Sunday, 04/19/2026
Impressed Amitabha Buddha’s birthday Ceremony
Update: 14/12/2019
In the reverent and quiet atmosphere, at 6 pm, two lanes of Buddhists were laid out to welcome the presence of the reverent high ranking monks and nuns. Three times of Prajnà bells grumbly. Having been quiet sitting, people calm their minds to listen to the open chanting from Ven. Thich Tam Hieu. The mindful energy covers and spreads everywhere in the joy of all.
After giving the reason for the ceremony, Ven. Thich Tam Dong on behalf of the monk addresses the opening speech. Then people direct their minds to the statue of Amitabha Buddha and chanting.
The most important moment is the light-transferring. Ven. Thich Chan Tinh lighted his candle then transferred to the monk and they move to the Buddhists. The blinking lights in the night to offer the Buddha gives a great impression. It represents the Buddhist wisdom which can eliminate the darkness of ignorance, hatred, selfish, stingy, and deletes the gap between richness and poorness, highness-lowness, suffering-happiness to open the way to the Pureland in this world, shows the intrinsic nature in oneself.
After addressing some words to praise the Buddha, Ven. Thich Chan Tinh delivers “Praise the Buddha to follow Him” and people all make a vow to follow the Buddha under his guide.
The next, people all spent some quiet sitting to spread their merit to all living beings in the three worlds as well as the six realms.
Then Ven. Teahyu from Korea, the abbot of Duoc Su temple had a speech to celebrate the ceremony, to show his gratitude to Ven. Thich Chan Tinh for inviting him and the Korean Buddhist delegation to come and join the ceremony. This leaves a great memory in their minds and promotes the closer relationship between the two countries.
The next part is giving the meaning of the ceremony done by Ven. Thich Chan Tinh. He emphasized Three sources of felicity according to The Infinite Life Sutra: acts of secular moral good, observance of precepts, and acts of practicing good roots which give the main condition to be born in the Pureland. Before ending he sent some deep gratitude to all the monk and nun for being the ceremony, especially the Korean Buddhist delegation and to all people as well.
To lift up the ceremony’s atmosphere a music show with the taking part of may singers as Thuy Duong, Sy Luan, Nguyet Thu, Kim Linh, Bang Cuong, Anh Duy, Minh Chien, and the children belong to Hoang Phap’s Buddhist family.
Finished the ceremony, there is a small dharma gift was sent to all the participants.
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