Our Vesak morning! The monks were all in high spirits early this morning and wanted to do bathing of Prince Siddharta and take some photos for Vesak memories. 🥰🙏🏻 Always lovely to see families come together also, educating children about Buddha, and the joy and privilege of making offerings. 🙏🏻❤️

Our main Vesak Puja program starts 7pm in the evening - do take note its 7pm (not our usual 7:30pm). ☺️🥰🙏🏻❤️

Click here to participate in Vesak Offerings: https://www.drophenling.com/events/vesak2025/. We are left with 9 Fire Puja candles - rejoice in all your Vesak offerings! 🥰🙏🏻🔥

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Happy Vesak Day! Welcome to join in this evening's puja event by 9 Sangha from Gaden Shartse Monastery. We are honoured to have our Guest of Honour, Mrs Goh Chok Tong grace this blessed annual event with us. This puja makes prayers for the flourishing of pure Buddhadharma, as well as for the good health and long life of Teachers and Sangha across all Buddhist lineages. May peace prevail, and may Buddhadharma continue to flourish and spread far and wide to benefit sentient beings now and in the future.

You may recite Buddha Shakyamuni's mantra during the puja:
Om Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha

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Welcome all to participate in our upcoming new series of class (6 sessions) “How to Maintain our Bodhisattva Vows” starting this Saturday, by our Resident Teacher Geshe Lharampa Thupten Samten. 🥰🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

To register, click: https://www.drophenling.com/events/bodhisattva-vows/

Attending this class will give us clarity to what the Bodhisattva Vows are, the 18 root downfalls & 46 secondary downfalls. These Bodhisattva vows are not just commitments—they are very powerful to help us amass inconceivable great merit, because they help us transform ordinary actions into the path of enlightenment, for the benefit of all beings.

As H.E. Dagyab Rinpoche once shared, vows are not a punishment for us. Vows are meant to guide us & inspire us to live meaningfully with purpose every day.

By learning how to take and uphold them properly, we can develop greater compassion, discipline, and clarity in our daily lives. By knowing the vows clearly, we will be able to stay mindful not to transgress them.

Welcome all to attend the upcoming 6 classes. Saturday classes are physical in-person @ GSDPL, while Wed classes are conducted online via Zoom.

Open to public, all are welcome. To register, click: https://www.drophenling.com/events/bodhisattva-vows/ Overseas friends are welcome to register online too.

This Sat evening, welcome to join in for healing and purification. To heal, we need to acknowledge our wrongdoings, the past negativity which we have committed and purify the bad karma. To register for this puja, click here: https://www.drophenling.com/events/medicine-buddha-healing-purification-puja/

“To the Bhagawan with equal compassion for all, whose name when just heard dispels lower realms’ suffering. Dispeller of disease and the three poisons, I prostrate to Medicine Buddha Lapis Light.”

Note: Welcome to bring along your Medicine Buddha Healing Vases and/or amulets for blessings at this puja. Do bring a water bottle to receive the blessed Medicine Buddha vase nectar for healing blessings. You are encouraged to be vegetarian on puja day, for best prayers efficacy.

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Tibetan Buddhists consider the Medicine Buddha practice to be the most powerful blessing for healing, dispelling sickness and for awakening the innate healing wisdom that lies within every individual. The practice of Medicine Buddha is a very powerful method for healing ourselves and others, and for overcoming the inner sickness of attachment, hatred, and ignorance.

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以药师佛的表相而言，是为了救济一切众生的病苦，实际上则是为了断除一切痛苦的根源─无明。借由种种的善巧方便渡化有情众生，脱离生死轮回苦海，所以被尊称为「大医王佛」。药师佛乘愿而来渡化众生就是为了要消除众生的烦恼及病痛；借由持诵药师佛的咒语和念诵药师佛本愿经，再加上虔诚礼拜供养，不但可消灾延寿，往生后不堕三恶趣，也可解除一切痛苦之因，成办一切现今及究竟的安乐。

Dear friends, some of you are clarifying about being vegetarian for tomorrow’s Puja. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

You are encouraged to be vegetarian starting from tomorrow morning (when you wake up), up to until the Puja is completed. ☺️🙏🏻❤️ Being vegetarian helps us maximise our healing and purification efficacy of this ritual.

Also remember you can bring along your Medicine Buddha amulets / healing vases for recharge! See you tomorrow! 🙏🏻🥰💯

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Happy to welcome all of you to join in Medicine Buddha Healing Purification Puja this evening, conducted by 7 Sangha. We would like to invite you to join in the Puja by reciting Medicine Buddha’s mantra below and dedicating blessing to heal ourselves & bless all other suffering sentient beings too.

May we dedicate all blessing for this world to heal and recover from all health struggles, worries, delusions and obstacles. May all be auspicious.

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Medicine Buddha mantra:
Teyatha Om Bekanze Bekanze Maha Bekanze Ranza Samu Gatey Soha

Rejoicing in the heartfelt aspiration of all students who gathered to learn how to keep and uphold the precious Bodhisattva vows! 🥰🙏

The first class was an overview: Geshe-la shared among the various classes of vows, the Bodhisattva vows are supreme — they are essential for anyone wishing to achieve full enlightenment (Buddhahood). Without keeping these vows properly, Buddhahood is not possible.

To watch the class recording, click:
https://bit.ly/GTS_BodhisattvaVows1

To maintain Bodhisattva vows purely, it’s important to be aware of attitudes or behaviours that go against them. This means actively identifying and correcting faults, while cultivating the positive qualities. A key practice is daily self-reflection — this includes learning about the 18 root downfalls (and 46 secondary negativities) that can break or weaken the vows. Hence we printed the mini text so it’s convenient to carry along, & we can read and familiarise regularly!

This class series continues for 5 more sessions. It is open to the public — all are welcome to join in together! The upcoming class is on Wed, 21st May. All Wed classes will be held online to accommodate everyone’s busy work days. Do register to get the Zoom link: https://www.drophenling.com/events/bodhisattva-vows/

Rejoice and happy learning!

Wed classes are held online via Zoom. 🥰🙏 Welcome all to login online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88664910207 (Meeting ID: 886 6491 0207)

To watch recording for the 1st class, click:
https://bit.ly/GTS_BodhisattvaVows1

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Welcome to join in the Guru Puja & Tsog Offering with 7 monks.

Click here to follow the text - http://bit.ly/GuruPujaTsog-Text

GSDPL conducts Guru Puja & Tsog day on every Tsog day (which falls on the 10th and 25th of the Tibetan calendar). 🥰🙏🏽

The Guru Puja & Tsog Offering is done to specially invoke the blessing of our Teacher(s). It bestows blessings to pacify obstacles, and is one of the most expedient methods for vast-merit accumulation to smoothly progress in our dharma practice. It invokes infinite blessings for our temporal and ultimate activities.s

Class is about to begin at 7:30pm :)

Welcome to join in online Zoom for class -https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88664910207

Meeting ID: 886 6491 0207

This Sat, the monks will conduct the Green Tara Obstacle-Clearing Puja. This is a practice which is exceptionally quick in removing hindrances, pacify all negative conditions & bring success to all activities - business, work, study, or practice. If you are in need of this aspect of blessing, welcome to come along this Sat. With faith and conviction, we shall make prayer supplications to Green Tara together to receive her blessings.

You are also most encouraged to bring along your Green Tara vases and/or amulets for recharge of blessings.

To register, pls click: https://www.drophenling.com/events/green-tara-obstacle-clearing-puja/

Saturday, looking forward to class and puja day later! 🥰😁 Today Geshe la continues with our 4th class of “How to Maintain Our Bodhisattva Vows” at 3:30pm. And this evening 7:30pm, the monks will conduct Green Tara Obstacle-Clearing Puja, one of the most beneficial prayers for work, career and activities.

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We are officially in the Saka Dawa “Month of Merits”! It’s the best time to leverage on all the auspiciousness and great multiplying effect of all virtuousness, just like in the Vesak month.

Sharing photos of late night torma work by Geshe la and the monks last night! Tara Puja online registration closes at 6pm later:
https://www.drophenling.com/events/green-tara-obstacle-clearing-puja/

Saka Dawa Puja on 11th June:
https://www.drophenling.com/events/tibetan-saka-dawa-special/ (note there is no FB Live for Saka Dawa Puja, and the closing time is brought forward to 5pm). Thank you for taking notice!

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Also! Geshe-la’s teachings have been wonderful. So clarifying and lots of meticulous guidance to help us break down the Bodhisattva Vows. Thanks to Voula Zarpani for her beautiful interpretations as always. To watch the class recordings so far, click:

📷 English language:
https://bit.ly/GTS_BodhisattvaVows1
https://bit.ly/GTS_BodhisattvaVows2
https://bit.ly/GTS_BodhisattvaVows3

To maintain Bodhisattva vows purely, it’s important to be aware of attitudes or behaviours that go against them. This means actively identifying and correcting faults, while cultivating the positive qualities. A key practice is daily self-reflection — this includes learning about the 18 root downfalls (and 46 secondary negativities) that can break or weaken the vows.

See you for Class 4 today! (Total 6 classes in this series)

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Happy to welcome all of you once again to join in our weekly FB Live Puja! Today the 7 monks will conduct the Tara Obstacle-Clearing Puja, which bestows swift blessings for obstacle-clearing and achieving success in our activities and work. Welcome to join in by reciting Green Tara’s mantra below to join in invoking blessings to pacify all obstacles and negativities.

Green Tara Mantra:
Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Soha
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