At the beginning of this video, #ThoughtTransformationTeaching 115, recorded on September 25, 2021, at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, Rinpoche talks about doing a tsog offering practice at Boudha Stupa and the benefits of making offerings to stupas.
He explains how offering tsog to stupas makes you achieve all the realizations; offering medicine to stupas stops diseases; and offering grains to stupas stops famine in the world. Rinpoche also discusses how important it is to consecrate stupas, including the benefit of eliminating war.
From his room at Kopan Monastery, Rinpoche then leads an offering practice to Boudha Stupa accompanied by many senior Sangha members. You can follow along with the offering practice (beginning at 6:43) by reading the transcript, which includes the text of the practice.
Rinpoche also provides commentary on verses from Liberation Upon Hearing: The History of the Great Jarung Kashar Stupa by Padmasambhava on the benefits of making offerings to Boudha Stupa, which include the following:
Making requests to the stupa
Whoever supplicates it will spontaneously accomplish the benefit of self and others.
The benefits of offering water
Whoever offers drinking water to it will be born free of thirst and disease.
The benefits of offering flowers
Whoever offers flowers will completely attain the freedoms and advantages.
The benefits of offering light
Whoever offers butter lamps will see the manifest faces of the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions.
Whoever offers grain oil lamps will be clarified of all obscurations of ignorance.
Whoever offers the fire for butter lamps will radiate the light rays of the Dharma throughout the ten directions.
The benefits of offering perfume
Whoever offers scented water will be freed from depression and all suffering.
The benefits of offering food and drink
Whoever offers food and drink will be sustained by the sustenance of samādhi.
The benefits of offering music
Whoever offers music will proclaim the melodious sound of Dharma throughout the ten directions.
Whoever offers cymbals will attain profound and perfect courage.
Whoever offers bells large and small will attain clear and melodious speech, and the voice of Brahmā.
The benefits of offering the five precious jewels (pearls, turquoise, lapis lazuli, gold, coral)
Whoever offers maṇḍalas of the five precious jewels will be free of poverty and attain an inexhaustible sky treasury.
Before doing the dedications, Rinpoche acknowledges that what is missing from his commentary is the benefits of offering the seven king’s objects, the eight auspicious signs, and the seven royal things.
Rinpoche concludes the teaching with the instruction that these offerings "should be done after the seven-limb practice. Do the Thirty-Five Buddhas, Vajrasattva, the seven limbs, then a short mandala, then a lamrim prayer, then after, dedication to complete the practice."
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We invite you to go deeper into the topics presented here, plus many others, by watching Rinpoche’s video and reading the full transcript of Rinpoche’s teaching:
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