Up Coming Activities

The Buddhist Memorial Service

October 7- 10, 2010

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

         The Buddhist memorial service for the departed beloved ancestors. According to the Buddhism, the ordinary person who pass away will be born again in many different kinds of forms such as animal, human, spirit in hell. Particularly in this occasion, in the Buddhist scripture, the king named Pimpisara was dreamed about his relative who pass away many of years ago. The spirit was very hungry and came up in the dream. The next morning, the king asked the Buddha about the dream. The Buddha who knew the place of birth of that spirit. He advised the king to dedicate food and necessary things to the Buddhist monks and the needed people. Since that time, the king never dream about that spirit again. We don't know the place of birth of our ancestors who pass away many live-times. Therefore, we donated necessary things to share our loving kindness which is good action to ourselves. At the same time, we dedicate our goodness to our beloved one who pass away and share to friends, relatives, and the needed person. In order to preserve our good traditions.  Our communities wish to extend the invitation to all Buddhists and non-Buddhist friends to take part in this occasion. The offering could be fruit from your backyard, flowers, food. The people will come to the temple and offer those things to the monks, then every one will share lunch.                   

(By Ven. SW)