August 14 Saturday
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja
Time :10.00am - 12.00pm
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja & Mahakala
Puja
Time :2.00pm - 5.00pm
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja & Smoke Offering
Time :8.00pm - 9.30pm
August 15 Sunday
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja
Time : 10.00am - 12.00pm
Event : Buddha Amitabha Chang Chod Puja, Mahakala Puja &
Smoke Offering
Time : 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Venue : 721 Geylang Road, Singapore 389 632 (opposite Lorong 42
Geylang)
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Vajrakilaya Empowerment and Gyazhi Puja by Tulku Gyang Khang
Rinpoche
Event : Vajrakilaya Empowerment
Date : August 28 Saturday
Time : 8.00pm - 9.30pm
Event : Gyazhi Puja (The Four Hundred Offering Puja)
Date : August 29 Sunday
Time : 10.00am - 12.00pm, 2.00pm - 5.00pm
The Sangha members will chant Buddha Amitabha Prayer for the
benefit of all the deceased. During the ceremony, the Lama will
make offerings to Buddha Amitabha where merits are accumulated. The
merits will be transferred to the deceased to help them in their
karma purification and liberation. The prayer will also help awaken
the consciousness and eliminate the desire of the souls in the
Bardo (intermediate period between death and rebirth) so that they
may be liberated and may take rebirth in Amitabha Buddha's Pure
Land.
At the end of the ritual, the paper tablets with the names of the
deceased are burnt by wisdom fire. The act of burning purifies all
subtle defilements, obscurities and negative karma of the deceased
thereby providing them the condition to reborn in Amitabha's Pure
Land.
Vajrakilaya is a manifestation of Vajrapani, who is the
essence of wisdom of Buddhas of three times and ten directions,
thus possessing great power. In the age of degeneration,
sentient beings are in the great disturbance of their mental
defilements. An ordinary manifestation of Buddha or
Bodhisattvas in a peaceful form, is difficult to subdue beings with
such defilements. Therefore, Vajrapani, the holder of the
vajra, manifests in a wrathful form to subdue such beings.
Vajrakilaya has three heads, six arms and four legs. Each
represents three kayas (dharmakaya, sambogakaya, nirmanakaya), six
paramitas, and four immeasureables (loving kindness, compassion,
joy and equanimity). He is adorned with eight kinds of
ornaments of a wrathful deity, with a pair of wings which
represents fast action. Another name of Vajrakilaya is Dorje
Shonnu. Dorje means unmoving, unchanging; Shonnu means
forever youth, not aging, not sick. The consort of
Vajrakilaya called Khorlo Gyedun Ma, is a manifestation of Green
Tara, who is the essence of all dakinis. Her body is blue in
colour which represents unchanging and unmoving. She bestows
blessings for all activities to be accomplished swiftly.
The Gyazhi Puja
"Gyazhi" means "Four Hundred Offerings". All obstacles that we
experienced were caused by the Four Maras. These are the Mara of
Aggregate which is represented by yellow torma, the Mara of
Heaven-Son represented by white torma, the Mara of Defilement
represented by red torma and the Mara of Death represented by black
torma. They symobolised the 4 types of obscurations.
Through making the offering, it help to pacify the following:
1) Offering of 100 lamps, one would have
pacified the Mara of Heaven-Son and be freed of obscuration of
knowledge
2) Offering of 100 tsha-tsha, one would
have pacified the Mara of Defilement and be freed of the
obscuration of the five poisons.
3) Offering of 100 ransoming effigies, one
would have pacified the Mara of Aggregates and be freed of the
obscuration of habitual tendencies.
4) Offering of 100 tormas, one would have
pacified the Mara of Death and be freed of obscuration of karmic
causes
Approaching to the final part of puja, these tormas accompanied by
offerings will be ousted from the shrine to specified locations
according to instructions. The act symoblized departure of all
troubles and problems from you.
Therefore, the puja is excellent in dispelling the following
1) Diminishing of life forced, or bad omens
of untimely death;
2) Hard luck
3) Harms from powerful spirits and
demons;
4) Robbery, thievery, quarreling and
unrests;
5) Epidemics.
Participants interested to participate in this puja are requested
to bring fingernail cutting, a small piece of fabric worn by the
participant and strands of hair.