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.
Miguel Mateo Nicolás
Guatemala
September 30
(November 18)
John Amos
USA
October 1
(November 20)
Fernando Ortiz
Guatemala
October 2
(November 21)
Victims Bus Caught Fire.
3 Teachers, 22 Students.
Thailand
October 2
(November 21)
Jorge Solares Aguilar
Guatemala
October 3
(November 22)
Israel Gómez Santiago
Mexico
October 4
(November 23)
Nutella
Mexico
October 4
(November 23)
Lana
Guatemala
October 5
(November 24)
Francisco Puac
Guatemala
October 6
(November 24)
Johan Neskens
Netherlands
October 6
(November 25)
Jocha
Mexico
October 7
(November 25)
Alejandro Arcos
Mexico
October 7
(November 25)
Karma Paul Yong Chee
Malaysia
October 8
(November 26)
Randy Goh
Malaysia
October 8
(November 26)
José Manuel Carvajal
Cuba
October 8
(November 26)
Victims of hurricane Milton
USA
October 10
(November 28)
Elise Hodder
Australia
October 13
(December 1st)
Victims of car fire
Guatemala
October 13
(December 1st)
Carolina Valencia
Mexico
October 15
(December 3)
Antonio de León Escribano Guatemala
October 15
(December 3)
Antonio Skármeta
Chile
October 15
(December 3)
Terry
Guatemala
October 16
(December 4)
Gustavo de León Palma
Guatemala
October 16
(December 4)
Francisco Anguiano
Mexico
October 17
(December 5)
Jesús Antonio Soler
Mexico
October 18
(December 6)
Marcelo Pérez Pérez
Mexico
October 20
(December 8)
Román Camacho
Mexico
October 20
(December 8)
Víctor Alexander Escobar
Guatemala
October 21
(December 9)
Fernando Valenzuela
Mexico
October 22
(December 10)
Mike Newman
USA
October 22
(December 10)
Yoselin Judith Arias Guatemala
October 24
(December 12)
Name Tan Kak Lee Malaysia
October 27
(December 15)
何雪嬌
China
October 28
(December 16)
Victims from floods
Spain
October 29
(December 17)
Sookie
Mexico
October 30
(December 18)
Mauricio Solis
Mexico
October 30
(December 18)
Alejandra Rivas and María José
Mexico
November 1
(December 20)
Diego de la Peña García
Mexico
November 2
(December 21)
Héctor Sitan
Guatemala
November 5
(December 24)
Snowy
Malaysia
November 6
(December 25)
Felipe de Jesús Cuéllar
Mexico
November 7
(December 26)
Inima Fuentes
Cuba
November 8
(December 27)
Guadalupe Ramírez
Mexico
November 8
(December 27)
Héctor Juan Ruiz
Mexico
November 10
(December 29)
Yolanda Hernández
Mexico
November 10
(December 29)
David Salvador López
Mexico
November 10
(December 29)
Hugo Victoria Aldape
Mexico
November 12
(December 31)
Oliver de Paz
Guatemala
November 17
(January 5)
Từ Thị Mai
Vietnam
November 17
(January 5)