Mahakala Puja - Losar 2007

Held at Jangchub Choeling Monastery, Nepal

10 - 17 February 2007

When a year winds down to an end, it is customary for Tibetan practitioners from all traditions to prepare for the new year ahead.

Ceremonies for the coming Losar / Chinese Lunar New Year

In the entire pantheon of Varjayana Buddhism, dharma protectors known as Mahakala holds a very important position because one could beseech Mahakala for protection, clearing of obstacles, eliminating of obscurities and for the smooth completion of auspicious tasks. You will therefore find it common for Mahakala Pujas to be practiced before any major practices and empowerments. What is unique about these protectors of the Vajrayana tradition is that each different lineages has a dedicated Mahakala whose practice is followed and to whom the followers could beseech to for protection.

It is customary for Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries to hold a session of successive special Mahakala pujas at the end of the year. What is so unique about this year that is ending soon and the new year ahead of us is that the Tibetan New Year, Losar, falls on the same day as the Chinese Lunar New Year. It is a rare occurrence and considered to be most auspicious.

Hence, a very special series of Mahakala pujas will be held at Jangchub Choeling Monastery in Pokhara for 7 days. Venerable Shangpa Rinpoche will be presiding over the pujas and a rare sadhana text will be recited. The aim of this special puja is to eliminate the obstacles in the year ahead and pray for an auspicious start to the year.

In addition, at the conclusion of this special series of Mahakala pujas, the Rinpoches and lamas will pray for good health and longevity, for the purification of all negative karma accumulated since beginningless time, for peace and harmony in the world, for the elimination of all natural disasters and diseases, and for blessings of success in our worldly and spiritual pursuit. We sincerely hope that the merits accumulated from this special series of Mahakala pujas will bring blessings of bliss, prosperity, health and wealth to everyone and that the coming new year will mark the beginning of good auspicious times for all.

Venerable Shangpa Rinpoche would like to take this opportunity to personally thank the kind sponsors, without whose generous sponsorship, this 7 day special series of Mahakala pujas would not have been possible.

May this new Tibetan and Chinese New Year bring peace and harmony to the world, and the beginning of good auspicious times for you and your loved ones.

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