On August 16, 2009, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche will conduct a Chod puja at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan. Tens of local Japanese believers as well as disciples from the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Taiwan will attend this auspicious puja.
The Chod puja is one of the Eight Great Sadhanas in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. The practitioners who attain accomplishment of the Chod practice are able to liberate him from the cycle of birth and death in this life. Those with higher attainments can help and liberate innumerable sentient beings from the cycle of birth and death and accumulate incredibly vast merits. Nonetheless, the process of practicing the Chod puja is extremely difficult. Without great mercy and compassion, great vows, and vast merits, the practitioner will not complete the conduction of Chod practice in public to transfer the consciousness of sentient beings. In 2000, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche received the empowerment of the Chod from His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche himself and, in 2006, was bestowed with a Dharma instrument for the Chod puja that had been previously used by His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche. It symbolizes that Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has received the Dharma transmission of the Chod of Drikung Kagyu Lineage.

For over ten years, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has been conducting Chod pujas regularly in Taiwan, helping and liberating countless sentient beings. The Chod puja, currently held once per month, is always attended by more than one thousand people, including believers coming from countries such as Japan, India, Australia, and the Netherlands by fly particularly for the puja. The sorrow from illness of many attendees has thereby been decreased or even eliminated.

In mid-December, 2007, at the request of Mr. Hasegawa, the president of the Sagano Scenic Railway, Kyoto, Japan, and Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche conducted a Chod puja to transfer the consciousnesses in a running train. It was the first Chod puja ever held in Japan and the first Chod puja ever unprecedentedly held in a running train. As last year, the Chod puja specially scheduled to be held on the day of Daimonji Gozan Okuribi (Daimonji Bonfire), a traditional festival in Kyoto when the local people worship their ancestors. To conduct a Chod puja to liberate the sentient beings at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto on this very day is particularly meaningful. Innumerable sentient beings in the space will be benefited from the Buddhist teachings!

Updated on August 13, 2009