On the 12th December 2017 makes the death anniversary of Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of Gelugpa lineage tradition. This year in particular, is the year of the Fire Bird in the Tibetan Lunar calendar, which happens to coincide with His Eminence Lama Tsongkhapa’s birth sign. The Tibetan calendar operates with a 60-year cycle, hence it…
Dear Dharma Friends, due to your generosity and kindness, we have managed to sellout all the tables for Maha Tare Buddhist Centre 5th Anniversary Dinner to be held on 11 Nov 2017 in Ban Heng Pavilion at Harbour Front. We hope that you will enjoy the programs and performances put up by our volunteers and…
Ushnishavijaya, also known as Namgyalma in Tibetan, is one of three supreme Buddhas of longevity. Once Buddha Shakyamuni manifested in her form to help a deva named Susthita avoid a rebirth in the three lower realms. The puja, Namgyal Tsechog, is recommended to those who face life threatening situations as it is effective for overturning…
Maha Tare Buddhist Centre is pleased to organise a 4 days Jungwa prayer during this coming 7th lunar month ghost festival. We will be holding this event at the open area in front of Sri Krishnan Temple at Waterloo Street. Chanting starts on 31/8/2017 (Thursday) to 3/9/2017 (Sunday), and will be open from 9am to…
Shernying Düdok This ritual is for pacifying and exterminating of negative and destructive forces involves chanting and meditation on the teachings contained in the Heart Sutra (Ch. 般若心經). On the contrary to externalised performative rituals, this Heart Sutra ritual involves internalised chanting, meditation, and visualization. With its earliest versions dated circa. 350 to 700 CE,…
Maha Tare Buddhist Centre is delighted to announce the observance of the Medicine Buddha sand mandala ritual will be held at the open area in front of Sri Krishnan Temple at Waterloo Street from 2 May to 11 May 2017. This sand mandala ritual is an extensive Mahayana Buddhist ritual that involves invocation and worship…
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…
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…