To mark the second anniversary of the passing into parinirvana of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Tara Institute will hold a guru puja and recitation of Chanting the Names of Manjushri for his swift return to continue to benefit many sentient beings, on April 4th Friday, 8pm 

 

Rinpoche was one of the founders of FPMT International. He passed into parinirvana in 2023 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

A text translated by Rinpoche, Advice for the Anniversary of the Guru’s Passing Away, which is a short text that explains the importance of making offerings on the anniversary of the passing away of one’s guru. It sets out the benefits of making offerings, how to make the offerings with six remembrances, and how to offer and dedicate the roots of virtue collected.

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As Rinpoche explains in the foreword of this text, “Making offerings on the death anniversary of a guru is an incredible practice in that it brings about the greatest purification of negative karma and collects the most extensive merit.”

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There are six benefits of making offerings on the anniversary of your guru’s passing away. The Hundred Clear Realizations of the Glorious One from Narthang offers the great Kadampa Geshe Sharawa’s citation from Guhyasamaja and Vairochana’s Net of Magical Illusion:

You complete your guru’s holy wishes.

You purify the negative karmas and obscurations collected in dependence on the guru.

You achieve extensive merits.

In future lives, you meet gurus.

You become an object to be subdued by gurus.

You quickly cease your samsara.

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On March 10, 2021, Rinpoche gave commentary on these points during a teaching from Kopan Monastery, and you can read that commentary starting on page 13 of the full transcript, which can be downloaded from this site: https://tinyurl.com/LZR-advice.

 

You are welcome to come along and join us in this special event.

Offerings of flowers, lights or monetary donations are welcome.

Please donate via

Tara Centre for Wisdom Culture

Commonwealth Bank

BSB 063242

Account 10227562

Using code “LZRpuja2025”

For further information please ring office 3 9596 8900  or email spc@tarainstitute.org.au