The Great Compassion & Liberation
Ullambana Festival
4 Aug to 18 Aug 2024
The Ullambana Festival, held in the seventh month of the Lunar calendar, is significant in many Asian Buddhist cultures.
It aims to liberate all sentient beings, including our parents, ancestors and departed loved ones. During this period, we will come together for merit accumulation through offering to the Triple Gem, charity to the wandering spirits and reciting mass prayers. By spreading Buddha's universal compassion through these activities, we will benefit both the living and the departed.
This year, our resident Sanghas will be engaged in the practice of 10,000 Buddha Names Sutra, Vairocana Dawning of Blessings Puja and various rituals to request for protection and blessings for everyone. May all beings of the six realms experience the transformative power of great compassion and liberation!
Led by Singha Rinpoche, join us in our yearly tradition of reciting the Samadhi Water Repentance in Mandarin.
Date:
Part 1 - 8 Aug (Thur), 8pm
Part 2 - 10 Aug (Sat), 2.30pm
Part 3 - 13 Aug (Tue), 8pm
Four Tormas Puja
《四朵玛法会》
Date:
9 Aug (Fri), 3pm
This puja is beneficial for the healing of various types of illnesses caused by imbalance in the four elements. The ritual also helps us to resolve the vengeful hatred in our karmic creditors towards us.
Ocean of Offering Clouds Raining Down Good Fortune
《祥云降宝香供法会》
Date:
17 Aug (Sat), 8am
By offering sublime incense through a sacred prayer passed down by lineage masters, this ritual helps to purify negativities and bring about wellbeing, auspicious conditions, and great wealth.
Wealth Deities Puja
《财神圣众法会》
Date:
17 Aug (Sat), 3pm
Our resident Sanghas will be performing this auspicious puja to purify the causes of poverty, and invoke the holy presence of wealth deities for bestowing blessings of spiritual and material abundance.
Vairocana Dawning of Blessings Puja
《普明大日如来大法会》
Date:
18 Aug (Sun), 8am-4pm
This puja is an extensive prayer ritual to Vairocana Buddha, the King of Light, to purify the dark energy and heavy karma for ourselves and our ancestors, and bring about a surge of love, positivity, and support.
Registration is free. Any donation is appreciated. Fill in the names that you would like us to include in the prayer dedication.
➤ Register here
Generate Great Merits on Buddha's Joyful Day
佛欢喜日广修福田
Date:
18 Aug (Sun)
According to the Ullambana Sutra, one who makes offering to the noble Sanghas on Buddha’s Joyful Day can accumulate Vast merits for parents of this life and past seven livetimes. Offering of meals and daily necessities will be made to more than 200 Venerables from the following temples:
🪷 Thekchen Choling Singapore
🪷 Shelkar Cheode Ganden Legshedling (Nepal)
🪷 Namgyal Jyangchub Choeling Monastery (Nepal)
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Chuwar Gadhen Drophen Ling Monastery (Nepal)
Merits will be dedicated in the respective temples for the names received.
Recitation of One Hundred Thousand Buddha Names
十万佛洪名大法会
Date:
6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17 Aug
When all Buddhas throughout time and space achieve enlightenment, their names have the power of all their past cultivation and prayers. That is why reciting their names have so much power to purify our defilements and eons of negative karma.
Through offering and supporting our Sanghas in the recitation of this rare Sutra, brings bountiful merits and favourable conditions for abundance and the flourishing of Dharma. Merits will be dedicated before the Buddhas with a light offering, beneficial for the living or departed.
Generate great merit by supporting the recitation of this sublime text.
Grand Meritorious Offering and Charity
极乐堂超荐与普施功德
Experience Thekchen Choling's annual tradition of elegant food offerings, merging transmigratory prayers for ancestors, karmic creditors, and wandering spirits. This grand prayer ceremony generates wholesome merits, benefiting both the deceased and the living.
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Grand Meritorious Offering to Ancestors
极乐堂超荐历代祖先功德
Date:
10 Aug (Sat), 2pm
🪷 Grand Meritorious Offering to Past Creditors
极乐堂超荐冤亲债主功德
Date: 10 Aug (Sat), 2pm
🪷 Grand Meritorious Charity to Wandering Spirits
极乐堂超荐无主孤魂功德
Date: 11 Aug (Sun), 2pm
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Great Compassion & Liberation Tablets
慈航普渡牌位
By offering the tablets, merits generated from our collective prayers will be dedicated to your family ancestors/dearly departed/past creditors/unfortunate unborn/beings we have eaten and harmed.
🪷 Grand Tablet for the Ancestors 堂上历代祖先牌位
🪷 Tablet for the Dearly Departed 往生者牌位
🪷 Tablet for the Past Creditors 累世冤亲债主牌位
🪷 Grand Tablet for the Past Creditors 冤亲债主大牌位
🪷 Tablet for the Unfortunate Unborn (Abortion) 堕胎婴灵牌位
🪷 Tablet for the Unfortunate Unborn (Miscarriage) 流产婴灵牌位
🪷 Tablet for the Beings We have Eaten and Harmed 我所食害之众牌位
Request Protection from Guanyin
祈请观音大士护佑The names of devotees will be placed at the throne of Thousand-Arm Guanyin to request protection against sudden illnesses, unfortunate events and spirit disturbances in the lunar 7th month period.
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Compassion and Liberation Package
慈航配套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.
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!
Geshe Kangyur: Story of the Ullambana Sutra
持称格西:《佛说盂兰盆经》的故事
Ullambana Festival is one of the many names for this festival that takes place on the 15th day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar, celebrated by many Asian cultures.
Did you know? This festival has a Buddhist origin, and the most important practice on this day is actually to make offerings to the Sangha (ordained monks and nuns), as taught by Shakyamuni Buddha in ‘Ullambana Sutra’.
➤ Watch Geshe Kangyur's explanation on YouTube
➤ Read more about Ullambana here
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