🏮 Significance of lanterns: On this auspicious day of Buddha’s Birthday, devotees sincerely offer five-colored auspicious lanterns before the Buddha, radiant and dignified, generating exceptionally vast merits.
🏮 The five-colored lanterns symbolize the auspiciousness of the five directions, the fulfillment of five vows, and the purity of the five aggregates. Their light illuminates all directions, dispelling the darkness of ignorance and inspiring the light of wisdom.
🌼 Dedication merits:
Offering sacred five-colored lanterns to grace the monastery. We celebrate the Buddha’s birth and his wisdom, which light the way for all beings.
Praying for a prosperous land and a peaceful, healthy society.
May we be endowed with the Five Great Blessings: Peace, Longevity, Prosperity, Harmonious Connections, and the dual growth of merit and wisdom.
May the offering of square and round lanterns allowing us to face every challenge with a flexible and skillful mind.
Praying that this light removes all suffering from the world. May our journey be successful and lead us to the Buddha's great light of wisdom.
☘️ Donor’s merits: merits accumulated from supporting the monastery to propagate the Dharma to benefit all beings will be dedicated to those seeking blessings.
☘️ Monastery will acknowledge donations by:
🏮On Auspicious Vesak Day, hanging a colorful lantern signifies auspiciousness.
🏮Offering bright lamps brings wisdom and eloquence, encompassing worldly and transcendent knowledge.
🏮The solemnity of the lantern illuminates the Dharma realm, bestowing elegance and magnificence for generations to come.
🏮Dedication merits accumulated from Vesak Day event , Recitation of the Sutra on the Merit of Bathing the Buddha, Welcoming of Prince Siddhartha, and various vast offerings before the Buddha and pujas to seek: Safety, peace and auspiciousness for the family, healthy body and mind, longevity with increased bliss, elimination of sickness and karmic obscurations, and afflictions, Rebirth in happy realms, prosperity and wealth, abundance of clothes and food, dignified appearance delighting everyone upon sight, meeting the Triple Gem every lifetime, increase bliss and wisdom, and attain Buddhahood swiftly.
