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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.
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.
极乐堂超荐历代祖先功德
Date: 10 Aug (Sat), 2pm
极乐堂超荐冤亲债主功德
Date: 10 Aug (Sat), 2pm
极乐堂超荐无主孤魂功德
Date: 11 Aug (Sun), 2pm
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
Watch Geshe Kangyur’s explanation on YouTube
Sacred Mirror
The Sacred Mirror represents consciousness and the element of space. Clear, pure and bright, the mirror reflects all phenomena objectively without bias, thereby reminding us to practice objectivity and to rise above our judgmental minds. On a more subtle level, it reflects the Buddha’s core teaching of emptiness – that nothing exists on its own side without a dependent arising cause.
Pinnacle of the mirror
The pinnacle of the mirror, formed by the white crescent moon, flaming red sun and an orange flame of fire, represents the completion stage of Vajrayana practice.
Light Rays
The light rays radiating from the Sacred Mirror represent the flourishing of the Buddha’s teachings, fanning out to the furthest reaches of the universe.
Full Moon Disc
The moon disc represents Bodhicitta, the aspiration to become a Buddha to benefit all sentient beings.
Blue Lotus
Divinely fragrant, blue lotuses bloomed only in the Buddha’s time. By incorporating it into the temple’s logo, it is symbolic of the ever-present Buddha in Thekchen Choling. Moreover, a lotus flower represents purity, perfection, compassion and renunciation, similar to how the beautiful lotus remains untainted even though it had arisen out from the muddy waters.
Nine Precious Jewels
These nine precious jewels represent the Guru, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, yidam or mind-seal deity, Dharma protector, the sky, earth, and the human realm.
Two Dragons
The two dragons represent continuity and harmony and create the cause for the temple to enjoy the strong support of members and benefactors for Dharma to flourish.
Golden Khata
The flowing golden khata represents the auspicious increase of all Dharma activities.
The Seven Gems of the Chakravartin or a Wheel-Turning King
1. The precious horse represented by a unicorn’s horn
2. The precious elephant represented by its tusks
3. The precious queen represented by round golden earrings
4. The precious minister represented by square golden earrings
5. The precious general represented by a pair of crossed swords
6. The precious jewel represented by the triple-eyed gem
7. The precious Dharma wheel represented by a branch of coral
