☘️ Introduction :
🪔 The Eight Auspicious signs are: Dharma wheel, Dharma Conch, Victory banner, Treasure Vase, Lotus, Pair of Golden Fish, Infinite Knot, Parasol are auspicious representation of excellence, bliss and perfection in Buddhism.
🪔 Offering the 8 auspicious signs is not only done out of reverence but also through the significance of each sign that it guides all beings to maintain purity, wisdom, compassion and awakening in daily lives, and also supplicate for ourselves and others’ karmic obstacles to be eliminated, equipped with perfect virtuous roots, accumulate merits, purify our body and mind, accord with the Dharma, and ultimately reach the shore of liberation.
🪔 The 8 auspicious signs and their significance are：
🌸 Parasol：protection, eliminating all obstacles, bringing peace and joy.
🌸 Pair of Golden Fish：plentiful wealth & blessings, where practitioners can harvest full virtues and wisdom.
🌸 Lotus：purity and awakening, represents practitioners surpassing afflictions using wisdom.
🌸 Dharma Conch：Sound of Dharma that awakens the wisdom in all beings.
🌸 Treasure vase：limitless blessings, wealth and nourishment.
🌸 Endless knot： vast mind like the Buddha, perfect wisdom, omniscience, and for the Dharma to always stay.
🌸 Victory banner：Buddhism conquers all afflictions and ignorance, attaining ultimate victory.
🌸 Dharma Wheel: Far and wide propagation and flourishing of Dharma.
☘️ Donor’s merits: merits accumulated from supporting the monastery to propagate the Dharma to benefit all beings will be dedicated to sponsors.
☘️ Monastery will acknowledge donations by:
🪔 Names for those seeking blessings will be inscribed and displayed for dedication of merits.
🪔 Merits accumulated from Great Repentance Puja will be dedicated to the ones seeking blessings for: avert calamities for longevity, healthy body and mind, successful career, increasing wealth and prosperity, honourable reputation, for all matters to be auspicious, increase bliss and wisdom, meeting the Triple Gem every lifetime, aspire for spirit of enlightenment and attain Buddhahood.
