000 Tse Do – Long life Sutras
5. 21 times the “Eight thousand Prajnaparamita Sutra

Peter Islie

1. Offered White Tara long life thanka painted in one day on the Tibetan 8th.
2. One Green Tara thanka painted in one day on Tibetan 8th.

Yu Ying

1. Took 8 Mahayana Precepts for life

William Williamson, in prison in IL, USA

1. 2 days after he heard of stroke he stopped eating meat for life

Andrea Meier, Switzerland

1. Hortul Rinpoche, who lives in  Kashi, Kham near Kyekundo arranged with Kashi nomads to save 50 sheep and 10 yaks.  Hortul Rinpoche also asked them not to cut off a piece of the ear of the animals, as it is custom to prove that they have saved the animals from getting killed.

Some of the 50 sheep liberated for Rinpoche’s long life in Kham, Tibet

liberated sheep

2 of the 10 yaks liberated for Rinpoche’s long life in Kham, Tibet

Ven.Sarah Thresher

Sponsored prayers and light offerings for five days in Maratika cave, Nepal.

Plus many many other FPMT centers and students are offering pujas and practices as requested.