Saturday, March 16th, 8-9AM Pacific Time On Zoom
With Chaphur Rinpoche
An ancient Bon ritual is the smoke offering to the Nagas (lu). A Smoke Offering to the Nagas (Lu Sang). According to the Yungdrung Bon tradition, we share the earth with many unseen spirits who are affected by our actions. Through this ritual, harmony is restored and the support of the Nagas is requested for fulfilling our goals and increasing wealth and resources. Nagas are associated with sources of water such as lakes, ponds, rivers or streams and are said to be inhabited by them. Because water seeps beneath the earth, Nagas also rule the regions of mountains, subterranean caverns, and simply the earth itself. They have dominion over Earth’s hidden treasures. There are many kinds of Nagas: 
large and small, high and low, virtuous and non-virtuous. Nagas, even kindly ones, are easily angered by disturbance and pollution of the natural environment. If a Lama or Tibetan doctor divines that a patient’s disease is due, at least in part, to a Naga provocation, then one can placate the Nagas by making confession and offerings. Nagas dwell beneath us and in the dark of our subconscious. They are supposed to be very wise and eager to teach, and to be the guardians of great treasure, sometimes physical but often more spiritual in the form of Termas or hidden tantric texts from the past. These are channeled by the reincarnated tantricas who hid them originally, with the help of the Nagas.
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