The His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche will conduct the Chod Puja in the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan on Aug. 16th, 2008. Tens of local believers from Japan and the disciples from the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Taiwan will attend this auspicious puja.
“Chod” is one of the Eight Sadhana practices in Tibetan Buddhism. The practitioner who is accomplished with the Chod practice could liberate himself from cycle of existence in his lifetime. Furthermore, the master with higher accomplishment could help liberating countless sentient beings with the Chod practice, and the merits are inconceivable. However, the process of the conducting Chod pjua is extremely difficult, and is so impossible to complete it perfectly without great mercy and compassion, great wishes and great virtues. In 2000, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche received the empowerment of “Chod” from His Holiness. Then in 2006, His Holiness endowed Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche with a rare and auspicious Dharma instrument, which was used by His Holiness himself to perform Chod, symbolizing that Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has directly received the transmission of Chod teaching from His Holiness.
Over the past decades in Taiwan, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche conducted Chod pujas on a regular basis and had helped to release countless sentient beings. Currently, the Chod puja is held once a month and there are more than one thousand people each time, including the believers from Japan, India, Australia and Holland particularly by airplane. The illnesses and suffering of many attendees’ have been lessened or even vanished.
In mid-December 2007, Rinpoche conducted the Chod Puja on the scenic railway as requested by the President of Sagano Scenic Railway. That was the very first Chod performed on a running train in both Japan and in the world history. The puja of Aug 2008 will be the first Chod puja in public in the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan since it has been founded, and countless sentient beings will have gained great benefit.
Updated on August 11, 2008