Dorje Khadro Fire Puja with Geshe Gelek (in person only)

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Repeats every year on the 31 of December until Wed Dec 31 2025.
7:00 pm Tuesday, December 31, 2025

Geshe Gelek leads the annual Dorje Khadro Fire Puja on New Year's Eve at Kadampa Center!

Wednesday, December 31, from 7:00 - 9:00 pm (in person only)

Dorje Khadro Fire Puja is a powerful Mahayana purification practice.  Throughout the year, it is easy to make mistakes by doing negative actions of body (physical), speech (verbal), and mind (thoughts), thereby creating harmful karmic seeds that will eventually ripen as suffering, or "complications" as Geshe Gelek says.  This annual event offers an opportunity to go into the new year with a relatively clean slate.  Bring along your family and friends for this family-friendly purification practice where we burn black sesame seeds (provided) which symbolize our past negative karmic actions. 

Dress for being both indoors and outside.  Everyone is welcome!

Sign up HERE to help with this event ~ thank you! (volunteer link will go live closer to the date)

WISHING ALL LIVING BEINGS A HAPPY, HEALTHY, PROSPEROUS & PEACEFUL NEW YEAR!

SCHEDULE FOR THE EVENING

  • Arrive:  Plan to arrive a little before 7pm to gather in the gompa before Geshe-la arrives.

  • 7:00pm:  Geshe Gelek arrives and leads us through the begining prayers of the Dorje Khadro puja pracice.

  • Next:  We head outside to the fire pits where Geshe-la leads the group through the remainder of the practice.

  • Finally: Let's celebrate and socialize ~ refreshements will be provided!

  • 9:00pm:  Wrap up and head home or plan to stay and help clean up if your schedule allows.

<<< PLEASE SIGN UP HERE TO HELP OUT >>> (volunteer link will go live closer to the date)


Interested in learning more about Dorje Khadro?  Check out the FPMT eBook, The Preliminary Practice of Dorje Khadro.


Location at Kadampa Center: 
Gompa