DBC - Collective Offering to the Avalokiteshvara & Pagoda Mandala

☘️ About the grand altar: Special offering altar with the 4-armed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva and Buddha for everyone to make offerings to accumulate merits and wisdom.

☘️ Merits of Sponsors:

🌸 Sponsorships for the grand altar before the Buddha would be for dedication and supplication of bliss and wisdom.
🌸 The 4-armed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva is one of his many great manifestations that represent the 4 immeasurables - compassion, love, joy and impartiality. Each of 4 arms holds a different Dharma instrument, representing the various powers of Buddha’s wisdom and compassion.
🌸 The pagoda represents the noble intent and Dharma form of the Buddha. It is mentioned in the sutra that it is of greater merits to use a pure heart and mind to make offerings to the stupa than to offer thousands of cars and pure gold as a form of generosity. Thus making offerings to the Pagoda can help avert calamities, eliminate obstacles, sickness, increase longevity, gathering of bliss, etc., accumulating many types of virtues. If one helps the departed to make offerings to the Pagoda, it will help the departed to be free from the miserable realms, and be reborn in happy realms to meet the Buddha’s teachings directly. 
🌸 Incense offering: represents ethical discipline, meditative concentration, wisdom. Supplicate for the three karmic doors to be pure, elimination of afflictions, have peace and stability for body and mind.
🌸Flowers offering: represents purity, beauty, divine. Supplicate for accomplishing perfect wisdom, dignified appearance, increasing virtuous karmic deeds. 
🌸Fruits offering: represents supramundane fruition. Supplicate for complete perfection, free from disasters and calamities, attain enlightenment for self and others, perfection of compassion and wisdom, speedily attaining Buddhahood. 
🌸Clothes offering: represents robes offering, the insignia of harmony and  reliance. Supplicate the abundance of clothings and ornaments, receive the guidance of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, practice according to the teachings, and attain the ultimate enlightenment. 
🌸Other offering items: Precious items offering, Auspicious Conch offering, 7 Dharma items for nobility, power and prestige, 8 Auspicious items for all matters to be successful. 

◄☘️ Monastery will acknowledge all donations by:

🪔 Creating huge inscription for those seeking blessings and placed before the Buddha
🪔 Dedication of merits from The Great Compassion Repentance Practice
🪔 Dedication of merits to those seeking blessings: healthy body and mind, elimination of all sicknesses, karmic obscurations, and afflictions, all matters are auspicious, increase in bliss and wisdom, and swiftly attain Buddhahood.