GGBC folks at Long Life Puja in San Francisco

(Double Rainbow that appeared as we drove up to the puja on Saturday morning--a very auspicious sign. Photo by Ven. Tenzin Tsomo.)

Six of us from GGBC attended the long life puja (ceremony) for Geshe Ngawang Dakpa at our San Francisco center (Tse Chen Ling) today. Assistant Director Dave Jeffords did a good job formally representing us by helping to make the body-speech-mind offering to Geshe-la and by receiving a kata (offering scarf) at the end of the puja when Geshe-la acknowledge the representatives of each of the center.

(Pictures of Dave by Dionne Wilson.)

The center was just pleasantly full of students from around the Greater Bay Area ranging from San Anselmo to Santa Cruz. Geshe Norbu of Ananda Center was the umze (chant leader). The puja itself--including tsog and the extra verses that are especially for long life--took about 3 hours. Tse Chen Ling offered lunch to everyone at the end.

Dionne, from GGBC, took pictures with her professional camera. See her gallery at: http://picasaweb.google.com/mousegunn/LLPujaForGGBC#

Geshe Dakpa will resume his once-a-month teachings at GGBC on February 13 with the topic "Seven-Point Mind Training."