Cutting Down Trees

Cutting Down Trees

Date of Advice:
January 2010
Date Posted:
February 2016

Trees were to be cut down on a center property. Rinpoche advised that the following practices must be done before felling the trees.

These practices should be done prior to cutting the trees.

  • Incense Puja1
  • Degyä Tea Offering2

After the logging, make Mitukpa tsa-tsas, dedicated to any insects that were killed in the cutting of the trees.

Notes

1  There are various incense pujas, for example, Incense Puja and Prayers.

2  See the Protector Prayers, FPMT Retreat Prayer Book.

 

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