Offering to the Spiritual Guide puja

A special Guru yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa's tradition

Offering to the Spiritual Guide is a special mental yoga, a spiritual prayer that was compiled by Losang Chökyi Gyaltsän, as a preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra. The main practice is relying upon the Spiritual Guide, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path (Lamrim) and training the mind (Lojong), as well as both the stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.

The essence of Guru yoga is, with strong faith in our Spiritual Guide, to make prostrations, offerings, and sincere requests to him or her, with the result of receiving his or her powerful and profound blessings.

By relying upon our Spiritual Guide, our compassion, wisdom, and spiritual power naturally increase. There are many other benefits from practising Offering to the Spiritual Guide. These are explained in the book Great Treasury of Merit, which contains a complete commentary to the practice.

This ritual prayer (puja) is offered twice monthly: around the 10th and 25th.

Everyone is welcome to participate in these beautiful prayers.