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Fire Rituals

Started by Al Billings · 11 months ago

I posted the other day about visiting Buddha Dendo in the mountains in northern California. On the site there is a new building, a goma-do. This is for the performance of the fire ritual, the goma, that is part of esoteric Buddhism in Japan. You will find it in both Shingon and Tendai Buddhism ... Continue reading »

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  • tysgodhi

    1 year ago

    Hey Al,

    Shambhala does a Fire Puja as part of it's Vajrayana program, but it's another of those things that you have to be far invested in the Program to attend, so I've never seen one. Wasn't there also one in _Monsoon Wedding_?
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  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    Yeah, you seem them at three month retreats for deities. I know that completely doing a retreat for a deity normally involves a fire puja at the end. You can find a few examples on Youtube (at least in part) but I'd already cluttered the post up with enough video. :-)
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  • Ashley

    1 year ago

    There was indeed a Goma performed at Burning Man in 2005. I was blessed to have witnessed it. It was very beautiful, and very spiritual. Do you by chance know where I can get a copy of the prayer/chant that is said during the Goma ritual? Thanks for any help you can offer.
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  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    Since I didn't witness that one at Burning Man, I'm not sure. It was probably a standard Japanese mantra (sinofied Sanskrit). Was it just a single phrase over and over again?
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  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    Duh, I just realized that is probably the Mantra of Light, which is central to the Shingon tradition.

    You can look at the wikipedia page on it:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra_of_Light

    The audio file there is computer generated and messed up but there is this Youtube video as well:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puhzLkiCtDo
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