Dear Dharma Friends,

We are pleased to announce that we will conduct a Medicine Buddha Prayers on January 31 (Tuesday) at 7:30pm.

The Medicine Buddha Puja can be requested for yourself, your loved ones and friends, for the sick and the dying, for healing, purification and success. The puja can remove obstacles to mental and physical health.

For the sick, to help them recover their health and well-being;

For the dying, to help pacify their mind, and eliminate fear during this time of dying;

For the deceased, to bless and guide their mind to a higher state of rebirth and liberation in the bardo.

The name of the person for whom the prayers are requested will be included for one month. For the deceased, the names will be included and remain for 49 days from the date of death.

The Medicine Buddha mantra is held to be extremely powerful for healing of physical illnesses and purification of negative karma

Those who can attend and those who are not able to attend prayers in person can making offerings, like feast offering (Tsok) flower, Lamp, meal and so on. Other donations are also welcome for butter lamp offerings, flower offerings, meal offerings, and fruit offerings. Any further more information, please feel free to contact Rabjor @ 778-297-6010.

Dear Dharma Friends,

Tashi Delek! We would like to request you all to join us for the Guru Rinpoche feast offering prayers on the “Guru Rinpoche or Padmasambhava Day” which is on Feb 2 (Tuesday) at 7:30 pm.

Ones perform the Tsok ceremony to generate immeasurable merit. Guru Rinpoche promised his Sangha that whatever is offered to him on his special day, the 10th day of the Tibetan calendar, the merit will be multiplied immeasurably. The numbers and intention of practitioners, Lamas and other sentient beings participating in the Tsok, the abundance of offerings and the dedication to all sentient beings, all increase and multiply the prosperity and good karma to ourselves and to countless others. Therefore, the vast benefits of participation in Guru Rinpoche Day Tsok are truly difficult to imagine.

When we share in the wonderful and delicious feast at the end of the ceremony, we should try to be mindful and feel true compassion for all those beings who in some way had something to do with the food we are eating, whether the countless insects that were killed in the growing and harvesting of vegetables and grains, or the persons working in the meat industry who have created for themselves the extremely negative karma of taking lives every day as their means of livelihood. We should develop the faith that this powerful ceremony, through the blessings of Guru Rinpoche, can create miraculous positive changes for beings with even the worst karma imaginable.

Those who can attend and those who are not able to attend prayers in person can making offerings, like feast offering (Tsok) flower, Lamp, meal and so on. Other donations are also welcome for butter lamp offerings, flower offerings, meal offerings, and fruit offerings. Any further more information, please feel free to contact Rabjor @ 778-297-6010.

Dear Dharma Friends,

Tashi Delek!

We will be praying “Calling the Lama from Afar” on February 7 (Tuesday) at 7:30 pm. It would be good to go through the verses and see what they mean to us. This spiritual text is not only a prayer but it also offers instructions that we receive from our Lama.

The title of the prayer is “Calling the Lama from Afar.” Who is a Lama? Lama is our Root Teacher, the Lama who bestows the empowerment, reading transmission of a text, and the practice instructions that enable us to mature. One’s Root Lama is a very personal matter. One can meet many Lamas who are famous but experience no change when one does. It is possible to experience deep faith and devotion in a Lama whose name one merely hears or whose picture one only sees, without ever having met him or her in life.

So please joins for the prayers and acknowledge his/her great love and compassion for us and every beings. The Lama who is relevant for oneself is the Lama who is one’s inner source of inspiration and blessing, who one trusts and reveres deeply.

We are all looking forward to seeing you. Thank you.

MAHAKALA BERNAKCHEN (Great Black Cloaked One)

Mahakala Bernakchen, a two-armed form of Mahakala, also known as the Great Black One, is the principle protector for the Karma Kagyu Lineage. Bernakchen is the wrathful aspect of Avalokiteshvara. He manifests a fierce and wrathful form of compassionate activity through which he destroys inner and outer obstacles

At the end of each year, according to Tibetan Lunar Calendar, New Year we practice Mahakala Puja for week long. This sadhana is practiced in all the Vajrayana Monasteries at this time of the year. This wonderful practice is performed so that upcoming New Year will be free of obstacles so that there will be peace and happiness in the world.

Thrangu Monastery Canada will conduct week long prayers for New Year Water Dragon 2139 Year, for clearing obstacles, misfortune, natural disaster so that we may experience peace and happiness, and the accomplishment of our wishes in the coming year. Lama, Khenpo and all other monks will conduct this week long prayer for world peace and happiness, and in particular for the benefit of members, Dharma friends and well-wishers of the monastery.

Thrangu Monastery is also looking for sponsor to support this wonderful event! Your support and generosity are greatly appreciated! If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please refer the form below.

Those we are not able to attend prayers in person can making offerings, like feast offering (Tsok) flower, Lamp, meal and so on. We have feast offering each day.