Qingming Elimination of Calamities: Medicine Buddha Lapis Lazuli Light Great King of Medicine Altar Donor

The Supreme King of Medicine Constantly Protects and Nurtures. Medicine Buddha Praise Verse: "Medicine Buddha, the Lapis Lazuli King of Great Healers, dispels calamities, resolves difficulties, and removes obstacles of sin. With compassion, He saves suffering beings and brings auspicious blessings. He increases merit and wisdom, extends longevity, and illuminates life with divine light. The profound merits of Medicine Buddha are immeasurable and worthy of eternal praise."

🔸During the Qingming Festival, Ban Foo Monastery will set up a solemn altar for Medicine Buddha Lapis Lazuli Light. Devotees are encouraged to sincerely offer prayers to the Buddha.
🔸Past and Present Cause-and-Effect Sutra: "Among all fields of merit, the Buddha-field is supreme. To seek great fruition, one should make offerings to the Buddha-field." By offering exquisite items to the Buddha and Bodhisattvas, donors are blessed to be reborn in noble, virtuous families, enjoying complete fortune and auspiciousness.

The donor contributes to the following merits:
🔸Support monastery construction to ensure the Dharma stay for a long time and spreads widely.
🔸During the Qingming Filial Piety and Gratitude Puja, the monastery will meticulously prepare the Medicine Buddha altar, offering flowers, fruits, incense, water, food, and other excellent offerings.
🔸 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.

Merits of Offering Altar Items:
🔸Offering flowers: Achieve purity and radiance, becoming dignified and beautiful.
🔸Offering fruits: Attain peace and joy, swiftly realizing enlightenment.
🔸Offering water: Experience a calm mind and body, free of suffering and ailments.
🔸Offering food: Accumulate vast blessings, leading to abundance and satisfaction.
🔸Offering supreme items: Attain wealth and freedom.

Blessings and Dedication:
🔸The monastery will create a "Family Blessing Tablet" for the Altar Donor, allowing up to six additional names for blessings or posthumous dedication. It seeks Buddha's light to shine upon them.
🔸Exquisite Medicine Buddha Blessing Cards will be offered to Medicine Buddha, praying for health, peace, and the removal of obstacles.
🔸Three-day blessing lamps will be lit, symbolizing radiant hope and enlightenment.
🔸Altar Donors are specially invited as honorary donors of the Puja, including participating in incense offering rituals.
🔸The presiding Venerable will recite and announce the donor’s name.
🔸Merits from monastery construction, support for sangha, and the extraordinary puja will be dedicated to altar donors: "May your family be safe and auspicious, with physical and mental well-being. May obstacles such as illnesses, karmic hindrances, and afflictions be eliminated. May you enjoy long life and abundant blessings in this life and be reborn in celestial or noble human realms in the next, experiencing wealth, prosperity, beauty, and joy. In every lifetime, may you encounter the pure, complete teachings of the Dharma, be guided by virtuous teachers, and possess favorable conditions to practice the path to enlightenment swiftly and attain Buddhahood."