Commentary on Offerings to the Divine Beings
Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling
What are the benefits of doing offerings? What kind of motivation should we have when doing offerings? What are the kind of material and physical offerings that we can do?
We continue our video series here with the second part (of three) commentary on Offerings. The monks from the 2020 tour of Gaden Shartse Cultural Foundation, Geshe Jangchup Wangchuk and, translator, Venerable Tenzin Lekshey, explain the benefit of this important practice, the motivation that needs to be set in place. Highlights include an explanation of when we fold our hands before doing prostration and the story of Geshe Ben-ku-e-ken who trashes his place before the arrival of his sponsor.
This video is part two of three. This second video includes the following points:
1. Benefit of doing offerings (0:17)
2. Actual offerings that can be done (6:25)
3. Material offerings (9:28)
4. The motivation when doing offerings (19:41)
5. Story of Geshe Ben-ku-e-ken (23:57)
6. Physical offerings (32:59)
7. Explanation of folding of the hands before prostration (35:41)
Total time: 42:46 minutes.
The next third video (coming out in another week) will include the following:
6) How to do the offerings.
For the first video, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukMtGlr49jM&t=322s