On October 3rd, 2010, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, the abbot of the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center, will preside over the auspicious “Drikung Kagyu Great Indiscriminated Amitabha Puja for Transferring Consciousness” for the first time at the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall to benefit all sentient beings. It will be Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s sixth time to preside over the auspicious Drikung Kagyu Great Indiscriminated Amitabha Puja for Transferring Consciousness. By August of this year, enrollment had exceeded 20,000 attendees and this number is still increasing.
Being concerned about the welfare of the sentient beings, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche vows with great compassion to help all the sentient beings alleviate their sufferings — to gain liberation from the suffering ocean of reincarnation. Therefore, since 2005, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has been annually presiding over the auspicious Drikung Kagyu Great Indiscriminated Amitabha Puja for Transferring Consciousness, to propagate orthodox Buddhism, to purify human beings’ minds, and to bring blessings to Taiwan.
According to the benevolent His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, the indiscriminated puja is the puja which does not assign the designation of patrons and participants’ accumulated merits are not related to their wealth and social status. All attended sentient beings, who have favorable karmic connections, will receive non-differentiating blessings, rescue, and protection from the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Therefore, 5 representatives for making the mandala offerings towards the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and the officiating guru His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, as well as the 2,000 representatives for light the lamp offerings to the Buddhas are selected by lot at the entrance to the puja venue on the day of ceremony. No candidates are appointed in advance.
Admittance to the event is free of charge, and so are the making lamp offerings and the transference of consciousness, as it was during the pujas of previous years. Under the guidance of Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, and without the necessity for outside fundraising, as always, the members of the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Culture Exchange Association have pledged over more than 20 million NT dollars to cover the cost of the event. In the past 5 years upon the perfect completion of the puja, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche always donated his personal contribution and all of the offerings towards Rinpoche from the attendees of the ceremony to the Ministry of the Interior for charitable and social welfare services or fund post-disaster relief efforts, making the extensive virtuous connections on behalf of the sentient beings. Delegates from the Ministry of the Interior, a lawyer, an accountant, and bank representatives would be invited to the puja venue as witnesses. The total amount of donations made by His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche during the previous 5 years was more than 24 million NT dollars. The Ministry of the Interior also issued the official letters or acknowledgement letters to thank for His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s donation.
Without the need of advertisement, the compassionate aspiration of Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche became well-known simply by word of mouth of the disciples of the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center. All pujas in past 5 years were fully seated and have been attended by more than 54,000 believers, including those who particularly traveled to Taiwan for the puja from places such as Japan, Hong Kong, Holland, France, India, New Zealand, Australia, the US, Britain, the Philippines, and Brazil. Additionally, the pujas were also attended by Ngakpas, Geshes, Khenpos, lamas, nuns of the Drikung Kagyu, Drukpa Kagyu, Nyingma, and Gelug lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as monks and nuns of Exoteric Buddhism, who all came to the pujas on their own initiatives. The previous Great Indiscriminated Amitabha Pujas for Transferring Consciousness were all auspiciously perfected and innumerable sentient beings received salvation.
Updated on September 1, 2010