Dear Friends in Dharma
Namaste! Hope everyone is fine, healthy and fit. Is the time of the year again, where TANA MONASTERY, India will be doing the year end pujas on the following dates –

VARJAKILAYA GRAND FIRE PUJA & DORJE DROLOD GRAND FIRE PUJA
During this current pandemic times, these pujas are extremely important as we really don’t want the worst of the worst to be carried over to 2021.
(1) Vajrakilaya Puja – 10, 11, 12 January, 2021
(2) Dorje Drolo Puja – 8, 9, 10 February, 2021
Both the pujas help to prevent the obstacles from the past year from carrying forward into the New Year. It will specially protect us from negativity. You may sponsor both the pujas by making a donation of any amount to Tana Dharma Society.

ROBE OFFERING
In conjunction with the pujas you are invited to sponsor the monks robes, together with other requisites. The robes can be sponsored at
RM250/set. If you wish to undertake this meritorious deed, please indicate the same in your remittance. You may sponsor any number
of sets as you wish. The young lamas, about 50 of them, will wear these new robes on Lorsar day (12 – 14 February, 2021) to welcome the New Year.

Remittance
You may sponsor the robes and both the above pujas by banking in your contributions to:
Tana Dharma Society, Hong Leong Bank account no: 045 0100 3887
Kindly whatsapp your remittance advice slip to –
Sis Margaret Lim at 019-475 9384
Sis Yeo Nan See at 016-2632110
Bro LK Tan at 012-230 0303

after you have remitted your contribution to enable them to track your contributions. Please do not omit to indicate the names of
participants and their contributions as we will be compiling them to be sent to the Monastery before Wed, 6th January 2021.

Vajrakilaya Grand Fire Puja
A Puja is a Buddhist ceremony. Vajrakilaya is Buddha manifesting particularly the enlightened qualities of the complete reversal & utter destruction of ignorance and of negativity, which are synonymous & synchronous with the complete expansion and revelation of wisdom and compassion that is Buddha. Vajrakilaya was one of the main practices that Padmasambhava transmitted to his students. The practice of Vajrakilaya has great significance in that it is what Padmasambhava last performed in Nepal before his triumphant arrival and victorious introduction of Buddhism from India to Tibet in the 8th Century AD. Following the example of Guru Padmasambhava and many superb lineage masters, we perform Vajrakilaya to overcome outer, inner, and secret obstacles to Dharma practice and activity as well worldly activities.

Dorje Drolod Grand Fire Puja
“Crazy Wisdom Vajra”, a wrathful manifestation of Padmasambhava and a subduer of demons. Guru Padma arose in the wrathful form of Dorje Drolod in the famous Tagstang or Tiger’s Nest Cave in Bhutan to subdue the negative and demonic forces of these degenerate times. Ferocious in expression, amidst a mass of primordial wisdom fire, he stands upon the back of a pregnant tigress who is the wrathful form of his Wisdom Consort of enlightened activity, Tashi Kye Dren, whose ferocity is unpredictable and wild. Dressed in a robe of brocade, his hair is red and curly, he has an overbite and fangs and wears a garland of severed heads
representing the cutting of the 52 levels of dualistic mental-events. In his right hand he holds aloft a vajra emitting lightning bolts, and in his left a kila-phurba, a three-sided ritual dagger which severs the three poisons that are the source of all suffering. The ferocious expression he wears while riding a pregnant tigress who is munching on a corpse makes for a menacing figure. His body is dark brown and surrounded by a halo of flames.

Thank you for your participation and we would like to wish you all a very spiritually fulfilling New Year. May 2021 be spiritually
enlightening, better, brighter and more prosperous year.

Yours in the Dharma,
Tana Dharma Society