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| Festival of Lights and Merit Celebrating Saka Dawa Shakyamuni Buddha's Birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana Wednesday, May 26, 2021 |
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| Please join us in celebrating the annual Festival of Lights and Merits (FLAM) on the auspicious days of Saka Dawa, when Shakyamuni Buddha was born, attained enlightenment and achieved mahaparinirvana by participating in the sponsoring the offering of thousands of lights and three pujas around the Mahabodhi Stupa in Bodhgaya, the place of Shakyamuni Buddha’s enlightenment. |
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Saka Dawa Duchen (Wednesday, May 26) is the anniversary of the days that Shakyamuni Buddha was born, attained enlightenment and showed the aspect of passing away into Mahaparinirvana. Saka Dawa Duchen is one of the four most auspicious days in the year for Buddhists, a merit-multiplying day, when the merit of virtuous actions performed is multiplied by 300 million, as cited by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche from the Vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic. In addition, it is said that any offerings done at the Mahabodhi Stupa are multiplied 8-fold! The offerings this year during the month of Saka Dawa will be of thousands of lights around the Mahabodhi Stupa and three pujas.
Pujas performed/to be performed at the Tibetan Temple in Bodhgaya:
May 19: Palden Lhamo Puja
May 20: Tara Puja
May 21: Guru Puja Donations will also go for the maintenance of the centre and Root Institute for Wisdom Culture's many charitable projects. |
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Accumulate skies of merit for you, your loved ones and for all mother sentient beings during the auspicious days of Saka Dawa! “Even just making one sound, or a cymbal offering, Even just offering one single flower, To the form of one who has gone to bliss (buddha) on a stone wall, Even if they make the offering with an angry attitude, Those living beings will gradually see ten million buddhas.”
- White Lotus Sutra ROOT INSTITUTE IN YOUR SERVICE! |
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