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New Moon Losar Medicine Buddha Puja with Light Offerings

Venerable Angie Muir

February 18, 2026

8am – 9am (PT) – Online Only

 

Join us as we welcome the Tibetan New Year (Losar) with a special New Moon Losar Medicine Buddha Puja led by Ven. Angie. This puja will be especially powerful since it is said that karmic results are multiplied by one hundred million times during Losar and the subsequent 15 Days of Miracles.

 

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. The text will be screen shared and you can follow along.

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.

 

What is Losar? 

Losar is the start of the Tibetan New Year and the first two weeks in particular commemorate the time when the Buddha, challenged by someone to a duel of mystical powers, uncharacteristically displayed his power by performing a number of miracles for the benefit of those present in danger of being misled by his challenger.  At the end of the two week period,  all those present had converted to the practices taught by the Buddha.

 

Any actions done during this two-week period, for better or worse are multiplied in their power.  It is a very powerful time to practice and increase our commitments to practice and study, to use this beneficial time to assist in our personal evolution towards enlightenment, for the benefit of all beings. All fifteen days are merit-multiplying days, when the merit of virtuous actions performed on these days is multiplied by 100 million, according to the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic.

Teacher

Venerable Angie Muir
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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