V16 - Collective Offering to Lumbini Garden & Magnificent Mandala Shrine

Uniting the collective merits of devotees to make an auspicious offering at the Mandala Shrine.

▶About the Main Mandala Shrine
🌻During Vesak celebrations, the monastery will prepare a magnificent and sacred Mandala Shrine, offering it with utmost reverence to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
🌻Making offerings to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas brings noble wealth, material abundance, and fulfillment of needs in all future lives. As stated in the Samantabhadra’s Aspiration Prayers: "With the finest flowers, garlands, music, perfumes, parasols, and the most exquisite adornments, I offer to all the Tathagatas. With supreme garments, fragrances, incense, and lamps shining like Mount Meru, I offer them all to the Buddhas."
🌻The Merits of Offering Various Sacred Items at the Mandala Shrine:
✨Jeweled Ornaments → Rebirth into a noble and wealthy family, abundance in material and spiritual wealth.
✨Crystal Lotus Flowers → Purity and radiance like a lotus, free from defilements.
✨Vegetarian Offerings → Accumulating vast blessings, ensuring abundant sustenance.
✨Fragrant Flowers → A dignified and refined appearance, embodying beauty and virtue.
✨Fresh Fruits → Peace, joy, and swift attainment of Buddhahood.
✨Perfumed Water & Floral Incense → Purification of the mind and body, bringing peace and tranquility.

▶ A Unique Offering: The Lumbini Garden
🌻Lumbini, meaning “lovely” in Sanskrit, is the birthplace of Shakyamuni Buddha and one of the most sacred Buddhist pilgrimage sites. This offering expresses gratitude for the Buddha’s presence in this world, guiding sentient beings from the suffering of samsara.

▶Meritorious Deeds by Donors
🌻Contributing to the monastery’s construction to ensure the lasting presence and propagation of the Dharma.
🌻The monastery will prepare a grand Mandala Shrine, adorned with jeweled ornaments, crystal lotus flowers, vegetarian offerings, fragrant flowers, fresh fruits, and perfumed water. Through collective offering, devotees cultivate vast merits, bringing joy to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and attracting great blessings.
🌻Any remaining funds will continue to support Dharma propagation, as well as the education and daily living of the sangha, bringing continuous blessings and merits to the donor.

▶Blessings & Dedication
🌻The monastery will place the donor’s name on the Grand Collective Offering Tablet before the Buddhas for blessings and prayers.
🌻A one-day Radiance Lamp will be lit, praying for the donor to receive the protection and blessings of the Three Jewels.
🌻Through the great merits of the puja, blessings will be dedicated to donors: "May your entire family be blessed with peace, health, and happiness. May all obstacles, karmic debts, and afflictions be eliminated. In this life, may you enjoy longevity and great fortune. In future lives, may you be reborn in the human or heavenly realms, with wealth, prosperity, and abundance. May you possess a dignified and radiant appearance, bringing joy to all who see you. Lifetime after lifetime, may you encounter the perfect teachings, guided by great spiritual teachers, and progress smoothly in your practice, swiftly attaining Buddhahood."