☘️ Introduction : Offering food to all beings is one of the most significant practices of compassion in Buddhism. By offering food to the hungry ghost beings through mantra recitation, visualization and discourses to relieve their hunger, thirst and sufferings, is our way of expressing compassion.
Through food offering, we cultivate compassion and selfless contribution, understand that the hungry and poor need help, reminding us to care and feel for others’ sufferings.
☘️ Donor’s merits: merits accumulated from supporting the monastery to propagate the Dharma to benefit all beings will be dedicated to the family.
☘️ Monastery will acknowledge donations by:
🪔 Setting up inscriptions for donors before the Buddha for his brilliance of blessings.
🪔 Dedication of merits from "The Amitabha Sutra" , " "The Impermanence Sutra," for departed’s happy rebirth.
🪔 Merits accumulated from recitation of “Amitabha Repentance”, offerings to Buddha and Sangha, and all rituals from seeking blessings and departed loved ones: for all karmic obstacles to be eliminated, free from sufferings, swiftly receive the compassion, care and guidance of Amitabha Buddha.
