The word puja means "to please" and has the connotation to please through offerings and practice.  The Guru Puja practice provides us with a unique opportunity to come together in Dharma friendship and share in the joyful and meritorious activity of offering thanksgiving to all our most kind teachers.  It lays the foundation of the whole path to enlightenment on our mindstream, connects us more strongly to our teachers, allows us to accumulate skies of merit and purifies eons of negative karma.  The text is available at the centre and is conducted in both English and Tibetan, commencing at 6pm and finishing around 7pm.

Guru Puja is traditionally celebrated on the 10th and 25th days of the lunar month. Please check the Calendar page.

During the puja various kinds of offerings are made, one of them being tsog - food mentally transformed into substances worthy to be enjoyed by our teachers.

Everyone is very welcome and there is no need to notify anyone of your intention to attend.

For more information on Guru Puja, please read Lama Zopa Rinpoche's article.