Qingming Collective Offering and the Sacred Main Altar

Introduction to the Main Altar:
🔸During the Qingming Festival, the monastery will arrange a sacred and solemn main altar for offerings to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. All are sincerely invited to participate in collective offerings and partake in this auspicious event!
🔸Offering exquisite items to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas brings blessings of wealth and nobility, abundant resources, and rebirth in celestial and human realms with complete and perfect enjoyments. As stated in the Samantabhadra's Vows of Practice: "With the finest and most wondrous flowers, garlands, music, perfumes, parasols, and canopies, I offer to all Buddhas. With supreme clothing, incense, powdered and burning fragrances, and lamps, all as vast as Mount Meru, I offer to the Tathagatas."
🔸Special Introduction to the Merits of Offering to the Majestic Altar City:
(1) Offering jeweled ornaments: Ensures rebirth in noble, virtuous families with abundant worldly and spiritual wealth.
(2) Offering seven treasures: Leads to acquiring extraordinary treasures of the human realm.
(3) Offering crystal lotus flowers: Represents purity and brightness like the lotus, free from defilements.
(4) Dana Offering: Gathers vast blessings and ensures abundant sustenance.
(5) Offering fragrant flowers: Bestows a pure and dignified appearance.
(6) Offering fresh fruits: Brings peace, joy, and early attainment of enlightenment.
(7) Offering Tibetan floral incense water: Symbolizes purifying the mind, creating a serene and fragrant body and mind.
(8) Offering Eight Auspicious Symbols: Enhances blessings and wisdom, ensuring safety and happiness.

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 solemnly prepare the altar, including jeweled ornaments, crystal lotus flowers, vegetarian meals, fragrant flowers, fresh fruits, Tibetan floral incense water, seven treasures, Eight Auspicious Symbols, and other exquisite offerings. Donors collectively support the altar, bringing joy to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, gathering immense blessings, and bringing 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.

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."