Zambhala Puja Presentation Part 1

The following are some of the Zambhala puja scheduled on twice weekly Sunday every month at our center http://maha-sukha.org/index.html

Our Zambhala puja presentation mainly we used Chrysanthemum flowers because of its multicolorful beauty and it is easily available at the market. Sometimes we too decorated with our home growth flowers, example the orchards flowers. Jasmine flowers  white and pure elegant will be one of the very best choice for offerings. 

For Zambhala bathing ceremony will be pouring the fresh milk together with water while reciting the mantra, then fill with at least five balls of offering (chocolates , dough, cakes or butter etc...)

Other offerings will be the vegetarian food, fruits to the Zambhala, and most important is our boddhichitta heart and our pure and genuine motivation that we will receive the blessings from the deity.

Dedication of merits
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Yellow Zambhala puja

Yellow Zambhala is a wealth deity, his practices, rituals and meditations are done for the purposes of requiring wealth.

Yellow Zambhala sits on a lotus, sun and moon disk. He holds a mongoose in his left hand and from its mouth spews forth precious jewels.

He protected the dharma and if anyone calling his name, he will come and help the person. If one has trouble with financial difficulty or anything, one can chant his powerful mantra for his help. 

But one must have the bodhichitta mind and practice Buddhism properly and rightfully to attain his blessings. Through this practices one can as well gain wealth, wisdom, intelligence and ultimately goals to attain Buddhahood.

The Mantra:-

Om Zambhala Zalendraye Svaha

Dedication of merits

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Himalayan wild flowers - part 3

Nubri Valley with plenty of wild flowers, rhododendrons, beautiful junipers ,pines and in amazingly connected with mountains natural spirits of the beauty of waterfalls, uncontaminated freshwater, air and wild life are surprisingly very active during day time and many species of insects, birds, and sometime if you are lucky you may have a rare sighting of a highly endangered species the Himalayan vultures that preyed on dead bodies.

Many wild animals roaming around freely especially the deers and antelopes as they have limited of natural enemies such as the Eagles, and snow leopards another highly endangered species and estimated the number of this shy creatures left about a couple of thousands in the wilderness. Black bears are another rare animals living freely in the wilderness of the Himalayan valley. Many deers are not afraid of the monks and nuns as they are used to the presence of them, but these deers are very shy to the outsiders if try to approach them.  

Jambhala Puja September 21,2014

This is our twice weekly Lord Jambhala Puja practice on Sunday today September 21, 2014

More current and previous activities and programs will be updating soon. 
Those who are interested, please contact me via email. Thank you for your precious times and reading.
Love and cheers
Thubten Choeyang

The secret hidden Kyimolung Valley.

Kyimolung which means the valley of happiness is a secret hidden plateau of Himalayan near the Nepal-Tibetan border located in the center of Himalayan Mountains. It is known by the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual practitioners as a beyul of 'hidden valley'.

Padmasambhava or known as Guru Rinpoche, the 9th century Buddhist master who was instrumental in establishing Buddhism in Tibet. Blessed Kyimolung Valley with his presence. In the 12th century, Jetsun Milarepa the legendary yogi from Tibet who gained famed for his fierce diligence meditation resulting in his attainment of buddhahood in one single lifetime, also settled in this special place to perfect his religion practices.

Kyimolung Valley with plenty of wild flowers, rhododendrons, beautiful junipers ,pines and in amazingly connected with mountains natural spirits and wild animals roaming around especially the deers are not afraid of the monks and nuns as they are used to the presence of them, but these deers are very shy to the outsiders if try to approach them.

Dedication of merits

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The villagers of the hidden valley

Living on a high altitude of Nubri Valley of Himalayan, life is rather very challenging and full of hardship by the surrounding and also lack of natural resources and modernization and most important is the medications. 

Many villagers especially the young children had contracted skin infection diseases and the only treatments will be the traditional Tibetan medicine that mainly made from natural plans and herbs.

Young children are working at the farm

The nearest medical centers will be located at the Kathmandu Nepal, the villagers will easily need to takes 5-7days by walking down from the top of the valley to the ground and across to the border of Kathmandu the capital of Nepal, some critical patients may die during the walking journey to Kathmandu.

The villages mostly are poor family and farmers, and children rarely have the opportunities to the schools, children will alternatively be sent to the Monasteries by their parents to receive Buddhist teaching and Tibetan studies including the language, Buddhism manuscripts from childhood and ultimately becoming a Lama and nuns. 

A better environment for children education after many funds raising projects from the Western countries and Asia especially from Malaysia. According to Tibetan customs or tradition, the parents would disallowed their only son to be sent to Monastery due to the bloodline for their next generations, unless or otherwise, their son is the recognized of a reincarnation of a high Lama or a high Yogis. 

This is how the Yogis practitioners uniquely developed in the Vajrayana Buddhism, those men who are unable to renounce as monks, and marriaged to have their children to fulfilled their traditional bloodline but through the blessing from their Vajrayana Guru teaching and the secret tantric practice and meditation.

one can purifying the body, speech and minds and attained emptiness and perfect realizations and cases had reported that many of these realized lamas and yogis had attained the rainbow bodies through the practices.

Dedication of merits

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Endangered Wildlife Part 2

Some of the common animal species can be spotted at the high altitude in the Nubri Valley and especially the snow monkeys are not fear of the presence of peoples but rather aggressive when approach, another unknown beautiful and colorful bird is resting nearby. The natural beauty is the mother gems that she is nurturing and providing us with clean air, water, minerals and more important is life on this planet. If we do not treasure and appreciate these magnificent jewels of the nature and one day all this will soon be destroyed by our owned hands. It's never been too late to love our mother nature and it always starts with us and to preserve this fragile ecosystem.