新春 – 集体供养殊胜主坛城

1. Introduction to the Main Altar:
🔸On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, the monastery will officially inaugurate and set up a grand and majestic Main Altar, where offerings will be made to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. We sincerely invite everyone to join in this collective offering, contributing to this auspicious event!
🔸Offering to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas with precious and excellent items brings blessings of wealth and nobility, ensuring ample material and spiritual resources in this life and the next, with rebirth in the heavenly realms or among humans, enjoying completeness and fulfillment. As stated in the Universally Welcoming Bodhisattva’s Conduct and Vows (普贤行愿品): "With the finest and most exquisite flowers, incense, music, and umbrellas, I offer them to all the Buddhas. I also offer the finest clothing, incense, and lamps. All of these, I offer to the Buddhas."
🔸Special Introduction to the Merits of Offering to the Majestic Altar City:
👉Offering Precious Jewels and Gems: Brings rebirth in noble, virtuous, and wealthy families, abundant material and spiritual wealth.
👉Offering Pagodas: Ensures majestic and serene residences, and peace and prosperity for the nation.
👉Offering Crystal Lotus Flowers: Represents purity and light, free from defilements and afflictions.
👉Offering Incense and Simple Meals: Accumulates vast blessings, bringing abundance and fulfillment in food and clothing.
👉Offering Incense and Flowers: Brings clarity, purity, and auspicious beauty.
👉Offering Fresh Fruits: Brings peace, joy, and swift attainment of Buddhahood.
👉Offering Scented Water with Flowers: Symbolizes the purification of the heart and mind, bringing inner tranquility and purity.
👉Offering Eight Auspicious Symbols: Increases blessings and wisdom, bringing happiness and peace.

2. The donor contributes to the following merits:
🔸Support monastery construction to ensure the Dharma stay for a long time and spreads widely.
🔸The monastery will meticulously prepare the Majestic Altar, offering precious gems, pagodas, crystal lotus flowers, vegetarian offerings, incense, flowers, fresh fruits, fragrant flower water, the Seven Precious Items, and the Eight Auspicious Symbols. Donors will collectively participate in the altar offerings, creating vast merit and bringing joy to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, accumulating immense blessings and bringing down great auspiciousness.
🔸 If any funds remain, they will continue to support the monastery's construction, Dharma propagation, and the sustenance of the sangha’s study and practice, increasing the donor’s merits, which will be enjoyed endlessly.

3. Blessings and Merit Dedications:
🔸The monastery will set up a "Collective Offering to the Majestic Main Altar" tablet for the donor, placing it in front of the Buddha for blessings and empowerment.
🔸A light will be offered for one day, praying for the Buddha’s blessings and continuous protection by the Three Jewels.
🔸Through the special merit of the offering and the puja, the following dedication will be made to the donor: "May your family enjoy peace, prosperity, and good health, free from sickness, obstacles, and afflictions. May you live a long life, increase in blessings, and be reborn in the heavenly realms or among humans, experiencing wealth, honor, and abundant provisions. Your form will be dignified and pleasing to all beings. May you encounter the complete and perfect Dharma, guided by great faith, wisdom, and merit, and receive the teachings of virtuous masters, ensuring success in your spiritual practice. May you swiftly attain Buddhahood."