Flower Adornment Grand Dharma Service Flower Adornment Jeweled Repentance, Grand Offering to the Buddhas and Devas, and Grand Meng Mountain Food Bestowal Ceremony

  • Date:
    Wednesday – Sunday, January 3rd – 21st, 2024 08:30am – 09:30pm
  • Descriptions:
    Flower Adornment Jeweled Repentance, Grand Offering to the Buddhas and Devas, and Grand Meng Mountain Food Bestowal Ceremony

    Purpose: As the new year begins, let the sounds of pure Buddhist chanting bring you into the Flower Treasury World illustrated in The Flower Adornment Sutra, and guide you step by step into the practices of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.
    The assembly will sincerely prostrate in repentance, and pray for the compassionate protection of the Three Treasures, so that the world-wide pandemic will be eradicated, the world will be at peace, we will be free of karmic obstacles and increase our blessings and wisdom, our karmic enemies and friends from the infinite past will be free of suffering, the Buddhadharma will flourish, and all sentient beings will enjoy peace and happiness.

    Content: During the 19-day service, we will recite the Flower Adornment Sutra, bow in repentance according to the Flower Adornment Jeweled Repentance ritual. On the final day, there will be a Grand Offering to the Buddhas and Devas Ceremony in the morning, and a Grand Meng Mountain Food Bestowal Ceremony in the afternoon.

    Donation categories: You are welcome to plant seeds in the field of blessings by contributing to the Flower Adornment Benefactor categories, Thousand Flower Lamps, Longevity and Memorial Plaques, Meal Offerings, Flower Adornment Offerings, and offering items for the Grand Meng Mountain Food Bestowal Ceremony.

    1. Main Benefactor 2. Benefactor of Seven Buddhas 3. Benefactor of Blessings and Wisdom 4. Benefactor of Giving 5. Benefactor of Virtue and Discipline 6. Benefactor of Flower Adornment 7. Benefactor of Auspiciousness 8. Benefactor of Fulfilling Wishes
    Explanation:
    Categories including the Benefactor of Giving and above: List the name of one representative to be placed on a Lamp of a Thousand Flowers, and announced during the first and last day, and each Sunday of the Dharma Service.
    Categories including the Benefactor of Flower Adornment: List the name of one representative to be announced during the first and last day, and each Sunday of the Dharma Service.


    Thousand Flower Lamps
    Lamp of a Thousand Flowers: List up to 2 names per lamp (and family)

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Flower Adornment Grand Dharma Service Plaque, Offering Ceremony to the Buddhas and Devas, and Ceremonial Offerings Fund