On 8-6-2019, Acho Rinpoche, Kunde Rinpoche, Shredup
Khenpo and Namkhai Lama jointly presided over an Amitabha Buddha Soul Deliverance
& Naga Vase Offering Puja held at the Straits Chinese Association in
Penang, Malaysia. The event commenced from 9.30am with the soul deliverance
ritual, followed by bathing the Dragon Buddha ceremony with milk infused with
medicinal herbs.
It was followed by short discourses given by
Kunde Rinpoche and Acho Rinpoche respectively later. Acho Rinpoche shared with the
audience that after touching down in Penang and checking into the hotel, he
continued to do many rounds of prayers at the hotel in order to help deliver
the souls of the deceased beings, as there were simply too many of them being enrolled
for the soul deliverance ceremony. He had fallen ill for two weeks prior to
this puja but he felt that it was worth it as long as it could help the sentient
beings. He thanked those who donated generously to the opening ceremony of Acho
Rinpoche Retreat Center in India due in September 2019. The inauguration
ceremony will be jointly presided over by both the senior and junior Sakya
Rinpoches (H.H Skaya Trizin and his son). Kunde Rinpoche also shared with us
the tremedous merits of making offering to a retreat center.
Around noon, after our lunch, multi-colored
lights appeared in the sky above our venue. Acho Rinpoche took a few pictures of
the phenomenon and noted the appearance of Dragon Buddha above the clouds.
Sadhu! Sadhu!
After lunch, we left the venue for the sea - to
offer the naga vases. We chartered seven boats and went out to the sea. Kunde
Rinpoche did a chanting before Acho Rinpoche offered the biggest naga vase by
dropping it into the sea. The rest of the participants followed by dropping the
rest of the smaller vases into the sea. As the naga vases contained medicinal
herbs that could cure the various sickness of the sea beings, the offering of
naga vases could truly benefit the dragon family.
On the following day, 9-6-2019, on our way back
from Penang to Singapore, we witnessed a beautiful rainbow appearing in the sky
outside our plane, when it was a bright sunny sky out there! This is yet
another evidence that we are in the perpetual company of the enlightened ones
and the dharmapalas. Sadhu! Sadhu!
Reported by Sun Moon KFS on 9-6-2019.
Dragon Vases
Dragon Buddha
Manifestation of Dragon Buddha above the clouds... on 8-6-2019
Offering naga vases to the sea...
Sun halo appeared in the sky of Penang on 9-6-2019
Rainbow appeared in the sky on our way back to Singapore
