Special Vajrayogini, Yamantaka & Hayagriva Fire Pujas held in Maha Tare Buddhist Centre, Singapore.

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The Maha Tare Buddhist Centre in Singapore, led by the esteemed Spiritual Dhamma Teacher and Tibetan Astrologist, Most Venerable Dharma Master Geshe Lama Konchok, along with the Maha Sangha, organized a series of special fire pujas from January 26 – 28, 2024, in Aljunied, Singapore. The ceremonies, including the Vajrayogini, Yamantaka, and Hayagriva Fire Pujas, were conducted with great success and auspiciousness.

Despite the weeklong monsoon rains, a brief respite on Friday revealed clear blue skies, creating ideal conditions for the fire rituals. Most Venerable Dharma Master Geshe Lama Konchok explained the significance of these powerful tantric rituals, aimed at overcoming obstacles hindering well-being and success in various aspects of life, including health, relationships, career, and spiritual growth.

Vajrayogini Fire Puja – The Vajrayogini Fire Puja, an elaborate ritual involving offerings, meditation, and mantra recitation, embodies the essence of Vajrayana Buddhism. Participants, empowered or not, have the opportunity to accumulate merit, wisdom, and spiritual realizations while praying for the well-being of all sentient beings.

The fire-offering puja of Vajrayogini is an elaborate and spectacular ritual, comprising offerings, meditation and mantra, that contains the essence of Vajrayana Buddhism.

This is a precious opportunity to participate in a profound ceremony for the benefit of all sentient beings. For those empowered to practice Vajrayogini, it is an opportunity to accumulate merit and wisdom and exhaust afflictions and obscurations. Even for those who just attend the puja, it is an opportunity to gain great merit, to pray for one’s family and friends, and to enjoy a celebration of Buddhist culture.

Queen of the Dakinis and consort of Heruka Chakrasamvara, Vajrayogini is the female Buddha of wisdom and great bliss. She is the representation of complete Buddhahood in female form and her practices are associated with the Chakrasamvara Cycle of Anuttarayoga Tantra.

Vajrayogini holds a vajra chopper in her right hand and a skull-cup upraised in the left. Resting in the crook of her left elbow is a khatvanga staff. Naked and adorned with a tiara of five human skulls, she wears a necklace of fifty dry skulls. She stands with her two feet placed on the bodies of her own emanations, representing contaminated desire, hatred and ignorance. Her trampling on them symbolizes that by her practice, we are able to destroy those negative qualities within us and transform ourselves into qualities that benefit others. It also represents her ability to purify our past negative actions and protect us from life’s obstacles.

Vajrayogini’s fire puja is a very elaborate ritual during which many traditional substances are thrown into a fire and burnt, representing the removal and pacification of obstacles and problems that one is facing. This puja grants health fulfills wishes and accumulates great merits for spiritual realizations and attainments. Vajrayogini’s fire puja also calms our immediate environment, grants protection and aids in the transformation of one’s mind and purification of past negative actions.

Benefits of this Vajrayogini Fire Puja, pacifies obstacles and fulfils wishes, Protects and calms the immediate environment, Purification of negative karma, Helps the deceased to take a good rebirth, Accumulation of merits for one’s attainments and mind transformation, Creates a connection with one of the highest tantric Buddhas.

Yamantaka’s fire puja is a very elaborate ritual during which many traditional substances are thrown into a fire and burnt, representing the removal and pacification of obstacles and problems that one is facing. This puja grants health fulfills wishes and accumulates great merits for spiritual realizations and attainments. Yamantaka’s fire puja is also one of the most powerful for the purification of extreme negative karma, and for powerful protection against the most wrathful spirits, black magic and curses.

Benefits of this puja, Pacifies obstacles and fulfils wishes, Powerful protection from all spirits, black magic and curses, Tremendous purification of negative karma, Helps the deceased to take a good rebirth, Accumulation of merits for one’s attainments and mind transformation, Creates a connection with one of the highest tantric Buddhas.

Hayagriva Fire Puja – The Hayagriva Fire Puja ceremony, aimed at reducing karmic debts and strengthening spiritual realizations, is particularly relevant in contemporary times marked by rampant egoism and attachment. This practice, recommended by many Buddhist teachers, invokes Hayagriva’s discernment wisdom to combat modern challenges.

The Hayagriva Fire Puja ceremony has the power to lessen the karmic debts of beings, which are the causes of daily sicknesses, diseases, obstacles and suffering. It will also strengthen the empowerments received and all the realizations obtained through Lama’s teachings.

Many Buddhist teachers recommend Hayagriva as the practice most needed in modern times of rampant Egoism and Attachment. Hayagriva — Amtitabha’s most wrathful form — is the Heruka (Hero) of the Lotus Padma Buddha Family, the “Incredible Hulk” manifestation of the Compassionate Buddha. His irresistible “active” Discernment Wisdom is what many modern people need.

Great teachers in modern times continue to request their students accumulate Hayagriva Heruka’s mantra — known to be particularly efficacious in these troubled times:

Geshe Lama Konchok holds the honourable degree of Geshe from Sera Jey Monastic University in India for Advanced Buddhist Study & Practice. He joined the monastery at the age of 12. He initially underwent basic training in elementary logic and dialectics, and finally Vinaya (monastic ethics and discipline). Finally, in recognition of his academic accomplishments and in-depth knowledge of both scriptures and practice according to the Tibetan Gelukpa tradition, he was awarded the much-coveted degree of Geshe by Sera Jey Monastery in 2012.

Over the years he has performed various Tantric rituals and helped over 3000 people, in various countries like India, Nepal, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Canada. He has a number of followers in these various countries he has travelled. Over the past five years of travel, Lama has helped numerous people and most of whom have become his students.

This has been a source of inspiration and encouragement to further work on preserving the rich culture, tradition and knowledge of the lineage of his astrology which originated from Lord Manjushri. The most important practice that is kept in the mind is equality to all, whether rich or poor.

His objective is to outreach and help as many people as possible with the spiritual teachings he has received and practiced.

Buddhika Sanjeewa
Founder / Chairman / Chief Editor of Chanxin / Bhikkhunis / Mettavalokanaya International Buddhist Magazines & Websites – Sri Lanka.