Date:  4/04/2025

Time:  8:00pm

Venue:  Nyingma Kathok Buddhist Centre

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Qing Ming Festival is a traditional Chinese custom. It is observed as a time for remembrance and veneration of the deceased.

Since ancient time, the living will pay their respect and show gratitude to their ancestors and the deceased during the Qing Ming Festival. According to Buddhist teachings, the deceased would have knowingly or unknowingly done a lot of non-virtuous deeds when they were alive. This could lead to their rebirth in a lower realm.  Buddha Akshobhya puja will be conducted on this day as a means of liberating the deceased from the lower realms.  According to the scriptures, those who recite the name of Akshobhya Buddha will have the blessings of all Buddhas, will not be harmed by negative thoughts and demons, and will not easily come into contact with contagious diseases or meet with disasters.  Buddha Akshohbya mantra is said to be very effective in preventing rebirth into a lower realm.

All proceeds will go to the maintenance of the Centre to benefit all beings.  Do rejoice in your merits of sponsoring the puja and maintaining the Centre!

On 10th September 2022, Moktsa Rinpoche left his physical body of this life while in a meditative posture, at his home in Kathok Monastery in Sichuan, China. It was the 15th day of the 7th month in the Tibetan calendar. Many auspicious signs accompanied his passing away. The clear mountain streams in the monastery turned into the colour of milk. Up in the sky, clouds took the form of Guru Rinpoche. Magnificent displays of rainbows and iridescence clouds can also be seen over Kathok Monastery. His sKu gDung (body relic) was subsequently placed in a gDung rTen (reliquary or stupa for body relic) constructed specially for that purpose.

You can watch a collection of the auspicious signs here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFzK8aGqZH4