April 13, 2024
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April 13, 2024 marks the one-year anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing the aspect of passing away.
As a reminder to students, Advice for the Anniversary of the Guru’s Passing Away is a short text translated by Rinpoche that explains the importance of making offerings on the anniversary of the passing away of one’s guru. It sets out the benefits of making offerings, how to make the offerings with six remembrances, and how to offer and dedicate the roots of virtue collected. Rinpoche specifically wanted to translate this text for the anniversary of Lama Yeshe’s passing, and it was a text that he wanted available for quite some time. We mention this to emphasize how important Rinpoche felt it was to offer these practices on the anniversary of the guru’s passing, for example, doing Lama Chopa and Tsog Offering as Rinpoche said in the Foreword.
As Rinpoche explains in the foreword of the text, Advice for the Anniversary of the Guru’s Passing Away, “Making offerings on the death anniversary of a guru is an incredible practice in that it brings about the greatest purification of negative karma and collects the most extensive merit.”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (1945-2023) was the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.
Schedule
- 12.30pm: Light Offering and Prayers – Watch the livestream
- 3.00pm: Guru Puja with Tsog attended by Kyabje Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche – Watch the livestream
We are so honoured and fortunate that Kyabje Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche accepted our request to attend this special Guru Puja for the commemoration of the first anniversary of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing the aspect of passing away.
These events will be part of an all-day program of prayers in Tibetan performed by the monks from Gyudmed Monastery and meditators from the area.
Please note, the times might change on short notice!
Resources
Please download these prayers beforehand and don’t forget to bring your device!
- Prayers
- A Prayer for the Swift Return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche by His Holiness the Dalai Lama with additional prayers by other distinguished lamas (English and Tibetan)
Everyone is welcome to join and there is no registration needed!
Offerings and donations are welcome.