V44-慈悲斋主

Accumulating blessings through extensive offerings to monastics, forging virtuous connections with all.

▶ Merits of Offering to the Three Jewels
🌻On the occasion of the Buddha’s birthday, we remember the Buddha’s boundless compassion and wisdom. The merits of protecting life, refraining from killing, upholding a vegetarian diet, and offering dana to monastics are beyond imagination.
According to the Sutra on Giving (Buddha Speaks on Dana), offering to the Three Jewels brings five benefits:
🌻1) An elegant and dignified appearance. 2) Increased strength and vitality. 3) Extended lifespan. 4) Peaceful and stable happiness. 5) Accomplishment in eloquence and wisdom.

▶ Meritorious Deeds Performed by the Dana Donor
🌻Contributing to the monastery’s construction to ensure the lasting presence and propagation of the Dharma.
🌻Offering exquisite meals to Shakyamuni Buddha and all Buddhas in the ten directions.
🌻Providing fine vegetarian meals for the monastic community, ensuring the accumulation of Dharma nourishment in future lifetimes.
🌻Any remaining funds will continue to support monastery construction, Dharma propagation, and monastic studies and livelihood, allowing the dana donor’s blessings and fortune to grow boundlessly.

▶Blessings & Dedication
🌻The monastery will set up a Family Blessing Tablet for the dana donor, allowing up to two additional names, praying for the protection of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, cultivating a compassionate heart and wisdom.
🌻The donor will receive a Three-Day Auspicious Blessing Lamp, praying for longevity, peace, and happiness.
🌻Offerings will be placed before the Buddha on behalf of the donor, ensuring their family’s well-being, prosperity, and wisdom for generations.
🌻The donors will be specially invited as an Honorary Merit Donor for the puja, with the privilege of offering incense.
🌻The presiding venerable will formally recite the donor’s name in the puja.
🌻By virtue of the meritorious acts of monastery construction, monastic support, and Dharma propagation, the merits will be dedicated to the dana donor: “May you and your family enjoy peace, harmony, and well-being. May all obstacles—sickness, karmic burdens, and afflictions—be eradicated. In this lifetime, may you have longevity and abundant blessings. In future lives, may you be reborn in the human and heavenly realms, enjoying wealth, abundance, dignified features, and universal admiration. Lifetime after lifetime, may you be endowed with great faith, wisdom, and merit, encountering the complete and pure Dharma. May you be embraced by great spiritual teachers, supported by all favorable conditions for Dharma practice, and swiftly attain Buddhahood.”