According to Buddhism, the world in which we live, and all that happens to us, is a result of our past actions. Past harmful actions create unhappy results and skilful actions create happy results.

One way to increase our potential to experience happiness, to accumulate extensive positive potential, and to purify obstacles in our lives is to make offerings to the different manifestations of enlightened beings, and to monks and nuns.

Having a puja performed is definitely not being saved by ritual. On the contrary, by generating a sincere virtuous motivation while making extensive prayers and offerings, unfavourable circumstances that bring problems can be changed. It is said that prayers performed by ordained monks and nuns are especially powerful as they are performed on the base of pure morality. As a result, it is not the ritual itself that clears obstacles from the wishes of the sponsor, but rather it is the sincere virtuous motivation of the sponsor to make offerings to the monks.

You can have a special puja performed for yourself, your loved ones and friends, for the success of your business or other activities, to remove obstacles to health, or to assist a person who is sick. Pujas are also performed for the dying, in order to help calm their minds during the stage of transition, as well as for the deceased in order to bless and guide their minds to a higher state of rebirth and liberation. In each puja, the monks follow a prescribed practice that contains the prayers, mantras to be recited and accompanying visualisations.