Maitreya Buddha Offering Festival 2012 at Serpom Monastery, Part 1/3

The Prayer Festival known as Maitreya’s Great Puja is held for a week. Khedrup Rinpoche is a emanation of Maitreya, the fifth Buddha, whose texts we study in the monastery. The monastery celebrates the Festival largely to appreciate and recall the kindness of Khedrup Rinpoche. According to a scripture, Maitreya prayed: “Those who engage in offering - when I first develop Bodhichitta - will be the principal disciples of my teachings the day I attain enlightenment in the future.“ Placing his right hand on the