The Sevenfold Puja: Entreaty and Supplication

Ratnaguna gives the seventh talk in the Sev­en­fold Puja series at Manchester Buddhist Centre, on Entreaty and Supplication, 1st March 2010. He includes a summary of the structure of the Puja. The Sevenfold Puja The Sevenfold Puja is used as a collective devotional practice and derives from a Mahayana Buddhist text by Shantideva called the Bodhicaryavatara – a kind of manual for aspiring Bodhisattvas. It takes one through seven spiritual moods ultimately designed to arouse the Bodhicitta, the will to Enlightenment. 1. Worship 2. Salutation 3. Going For Refuge Followed by the refuges and precepts 4. Confession of faults 5. Rejoicing in Merits 6. Entreaty and Supplication 7. Transference of Merit and Self-surrender The post The Sevenfold Puja: Entreaty and Supplication appeared first on Manchester Buddhist Centre.