The virtue of his sacred name fills up the entire
Dharma Realm, nourishing the Dharma Body of those who recite
the name just as air and water nourish our physical bodies.Choose one of the methods below to set up your plaques:
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THE FULL DEEP RESONANCE OF THE GIANT BELL,
WHEN HEARD, CAN HELP US LIGHTEN VEXATIONS,
ENHANCE WISDOM AND NURTURE THE BODHI.
9:30pm ~12:00am Welcome the New Year at Lingyen
10:30pm ~ 11:00pm Ringing the Bell Blessing Service
11:00pm ~ 12:00am Sutra Recitation. Buddha RecitationChoose one of the methods below to set up your plaques:
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“One prostration to the Buddhas eliminates offenses as numerous as the sands in a river. One prostration in pilgrimage eliminates offenses as many as the sands in an ocean.” After 4 years, the temple’s Anniversary Pilgrimage finally returned on September 4th, in hopes of bringing everyone inner peace and auspiciousness in midst of the pandemic.
The Masters led the pilgrimage in two sessions in the morning and afternoon, prostrating once every three steps in homage to Guan Yin Bodhisattva. MP Wilson Miao, MLA Teresa Wat, Mayor Malcolm Brodie, and City Councilors Bill McNulty, Chak Au, Alexa Loo, and Andy Hobbs personally attended the event and offered their best wishes to the public.
Even though it began to rain during the pilgrimage, the participants were not deterred by the weather. They continued to prostrate sincerely and steadily in their raincoats, and let the sweet dew cleanse their bodies and minds as they repented for past offenses. Together, the merits were dedicated toward the resolution of the pandemic, the flourishing of the Buddhadharma, peace and happiness for all sentient beings, and timely completion of the temple’s construction project. The temple prepared delicious vegetarian lunches and Noodles of Peace for all participants after the pilgrimage. Everyone was filled with the joy of the Dharma.
The Sangha Treasure is the unsurpassed field of blessings which gives people all over the world the opportunity to make offerings, practice giving, and cultivate blessings. At the end of the Summer Retreat every year, Lingyen Mountain Temple (Canada) holds an Offering to the Sangha event. Since 2019, the temple has invited Dharma Masters from the Greater Vancouver area to personally come to the temple to receive the offerings. This year, the Fourth Annual Offering to the Buddha and Sangha Ceremony was held at 9:00AM on August 13th. In all, 102 Dharma Masters from 28 monasteries across the Greater Vancouver area came together to compassionately receive the sincere offerings from disciples of the Fourfold Assembly. The Masters led the assembly in reciting the Ullambana Sutra, making offerings to Buddhas of the Ten Directions, and dedicating the merits in prayer that all benefactors enjoy peace and happiness in both body and mind, eliminate their negative karma, and increase their blessings.
With their most sincere respect and gratitude, the temple’s Buddhist Children Family Choir, male and female Buddhist Youth sang songs in praise of the Sangha, wishing all of the greatly virtuous Dharma Masters throughout the world good health, and attainment in their cultivation of the Way. May they continue to turn the wheel of the wonderful Dharma, and be unimpeded in their work of guiding sentient beings to liberation. In the afternoon following the ceremony, the Medicine Master Sutra was recited and a Grand Meng Mountain Food Bestowal Ceremony was held. The meritorious virtues of the day’s practices were dedicated toward benefiting all sentient beings.
Recitation of the three sutras of Guan Yin Bodhisattva
Prostrate to each word of the Universal Gateway Chapter
Ceremony of Ten Offerings
If you want to know about Guan Yin Bodhisattva, you need to recite the three Guan Yin sutras
Universal Gateway Chapter of The Lotus Sutra
Introduces the virtuous accomplishments of how
Guan Yin Bodhisattva guides and transforms sentient beings
Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s Chapter on Perfect Penetration of Hearing
Explains how Guan Yin Bodhisattva accomplished the Way through cultivation of causes
Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s Chapter in The Flower Adornment Sutra
Explains Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s powerful meritorious
virtues, boundless compassion, and the effects of this compassionChoose one of the methods below to set up your plaques:
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Lingyen Mountain Temple (Canada) 23rd Anniversary
1-Day Guan Yin Retreat
Chanting Meditation
Grand Offering before the Buddha
9/19 8:00am ~ 5:00pmChoose one of the methods below to set up your plaques:
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Benefit both the living and the deceased by
generating many extraordinary causes and conditions.
You are welcome to cultivate many merits
and plant seeds on the field of blessings by
contributing to the offering items.Choose one of the methods below to set up your plaques:
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Recitation of the Ullambana Sutra
Grand Offering Before the Buddhas
Offering to the Sangha
Musical Offerings to the Sangha
The Offering to the Sangha Ceremony originates from the Buddha’s time, when
people would make offerings to the Buddha and the Sangha on the final day of
their Summer Retreat (the 15th day of the 7th lunar month). It is a way for sentient
beings of the Ten Directions to plant seeds in the field of blessings.
The Ullambana Sutra states that anyone who wishes to repay the kindness of
their parents should prepare all kinds of food and drink and offer it to members
of the Sangha on the final day of their Summer Retreat, in prayer that their
present parents live a long life free of illness and suffering, and parents of their
past seven lifetimes be free from suffering in the realm of hungry ghosts. They
should also pray for their rebirth in the human and heavenly realms, where
they will enjoy endless blessings and happiness.
As filial Buddhist disciples, we should always remember our parents from moment-
to-moment, and make offerings to our parents, all the way to seven lifetimes past.
Every year on this day, we should present the Ullambana Offering to the Buddhas
and the Sangha, out of filiality to our present parents, and in memory of our
parents from seven lifetimes past, to repay their loving care and kindness in raising
and nurturing us. All Buddhist disciples should practice according to this Dharma.
Dedicate these merits toward the transcendence of
our parents from seven lifetimes past. May our parents
who are still with us always be free from all illness
and affliction. May the pandemic soon settle down.
May people’s minds be at ease, and the world be at peace.
Dharma Masters from the Greater Vancouver area are invited to attend
in-person and receive the offerings of this event. All offerings collected will
be distributed evenly to all Sangha members in attendance.
The temple will set up Longevity and Memorial plaques on behalf of
all who contribute to the Offering to the Sangha Event, and announce
their names during the Dedication of Merits declaration.
How to make an offering: Cash, credit card, cheque
(please specify: Offering to the Sangha Event), or e-transfer.
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