A puja is a prayer ceremony honoring or venerating a particular Buddha or Bodhisattva. Guru and Medicine Buddha pujas are regularly scheduled at Kadampa Center while Tara and Shakyamuni Buddha pujas are periodically performed. See the Calendar for puja dates.
Sponsoring Pujas
Would you like to sponsor a puja at Kadampa Center?
It is important to make extensive offerings when doing pujas. They are
much more powerful and beneficial when "done with extensive offerings
beautifully arranged." Lama Zopa Rinpoche says,
"It is always the case that there are many students that have no time or very little time to do practice, always too busy. Such people can be encouraged to make regular offerings from their wages for the Medicine Buddha Puja, i.e. towards the extensive offerings. In this way they are able to create merit, and as they know it is happening regularly from their home they can mentally make the offerings to the Triple Gem. Even they can do the mental offerings in their car or the office. This is a very good way to help the center to develop and also help the individual's Dharma Practice."
Although Lama Zopa was speaking specifically about Medicine Buddha Puja, it applies to all pujas. Contact the Puja Coordinator if you are interested in sponsoring offerings for a specific puja and dedicating the merit to a person, project or cause. You do not need to attend the puja in order to sponsor it.
Want to know more? Read further for more information about the specific pujas we do at Kadampa Center:
- Guru Puja (Lama Chöpa)
- Four Mandala Offerings to Cittamani Tara
- Medicine Buddha Puja
- Guru Shakyamuni Buddha Puja
Kadampa Center, Raleigh, NC, USA
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the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition in the lineage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama