Family Deaths
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A student asked Rinpoche to check his two brothers’ and his father’s current rebirths, following their deaths and he also asked what practices should be done to lift them up to higher rebirths if necessary. His brother had died of pneumonia aged seven in 1959, a second brother was killed in a plane crash in 1971 and his father died of lung cancer in 1973. Rinpoche gave the following advice.
Dear John,
I checked about your brothers and father and advise the following:
- Long, extensive Medicine Buddha puja
- King of Prayers: recite twenty-nine times
- Golden Light Sutra: recite five times
- Offering to the Sangha: This can be for the above pujas and prayers if Sangha are doing them. Otherwise, offer to the Sera Je food fund.