PUJAS AT TUSHITA

"It is mentioned in the Kadampa teachings that it is a hundred times more powerful to make prayers with your community than alone in your room." 

- Lama Zopa Rinpoche

A puja consists of meditations, visualisations and prayers, including taking refuge and generating bodhicitta, followed by an elaborate version of the seven limb practice: making prostrations and offerings, confessing one’s negativities, rejoicing in the good deeds of oneself and others, requesting the Buddhas to remain in samsara and teach, and dedicating the merits (positive energy) thus created.  Mantras, praises and requests are also usually recited.

The purpose of a puja is to purify one’s negative energy thus clearing away obstacles in life and spiritual practice for oneself and others. One also creates new positive energy and this is dedicated for the fulfillment of one’s own wishes and the wishes of others, including the most profound and expansive wish of all: to become a fully enlightened Buddha for the benefit of all beings.

Everyone is welcome to join the pujas at Tushita!  

You may participate at whatever level you feel comfortable: simply observing or reciting along with the group. Just come and see! 

Most of our pujas are in the late afternoon or evening and are 1 - 2 hours long.

Our pujas are usually conducted in English or Tibetan (phonetics provided) or a combination of both.

•  Guru Puja (Lama Choepa) in slow Tibetan (10th & 25th of Tibetan month)

• Medicine Buddha Puja in English (8th of Tibetan month)

• Tara Puja in Tibetan (8th of Tibetan month)

• 16 Arhats Puja in Tibetan (4th of Tibetan month)

• Palden Lhamo Puja in Tibetan (12th of the Tibetan month)

• Protector prayers in English & Tibetan (performed most evenings by Tushita Monastics)

• Shakyamuni Buddha Puja in English (on first 15 days of the new Tibetan year and on wheel turning days)

• Sutra Readings (on full & new moon days and on other special days)