Questions & Answers
The questions people most often search and ask, answered honestly by Master Urgyen Topden Rinpoche through Tibetan Buddhism and Taoist medicine.
Each comes with related teachings and how to register; added to over time.
Karmic Creditors
What are karmic creditors? How are they resolved?
Karmic creditors are beings with whom we have grievances, debts, or unresolved cause and effect from past lives. Following Tibetan Buddhism, our association resolves the enmity through repentance, letting go of resentment, doing good and dedicating merit, and pujas presided over by the Master — we do not burn joss paper or write petition texts.
Past Lives
Is a past-life reading fortune-telling? Can it see the karma of relationships?
Our past-life reading is seen directly by the Master through the power of spiritual insight, taking you back through the karma of past lives and the lessons of this life — it is not ordinary fortune-telling. Many recurring issues in love and relationships can be traced to their source here. It takes about 40 minutes to an hour and can be booked via our official LINE.
Auspicious C-Section Date
How is a C-section date chosen? What is the cost?
The Master combines numerology with the parents' wishes and the medically feasible time to select an auspicious time and day for the baby. Please provide the due date, the feasible time range, and the parents' birth data; there is no regional limit and it can be arranged online. For the offering, please enquire on our official LINE.
Spirit Disturbance
What is "spirit disturbance" (kǎdàoyīn)? What can be done?
What folk belief calls "spirit disturbance" usually refers to unseen interference with body and mind — things going wrong, or low spirits. Our association uses Purification of the Soul (body-mind-spirit), with the Master guiding stillness and practice to return to clarity. Note: if you have physical or mental symptoms, please also see a doctor.
Heavenly Pardon Day
What is the Heavenly Pardon Day? Is it good for replenishing the wealth-store?
The Heavenly Pardon Day (Tianshe) is an auspicious day on which, by tradition, heaven pardons faults and averts misfortune, and is often regarded as a good time to replenish the wealth-store. Our Wealth-Store / Wealth Deity Puja can make use of this timing — you are welcome to enquire.
Tai Sui & Lamp Offerings
What are Tai Sui appeasement and blessing lamps? How to register online?
Tai Sui appeasement resolves the year's clash with the Grand Duke Jupiter and prays for peace; a blessing lamp is lit for prospects, health and fortune. Our association can light lamps and set up a natal destiny-station on your behalf online, without attending in person, blessed by the Master. The zodiac clashing with Tai Sui differs each year, so please enquire to confirm first.
Soul-Calming (Shoujing)
What is soul-calming (shōujīng)? Method and cost?
When startled or restless in spirit, our association uses the Purification of the Soul method, with the Master guiding stillness and purification — different from folk soul-calling, with no special clothing needed. For the offering, please enquire via our official LINE.
Wenchang Lamp
What is the Wenchang lamp? Purpose, when to light, cost, and online offering?
The Wenchang lamp is lit to pray for study, examinations, renown and wisdom — a kind of blessing lamp symbolizing clear thinking and good exam fortune. Our association can light the Wenchang lamp online, blessed by the Master, without attending in person. It can be lit for a student or scholar, one term per year, at any time, and is especially fitting at the start of the year and before exam season. The offering varies by lamp type — please enquire on our official LINE.
Karmic Obstacles
What are karmic obstacles? How are they cleared?
Karmic obstacles are the accumulated negative karma of the past manifesting as various setbacks in this life. Following the Master's teaching, our association clears them in four directions — repentance, repaying debts, transforming the mind, and dedication of merit — and one may also join a puja for blessing and guidance.
Love & Marriage
I want to seek marriage or attract good relationships — what does the association do?
Our association holds the Peach-Blossom Noble-Helper Puja, invoking Kurukullā (the Deity of Magnetizing) for the blessing of wholesome romance, marriage and helpful people, turning adverse ties into wholesome ones. Unlike common good-luck trinkets, it is practised properly according to Nyingma ritual.
Zhuyou
What is Zhuyou? Can it be learned?
Zhuyou is an ancient method from traditional Chinese Taoist medicine that regards body and mind as one, listed in antiquity among the thirteen branches of the Imperial Medical Academy. Our association offers a course in the Thirteen Branches of Zhuyou, taught by the Rinpoche, who comes from a family of Chinese medicine with a family transmission of Zhuyou. You are welcome to register and learn.
Zi Wei Dou Shu
What can Zi Wei Dou Shu astrology reveal?
Zi Wei Dou Shu draws up a chart from your birth data to analyze character, career, wealth, relationships and the fortunes of each year. Master Urgyen Topden Rinpoche personally draws up and interprets the chart and offers guidance; this must be done in person on site (no online charting is provided). Please provide your date and time of birth, and book a time via our official LINE.
Medicine Buddha
Who is Medicine Buddha? What is the merit of the Medicine Buddha Puja?
Medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajyaguru, the Lapis-Lazuli Radiance Tathāgata) is the buddha of the Eastern Pure Lapis-Lazuli World, who saves beings through his twelve great vows, presiding over the averting of misfortune, longevity, and the healing of bodily and mental suffering. Our association holds the Medicine Buddha Puja regularly, presided over by the Master with recitation of the Medicine Buddha mantra and ritual, praying for the removal of illness-obstacles, health of body and mind, and increased blessing and longevity. You may register for yourself or family (including those who are ill); for the offering, please enquire.
Replenishing the Wealth-Store
What is replenishing the wealth-store? Cost and best timing?
Replenishing the wealth-store is a blessing that invokes the wealth deities to mend the gaps in your personal wealth-store, filling leaks and smoothing your fortune. The Master will advise the number of shares according to the state of your wealth-store; the offering varies by plan. Before the New Year and on the Heavenly Pardon Day are traditional good times, but you may register at any time of year.
Deliverance
What is deliverance (chāodù)? Cost and online registration?
Deliverance guides the deceased, karmic creditors and beings with a connection to leave suffering and be reborn in a good place through the Dharma. The offering varies by plan; you may register deceased relatives, ancestors and karmic creditors together. You can register online via our official LINE.
Unborn-Child Deliverance
What is needed for unborn-child deliverance? What does the association do?
Unborn-child deliverance uses the Dharma to deliver a child who could not be born, guiding it away from suffering to a good rebirth, and resolving the parents' lingering attachment and guilt. Our association follows the Nyingma deliverance method, with the Master presiding and dedicating merit — no burning of joss paper and no special offerings, grounded in sincere repentance and the dedication of merit. You can register online via our official LINE; the offering varies by plan.
Feng Shui
What does home feng shui assess? Who conducts it?
Home feng shui assesses a residence's orientation, layout and energy field, adjusting the arrangement to support health, harmony and fortune. It is conducted by Urgyen Topden Rinpoche; you may first provide a floor plan and then arrange it. For the offering, please enquire on our official LINE.