49-DAY DEDICATIONS
To mark the passing of Dorlop Dr. Lye’s father on July 12, 2024, Dr. Lye has made the following practice texts for free download. These texts can be practiced by anyone especially for the benefit of those who has recently passed away.
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According to Buddhist teachings, when someone passes away, they enter an “intermediate state” (Tibetan: bardo) that is a limbo-state between the life they just left and yet to be reborn in their next life. During this period, they are “neither here, nor there” and can be very confusing and unsettling. Also, due to the habitual imprints from the life they just left, they are still attached to the experience of eating and drinking although they can no longer eat and drink as before. They can however satisfy their habit of needing to eat and drink by “ingesting through smell” and so the Buddha taught the practice of giving sustenance through the offering of aroma from ritually burning food and sweet-smelling incense.
Our spiritual guide, Dr. Lye (a vajra-master in the Drikung Kagyu Lineage) has encouraged practitioners to practice sur-offering as a regular practice of generosity and compassion and thus encouraged us to provide this platform to facilitate people requesting sur-offerings be done for recently deceased family, friends and pets as well as to make it easier for regular sur-offerings practitioners to dedicate their offerings to specific persons.
Dr. Lye himself will also specially dedicate his nightly sur-offering practice to those individuals enshrined on this page for 49 days.
To request for someone to be a recipient of the 49-Day Dedication, please email the following to info@drikungdharmakirti.com: Name, location, date of passing, and a photo (if available). There is no cost to request for someone to be put on this dedication wall. This is open to anyone regardless of whether one self-identifies as Buddhist or not.
We also encourage you to return to this Dedication Wall from time to time to make dedications to all the individuals here.
Doña Juana
Mexico
January 15
(March 5)
Mohammed Naasan
Palestine
January 16
(March 6)
Celeste
Malaysia
January 16
(March 6)
Apple Tan Guat Peng
Malaysia
January 17
(March 7)
Diana Chávez
Guatemala
January 18
(March 8)
Sammy Iván López García
Guatemala
January 18
(March 8)
José Revolorio
Guatemala
January 18
(March 8)
Samuel Matul
Guatemala
January 18
(March 8)
Claudia Ramos
Guatemala
January 18
(March 8)
Luis Zetino
Guatemala
January 18
(March 8)
Fernando Batres
Guatemala
January 18
(March 8)
Giovanny Tecu
Guatemala
January 18
(March 8)
Frallan Medrano
Guatemala
January 19
(March 9)
Jannah Muteir
Palestine
January 19
(March 9)
Matías Leonel Barrón Medina
Mexico
January 20
(March 10)
Felipa Santay
Guatemala
January 22
(March 12)
Mauricio Rial Banti
Paraguay
January 23
(March 13)
Alex Pretti
USA
January 24
(March 14)
Zamora Parlin
Mexico
January 24
(March 14)
Rosa María Gómez Nava
Mexico
January 26
(March 16)
Christian Baumgartner
Mexico
January 30
(March 20)
Maryam and Zaina Mahmoud al-Atbash
Palestine
January 31
(March 21)
Ana Rosa
USA
February 1
(March 22)
Guillemo Lozano
Mexico
February 2
(March 23)
Néstor Ataucusi Quispe
Peru
February 3
(March 24)
Saeed al-Sheikh
Palestine
February 3
(March 24)
Anwar Al-ashi
Palestine
February 4
(March 25)
Hussein Hassan Al-Samiri
Palestine
February 4
(March 25)
Watin al-Khabbaz
Palestine
February 4
(March 25)
Rahaf and Rimas Rami Abu Jamee
Palestine
February 4
(March 25)
Nacho
Mexico
February 4
(March 25)
Entesnar Nezar Shamallakh
Palestine
February 4
(March 25)
Lizbette Fuensanta Valdés Ávila
Mexico
February 5
(March 26)
María Luisa Yáñez García
Mexico
February 6
(March 27)
Chepe
Mexico
February 6
(March 27)
Bobby T.
Puerto Rico
February 9
(March 30)
Taniel Morales Martínez
Mexico
February 13
(April 3)
Fernando Durand
Mexico
February 14
(April 4)
Roselia Padilla Leyva
Mexico
February 16
(April 6)
Ngari Rinpoche
India
February 17
(April 7)
Lim Kim Soo
Malaysia
February 17
(April 7)
Lupita Ramos
Mexico
February 19
(April 9)
María del Carmen Bastida Medina
Mexico
February 20
(April 10)
Mexican soldiers killed
Mexico
February 22
(April 12)
Victims of disturbances
Mexico
February 22
(April 12)
José Guadalupe López
Mexico
February 22
(April 12)
Edwin Ocampo
Mexico
February 22
(April 12)
Elizabeth Martínez
Mexico
February 22
(April 12)
Azmi Abdul Hamid
Palestine
February 25
(April 15)
Mr. Goh Teng Keang
Malaysia
February 26
(April 16)
Venerable Pannavati
USA
February 26
(April 16)
Bertha Sánchez
Mexico
March 1st.
(April 19)
Jane Holloway
USA
March 4
(April 22)