New Year’s Eve
Protector and Wealth-Increasing Pujas
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
10:00am – 12:00pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
in person and online
Program Category: Buddhist Prayers and Practices
This is a hybrid event, and we are using the
Zoom video conferencing system
for online participants.
Please register below to receive your online access information.
This event will not be recorded.
We are honored to welcome Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang
Jampa to lead us in pujas that remove obstacles and cultivate
success and prosperity for the Ocean of Compassion community
and center as we usher in the New Year.
These practices follow His Holiness’s advice to create the
causes for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s
reincarnation.
Join us in starting the New Year on a powerful and virtuous
note.
Rinpoche will lead the following practices:
- Dzambhala
- Drugchuma (Offering of Sixty-Four Parts)
- Mahakala
- White Umbrella
- Praises to 21 Taras
You are invited to bring along your wealth vases for Rinpoche to bless.
Please note there will be two Rinpoches and possibly three other
monks present at this puja.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
As one of the last generation of Tibetan Buddhist scholars to begin their educational careers in Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion, Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa has played an instrumental role in the reestablishment and preservation of Tibetan Buddhist traditions in exile, and in the spread of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world. Highly regarded for his scholarship and depth of religious practice, Rinpoche teaches frequently in New York, Washington D.C., and at Do Ngak Kunphen Ling (DNKL), a Tibetan Buddhist center in Connecticut, where he hosted a visit from the Dalai Lama in 2012. He is abbot emeritus of Gyumed Tantric College, head of Mey College’s Thewo regional house at Sera Monastery—one of the largest Tibetan monasteries in exile—and Spiritual Director of DNKL.
Puja Texts
Please download these texts to a device:
- The Wealth-Giving Practice of White Dzambhala Riding a Turquoise Dragon
- Offering of Sixty-Four Parts (Drugchuma)
- Four-Face Mahakala Puja
- Practices of Arya Sitatapatra (White Umbrella Deity)
- Praises to the Twenty-one Taras
The English texts of Drugchuma, White Umbrella, and 21 Taras match
the Tibetan versions that will be recited.
You will be able to follow along during the puja.
The English texts of Dzambhala and Mahakala do not match the Tibetan
versions, so you can read these texts on your own during the
puja.
There will be no screen sharing available.
Registration
Registration is required to receive your online access information.
This is a free event. Donations are appreciated.