Powerful Days
On these powerful days, karmic results are considered to be increased many millions of times. They provide good opportunities for us to accumulate merit, purify negativities and pray for wellness and success.
Gen Namgyel-la has advised some practices for the students and some practices that can be sponsored by the students, so that there is a range of advice for different minds. The students themselves need to decide what is appropriate and what they rejoice in.
Upcoming Powerful Days
- Honour and Appreciate our Lineage -
Lama Tsongkhapa Day (Tibetan calendar: the 25th day of the tenth month) || Date: 14 December 2025
This day is to commemorate the parinirvana of the great Lama Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), who is one of Tibetan Buddhism’s greatest scholars and yogis. Lama Tsongkhapa’s brilliant and illuminated essence of Buddha’s teachings guides Tibetan Buddhists worldwide to this very day. He is the author of Lam Rim Chen Mo—The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment—and other profound texts.
Lama Tsongkhapa was the founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, which is the tradition of Gen Namgyel-la—and Lam Rim is the framework that Gen-la’s teachings are based upon.
On this auspicious day, all karmic results—good and bad—are considered to be multiplied by millions.
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Gen Namgyel-la's special advice for this day:
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Recite "Foundation of All Good Qualities"
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Recite "King of Prayers"
Make offerings for auspicious Dharma activities
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Sponsor Special Practices and Pujas: Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Puja
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Make Light Offerings with Gen Namgyel-la
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Merit Guru Sangha Health Fund: Sponsor monthly pujas and provide medical support to Gen Namgyel-la and the monastery and nunnery in Nepal.
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Merit Fund: Make offerings to the Merit Fund which will be used for all kinds of pujas, prayers and virtuous activities.
Tenzin Khedup Rinpoche's Birthday || Date: 21 December
Tenzin Khedup Rinpoche is the reincarnation of Choeding Rinpoche who was a very special and compassionate Guru of Gen Namgyel-la. Choeding Rinpoche was the reincarnation of Geshe Ben Kungyal. In one of the famous stories in Lam Rim, he was a thief but later became a great lojong practitioner, and finally became enlightened.
Choeding Rinpoche (Gen Namgyel-la's Dear Guru)
Tenzin Khedup Rinpoche (Reincarnation of Choeding Rinpoche)
This is a special day for us to make connections and show appreciation of our lineage. Every year V.N.O.S. will make special offerings to Tenzin Khedup Rinpoche to support him in his life in the monastery.
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Make offerings for auspicious Dharma activities:
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Special offerings to Tenzin Khedup Rinpoche : May Rinpoche live long with good health and continuously benefit countless sentient beings in this lifetime. May we have the merit to receive teachings from Rinpoche in this life.
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Sponsor Special Practices and Pujas: Guru Puja at Rinpoche’s monastery in Pokhara
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Merit Guru Sangha Health Fund: Sponsor monthly pujas and provide medical support to Gen Namgyel-la and the monastery and nunnery in Nepal.
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Merit Fund: Make offerings to the Merit Fund which will be used for all kinds of pujas, prayers and virtuous activities.
Powerful days in 2025
How to make offerings for Powerful Day Pujas:
Step 1:
Please provide your information in the form below at least 24 hours before the relevant powerful day (or your name/dedication cannot be conveyed to Gen-Namgyel-la and/or the monastery/nunnery in time for the Dharma activity).
Please fill in the form: https://www.jotform.com/form/230234643103442
Step 2: Send your donation through PayPal, DonorBox or direct bank transfer.
Step 3 (no action needed) :
Once your donation has been received, Online Sangha will arrange the Dharma events and the dedication on the powerful days. No further confirmation will be sent. Any questions, please click here.