Jangwa Puja Festival
Jangwa Puja – Festival for the Liberation of the Dead
The Festival for the Liberation of the Dead at the Djampel Pawo Buddhist Centre is held every year on the full moon of the seventh lunar month. Presided over by His Eminence Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche, the Festival is led by the dadju class through the practice of the Jangwa Puja, with the purpose of benefiting and liberating the deceased of any time or generation.
This ceremony belongs to both the Mahayana and the Theravada traditions and has spread throughout Asia as the Hungry Ghost Festival – a day devoted to the liberation of relatives and loved ones who have passed away.
About the Festival
During the puja, the consciousness associated with each name is rescued and purified; its negative karma is removed, and the one in transition is led to the Pure Lands of Buddha Akshobhya, where it receives the prophecy of enlightenment and the possibility of a next rebirth in favourable conditions, turned towards the practice of Dharma.
This practice also helps the living, removing spiritual interferences that may be affecting their lives. The sincere Dharma practitioner is committed, through the bodhisattva vow they have taken, to caring for all sentient beings until enlightenment. The Jangwa fulfils both perfectly, for those who have passed away and for those who remain.
How to take part
Requests
Participation in the Festival is exclusively through the dedication of names. The Jangwa Puja is for people; we will soon indicate the appropriate puja for animals, other beings and illnesses. Throughout the year we receive the names of deceased loved ones and pray for them in the book of daily dedication to those in transition for 90 days. In this way, the names received before the list closes are included in the next Jangwa Puja.
To include the names of deceased loved ones in the ceremony, a contribution of R$ 150.00 per name is required, link here.
Names received are entered until we close the list of names for the ceremony. Names sent after that are included in the following Jangwa Puja.
Each person in transition is entered only once in the Jangwa Puja, so names that have already been through a ceremony do not need to be sent again.