Maha Tare Buddhist Centre will be organising an extensive 4-day Jungwa ritual at the open area in front of Sri Krishnan Temple at Waterloo Street from 6 April 2017 (Thursday) to 9 April 2017 (Sunday) between 9am to 6pm daily. The Medicine Buddha puja will be performed on the first day of this event, followed…
Starting from 20 December 2016 to 20 February 2017, our Centre will be hosting highly qualified Tantric monks from the Gyudmed Buddhist Tantric Monastery. Trained in all aspects of Buddhist rites and rituals, the monks will, depending on the needs or requests, conduct special pujas and rituals. These rituals will be conducted through deep invocation…
Gyabshi Ritual “The Four Hundred”, popularly known as Gyabshi Choga in Tibetan, is a powerful extermination ritual based on Buddha Shakyamuni’s subdual of the four classes of evils (mara)—non-human spirits, death, afflictive thoughts and emotions, and a psycho-physical basis of a Karmic being—through his wisdom and compassion. In an extensive systematised form, the ritual makes…
This life-saving ritual involves buying live fishes from an offshore fish farm and releasing them in their natural habitat. It is customary in many Buddhist countries to buy animals and set them free. However, given the constraints of rules and regulations enforced in cities and urban areas, people mostly observe the practice of buying fish and…
Join us on the eve of this coming Lunar New Year to usher in the Year of the Rooster with the “Dhugkar Sitatapatra Ritual for Extermination of Negative Factors”, to ward off evils and negative factors in the passing year from intruding into the new year. Event: Chinese New Year Eve Puja: Sitatapatra Ritual For Extermination Of Negative Factors Date: 27 January 2017…
Background According to Buddhist tradition, not only humans but countless other living beings inhabit this world, each living in their respective habitat, some below, some over, and yet some above the land surface. It is evident that, either knowingly or unknowingly, we indulged in various actions of body, speech and mind that not only harm our…
Dear Dharma Friends, Maha Tare Buddhist Centre wishes everyone a happy and prosperous new year! To usher in the New Year, Geshe Lama Konchok would like to invite all to a buffet dinner on the 21 January 2017 (Saturday) 7pm at our centre. We look forward to seeing you! Maha Tare Buddhist Centre
Background of Fire Rituals Fire ritual is one of the few efficacious secret Tantric rituals performed by a Tantric master for accomplishment both personal and universal objectives and goals. Involving a series of preparatory rites, the actual fire offerings include meditative visualization, Tantric transformation, Mantra recitation, offering of ritual cakes, burning of medicinal herbs and…
Karmic Debts 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…
Teachings on “Praises to Twenty-One Taras” Maha Tare Buddhist Centre will begin its weekly teaching on Praise to Twenty-One Tara (Drolme Töpa) from 16 September 2016 (Friday). The teaching will mainly elaborate on the meaning of the prayer and significance of Tara practice in both secular and spiritual life. Goddess Tara (Drolma, Duolu busa) remains…