Offering light, in particular, is a special door of dependent arising for completing the accumulation of merit and quickly receiving blessings. It is said in the second chapter of Cakrasaṃvara Root Tantra:

“If you desire the sublime realization, offer hundreds of lights.”

– Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Offer a Lamp
for a Month for Happiness, Well Being, Good Health, Success, & All Auspiciousness

Sponsor a butter lamp for yourself or for a loved one for well being, happiness, and success. This is an excellent way to purify karma and create merit for yourself and others!

The butter lamps will be placed on the altar in the Medicine Buddha Gompa for a month as an offering to the Eight Medicine Buddhas and all the holy objects in the Gompa.

Merit accumulated from our daily Medicine Buddha Puja will be dedicated for the sponsors.

Offer a Lamp
for 49 Days for a Deceased Loved One

It is a common practice in the Buddhist tradition to help those who have passed away create merit and purify negativities. This helps the deceased in the intermediate state to have a smooth transition to a favorable rebirth.

Offer a butter lamp every day for 49 days after a loved one passes away to the Eight Medicine Buddhas and all the holy objects in our Gompa.

Merit accumulated from our daily Medicine Buddha Puja will be dedicated for the deceased.

Ten Benefits of Offering Lights

In general, it is said that all the collections of goodness of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are the result of making offerings to the Three Rare Sublime Ones, but specifically venerating them with different kinds of offerings brings different types of benefits. As announced in the melodious voice of Brahma by Guru Śākyamuni Buddha, whose holy mind was enriched with the ten powers in the Clarifying Karma Sūtra, offering lights to holy objects has ten benefits:

  1. You become like a light in the world.
  2. You have the clairvoyance of the pure flesh eye.
  3. You achieve the devas’ eye.
  4. You gain the wisdom knowing what is virtue and what is nonvirtue.
  5. You eliminate the darkness of ignorance.
  6. You receive the illumination of wisdom.
  7. While circling in saṃsāra, you never abide in darkness.
  8. You receive many enjoyments.
  9. You are reborn in the deva or human realm.
  10. You quickly attain enlightenment.

Excerpted from Extensive Offering Practice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, FPMT