Qing Ming Festival
Season of Gratitude and Remembrance
27 March to 6 April 2025
Qing Ming is a cherished Chinese tradition, a time when filial piety is expressed through prayers and offerings to our ancestors and loved ones who have passed. Shakyamuni Buddha has long highlighted the deep interconnection of all beings, many of whom may have been our parents across countless lifetimes. In this season of remembrance, let us share love and compassion with those karmically linked to us.
During our Qing Ming Festival, the resident Sanghas will lead prayers and offerings for 11 consecutive days, dedicating merits to the departed, helping them transcend samsara and swiftly reach Amitabha’s Pure Land. We invite all to join us in accumulating extensive merits and dedicating them to benefit all sentient beings in all ten directions.
Compassionate Samadhi Water Repentance (Chi)
《慈悲三昧水忏》
Date:
Part 1 – 27 Mar (Thu), 8pm
Part 2 – 2 Apr (Wed), 8pm
Part 3 – 4 Apr (Fri), 8pm
The Compassionate Samadhi Water Repentance was written in Tang Dynasty by Venerable Wuda for us to reflect and repent on the negative karma that we have accumulated over numerous lifetimes. Join us in this ritual to help the deceased abide in serenity and gain rebirth in Buddha’s Pureland.
Ksitigarbha Sutra (Chi)
《地藏菩萨本愿经》
Date:
Part 1 – 29 Mar (Sat), 2pm
Part 2 – 31 Mar (Mon), 2pm
Part 3 – 31 Mar (Mon), 3.30pm
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva embodies the nurturing and steadfast qualities of the earth. By engaging in Ksitigarbha practice, we can bring sentient beings to happiness, nurture the growth of our virtues, and create the causes for the success of both our Dharma and worldly endeavours.
We welcome everyone to join us in the recitation on-site!
Charity Sur Puja
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烟供施食法会
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Date:
5 Apr 2025 (Sat), 4pm
Sur puja is beneficial especially for intermediate state beings to get food and Dharma teachings. The aroma that you offer serves as food for them, bringing them happiness, and the Dharma teachings they receive free them from the cause of all their torments and sufferings. This practice is also a way of collecting extensive merit and pacifying obstacles to your Dharma practice, projects, or business.
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Completion Ceremony
清明法会圆满日
Date:
6 Apr 2025 (Sun)
10am - Marichi Puja & Namgyalma Puja (Tib)
Bountiful Food Offering Ceremony
2pm - Recitation of 88 Buddhas Repentance & Amitabha Sutra (Chi)
On this day, all offered tablets will be brought to our Main Hall for Grand Dedication of Merits. If you would like to pay respects to your dearly departed on this day, it's best to do so before 1pm. Bountiful Food Offering ceremony will be held concurrently with Prayers Recitation on this day.
The Sutra of Great Liberation
《圣大解脱经》
Create a connection with this sublime Sutra by either coming onsite to listen to the recitation or by dedicating merits here:
Namgyalma Puja
《尊胜佛母法会》
Include your loved ones in the prayer dedications by clicking the link below.
Marichi Puja
《摩利支天法会》
Anyone experiencing difficulties in life, either for worldly or spiritual activities, can seek the blessings of Marichi to overcome obstacles. She also benefits those in need of healing as she boosts health and vitality.
Include your loved ones in the prayer dedications by clicking the link below.
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Gratitude & Remembrance Tablets
孝亲报恩牌位Benefit your ancestors and departed loved ones by offering a tablet with their names, dedicating merits for them to transcend samsara and swiftly transmigrate to Amitabha's Pureland.
- Grand Memorial Tablet for the Ancestors
【堂上历代祖先莲位】
- Memorial Tablet for the Dearly Departed
【往生者莲位】
- Dedication Tablet for the Past Creditors
【累世冤亲债主莲位】
- Grand Dedication Tablet for the Past Creditors
【累世冤亲债主大莲位】
- Memorial Tablet for the Unfortunate Unborn (Abortion)
【堕胎婴灵莲位】
- Memorial Tablet for the Unfortunate Unborn (Miscarriage) 【流产婴灵莲位】
- Dedication Tablet for Wandering Spirits
【善施无主孤魂莲位】
- Memorial Tablet for Animals
【爱宠莲位】
Gratitude & Remembrance Package
敬恩配套Each package comes with 10 essential offerings for a dedication tablet of your choice. Our Venerable Sanghas will personally bless the offerings and recite a special prayer according to the name indicated on the tablet, praying for the departed to have swift rebirth in Amitabha’s Pureland.
- Vegetarian bento
- Chinese pastry
- Huat Kueh
- Drink
- Fruits
- Flowers
- Incense
- Lotus light
- Traditional paper offerings
- Shuwen Prayer to be recited by Sangha
*This offering package can be offered to all Gratitude & Remembrance Tablet categories. However, the tablet is not inclusive in this package and has to be registered separately.
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Bountiful Food Offering
供佛回向十方法界Practice generosity by making bountiful food offerings! With the recitation of mantras and prayers by Singha Rinpoche and Sanghas, these offerings will be visualised as wonderful delicacies that will be offered to the Three Jewels and all sentient beings in the ten directions. Upon completion of the ceremony, all food items will be donated to charity, making it even more meritorious!
Exquisite Ceremonial Offering
内坛御食五供We will be setting up elaborate shrine offerings in the main hall before the Dharma Throne with ceremonial wares holding light, incense, flowers, fruits and vegetarian delicacies. These will be offered to all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, realised masters, protectors and celestial beings. Through this offering, may you have a deep connection with Buddha and have all aspirations fulfilled!
Benefitting Departed Pets
Prayers for Dearly Departed Pets
为已逝的宠物祈愿
In our Qing Ming Festival event, these tablets with names of deceased pets will be placed at the temple, where our resident Sanghas will dedicate merits everyday to pray for their higher and more fortunate rebirth.
You may join any of the chanting programmes, or offer flowers to express your kind thoughts.
Remember Qing Ming
The Qing Ming Festival may be a traditional Chinese festival, deeply rooted in the Chinese culture, but it is not just an occasion where we give reverence to our own ancestors. It is also a time where we dedicate prayers to our loved ones who have passed on, and to remember and share our love with those who are karmically linked to us. Come join us as we perform both Tibetan and Chinese transmigratory prayers for all sentient beings.
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These prayers bring about many benefits. You dedicate and help your ancestors, bless your family, your children and their offspring, brings about great relief to countless sentient beings.
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Qing Ming Festival Opening 2022
Let us remember & express gratitude to our departed loved ones, something we pass down to our next generation - the precious virtue of filial piety and the importance of treasuring kinship.
Purpose of Writing Dedication tablets
Find out why we write dedication tablets during prayer and puja sessions.
A Tribute Film: Last Act of Love
As our Qing Ming event comes to a close, let us remember the kindness of our departed loved ones, including our pets. In this tribute film entitled ‘Last Act of Love’, we feature a special story of Choh family and their beloved pet, Mingyur Russell Choh.
Uncle Douglas
~ a Senior Disciple and Mentoring Senior of Chinese Chanting Class
Many from the younger generation find it hard to understand the purpose of the chanting rites. Many are foreign to the culture or unfamiliar with the prayers. It is very important for us to share with you that these should not stop you from stepping up and finding out more with us. With our qualified Sangha and many seniors who are always ready to help answer your query, come spend time with us as we find both understanding and personal meaning in the prayers, chanting and rites.
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