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Puja/prayer request:

Puja is a ceremony in which prayers are offered to the Gurus, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to request blessings or invoke their help. Pujas are performed to avert and clear worldly, inner and secret obstacles, and conditions which prevent us from achieving our worldly and spiritual goals. Worldly obstacles affect day to day life involving relationships, business, and etc. Inner obstacles affect health or mental states. Secret obstacles obstruct the attainment of innate wisdom. 

Pujas are also performed for the dying to help pacify their mind, and for the deceased to bless and guide their mind to a higher state of rebirth, liberation, and enlightenment.

Six armed Mahakala, Gonpo Chakdug (picture at left)
The protector deity of Drepung Gomang Monastery.

There are numerous prayers/pujas for specific purpose, below are only some of  them. You can contact us for any specific purpose or pujas which the monastery will be happy to perform after receiving your prayer offerings by personal cheque/check or bank draft in favour of 'Drepung Gomang Monastery'. Receipt will be issue for every prayer offering, donation and sponsorship.

DOLMA (Tara Puja)
Tara is known as "mother of all the Buddhas" for she is the wisdom of reality from which all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are born. The Tara puja includes offering and requests to Mother Tara to help us overcome the many inner and outer obstacles to our practice and to achieve successful Dharma realisation in our mental continuum.

LAMA CHOEPA :GURU PUJA (offering to spiritual guide)
Guru Puja is an important practice to please and thank our gurus whose kindness and guidance help us to progress on our path to Buddhahood. Participation in a Guru Puja helps one not only to purify one's negative karma but also to accumulate immeasurable merits. Guru Puja is held twice a month in the Centre

 MIKTSEMA RECITATION. 
A special prayer, paying homage to Je Tsong Khapa. The founder of Yellow sect (Gelug Sect) of Tibetan Buddhism. Je Tsong Khapa is seen as an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri and Vajrapani. Monks will chant a verses from Lama Tsong Khapa Guru Yoga. 

NYUR ZEMA RECITATION
PRAISE OF THE SIX ARM DHARMAP ROTECTOR MAHAKALA
A special prayer, paying homage to six armed Mahakala (Gonpo), the great black one. Though fierce in his trampling upon the evil spirits of delusion and greed, he is actually considered to be the agent of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the angelic Bodhisattva of great compassion. Mahakala is frightening in appearance because his responsibility is to protect all beings from evil. These verse was composed by a great Indian yogi Drubchen Shawari who had a vision of Mahakala while meditating, and was inspired to compose these verses of praise during a vision of Mahakala that appeared to him gradually from the feet upwards. This prayer request Mahakala to protect the Dharma and to remove all obstacles of all sentient beings. 

HEART SUTRA PUJA -Shernying Dudog
The Heart Sutra belongs to the teaching on the perfecting of insight or wisdom, sometimes referred to as the “mother of all Buddhas”. It is this insight or wisdom that brings about enlightened individuals. The condensed Jewel quality Sutra says that “Building a Stupa of the sorrowless state, making the stupa of the 7 Jewels, and making as many of these to fill many thousands of ten millions worlds equaling the numbr of sand grains in the river Ganges, and then making infinite offerings to these stupas by infinite sentients beings for eons.

DOLCHOG (The four mandala Tara rite)
For the well being, prosperity and peace of individuals, center or the country.

MENLHA DOLCHOG (The Medicine Buddha Rite)
Medicine Buddha is the Healing Buddha who promised to help all those who are sick and who are dying. He is depicted in holding a bowl containing fine kinds of medicines. The puja is often performed to help clear obstacles to health, to have successful surgery, and to help those who have already passed away
Especially meant for the sick and ailing and said to bring quick recovery because of the repitition of the blessed names of the 8 Tathagathas and their aspiration to heal others. This can be also considered as 'Healing rite"

RABNEY (Consecration)
A medium version of the consecration rite of the existing larger and small ones. Images always need continuous blessing or consecration by ordained Sangha who have performed the right retreats and requirement and who are also acquainted with the tradition of the rituals, as it is said that non human entities and spirits can enter images and harm human if they are not properly kept or consecrated.

KANGSO RITES (Renewing the bonds with protectors)
A rite of invocation, propitiation and entreatment to protectors to remember their prayers and vows to protect Dharma and its practitioners. Also a renewal of the vows and pledges one should keep to receive their protection. 

KURIM NAMSUM (prajna paramita, The white umbrella goddess and Singhmukha dakini)
This prayer is liturgies of three short texts performed in all Gelugpa monasteries, specially in the debate court as preliminary prayers before the debates and also during congregational ceremonies of Drepung Gomang monastery.  And said to be very effective because of its contents, it remove obstacles, hindrances to life, property and health also in averting harms coming from humans or non humans. A common practise among Tibetans are having these liturgies printed on "prayer flags"  or scrolls. While these are hung amongst the high passes, mountain tops, roof of the house or any high place, the lattr is made into amulets for protection either hung over doors or even worn around the neck.

LONG LIFE NAMGYALMA - Namgyal Tshe Chog
This puja is performed to remove all obstacles the long life.
Namgyalma is one of the three Long life Deities (white Tara, Amitayus, Namgyalma) Making requests to these deities helps to remove obstacles to one's lifespan (for example accidents, possibly fatal illness, as well as improve the quality of ones life.  During this puja extensive offerings are made to accummulate merit and to purify all the hindrances to one's long life.

MONLAM: Prayer for the deceased
As soon as a person passes away from this world, he or she goes through various unfamiliar and mysterious stages on the way to the next world. Similarly to someone who requires guidance and help when he goes to a new place, the deceased also need a lot of assistance, the guidance of positive energy and the blessings of enlightened beings to be able to smoothly and peacefully cross the bridge to the other end. By performing specific pujas and proper dedication that we offer for deceased will help the deceased, especially while they are in a period of transition from this world to other. (name of deceased is requested while praying this prayer)

In order to meet the requisite of helping the person who has departed, the Tibetans observe forty nine days of funeral rites for each deceased . During this period, the Assembly of Buddhas is invoked and worshipped. The merits accumulated from this practice are dedicated for the benefit of the particular deceased person and of all who have passed away. 


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PROTECTIVE AREA PERMIT
Request to foreign visitors:
The Tibetan settlement in south India are considered restricted area by Ministry of Home Affairs, Indian Government and any foreign national wishing to visit the monastery needs to apply for Protective area Permit before he/she visit here. Therefore you are kindly requested to send the below mentioned documents directly to to our office here. It will take at least three or four months to get permit approved.

You can send it your application directly to Bureau office or to the below address of ours.

The Secretary, 
Bureau Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
10/B Ring Road, 
Lajpat Nager IV, 
New Delhi - 24, India 
                  or 
Drepung Gomang Monastic Admn Office, 
Lama camp # 2, 
P.O. Tibetan Colony-581411, 
Dist. Uttar Kanara, 
Karnataka State. INDIA 

So please apply in advance and send it as soon as possible.

Documents that you have to submit for Permit
Permit application (click here for application)

PDF format  (click this for open in pdf format)

*  Protected area Permit  application (duly signed and filled),   

Application can be downloaded and printed from below website of  Bureau office of H.H. the Dalai Lama (http://tibetbureau.in/download-pap-form)
* Passport copy of applicant

* Four passport photos of applicant

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RELIGIOUS TEACHERS FOR DHARMA CENTERS

There are  number of other activities as part of the Monastery's cultural obligations besides the main Monastic curriculum, from dissemination of the Buddha Dharma to the world to welfare of the Monastic community.

Deputing of our qualified Geshe is one such activity, for teaching of Buddha dharma at Buddhist dharma centers, organisation, school in different parts of world, at their invitational request. Therefore, monastery is happy to send a qualified Geshe monk (Ph.D of Philosophy) at request provided that proper invitation and other necessary documents are extended. Also it is sincere request to inviting party or organization to kindly provide the flight expenses or other expenses for his travel.

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RELIABLE TRAVEL AGENT IN DELHI
If you in need of a reliable travel agent, then trust me, this is the one. Located at the ground floor of Gomang House, Majnukatilla, Delhi, Mr. Pemtse and his Kora International Buddhist Tours and Travel Agency is a reliable one providing excellent service and guidance for many years.
                                            Kora Intl Buddhist Tours & Travels
                                        Gomang House no. 14, 
                                            New Tibetan Colony
                                                New Aruna Nagar, 
                                                    Majnu ka tilla
                                                        Delhi -110054.
                                    Tel: +91-11-23811729 / 23811720 / 23819306 / 23812497
                                        Mobile: +91-9958537284.
                                            Email:  intl_buddhisttt@yahoo.co.in

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