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Kualar Lumpur, November 23 - 29,
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The thirteenth annual ceremony in honour of the Medicine Buddha will be celebrated in Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia, from the 23rd to the 29th of November 2000. This event promoted by Mr Kok Kim Tong, President of the Medicine Buddha Centre which has its seat in the Malaysian capital, and is a member of the Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation, Non Governmental Organisation affiliated to the United Nations, will be held at the Chinese Assembly Hall. The activities are open to all those who are interested in taking refuge in Buddha's compassion, receiving tantric initiations, transmissions of Buddhist wisdom, NgalSo Self-Healing teachings and in participating in rituals of purification, all dedicated to the development of inner and world peace. The entire ceremony will be conducted by Lama Gangchen Rinpoche, and will include the initiations of: Medicine Buddha, who has the power to heal all mental defects which are the true causes of our physical sicknesses; Maritse, a female divinity who dissipates all interferences and transforms darkness into light; Zambala, the divinity who provides riches to eliminate material impediments which obstacle one's spiritual practice, as well as a series of initiations dedicated to Manjushri, who with his flaming sword of wisdom defeats ignorance. There will also be some particularly suggestive moments during the ceremony of great symbolic value, in particular for the local community: the liberating of hundreds of birds born in captivity and kept in miserable conditions and the giving of blood to a city hospital blood bank. A ritual fire puja, which has the power to eliminate all types of mistakes and interferences will conclude the week long Medicine Buddha ceremony. All donations collected will be used for the project to construct a school: the Confucian Private Secondary School. p.t. |
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