Collective Offering to the Medicine Buddha Auspicious Altar

1. Donors will contribute to the following Meritorious Deeds:
🔸Construction of the monastery.
🔸During the puja, the monastery will prepare various special offerings such as Medicine Buddha's hundreds medicinal vials, saffron water, vegetarian offerings, fragrant flowers, fruits, and crystal gemstone flowers. The donor participates in the collective offering to the altar, accumulating vast merit and bringing great blessings.
🔸 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.

2. Symbolism of Auspicious Blessings Altar Offerings:
🔸Offering of the Medicine Buddha’s Hundreds Medicine Bottles:According to the Summary of Karmic Results Sutra, "If one offers medicine, in future lives they will be free from illness, enjoy long life and peace, possess abundant wealth and beauty, and after countless lives, will meet the King of Dharma Physicians and forever eradicate the root of birth and death."
🔸Saffron Water Offering:Premium saffron water symbolizes the purification of the heart, removing physical and mental afflictions.
🔸Fragrant Flower Offering:Symbolizing dignity and respect across lifetimes, earning the admiration of all.
🔸Fresh Fruit Offering:Symbolizing peace, joy, and the swift attainment of Buddhahood.
🔸Vegetarian meals:Accumulating vast merits and ensuring abundance in food and clothing.
🔸Precious Treasure Offering:Symbolizing the prosperity of both material and spiritual wealth.
🔸Crystal Flower Offering:Representing purity of heart and the light manifestation of the Bodhicitta.

3. The monastery will create a “collective offering tablet” in the name of the donor, placed before the Buddha for blessings.

4. The merits from the puja will be dedicated to the donor:
“May the blessed one swiftly accumulate blessings and merit, enjoy prosperous business, harmonious relationships, increased wealth and wisdom, and obstacles be eliminated.”