Fire Puja

Fire Puja

Fire Puja

This practice of fire offering to the ḍākinī is intended primarily for those wishing to gather the two accumulations and purify breakages of samaya, but it can also be used for other types of enlightened activity.

First, the material ingredients to be assembled are as follows: melted butter, firewood, white and black sesame seeds, the three white substances and three sweet substances, curds sprinkled with scented water, unhusked grain, rice, barley, wheat, grains of corn, mustard seed, kuśa grass, dūrvā grass, fruit, pieces of coloured silk, various medicinal substances, and precious stones. In particular, amṛta nectar. You should also collect some pieces of ‘fire cloth’, the colour of which will correspond to the activity.

With regard to the substances, a large quantity of melted butter, white and black sesame seeds, and padkha (mustard seed) may be used specifically for pacifying. Curds, durwa grass, precious stones and fruit are used for enriching. Sweet and oily foods, flowers and red rice are used for magnetizing. And for overcoming enemies and obstructing forces, offer mustard seed, gugul and the three hot substances saturated with salt liquid.

Bestowing the Splendour of All That is Desirable Fire Offering for the ‘Neck-Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle

Revealed by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok

This fire offering for the ‘Neck-Pouch Dagger’ (Purba Gulkhukma) Cycle arose spontaneously to Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok in 1990 and was written down by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.