“The Ngor lamas from the Vajrayana Institute really went to bat for me. I prepared for two weeks. Except for the long Hevajra sadhana it was all done in Tibetan—4 hours long. My Vajra Master was also named Sonam Gyatso and he attempted to teach me the text before hand. It took four monks to perform everything. One to keep me reading in the right part of the text. One to pour butter. One to throw seeds and grasses into fire. Definitely one of the harder things I’ve ever had to perform.” I texted the above to a Vajra sister who knew I was in pursuit of accomplishing a fire puja while in India. Two-and-a-half weeks after leaving Dehradun and then traveling to Manduwala to request a fire puja from the generous lamas mentioned above, I undertook, with their indispensable aid, the pacification fire puja for Hevajra—having completed, less than two months earlier, the requisite nine month retreat and challenging recitation numbers. Five days before undertaking this fire puja, having wai...