Qingming Eliminate Karmic Obscuration and Non-virtues: Amitabha Buddha Infinite Light Altar Donor

Amitabha Verse: "Amitabha Buddha, Supreme King of Medicine, Majestic golden form radiates beams of light. A guiding vessel across the sea of suffering, To the Pure Land of Nine Lotus Ranks, May we together aspire to the Western Realm."

🔸During the Qingming Festival, Ban Foo Monastery will set up a solemn altar for Amitabha Buddha Infinite 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 Amitabha 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.
🔸The monastery will prepare a Grand Blessing Tablet for the altar donor, praying for health and auspiciousness day and night.
🔸Create an exquisite Medicine Buddha Blessing Card to dedicate offerings to Medicine Buddha, praying for well-being and the elimination 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.
🔸Through the merits of monastery construction, sangha support, and puja, merits will be dedicated to the donor as follows: "May the donor and their family experience peace, happiness, and health. May all obstacles—physical, karmic, and mental—be removed. This life they may enjoy long life, increased blessings, and abundant fortune. In future lives, may they be reborn in virtuous and noble families, endowed with beauty, wealth, and joy. Life after life, may they encounter pure and complete teachings, gain great spiritual mentors' guidance, and achieve the path to Buddhahood swiftly."