Prices
  • Maximum $108.00 – Sliding Scale - Suggested Donation is $20

Date & Time Details: Saturday Aug 24 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Location: In-person at the WFT and via zoom

Address: 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel, CA, USA

Contact: Isabella Wesner
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Medicine Buddha Puja with Geshe Sherab

With Geshe Thubten Sherab

August 24, 2024

Medicine Buddha Puja

Geshe Sherab will lead us in extensive offering practices and then the Medicine Buddha Puja in front of our 24ft Medicine Buddha Thangka and 8 Great Bodhisattva Thangkas during our Medicine Buddha Retreat.

You are welcome to bring along your offerings to make during the morning extensive offerings practice.

*** Please note this offering practice and puja is part of our Medicine Buddha Retreat weekend. If you would like to join in the entire weekend please register for the retreat using the link below:

https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/retreat-guru/637/medicine-buddha-festival-retreat/

Schedule:

  • 9:00am – 10:30am: Extensive offerings Practice with Geshe Sherab at the Wish Fulfilling Temple (available on Zoom)
  • 11:00am – 12:30pm: Medicine Buddha Puja with Geshe Sherab at the Wish Fulfilling Temple (Available on Zoom)
  • 12:30pm – 2:30pm: Lunch at the Wish Fulfilling Temple

Lunch Registration

For those just coming in-person to the Medicine Buddha Puja, you are welcome to join us for lunch afterward. If you would like to do this please add lunch to your registration so we can cater accordingly.

About the Medicine Buddha Puja

Medicine Buddha is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings. Prayers to Medicine Buddha are especially powerful because of the extensive prayers they took to benefit sentient beings. They strongly prayed for the temporal and ultimate happiness of all sentient beings; they vowed that their prayers would be actualized during these times.

Puja Sponsorship

If you would like to sponsor the puja – please register and select an amount. Thank you! We rejoice in your generosity!

Leader

Geshe Thubten Sherab
Geshe Thubten Sherab, a student of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa since childhood, brought this direct lineage of teachings to New Mexico in 2001. Geshe Sherab held the position of headmaster of the Mount Everest School at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, and was appointed to serve as acting abbot of…
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