Fire Rites
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What is a Fire Rite?
Fire rites have been done throughout many cultures for many centuries. They are a ritual specific to an indigenous lineage of practice and can be done for various purposes, such as sacred holidays and festivals, rites of passage, funeral rites, wealth, health, and honoring ancestors. For our Esoteric Buddhist Lineage fire rites are often done at the completion of a retreat, an important level of accomplishment and enlightened activity.
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How Does It Work?
Throughout the rite, fire and water are used as a medium to the divine that carefully connects and opens us to the multi-dimensional realms of existence including the realm of spirit. In this way, we can honor and benefit all human and other-than-human beings, such as spirits, animals, and elementals. A powerful ritual, pujas burn away obstacles, the offering of the sacred substances and the smoke (sang) generate great blessings, healing, transformation and prosperity.
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Preparing for a Rite
Fire rites take many weeks or months of preparation and dedicated work. Each Puja has a specific text and meaning as well as very specific substances that must be specially prepared. This also involves saying many mantras over the substances for many days, weeks or months. Each text must be very specifically followed, including sacred geometrical measurements of the fire hearth and offerings. Even the clothing we wear signifies what type of rite we are performing; white for pacifying, yellow-gold for enriching, red for magnetizing.
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Become a Fire Rite or Retreat House Sponsor
Become a sponsor for our upcoming fire rite! A fire rite is a powerful ritual to remove/transform obstacles in relationships, work, finance, health and any other aspect of life. Your wishes will be offered into the fire rite on your behalf along with a special torma offering on your behalf.
See our Events page for our next private rite that you may distance-participate in.
It is a wonderful blessing to a home or property to have a retreat or fire rite performed on it. We are also open to inquiries for retreat house sponsorship.
Contact gaiabuddhism@gmail.com to become retreat house sponsor or fire rite sponsor.
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![Three women smiling outdoors, wearing orange shirts, standing closely together, with a wooded area and building in the background.]()
RatnaKilaya Fire Rite
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![Two people walking on grass, both dressed in red, surrounded by trees with a building in the background.]()
Padmakilaya Fire Rite
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![People dressed in ancient Roman-style clothing stand under a red canopy at an outdoor event. They are positioned around a table covered with a blue tarp, surrounded by yellow gourds. A light blue umbrella is open nearby. The setting is grassy with some trees in the background.]()
Green Tara Fire Rite
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![esoteric vajrayana buddhist practitioner, wearing a yellow shirt and beige shorts, with prosthetic legs. He's holding a necklace and smiling, with a wooden table and red backpack nearby. A person in a yellow dress is blurred in the background.]()
Ratnakilaya Fire Rite
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![A small group of people gathered outdoors around a bonfire on a grassy area, surrounded by trees. They are sitting on chairs and a blanket, and there is a table with items nearby.]()
Yamantaka Fire Rite
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![Outdoor fire pit with burning firewood and flame for Simhamukha Fire Rite, esoteric buddhist lineage]()
Simhamuka Fire Rite
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![A traditional buddhist fire ritual with three people in ceremonial attire standing under a tarp. A fire burns in a decorative arrangement surrounded by vibrant red, pink, and white flowers.]()
Padmakilaya Fire Rite
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![vajra masters performing peaceful Yamantaka Fire rite in white around a fire ring with chairs and plants in a grassy outdoor setting during sunset.]()
Yamantaka Fire Rite
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![Vajra master performing Ratnakilaya esoteric buddhist fire rite in a yellow robe and ornate hat sitting outdoors, surrounded by folding chairs and greenery.]()
Ratnakilaya Fire Rite
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![Two cone-shaped torma offering sculptures decorated with yellow and red flowers on a paper plate, surrounded by yellow candle holders on a table with a colorful cloth.]()
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![esoteric buddhist practitioners gathered outdoors for a fire ceremony, with a central fire pit and an officiant reading from a script.]()
Jinasagara Fire Rite
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![Two people in an outdoor setting with trees and flowers. One person sits on a wooden bench holding papers, wearing a yellow shirt and jeans. The other stands wearing an orange outfit. A camera on a tripod is nearby. Potted flowers are in the foreground.]()
Ratnakilaya Fire Rite
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![esoteric buddhist practitioners and vajra masters performing in an outdoor fire ritual or ceremony, gathered around a small fire with props and scripts. Tents and trees are in the background.]()
Jinasagara Fire Rite
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![Outdoor esoteric buddhist fire rite with logs burning, surrounded by potted yellow chrysanthemums, and colorful plates with herbs nearby.]()
Heart Essence of Dakinis Fire Rite & Ganachakra Pig Roast with Chef Steve Gedra 10.19.24
A dakini is the divine feminine form. The heart essence of the dakinis is purity, joy, openness, curiosity, love, fiercely transforming obstacles to wealth, health, relationships, work, home, family, friends, community, and the planet.
Please join us as a distance-participant in our upcoming dakini fire rite. If there are any wishes and intentions you have for your life, loved ones, communities, and other beings, we can include them in this powerful ritual that brings transformation, healing, protection, purification and ultimately the unadorned mind of freedom and liberation.
If you would like to be included in the rite, please send an email with your wishes and intentions to Karla at gaiabuddhism@gmail.com. They will be held in sacred confidence and offered into the fire during a special section in the rite that is dedicated to sponsors & participants. We will also make a special torma offering for you. *Please note, this is not an in person event*
Sponsorship Donation Levels
Wishes: $20- $50. Wishes & Torma Offering: $50 - $100. Benefactor Rate: $500-$1000
Please send your sponsorship donation labeled “fire rite sponsorship” via the donation link on our website www.gaiabuddhism.com
Wishes are personal and unique for each of us. What are your deepest wishes for yourself, your family, your community, the collective, the planet? They are intentions that hold power as they are released into the fire. These intentions can be about anything and everything from health, work, home, career, prosperity, creativity, a project, the planet, a loved one, an illness, the collective, or any obstacle or impasse. Please write as many as you would like and email them to Karla at karlajoyvandenbergh@gmail.com. They will be held in sacredness and confidentiality, carefully prepared, and offered into the fire during the ritual on your behalf.
Preparatory Journal Prompts to deepen your experience
Many of our past sponsors tell us that they experience a powerful shift after a fire rite, even participating from a distance. They have found it beneficial to do some journaling in preparation for the rite, to make the experience more intentional and fruitful.
If I could remove internal/external obstacles to anything in my life it would be…
My highest purpose is to…
My soul longs to…
To cultivate happiness and joy, I…
My heart feels most at peace when I …
to learn more about fire rites, go here
Here is a link to a short video from our Jinasagara Fire Puja in July 2023 Jinasagara Avalokitesvara Fire Puja
Heart Essence of Dakinis
Fire Rite 10.19.24
Ganachakra Pig Roast with Master Chef Steve Gedra!
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