Tag: Puja

Buddha Day Offerings From The Goddess of the Spring

By Candradasa on Sat, 2 Jun, 2018 - 08:10

To mark the great festival of Buddha Day (Wesak), when we celebrate the Enlightenment and its opening up of the path that leads to the end of suffering, here’s a wonderful mythologically minded conversation with Sthanashraddha, self-confessed ritualist and all-round lover of beauty and of the Dharma as an aesthetic choice in itself.

Sthanashraddha’s considerable elegance of being and of mind comes through beautifully as we hear his magical tale of a dawn adventure to meet the goddess of the Malvern springs...

Triratna Resources

Pujas and Invocations

By mokshini on Mon, 21 Nov, 2016 - 16:53

pujas and invocation of Buddhas and bodhisattvas

File Name	Size
Akshobya Puja written by Saccanama	102.49 KB
from Shinran’s Collected Works, compiled by Dhammaloka	44.5 KB
provided by Amoghavajra	27 KB
from dhammapada	76.35 KB
prajnaparamita puja by Vishvapani	203 KB
compiled from the Avatamsaka Sutra by Sobhanandi	37.64 KB
Invocations of the Five Buddhas of the Mandala written by Saccanama	86.98 KB
Bodhicitta Puja compiled by Maitreyi	29.5 KB
compiled by Dhammaloka	45 KB
triskandha_sutra_puja.doc	30 KB
anapanasati puja Viveka 2004	32 KB
celtic_puja.pdf	85.35 KB

Triratna Resources

Pujas (in English and Other Languages)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 23:32

Here are some older versions of some the main pujas and other ceremonies as practiced in Triratna – in several languages.

This search for ‘puja’ on The Buddhist Centre Online yields considerably updated resources

Also see Triratna Translations for many more translations of key ritual texts used in the Triratna Buddhist Community

File Name	Size
Akshobhya Puja - Deutsch (PDF)	55.72 KB
Bodhicaryavatara Puma - Deutsch (PDF)	51.18 KB
De Korte Poeja (PDF)	31.83 KB
Dedication Ceremony (PDF)	22.66 KB
Die Siebenfaltige Puja (PDF)	65.61 KB
Einfache Puja (PDF)	28.11 KB
Irische Puja - Deutsch (PDF)	46.3 KB
La Puja En Sept Parties (PDF)	80.79 KB
Le Sutra du Coeur (PDF)	48.2 KB
Puja aus der Gandavyuha Sutra (PDF)	53.44 KB
The Heart Sutra (PDF)	35.37 KB
The Sevenfold Puja (PDF)	44.52 KB
The Threefold Puja (PDF)	170.78 KB
Ti Ratana Vandana (PDF)	28.01 KB
Ti Ratana Vandana - Deutsch (PDF)	45.68 KB
Weihungszeremonie (PDF)	27.06 KB
Семичленная пуджа (PDF)	72.83 KB
Сердечна cутра (PDF)	59.54 KB

Triratna Resources

Dharma Teaching - Beginners Buddhism: Imagination, Beauty and Ritual, An Eight-Week Course (Padmavajri)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 22:41

This course over eight weeks on The Place of Imagination, Beauty, and Ritual in the Spiritual Life was provided by Padmavajri from the Brighton Buddhist Centre.

Padmavajri says: “I led two groups on this. The course was aimed at any Mitras and it turned out I had a group of experienced Mitras, and a group of newer Mitras (one or two years old)… The two groups here loved it, enjoyed it, were challenged by it, and also were helped to understand ritual and the arts...

File Name	Size
Overview (PDF)	68.4 KB
Week 1 - Emotional Energy and Spiritual Aspiration (PDF)	77.03 KB
Week 2 - Faith and Non-faith (PDF)	72.21 KB
Week 3 - The Psychology of the Spiritual Life (PDF)	75.7 KB
Week 4 - The Life and Death of the Imagination (PDF)	77.7 KB
Week 5 - Beauty and the Hierarchy of Art (PDF)	82.72 KB
Week 6 - The Dharma in Poetry (PDF)	77.05 KB
Week 7 - The Psychology of Ritual (PDF)	75.31 KB
Week 8 - Approaching the Sevenfold Puja (PDF)	76.48 KB

Triratna Resources

Dharma Teaching - Beginners Buddhism: Ritual and Devotion, A Course In Six-Weeks (Vajrapriya)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 22:12

Exploring the psychology and meaning of Buddhist ritual through the ‘Sevenfold Puja’

A six-week course exploring Buddhist ritual. Provided by Vajrapriya, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, UK. Module 5 of Vajrapriya’s Buddhism Two Course in six modules.

Download this overview here

Overview

Who/what do Buddhists worship? Commitment to a path of personal development.
The practice of openness, disclosure and confession.
The importance of developing positive emotion.
Receptivity: turning towards what is deepest in ourselves and the universe.
The ‘Awakening Heart’

File Name	Size
Ritual and Devotion - A Course In Six-Weeks by Vajrapriya (zip)	2.19 MB

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Dharmabyte: Manjusri Mantra with Harmonies

By Rijupatha on Sun, 26 Jul, 2015 - 03:41

Our FBA Dharmabyte today drops us into the realm of ritual with a Manjusri Mantra with Harmonies. From a special Sevenfold Puja recorded on at Jikoji Retreat Center, California, 2008 on a Triratna Buddhist Order Convention. This excerpt is lovely harmonic chanting of the Manjushri (Manjugosha) mantra.

Listen to the full puja – it’s unusual to hear these rituals performed in Sanskrit and English, so a real treat for all ritual lovers courtesy of...

Bristol Buddhist Centre

Day 6: A Puja To Ratnasambhava

By Centre Team on Tue, 24 Mar, 2015 - 22:46

Rounding off day 6 of Living In The Mandala we have another puja that steers to the deep when it comes to evoking the guardian Buddha of the moment, in this case Ratnasambhava - the Jewel-Born, archetypal Buddha of abundance, spiritual riches and the South…

Complete with flute-accompanied mantra!

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Bristol Buddhist Centre

Day 5: A Puja To Amoghasiddhi

By Centre Team on Sat, 21 Mar, 2015 - 18:18

A strong, stirring puja dedicated to Amoghasiddhi, the archetypal, unstoppable green Buddha of the North. This ritual features dedicated sections and readings that call forth Amoghasiddhi’s great qualities of fearlessness as well as the magical realm he inhabits. We are also treated to words enjoining us to practise empathy and sympathetic joy (mudita) in all our relationship. This puja includes some beautiful mantra chanting and lovely verses to Green Tara, Amoghasiddhi’s consort, used to help face and overcome our fears…...

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