Following
the advice and instructions of Guru Vajradhara the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai
Situpa, in the evening of February 23 the Palpung Sherabling Administration
organized a prayers ceremony to pacify the recent coronavirus outbreak. The
ceremony took place in the monastery courtyard, where extensive clouds of
offerings to please the four classes of guests comprised the general
traditional outer offerings, series of butter lamps, select white and sweet
foods, the best and softest cloth, and sacred medicinal substances. Guru
Vajradhara presided over the gathering of Tulkus, Lamas, Khenpos and the entire
monastic community, along with many local and visiting monastic and lay
devotees, performing a fire puja with offerings to enlightened and samsaric
guests for the purpose of purification, accumulation and amendment, with
aspirations and prayers for the living and deceased who have been affected by
the coronavirus outbreak, and special dedications for a swift pacification of
this dangerous and harmful infectious disease.
