49-Day Dedications

49-DAY DEDICATIONS

Practice Texts for Download

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.

DEDICATION WALL

Perry
Mexico
July 28

(September 15)

Irma de Aguilar
Guatemala
July 28

(September 15)

Kam Phing Khye @ Kum Soo Nooi
Malaysia
July 28

(September 15)

Rodrigo Alejandro
Guatemala
July 29

(September 16)

Zaid Nofal
Palestine
July 30

(September 17)

Kathleen B. Nicoletti
Mexico
July 30

(September 17)

Sohail Sakhi
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Nirmal Purja
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Nadhira al Harthy
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Nawang Thindu
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Gyalu Sherpa
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Purna Bahadur
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Kili Pemba
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Nima Sherpa
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Mallory Geis
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Wang Zhong
Pakistan
August 1

(September 19)

Franco Baresi
Italy
August 2

(September 20)

Sebastián Villaverde
Guatemala
August 2

(September 20)

María Palomo
Guatemala
August 2

(September 20)

Yuri Aristoteles Yoj
Guatemala
August 4

(September 22)

Jaime Guadalupe Moo Tun
Mexico
August 5

(September 23)

Moong Roxanne 蒙若元
Malaysia
August 5

(September 23)

Georgina Camara Estévez
Peru
August 6

(September 24)

Carmen Romero Acosta
Mexico
August 6

(September 24)

Arturo Herrera Guzmán
Mexico
August 7

(September 25)

Laura Lorena Jaime Priego
Mexico
August 7

(September 25)

Martha Alicia Valtierra
Mexico
August 8

(September 26)

Mr Ong Eng Leong @ Ong Kee Kiam
Malaysia
August 8

(September 26)

Rex
Peru
August 10

(September 28)

Earthquake victims
Colombia
August 10

(September 28)

Hor Kwei Cheong
China
August 10

(September 28)

Belinda Leñero García
Mexico
August 11

(September 29)

Opy
Mexico
August 11

(September 29)

Elvira Aguirre Ovalle
Mexico
August 11

(September 29)

Moises Avoles
USA
August 13

(October 1)