100 Torma Offering
With Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa
September 1, 2024
In-Person only at Ksitigarbha Pureland
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
This year, we are very honored to have Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa and three sangha from Gyuto Foundation to host the puja with 100 Torma offering Ritual as part of the Ksitigarbha Festival.
A vegetarian lunch will be provided at noon. We sincerely invite all departed loved ones on the memorial stupa tablets from Wish-Fulfilling Temple and current family members and friends to join this grand event!
We encourage you to arrive at 10:00 am to help us make the 180 tormas needed before the puja begins at 11:00 am.
If attending in-person for the Ksitigarbha festival and lunch please use the link below:
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Request a Special Dedication
If you would like to dedicate the merit of this profound practice, please use the link below to submit the name of the person you wish to dedicate the merit to. These names will be read out at the end of the puja.
Suggested donation amount per request is $21.
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Parking
Please park in the meadow for this event. Parking attendants will be able to assist you on the day. If you are less abled you can be dropped off at the Ksitigarbha Temple on the way to the meadow.
About the 100 Torma Offering Ritual
The 100 Torma Offering Ritual involves making offerings to 12 types of guests, both the transcendental and the worldly. Two specific types of offerings are made: firstly, water is blessed and offered to the wealth deities White and Yellow Dzambhala. The blessed water is also offered to the hungry ghosts, intermediate state beings, and the nagas.
Next, with a bodhicitta motivation, specially prepared dough balls are offered to the 12 types of guests, transformed into oceans of nectar that satisfy them. Offering to the transcendental guests invokes their blessings while offering to the worldly beings dispels harm and repays our karmic debts. The 12 types of guests are:
- Transcendental guests—lineage lamas, meditational deities, the 3 Jewels, Dharma protectors, sages, and wealth deities
- Worldly beings—local deities, landlords, yakshas, interferes, and spirits
- Sentient beings of the six realms
- Hungry ghosts
- Spirits to whom we owe karmic debts from our past acts of killing, beating, and stealing
- Intermediate state beings
- Remaining guests, the most pitifully weak among the hungry ghosts
Through this act of giving, we accumulate the merit of practicing generosity as well as the resulting benefits from having pleased the respective guests.
Leader
As one of the last generation of Tibetan Buddhist scholars to begin their educational careers in Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion, Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa has played an instrumental role in the reestablishment and preservation of Tibetan Buddhist traditions in exile, and in the spread of Tibetan Buddhism to the…
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