‘The Great Amitabha Dharma for Transferring Consciousness’ is an earth terma of the Drikung Kagyu lineage; it is incredibly pure and incomparably wondrous. His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang transmitted the four Vajrayana empowerments to Rinpoche alone. One presiding over this Dharma must be of the fruition level as a Rinpoche, possess deep and vast foundations in exoteric Buddhism, have completed the Four Extraordinary Foundations of Vajrayana Ngondro, undergone retreat to recite over one million chants of the ‘Amitabha heart mantra’ and reached attainment with the yidam, achieve attainment of the Mahamudra Chanding (Puja Teachings Index 6) Simplicity Yoga, and practice and attain achievement of the ‘Phowa Dharma,’ which can transfer the consciousness of the deceased to the Pure Land. Only then can one preside over the ‘The Great Amitabha Dharma for Transferring Consciousness.’ ‘Indiscriminate’means that there are no grand donors in the puja, and merit is not measured through wealth or social status; all sentient beings who possess the fate to attend the puja may receive the blessings and protections of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas equally.

Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche possesses compassion and wisdom of Śūnyatā (Puja Teachings Index 21), and having pity and compassion upon sentient beings suffering and dying from natural disasters, accidents, warfare, and pandamics, made a vow of great karuna (compassion); beginning in 2005 for 16 consecutive years, Rinpoche presided over the Indiscriminate Amitabha Puja for Transferring Consciousness of the Drikung Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan with over 20,000 attendees. Even in 2020, during the severe period of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rinpoche still held the puja. Furthermore, in response to the sincere implorement of Japanese believers, Rinpoche traveled to Japan in 2012, 2016, and 2024, to transfer the consciousness of the deceased and all sentient beings with fate from the 2011 Great East (Tohoku) Earthquake and Tsunami, and the Tajima Earthquake that occurred 100 years ago.

To be able to hold 16 consecutive consciousness transference pujas at such a large scale means that Rinpoche has embodied the spirit of maitri, karuna, joy, and giving in Buddhism, which has moved the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Nagas, Devas, and Dharma protectors to support him. In propagating the Buddha Dharma for over 30 years, Rinpoche’s heart has always been devoted to caring for sentient beings in suffering. When sentient beings are in their most dire and painful times, he employs his selfless and most courageous heart of great compassion to benefit them with the Buddha Dharma.

During the puja, Rinpoche earnestly urged all attendees to cherish the fate and good fortune of being able to attend a Vajrayana puja, and determine their minds to take refuge under a meritorious guru, become vegetarian and refrain from taking life, learn and practice Buddhism, abide by the Five Precepts and Ten Virtuous Acts, and vow to be reborn in the Pure Land, such as to accumulate the good fortune, merit and fate to be reborn in the Pure Land.