April 13, 2025 marks the two-year anniversary of Lama Zopa Rinpoche showing the aspect of passing away. Please join us in coming together to celebrate the Life and Teachings of our precious Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Guru Puja, Lama Chopa Tsog with extensive light offerings, 6:30 pm in the main Gompa, all welcome to attend.

We want to remind students about a text translated by Rinpoche, Advice for the Anniversary of the Guru’s Passing Away which is a short text that explains the importance of making offerings on the anniversary of the passing away of one’s guru. It sets out the benefits of making offerings, how to make the offerings with six remembrances, and how to offer and dedicate the roots of virtue collected.

As Rinpoche explains in the foreword of this text, “Making offerings on the death anniversary of a guru is an incredible practice in that it brings about the greatest purification of negative karma and collects the most extensive merit.”

There are six benefits of making offerings on the anniversary of your guru’s passing away. The Hundred Clear Realizations of the Glorious One from Narthang offers the great Kadampa geshe Sharawa’s citation from Guhyasamaja and Vairochana’s Net of Magical Illusion:

1. You complete your guru’s holy wishes.

2. You purify the negative karmas and obscurations collected in dependence on the guru.

3. You achieve extensive merits.

4. In future lives, you meet gurus.

5. You become an object to be subdued by gurus.

6. You quickly cease your samsara.

On March 10, 2021, Rinpoche gave commentary on these points during a teaching from Kopan Monastery, and you can read that commentary starting on page 13 of this full transcript. 

• 7:30 am - Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri

• 6:30 pm - Lama Chopa Tsog with extensive light offerings

This special puja will be held in the Gompa at Chenrezig Institute and available online via zoom.

• Chanting the Names of Manjushri text

• Prayers used for the Guru Puja are The FPMT Retreat Prayer Book

• We also recite swift return prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

How to attend in-person:

There is no need to register to attend in the gompa.

How to attend online:

All welcome, no registration required. Join via the Zoom link below.

Meeting ID: 372934059
Zoom Passcode: 029924

If you would like to make a prayer request or donation for this Puja, please use the section below.

Please enjoy the photo gallery of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Dharma Plushy Toys