Lhabab Duchen Medicine Buddha Puja with light offerings
Venerable Angie Muir
November 11, 2025
Tuesday, November 11th at 8:30am (PT)
Join us for a special Medicine Buddha Puja on Lhabab Duchen, one of the four great holy days of the Buddhist calendar. This sacred day celebrates Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s return to Earth from the God Realm of the Thirty-Three after teaching Dharma for several months to the gods, including his mother, Mayadevi, who had died a week after Buddha’s birth and had been reborn there.
Lhabab Duchen is known as a merit-multiplying day — when the results of virtuous actions are said to be amplified 100 million times! It’s an extraordinary time to engage in prayer, generosity, and spiritual practice.
The Medicine Buddha Puja invokes the healing energy of all enlightened beings, bringing purification and blessings on physical, mental, and spiritual levels. It is especially beneficial for those who are ill or have recently passed.
You may also sponsor light offerings during the puja.
“It is very important that the elaborate Medicine Buddha puja be done regularly in order to benefit all. Medicine Buddha puja is also something that can be done for people who are dying, or who have already passed away, and also for individual success in all kinds of activities. This Medicine Buddha practice is extremely powerful and beneficial especially when it is done with extensive offerings beautifully arranged.”
— Lama Zopa Rinpoche
We hope you can join us! All are welcome.
Registration
Registration is required and you will receive your online access information immediately upon registering.
The text for this puja is The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel composed by Panchen Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen, available from FPMT.
Prayer Requests
If you would like to request a dedication for yourself or someone else, please make a prayer request here.
Puja Sponsorship- You will have the opportunity to sponsor the puja by donating in the “Puja Sponsorship” section during registration.
Light Offering- During registration there will be an option to sponsor a light offering of any donation amount for yourself or a recently passed being. Please email the office at office@vajrapani.org if the light offering is for someone other than yourself and provide that name. The names will be attached to a butter lamp on the altar.
What is a Puja?
Pujas are traditional ceremonies in Tibetan Buddhism that involve prayers, offerings, and rituals. Their primary purpose is to create merit, purify negative karma, and invoke blessings for the well-being of individuals or communities. Pujas are often directed toward overcoming obstacles, promoting harmony, achieving success in spiritual and worldly activities, and generating positive energy for healing or protection.
Pujas typically include reciting prayers, chanting mantras, making offerings (such as food, incense, or flowers), and meditating on the presence of enlightened beings. These rituals help practitioners connect with the enlightened qualities of Buddhas and bodhisattvas, thereby invoking their blessings for guidance, protection, and spiritual support.
Teacher
Born in Scotland, in 1970, she obtained a Bachelors Degree in 1992. Feeling disillusioned with her prospective career path and life ahead of her, she left Scotland and combined travelling with work in Asia for 3 years until in 1995 she felt a calling to go to India to explore meditation and find her life path. Within a few months “I had the incredible fortune due to some previous karma” to discover Tibetan Buddhism, meet her main spiritual teacher Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche (of almost 30 years) and become ordained. Venerable Angie has been a buddhist nun for…
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