🪔 Prostrating to thousand Buddhas: Prostrating to one Buddha and one will have limitless blessings. By reciting one Buddha’s name, limitless non-virtues will be eliminated. It is mentioned in the sutra that, if one hears the names of the thousand Buddhas, and revers wholeheartedly, cultivate diligently, one will be able to meet the thousand Buddhas directly and be transformed.
⭐ Sincerely inviting all Buddha’s disciples to visit the monastery and partake in the Repentance to the Thousand Buddhas Puja in togetherness. Please register your interest using the given link (for 750 pax only). 👉 Please click here to register for prostrate prayer session in BW Monastery .
🪔 Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s ordination day Puja: Recitation and practice of Lotus Sutra Samaya Repentance - Due to the great compassion of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, manifested with thousand arms and eyes, he would respond to pleas of all beings, protecting and helping them.
🪔 Maha-Prajnaparamita Repentance: Veneration of 600 scrolls of Maha-Prajnaparamita Sutra and the limitless number of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the 10 directions, to repent wrong views or ignorance, and to attain Buddhahood speedily.
🪔 Supplicate for blessings, prayers for departed, food offerings to Buddha and Sangha.
⭐ Thousand Buddhas Repentance Puja : 22/10/2023, Sunday 9am-5pm
⭐ Maha-Prajnaparamita Repentance : 28/10/2023, Saturday 10am-12pm
⭐ Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Ordination Day Puja : 29/10/2023, Sunday 9.30am-12pm
⭐ Online Offering Closing Date : 27/10/2023, Friday 2pm
★ Pictures shown are for illustration purpose only
★ Note: If there is any surplus, it will be transferred to our Donation Box for Dharma propagation use and to help those in need so that the merits from your donation will grow endlessly.
★ BW Monastery reserves the final right to make changes to the dedication names if they are not written according to the proposed format.
In the eastern pure Lazuli world, there is a Medicine Tathagata of Lapis Lazuli Light also known as Medicine Buddha, who eliminates calamities and increases longevity.
The practice of Medicine Buddha’s way is especially suitable for the current pandemic, sickness and pain, death, fear and unease, etc. If one can sincerely recite and cultivate accordingly, one will receive the blessings and protection of the Medicine Buddha, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the 10 directions, swiftly eliminating calamities, increasing longevity, and pandemic.
On the 30th day of the 9th lunar month, it’s Medicine Buddha’s birthday.
BW Monastery will be holding the Medicine Buddha Obstacle-Clearing for Blessings & Longevity Puja and we sincerely invite you to join in the Puja to celebrate this special occasion. 👉 Chanting Schedule
🔹 Puja Date :
🪔 05/11/2023 - Great Compassion Repentance Puja
🪔 06/11/2023 - 11/11/2023 - Medicine Buddha Sutra
🪔 12/11/2023 - Medicine Buddha Repentance
🔹 Online Offering Closing Date : 10/11/2023, Friday 2pm
🔹 During the puja periods, online orders made after the daily cut off time 12 pm. Tablets will be erected 2 days later.
★ Limited quantity
★ Pictures are meant for illustration only.
★ As a safety measure, all light offerings will be placed on the open-air altar at the back of the monastery.
★ Note: If there is any surplus, it will be transferred to our Donation Box for Dharma propagation use and to help those in need, so that the merits from your donation will grow endlessly.
What is Dana Offering?
I. Dana means generously giving meals to Sanga with faith and respect. Offering refers to providing charitable meals to devotees and the public. Though only one meal is offered, one can earn vast merit.
II. Five karmic results attained from Dana Offering:
III. Vegetarianism as a way of protecting life:
Holding a compassionate heart, refraining from killing and protecting life, vegetarianism is virtuous deeds of enhancing the noble qualities of generosity and joyful giving.
🔶 Note: If there is any surplus, it will be transferred to our Donation Box for Dharma propagation use and to help those in need so that the merits from your donation will grow endlessly.
🔶 BW Monastery reserves the final right to make changes to the dedication names if they are not written according to the proposed format.
Blessings are gained through offering virtuous fields of merits, gratitude, reverence and compassion. By making these offerings, blessings and merits will then be accumulated. Thus, extensive practice in making offerings is to cultivate our field of merits.
The meaning behind making offerings:
1. to show reverence to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
2. to cultivate the merit field, and increase one's blessings
3. to eliminate our greed, that is, our stinginess and pettiness
We welcome all to make offerings of gold foil gilding onto the Buddha statue and His seat, Prayer Wheels, Victory Banner and other items. With the vast accumulation of merits, may one be blessed with a smooth career, harmony within the family, good health, wealth in wisdom and prosperity!
★ Donors are advised to state your mailing address clearly for renewal notice to reach you directly.
★ Names can be engraved on selected items (more information can be found in the item's link)
Interested parties, please contact:
Iris Koh: 9003 9261
Freddrick Lee: 94504185
🔸 Pictures shown are for illustration purpose only
🔸 Note: If there is any surplus, it will be transferred to our Donation Box for Dharma propagation use and to help those in need so that the merits from your donation will grow endlessly.
🔸 BW Monastery reserves the final right to make changes to the dedication names if they are not written according to the proposed format.
BW Monastery, its meaning signifying an auspicious gathering of the Sangha and the Three Jewels, was started in 2002 and led by Venerable Jing Yuan, who is the Monastery’s Abbot.
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