Lunar New Year Sangha-Offering and Monastery-Building Great Benefactor Donor: Perfect Fulfillment of Merit and Wisdom

1. Merit of Offering Food to the Buddha and Sangha
🔸During the auspicious Lunar New Year season, the practice of protecting life, refraining from killing, and offering vegetarian meals to the sangha generates immeasurable merit.
🔸As stated in the Sutra, the ten merits of offering food to the Buddha and sangha: 1.Longevity, 2. Radiant appearance, 3. Strength and vitality. 4. Sharp memory, 5. Wisdom and eloquence, 6. Being loved and admired by others., 7. Abundance of treasures, 8. Freedom in both human and heavenly realms, 9. Rebirth in heavenly realms upon death, 10. Swift attainment of Nirvana.

2. Donor’s Contribution and Merits:
🔸Support monastery construction to ensure the Dharma stay for a long time and spreads widely.
🔸Offer food to Shakyamuni Buddha and the Buddhas of the ten directions.
🔸Provide exquisite offerings to the sangha, wishing for sustenance from the Dharma in future lives.
🔸Any remaining funds will continue to support the monastery construction, propagation of the Dharma, and the livelihood and studies of the sangha, enabling the donor's merits to grow, with boundless spiritual and material wealth.

3. Blessings and Merit Dedications:
🔸The monastery will specially prepare a "Grand Family Blessing Tablet Before the Buddha," where the donor can add six additional names, praying for the Buddha's light to bring peace, joy, and fulfillment to the family.
🔸Light auspicious blessing lamps for three consecutive days, wishing for the donor’s everlasting health, peace, and happiness under the Buddha’s light.
🔸Arrange exquisite and solemn offerings before the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of all directions, bringing boundless merit and wisdom to the donor and their family.
🔸Invite the donor to serve as the merit donor of the New Year Puja and participate in the incense offering ceremony.
🔸The presiding Venerable will recite and announce the donor’s name.
🔸Dedicate the exceptional merits of monastery construction, sangha, and the puja to the great donor: “May your family be safe and auspicious, your body and mind at ease, and all illnesses, karmic obstacles, and afflictions be eliminated. May you live a long life with a hundredfold blessings, be reborn in heavenly and human realms in future lives, enjoying wealth, honor, fine clothing, and food, with a dignified appearance that brings joy to others. Life after life, may you encounter the pure and complete teachings of the Dharma with unwavering faith, great wisdom, and abundant virtue. May you be guided by great teachers, completing both internal and external practices, and swiftly attaining Buddhahood.”