Offering to the Spiritual Guide Puja

We are engaging in a special prayer practice to celebrate the life and birthday of the founder of our center and the New Kadampa Tradition, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome and invited to join us for this beautiful prayer practice.

Offering to the Spiritual Guide is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra. It was compiled by the first Panchen Lama, Losang Chökyi Gyaltsän, as a preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra. The main practice is relying upon the Spiritual Guide, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path (Lamrim) and training the mind (Lojong), as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra.

It is traditional for each participant to offer a small, delicious food or drink offering at this puja.