Khenchen Sherab's Centers

SAKYA DHARMA FAMILY

Gift of Blessings

A puja can be requested with a Gift of Blessings card, if you are looking for a special gift for a special person or a person in need.

In this case, choose the “Gift card” option on the order form. Once we have received your request we will send “The Gift of Blessings” card by e-mail to the beneficiary you indicated on the form together with your personal dedication.
You will also receive a confirmation with the exact date(s) of the puja(s) scheduled according to the auspicious dates in Tibetan lunar calendar.

Available pujas

Long life puja

A puja (Tse Lha Nam Sum/tib.) which includes three longevity Buddhas - Amitayus, Ushnishavijaya and White Tara - in order to increase the energy of life, merits and power.

Pujas to support activities and protect against obstacles

Green Tara ritual

Tara is especially quick in granting success in obtaining both temporal and the ultimate happiness of enlightenment. She can save us from life-threatening sicknesses, help us recover from sickness, bring us success and happiness in life in general, protect us from fears, help us have a child and the like. She is especially recommended in all family matters.

Mahakala ritual

Mahakala puja is performed to eliminate obstacles in daily life - during a journey, when starting a new job, our activities become successful - and challenges to one’s spiritual practice and to enrich one’s life and virtue and wisdom.

Medicine Buddha ritual

Most commonly this puja is performed to support the recovery of a person undergoing treatment or surgery. It is also performed for the deceased, to help them take rebirth in the higher realms.

Avalokiteshvara ritual

Avalokiteshvara puja is performed to develop and increase loving compassion in daily life and that the activities become successful.

Simhanada ritual

The primary activity is to remove sickness, especially those caused by nagas.

White Mahakala ritual

This puja is performed to bring generosity and good fortune to our lives.

White Mahakala is famous for removing obstacles to our practice involving lack of support, resources or prosperity, which limit our ability to help other beings. He is the Mahakala who relieves poverty and brings us prosperity.

Cha Sum ritual

A Protector Puja

This puja is good for healing illnesses, curing bad dreams and ill omens. It is well indicated for those who have to undergo major medical procedures etc., and can also be performed to purify the energy in homes and dwellings.

Naga ritual

The Naga ritual is said to have the power to increase one’s wealth, fame, health and merits. It is also indicated to increase resources, peace and prosperity, and eliminate obstacles and sickness, especially skin-related diseases.

What is a puja & how to choose the right one?

The power of prayer is well known in all religious and spiritual traditions. According to Buddhism, our experiences in life are the result of our past actions. Past harmful actions create suffering and virtuous actions create happiness.

Prayers and pujas allow us to purify the negative actions we accumulated in the past and eliminate or prevent the arising of the resulting obstacles. Pujas are special rituals in which prayers are offered to the Buddhas to request their help and invoke their blessings.

The power of prayers derives from the sincere motivation of the person asking for prayers, as well as the pure mind of the persons performing the prayers. It is said that prayers performed by ordained ones are especially powerful and effective as they are done on the basis of pure morality. But most importantly, making offerings to the different manifestations of enlightened beings, and to the sangha community generates and increases merit, our positive potential. Merit is needed to have success in all activities.

Pujas are performed to avert and clear the three types of obstacles which arise due to the lack of merit, which prevent us from achieving our mundane and spiritual goals. Removing these obstacles can help us achieve happiness and good fortune in all our activities.

How to chose a puja?

While some prayers are of general benefit, others can help us with more specific problems. If you are not sure, which puja to chose, you can use this form to describe your motivation for requesting a puja (ie. the challenges you face or the goals you strive to achieve), and our resident lamas will advise you.

Why request a puja?

Pujas can help us eliminate different kinds of obstacles:

Mundane obstacles, such as those related to our job and finances, family and relationships.

Inner obstacles causing mental and physical health issues, strong emotions, confusion and the like.

Secret obstacles obstructing our spiritual practice.