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Every year, Dechen Choekhor is conducting Annual Buddha
Akshobhya Grand Puja from 15th - 21st day of the
fifth month in Tibetan calendar.
Dechen Choekhor's Grand Annual Buddha
Akshobhya Jangchok Puja shall be conducted from 3 - 9
July 2012. The puja will be led by our beloved master,
Kyabje Druk Choekyi Gonpo or more widely known as Drukpa Choegon
Rinpoche, Choekyi Wangchuk.
As usual, on the last day of the puja,
the grand dedication (Ngowa Monlam) and closing ceremonies will be
performed to fully dedicate the good roots of merits towards the
benefits, happiness and enlightenment of all sentient beings in
general, and specifically to the kind souls who have contributed
and connected to the puja in whatever ways.
This puja accepts the participation of
participants worldwide under the name of their beloved deceased
families, friends or relatives, or even to an unknown stranger for
whom one felt compassionate concern. Together, we shall dedicate
the merits for their swift rebirth that is free of intense
suffering and is conducive to ultimate happiness. This puja is
particularly effective for Karma purification and removing of
obstacles for the living.
Should you wish to know more or participate in
this puja, kindly contact us via email at admin.dechenchoekor@gmail.com
Out of his immense kindness, Choegon
Rinpoche has kindly explained the history, the significances and
benefits of the Buddha Akshobhya Jangchok Puja as
below:
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Buddha Akshobhya is one of the Five Dhyani
Buddhas or Five Wisdom Buddhas (Skt: Dhyani for "Meditation"). In
Tibetan He is known as "Mitrugpa", the one who never becomes
disturbed by anger or aggression. He is regarded as
especially powerful for purifying negative karma.
Buddha Akshobhya established the enlightened
intention that all sentient beings could purify any degree of
non-virtue, even the extreme non-virtue of hatred, violence, and
killing can be cleansed through relying on him as the focus of
meditation, acknowledging and abandoning non-virtuous actions, and
invoking his blessings of purification. In the Akshobhya's Sutra,
Buddha Sakyamuni himself extolled the perseverance of Akshobhya in
actualizing this intention so powerfully that countless beings have
been saved from the intense suffering of lower states of
existence.
According to the Buddhist teachings, the
present age is one of degeneration when all beings in the cycle of
existence (samsara) are suffering in great deal because of
their negative actions and disturbing emotions.
The Akshobhya ritual is a very powerful
purification practice done for the benefit of all sentient beings.
It can liberate not only the practitioners themselves from the
fear of an unfortunate rebirth, but other beings as well. Akshobhya
explicitly promised that the merit generated by reciting 100,000 of
his long dharani mantra and creating an image of him could be
dedicated to others, even someone long deceased, and they would be
assured of release from lower states of existence, and take rebirth
in spiritually fortunate circumstances.
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| Buddha Akshobhya in Sambhogakaya form -
a Dechen Choekhor's Buddha Akshobhya Thangka created according
to the vision of the late 8th Kyabgon Adeu Rinpoche |
"Jang" means purifying. What's to be purified?
Karma! "Chok" mean puja. "Karma Purifying Puja" is what it
denotes.
Jangchok can be performed for both living and
deceased. Both will have same puja preparations, but differ in the
execution prayers during the puja.
During Buddha Akshobhya Jangchok Puja, the
main empowerment is the initiation of Six Paramitas of Akshobhya.
By the power of the Buddha's Mantras, the strength of practice of
the Vajra master and the monks, the rituals and the specific
mudras; the deceased is given proper initiation of the Six
Paramitas, guidance through the Dharma, and transference of
their consciousness to pureland through Phowa.
The living, too, are tormented by different
kind of samsaric pain, sickness and sufferings resulted from their
past and present negative actions such as killing, harming others
and so on, driven mainly by greed, attachment, anger, hatred,
jealousy and ignorance. Through the cleansing power of the six
paramitas one will be able to purify the six negativities like
attachment, broken vows, anger, laziness, and so forth.
According to Buddha's teaching, Jangchok must
be performed on yearly basis traditionally. That is how we can
always benefit the dead or those in Bardos, even if they have
passed away long ago or have taken a good rebirth. The Jangchok
puja is always of great helps for them and countless others who are
in the three lower realms. Even if the person has been reborn into
samsara, every time we do Jangchok, it will affect them positively.
But if he is still in Bardo, then the prayer will liberate him from
that state. In the Tantra of Buddha Akshobhya, Buddha has mentioned
that "Bodhisattvas come down to prostrate to Masters and Monks
during Buddha Akshobhya Puja since they realized that their rebirth
to pureland was due to the Jangchok puja".
Drukpa Kagyu's Lineage holds the main lineage
of Buddha Akshobhya, mainly in Dechen Choekhor (the seat of Choegon
Rinpoche), Khampagar (the seat of Khamtrul Rinpoche) and Nangchen
Garh (the seat of Adeu Rinpoche) and all their Lineage Holders.
This lineage is directly from Buddha Akshobhya, Vajrapani, Arya
Deva, down to Atisha who travel to Tibet, and then, from Tsangpa
Gyare to Choegon Rinpoche's Lineages of Dechen Choekhor tradition.
From there, the practice of Buddha Akshobhya has spread to most
Drukpa Kagyu monasteries in the 16th century.
Dechen Choekhor put particular emphasis in
Buddha Akshobhya practices. It has been their exclusive and
intensive practices for puja, Jangchok, retreat, purification and
other rituals. This blessings lineage was kept intact unbroken
through their perseverance and diligent practices for over 500
years.
Being the mother monastery, not only to
Khampagar and Hemis Monastery, but also to most of the other Drukpa
Kagyu monasteries that branched-out and spread throughout Tibet in
the 16th century including Nangchen Garh, Dechen Choekhor and all
the lineage holders kept this lineage very strong. What strong
means here, not merely referring to doing pujas, but practiced as
main practices in retreat, for purification etc. The Buddha
Akshobhya practice is still a mandatory retreat practices in their
tradition till today.
Buddha Akyobya puja is known for its power in
Karma purification. That is why it is very effective for Jangchok,
and is especially beneficial for:
The deceased,
particularly:
- Death during the passage toward birth (by
miscarriage or abortion)
- Death before adulthood (untimely
death)
- Violent or fearful death
- Suicide
Those that have died of any of the above are
indications that the deceased might have difficulties in obtaining
fortunate, spiritually well-endowed rebirth. Through the power of
Buddha Akshobhya Jangchok Puja, the person who receives the
dedication will find a rebirth that is free of intense suffering
and is conducive to ultimate happiness.
Likewise, in the west, many people have
sponsored this puja for their pets or for animals they may have
killed while driving or in other circumstances. Any animals can be
benefited from the release from the animal realm through Akshobhya
Buddha Jangchok Puja.
The living who suffer
from:
- Karmic sickness
- Cancer or other incurable
diseases
According to Dharma, we all have accumulated
countless negative Karma in countless life time, which causes our
sickness and the never ending cyclic existence, and these types of
sicknesses can only be cured by cleansing of our Karma.
By purifying ones karma, it will bring great
benefits and improvements to ones lives, helps eliminates the
afflictive emotions and reduces the obstacles in both our worldly
and spiritual pursues.
Click here to view the
prayer text and listen to Rinpoche's chanting ...
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