💫 Benefits of offering Mandala:
🌻 A Mandala means a “sacred offering realm.” It is visualized as gathering together all the finest and most precious objects in the world and arranging them within an exquisitely adorned mandala, which are then offered with reverence and a pure heart to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
🌻 The Mandala offerings include the Eight Auspicious Symbols, Lotus Lamps, Mandala Flowers, Victory Banners, Auspicious Water, the Sun and Moon, and all other precious objects of the world. These symbolize all the supreme treasures of the world and are offered extensively to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
🌻 May the merits of this offering swiftly gather all the favorable conditions needed for spiritual practice, accumulate abundant merits, purify karmic obstacles and negative karma, increase merit and wisdom, and bring about the full support and favorable conditions for progress on the path to enlightenment.
💫 What kind of virtues do donors create:
Dedication to sponsors or those who seek blessings for calamities to be averted, to have good health and increased blessings, for supporting the monastery to propagate the Dharma to benefit all beings.
💫 Monastery will acknowledge donations by:
🌷 A beautifully crafted and exquisitely adorned Mandala will be specially prepared and respectfully placed before the Buddha for extensive offerings. May all participants, through the merits of this sublime offering, accumulate the provisions of merit, increase in wisdom, purify karmic obstacles, and cultivate all the favorable conditions for spiritual practice.
🌷 A specially prepared dedication card will be provided for participants to fill in the names of those to whom the merits are to be dedicated.
🌷 Three (3) consecutive days of reverent recitation of the Medicine Buddha Repentance, praying for blessings, repentance and purification of negative karma, and dedication of merits.
🌷 Grand Offerings before the Buddha, with prayers for blessings and dedication of merits.
🌷 On the Completion Day of the Medicine Buddha Puja, the Sangha and devotees will respectfully recite the Medicine Buddha Sutra and sincerely pray for blessings.
🌷 Merits accumulated from the series Medicine Buddha Obstacle-Clearing for Blessings, Longevity Puja will be dedicated for: help all sentient beings of the 6 realms to seek repentance with a mind of refuge and Bodhicitta, eliminate enmities, make aspirations and dedications, equipping with full conditions of the 4 Powers of Confession, for all karmic obstacles, sickness, and non-human obstacles, etc., to be eliminated, smooth conditions to increase, obstacles for learning the Dharma be eliminated, immediate increase of bliss and virtues in current lifetime, abundant clothing, food and resources in future lives, receiving the protection and guidance of Triple Gem life after life.
