Evening Session: Group Recitation – Let Us Create Merit Together!
When: Thursday, June 11th, 2025, 7:00 – 7:45 pm EDT
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Where: To watch the teachings online on Zoom, please register here. This is a very simple and quick registration process by email. The same link will be used for both morning and evening sessions on this day.
This is a wonderful opportunity to accumulate merit on Saga Dawa, the fifteenth day of the fourth month in the Tibetan lunar calendar, as it is one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan calendar, commemorating Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana. On this particular day, karmic results are multiplied by 300 million times as it commemorates one of Shakyamuni Buddha’s three major life events. Practicing as a group is more powerful than individual practice, similar to how a straw broom is more effective than a similar number of individual stems. This session will be held online only.
Khedrup la will lead this evening’s recitations.
The program for this session will include reciting:
- The King of Prayers (Bhadracaryāpraṇidhāna)- Geshe Sonam will give the transmission of this text earlier in the day.
- The Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels
Support the Dharma on Saga Dawa – Lama Yeshe Ling
The opportunity to support the dharma, especially on holy days, gives us the chance to create vast amounts of merit and cultivate minds of generosity. Through this generosity, may many people be given the gift of the Dharma. We can feel joy in our hearts and rejoice!
This is the highest form of generosity, sharing with others the path to full awakening. Offerings to the Dharma create the causes to never be separated and to have conditions to realize the teachings. It deepens your connection with Dharma teachers, and you become connected with our community.
Pujas and Offerings on Saga Dawa Duchen – Extensive Offerings & Pujas Arranged by the FPMT
The FPMT Puja Fund is arranging an extensive array of pujas on Saga Dawa, dedicated to the swift return of our precious guru, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Rinpoche mentioned many times that he wishes for, “the pujas being sponsored and offered on each of the four Buddha days to continue forever, or for as long as the monasteries and nunneries exist.” Rinpoche has mentioned how important they are for the success of the whole organization and for FPMT to be most beneficial to all beings.
On Saga Dawa, as part of the Tara Puja Fund, the FPMT is sponsoring two different recitations of the 100,000 Praises to Tara by over 4,000 sangha as well as recitation of the Prajnaparamita, Medicine Buddha puja, 1,000 Offerings to Buddha Namgyalma, and other pujas and practices. Offerings will be made to over ten thousand sangha and to all of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s gurus as well as to the holy stupas in Nepal and the Buddha statue in Bodhgaya.
You are welcome to join in these offerings, but the most important thing is to remember on the actual day that the pujas and offerings are happening and to rejoice and dedicate the merit. Rinpoche said that, “This is the best business, the best way to create the most extensive merit.”
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