The Acalanatha Fire Puja held at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan on May 25, 2012
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche presided over the auspicious “Acalanatha Fire Puja” at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan on May 25, 2012, with 237 people attending, including three VIPs from India, France and Taiwan, 30 believers from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan, and 204 disciples from Japan, the United States, mainland China and Taiwan. The Puja was full of auspiciousness throughout and came to a perfect conclusion.
On May 25, 2012, VIPs from different places and disciples from the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center of Taiwan arrive at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan to attend the auspicious Acalanatha Fire Puja. A local VIP from Japan arrives at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan.
A VIP from India arrives at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan to attend the auspicious Acalanatha Fire Puja.
A local VIP from Japan is signing in.
A VIP is making an offering to Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche with reverence.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is receiving a local VIP from Japan.
Attendees are bidding a standing welcome with reverence to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche as the guru ascends to the Dharma throne to preside over the Puja.
Attendees are bidding a standing welcome with reverence to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche as the guru ascends to the Dharma throne to preside over the Puja.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is making a prostration to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas on the mandala.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is offering a Khadak to the Dharma throne of His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is paying homage to the Dharma throne of His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is making a lamp-lighting offering to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas on the mandala.
The attendees of the Puja are making prostrations to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
The attendees of the Puja are making prostrations to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the Dharma ritual.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the Dharma ritual.
The attendees of the Puja are reciting the Dharma text with full concentration.
The attendees of the Puja are receiving the nectar water blessed by His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche.
The attendees of the Puja are reciting the Dharma text with full concentration.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the Dharma ritual.
The attendees of the Puja are reciting the Dharma text with full concentration.
The attendees of the Puja are listening reverently to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche's auspicious teaching.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is giving an account of the origination of the statue of Acalanatha enshrined at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is explaining the auspiciousness and significance of the fire offering.
The attendees of the Puja are listening reverently to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche's auspicious teaching.
The attendees of the Puja are listening reverently to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche's auspicious teaching.
The attendees of the Puja are listening reverently to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche's explanation about the auspiciousness and significance of fire offering.
The attendees of the Puja are listening reverently to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche's auspicious teaching.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious Acalanatha ritual.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious Acalanatha ritual. Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is manifesting a wrathful appearance while performing the Dharma and chanting the mantra.
Attendees of the Puja are placing their palms together in reverence as His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is chanting the mantra.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious Acalanatha ritual.
Attendees of the Puja are placing their palms together in reverence as His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is chanting the mantra.
Attendees of the Puja are placing their palms together in reverence as His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is chanting the mantra.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is going to the courtyard outside to prepare for the fire offering.
The attendees are giving a standing salute with reverence as His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is going outside to perform the fire offering.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
The participants are attending the auspicious Fire Puja with reverence.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
Just as His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is beginning to perform the auspicious fire offering, rain of nectar water starts floating down from the sky.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is placing kusha-grass on the fire offering mandala during the fire offering.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is placing kusha-grass on the fire offering mandala during the fire offering.
Kusha-grass is in place on the round-shaped fire offering mandala.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
Disciples are lighting up the fire offering mandala.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
The attendees of the Puja are receiving with reverence the blessed fire offering items one by one from His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is compassionately allowing the attendees of the Puja to cast blessed fire offering items into the fire offering mandala, to signify making offerings to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and giving charity to sentient beings.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
The attendees of the Puja are receiving with reverence the blessed fire offering items one by one from His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
Rain of nectar water is floating down from the sky during the fire offering, but the flames of the fire offering mandala is growing stronger and stronger.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
As His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continues performing the Dharma, the flame keeps showing constantly changing auspicious signs as if the deity of fire has descended in the center of the mandala.
One by one, the attendees of the Puja are casting the fire offering items blessed by His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche into the fire offering mandala.
One by one, the attendees of the Puja are casting the fire offering items blessed by His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche into the fire offering mandala.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is performing the auspicious fire offering.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche keeps chanting the mantra, blessing the offering items and bestowing them onto the plates held by each of the attendees at the Puja in disregard of the fact that he has no cartilage on his right shoulder.
The Fire Puja presided over by His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has been very auspicious and come to a perfection conclusion.
The Fire Puja presided over by His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has been very auspicious and come to a perfection conclusion.
The Fire Puja presided over by His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has been very auspicious and come to a perfection conclusion.
The Fire Puja presided over by His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has been very auspicious. Upon perfect completion, the sky has cleared with dark clouds dispersed and the rain has stopped.
Upon perfect completion of the fire offering, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche once again is entering the Buddhist Center to ascend to the Dharma throne.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is bestowing auspicious teaching to the attendees of the Puja again.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is leading the attendees of the Puja in performing the Dharma of Protector Achi, expressing gratitude to the Dharma Protector for making this perfectly concluded fire offering possible.
His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is leading the attendees of the Puja in performing the Dharma of Protector Achi, expressing gratitude to the Dharma Protector for making this perfectly concluded fire offering possible.
Upon perfect completion of the auspicious Fire Puja, the attendees reverently bid farewell to His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche.
Upon perfect completion of the auspicious Puja, the haziness has gradually cleared and the sky starts to show a reddish color.
Updated on July 23, 2012