Medicine Buddha Puja

Medicine Buddha is manifest with the healing energy of all enlightened beings. Prayers to the seven Medicine Buddhas are especially powerful because of the extensive prayers they made to benefit sentient beings. While on the bodhisattva path, they had prayed strongly to achieve the temporal and ultimate happiness of all sentient beings and vowed for their prayers to be fulfilled during times of need.

Through the power of their prayers, the Medicine Buddha Sutra states that just by reciting the names or the mantra of the Medicine Buddhas, one’s wishes will be fulfilled. The puja is arranged such that there is ample opportunity to recite the names of the seven Medicine Buddhas, as well as the name of Shakyamuni Buddha, and to meditate on the steps of the seven-branched worship that enables practitioners to accumulate the merit that we wish for.

Schedule: alternate last Sunday of the month, 4pm – 6pm (please visit ABC's Google Calendar for the updated schedule.)

	Bhagavan, with equal compassion for all Whose name, when merely heard, dispels the suffering of lower realms, Dispeller of disease and the three poisons: I prostrate to Medicine Buddha Lapis Light.
	– Medicine Buddha Puja

 

Tara Puja

Tara embodies the enlightened activities of all the buddhas. Praying to and relying on Tara brings quick results for whatever we wish, from the concerns of this life, such as for the benefit of relationships, health or work, up to the ultimate happiness of enlightenment. By supplicating the compassionate qualities of Tara, one can achieve every form of happiness.

During the puja, the “21 Praises to Tara” is recited 12 times. The verses of this sacred prayer offer praise to each of the 21 Taras. Reciting the praise is extremely auspicious for invoking the swift blessings of Tara.

 

Schedule: alternate last Sunday of the month, 4pm – 6pm (please visit ABC's Google Calendar for the updated schedule.)

	Through Tara practice, you can obtain any happiness of this life that you wish.
	– Lama Zopa Rinpoche