Date: 1 May 2015 (Friday)- Time: 8pm to 930pm
- Venue: Our Centre @ 658A Geylang Road
- No registration required.
Buddhists believe in Karma, the basic law of causality. In general, all phenomena arise in dependence upon their causes and similarly produce a corresponding result. Our life and experiences—happiness and suffering—are held to arise through our physical, verbal and mental actions from our past lives. The law of Karma maintains that actions produce results without fail unless the Karmic process of production of result is altered through counter- or remedial-forces.
Aside from happiness, we also experience our own share of suffering, pain, loss and dissatisfaction in our lives. These come through the ripening of our previous negative actions committed towards others sentient beings. This negative Karma get accrued like debts and are generally called “Karmic Debts”, which if left uncleared, produce even greater undesired results.
Länchag Torma is a Buddhist charity ritual for offering of ritual cakes and water to Nagas, Pretas, Yakshas and other classes of non-humans. The ritual is intended to help purify our negative actions we have committed against these beings through polluting of air, space, forest and water bodies. These actions are held to cause unwanted affects such as skin-related diseases, bankruptcy, chronic ailments, and many others. This ritual, in its more condensed version, involves meditative visualization, recitation of Mantras and incantations, extending of offerings to enlightened beings, and giving of blessed medicinal pills or dough-balls and water to lesser beings such as Nagas and hungry spirits.