Smoke Puja

Held at Nirvana Shah Alam Memorial Park on 17th July, 2016. Prayers was conducted by the Chief Monk - Master Kempo Nyima and his fellow assistants from Tibet. 

As this is the 4th Smoke Puja organised by Mdm Mak Ah Cheng, our Valued Customer turned good friend who not only worked hard in ferrying the Monks and Food to Nirvana Shah Alam but also contributed substantially to the offerings as well as the delicious vegetarian food.

It was a rather wet evening, however, we managed to proceed with the prayers in the shades and made use of spaces within the Tua Pek Kong Temple and its walkways without any hitches. It was teamwork that counts. 

Smoke Puja is a prayer that uses smoke from the burnt offerings i.e incense powder, food, clothing, beverages and herbal healing medicines to create spiritualized offerings for enlightened beings. This Prayer is also in remembrance of those Passengers who perished in both the Malaysia Airlines MH370 and MH17 incidents. 

Other then friends and relatives who participated in the prayers, many of our Nirvana colleagues and workers also came in droves to support the event. All prayed for this blessings to bring about good merit, clear obstacles and karmic debts and improves one's health.

Smoke Puja by Sangtrul Rinpoche

My customer-turned-good friend, Mdm Mak had initiated a prayer session at Nirvana Shah Alam by inviting a group of monks from Nepal, including its master, Master Sangtrul Rinpoche, to conduct a Smoke Puja prayer specially for the wandering souls, in conjunction with the recently concluded Hungry Ghost Festival.

It was a small group initiative with most of the efforts contributed by Mdm Mak herself except for a few of us who offered to pay for the purchase of prayer offerings, which included food, milk, incense, flour and various types of medicinal herbals which were to be burnt to create smoke for the ritual.  It was indeed eye opening as I have not experienced the Tibetan Monk's way of prayer especially doing it in the evening till dark to feast the wandering souls.

It is believed that this ritual will enable the trapped and suffering souls within this samsara to attain rebirth; And for the people who offered this prayer will then be freed from obstacles and thus prosper in their daily lives. 

As for us, we prayed for all the merits and good deeds accumulated thru this smoke puja to be passed on to the departed souls.

Thank you Mdm Mak and her lovely daughters and grand child, the Dharma brothers and sisters and members of the public who joined in together to complete this prayer. 

NAMASTE!