Refuge Puja and Drikung Kagyu Guru Puja Liturgy
During the last puja of the year, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche presided over the Drikung Kagyu Guru Puja Liturgy, offering the lineage gurus with the utmost sincerity and reverence, and expressing gratitude to the guru for bestowing blessings and protection upon the disciples on the path of learning Buddha Dharma. Before performing the Dharma, Rinpoche first presided over a refuge-taking ceremony for 8 believers who had implored and been granted refuge. Rinpoche earnestly exhorted his disciples to adhere to the precepts strictly, follow the guru steadfastly, learn the authentic Dharma, and transcend samsara.
During the puja, Rinpoche compassionately (with maitri and karuna) expounded on the importance of the guru: all the good fortune from practicing comes from the guru’s teachings, and only by receiving the guru’s transmission and guidance does one understand how to practice. As long as one has absolute faith in the guru, one shall definitely receive help from the guru at the time of one’s passing.
Rinpoche is wholeheartedly dedicated to sentient beings and does not seek fame or wealth; all is solely for the purpose of helping them transcend samsara. With painstaking effort and sincerity, Rinpoche urged all disciples to make offerings to the guru with a pure heart, to give rise to absolute reverence and faith in the guru, to accumulate good fortune for learning and practicing Buddhism, and thus to practice sincerely and genuinely.
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Updated on February 28, 2026