Puja & Tsog

Nurture the powerful potential for spiritual growth with a ceremony rich in symbolism. Reliance on our spiritual teacher is the foundation of all spiritual progress, and this ceremony helps us create mountains of merit and purify broken samaya.

Tsog means “gathering”. By gathering together to offer tsog we are making space. When the right space opens, realisations come as if magnetically attracted. Tsog is much more than a simple gathering – it is actually a profound space created by mind, where practitioners, dakas and dakinis are invited. The word ‘gathering’ is just the outer shell of the profound meaning of tsog. Even if some of us are gathering across the digital divide, in our heart we gather together the things we’re offering, and offer across space and across time.

This is also much more than a mundane ‘offering’ – the physical offerings on the altar draw our mind to the inward offerings of the mind. In connection with samaya, one of the practices that has been developed is called tsog, or feast offering. It is an especially important practice for Vajrayana practitioners, who are supposed to do a feast offering on the 10th and 25th day of the lunar calendar, the tenth being the day of the herukas, and the twenty-fifth being the day of the dakinis. On those days you must offer a feast connected with the sadhana that you are practicing.

Join us in the gompa or on zoom for scheduled pujas, or PRACTICE ALONG at your preferred time with a video of our pre-recorded pujas.