CHAPTER 9.RITUALS FOR THE DYING AND THE DEAD.

 

 

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Serving ceremonies for the deceased for the loss and is the common needs of the religious world. They often serve both purposes. It's sad for the people left behind, they are intended to help in the conduct of entering farewell ceremony with their loved ones, while for the deceased, their sacrifice and help sponsor support the process after the deceased, through prayer and ritual forms.

Buddhist service and the music festival that I described in this chapter will also be for the benefit of both, the deceased and the rest. The main points to another direction is not essential to help the deceased achieve enlightenment or beyond this Saha world. Instead, they are deliberately taking fundamentally to reduce or to stamp out bad concept as well as currency appreciation there. Those things alone are the causes of the suffering, fear and rebirth in lower realms. Buddhist rites for the deceased (Requiem) and to allow for the behavior of the volume containing the achievements merit for deceased people, through the power of good concepts and understanding size, this is a direct energy source for the peace, joy and rebirth in the happy realm (eg realm and the realm of the gods) or Pure Land is bright.

Traditional rites for the dead

Requiem of Tibetan Buddhism is practiced by lamas and lay depending on the schools of Buddhism and the Tibetan regions. Requiem is presented in this chapter are the basis of the Nyingma tradition (present) implemented in Golok province of Eastern Tibet, where I (Tulku Thondup author) was born and trained in the .

Requiem is usually performed by the lamas, monks elderly or esoteric teacher of Religion is equivalent to a bishop or the clergy in the Western cultural tradition. If lamas trained well, he made the ritual for the loss will be more effective. The person in the name of a Lama or what name it carries no more energy than any one person. Instead, anyone can practice rituals mentioned in this book are those who have the practice of meditation and prayer.

In a few places and in some of the traditional Tibetan Requiem as very quiet and simple. The lamas or euthanasia believers pray, give offerings of money, food, jewelry or animals, Monastery, temple offerings Ni or directly to the nuns or the poor. Shall be burned corpse or provide food for the channel as the channel offerings to the Buddha and the gods (Buddha and the gods yet not eat). This practice is a meditation and perform rituals to train our mind, to have a good awareness, see it all as a pure and cultivated tolerance, regulations as well as threshold to let go. One of the important religious ceremonies are a lot of repetition limits the fervor of prayer as: "zealous prayers for kings, eager to pray for good behavior'' along with offerings abundance of light, incense, flowers and fruits.

In some other provinces of Tibet, Requiem is more abundant. The lamas were invited to the home of the deceased to lead the prayer ceremony a week before his death and then the seven weeks or still following the losses.

Long time and the memorial of the ritual that is determined by the assets of the deceased family. To sponsor Requiem, many families had used a lot of work over the division of family assets on the property of the deceased.

Religious rites for the dying person

It can be decisive is that we are practicing the teachings while still alive, because this is our place in the spiritual path and planted our confidence in it. Then we will be ready to apply to the default experience of our own for the departure of the day will come when. Rinpoche wrote Dodrupchen 3rd.

'' When the moment of death appears, then focus can be difficult for some understanding to start the meditation. So you must choose a meditation in the promotion and bound your mind to it, as much as possible as you can. Meditation can recall a Buddha, a sense of compassion, the energy of the refuge either be obtained on emptiness.

So keep repeating several times that "at the time was gone, I will not let myself be drawn into some evil thoughts." Achievement implicitly clarity and peace in your mind, it is important that your meditation several times, preferably prior to your death. Then when the time of death, you can die with proper understanding. Some acts of virtue that you have done how it belongs to or is physical in nature - while you're alive and especially when you're lying in bed in the clinical status - will be a a great benefit for your future life. The various rites for the western province, doing good, power and helpfulness are important to perform before he died, but even after death as well.

Remove Net

To achieve your life in the present, or future journey after the current and the next incarnation of you are free from the difficulties and the obstacles. That it is important to cleanse the results of your evil karma in the past. All the defects in your life and even life in the future will be the cause to produce the evil karma that. Only the western province is the only way the karma of this suffering. They are the cause can make your life more promotion. This is comparable to being able to modify the health of physically taking you by the hand at those toxins that system. Throughout the western province, you will disable the misconduct and the other results.

Some ways of doing good or is the practice can result in the sense of the western province. Make it the detergent purification including meditation and prayer to the Buddha for the benefit of all beings. Those things can require spoken in prayer and practice of meditation for some West from the depths of your heart. Some part of the ceremony is also for super bowl accretions to the western province of achievement for him.

Among the special practice of Buddhism is to equip specific to the western province. That is: 'prospectus before 35 Buddhas of repentance'. As well as prayer and meditation with Buddha Vajrasattva (Vajrasattva). The practice ultimately blend into four 'capacities'. The first is the capacity of the power of repentance with faith Vajrasattva (Vajrasattva) on your side, in the sky, you believe in God as they contemplate enlightened nature and quality of all everything. Demonstrating his enlightenment as the energy source of repentance. The second is the power of repentance. If you feel more regret for wrongdoing that you have created in the past, your repentance will be settled down deep in your mind. The third thing is the capacity of morals. That is making the stronger of morals is not to prevent repeating the wrong things in the future. The fourth is the strength of the penitent himself. Prayer should be practiced as OM Mantra VAJRASATI VA HUNG (or HUM), "Bach He Vajrasattva (Vajrasattva"), will wash away from all the dirty work of the evil acts of the body your physical and mental, that it left no traces behind. Also, you can atone for the deceased or other living creatures. Practice your soul carried by many to repentance with good image and holy, and the deep feeling strongly believe will help the western province to the results of any professional Your good at this basic foundation.

However much the practice is particularly effective in repentance; a couple of good behavior of the full meaning of repentance, particularly if you think like that, or dedicate the merit for this purpose. For example, a few other examples of the implementation of repentance is to help save lives and encircled by love for others from the danger; please give some gifts to those who need it, or the Religion program Church with generosity; please sponsor programs to benefit the charitable or religious service attitude and clarity of mind. At the same time building houses protected or commemorative plaque attached on Religion with the gift to benefit others.

We can also help cleanse the misconduct and create others of dignity. If we say that prayer, meditation practice or implementation of the individual for the disinfectant to others; or authors dedicate the merit for the western province of wrong doings of those who other, then we can achieve for this achievement. But our efforts will lead to results like? If the evil acts of a person is so, then the change in terms of effort we could do is erase the traces. If he not willing toward us, through faith or even the attitude of mind to be a crush. If their community and industry we never followed up as the waterways to need more help, or false if our prayer weak or impure, then the practice of our disinfectants such a result at all. However they are still helping people take part if the misconduct of that man "can be'' cleansed, if they believe in us or at least crush us and what we do if we contact them and karma if our practice is strong enough then we will certainly be scouring the misconduct of the other sins. If a teacher model made by a special prayer, meditation or rituals, no matter who takes strong morals about bad behavior, then all will be eliminated and who will be freed , by the power of the teacher and thanks to the western province of meditation. So there is not a simple answer and all in turn is determined by many conditions and results, as in all the aspects of life. Even if we can not completely clean for a few people and even just a little cleaning alone will increase greatly in the position for leaving him. So then, if a person dies is the inspiration for us to make penance for them with the greatest refuge to the Buddha, then we will create a great merit and that return would be cause of merit to make a person they created the inspiration for all. Please repeat again that if we work merit, the merit will grow with our good quality and reduce, or western province of the poor quality of our products.

Merit

To enjoy peace of peace and happiness of life and rebirth, it is important to accumulate merit and planting the windows so that the qualities of good karma. Any happiness and peace what you are happy to receive today is a direct result from the volume containing the merit of past behavior. To further improve the future for your life, you must continue to perform much more merit by performing acts of virtue. Even as you achieve a good physical state of a being so because your body deal with the likes such as eating well and practice. So you have to keep the spirit through the area doing good.

Any good karma or what will serve to show the significance of creating merit. You will hold group prayer merit by the practice of prayer and meditation. You show the merit of it through the service of the poor practice of making offerings to the Religion program, relief and compensation for life factors (such as purchase and release of animals animals animals) , as well as cleaning building roads, building and embellishment of the temples and make beer celebration, sponsored, or perform a ceremony of prayer and meditation with love, respect as well as the regulation threshold .

Media law

Communication is the esoteric legal or effective as the meaning of the western province of deeds and wrongdoing, stronger additional acts of virtue, remember the spiritual experience of the past and the reaching into, watch the path of liberation or Pure Land, referred to the Buddhas and Pure Land, awarded blessings of the Buddhas and enlightened intellectual character basis, or Buddhahood, of the territorial life. The transmission method is the same as "liberation from the six realms" may hold for those who are dead. Many purification rite of Baptism for the dead evil industry, the category would hand at the career of evil lost. If no other cause would be reborn in the realm of suffering. We will help to accumulate merit, is the cause of rebirth in happy realms.

We will go beyond the blessings of the Buddhas to awaken enlightened consciousness or the birth of the Pure Land. Of course that would very important for the instructor or the performance of the Requiem and will be accomplished in meditation or at least good training for this particular ritual. So if this is the spiritual relationship between people who perform well and the deceased, then the benefits will get more results. At least, is regulated link between them with each other.

If the ceremony as well as sophisticated transmission can not practice law, a few of prayer or meditation is held with the love of all beings as well as for the dead; or false with the specified threshold of Buddhas, will be highly useful at all. Especially if the virtues that are completed by the practitioner of meditation. An adapted to serve as places to explore people chanting prayers, reciting the name of Buddhas or bodhisattvas, repeating the mantra or organization a few simple rituals. Now there are many texts and ritual prayer in Tibetan. I will introduce a very short ceremony Dewachen, where the appendix A. Also making a Phowa (transference of consciousness) by a teacher would be a perfect special benefits for practitioners, both carried out to prolong death and after death. A procedure for Phowa short explanation is available Appendix B.

The helpfulness and sincerity of the prayer

After doing a few jobs with character virtues such as prayer, it is important to dedicate the merit as well as it creates a sincerity. The helpfulness of merit increases with the strength of the index, the greatness of the scope of helpfulness, the greatness of the power. So dedicate the merit of not so much to dedicate to them but also for all sentient beings, because this is the cause of happiness and enlightenment of them. Then the great merit he will go back with them.

Then it will give heart to work. This is a way to be of merit for a particular purpose and further to clarify that. Using the helpfulness of your merit as a category expected to generate enthusiasm for all living beings can be at peace with the fruits of happiness and rebirth in the Pure Land.

Especially being in the warm body as we dedicate the merit and sincerity to create them. If we repeat dedicate any merit what we and the dead do not care groups containing more or less, are required for the loss and rebirth of all beings in the Pure Land. We can be sure that merit would be the cause of the other results.

You could also chanting and meditation with prayer for the helpfulness of virtue and devotion, such as economic Bhadracharya - pranidhanaraja sutra (economic outlook for the king of the heat of the night good behavior). Mahayana texts, take part of the economic Buddhavatamsaha (Avatamsaka Sutra) teaches us to dedicate merit and how to create sincerity as Samantabhadra (Universal Worthy Business) was performed. These deaths can be customized by the gift on the part were things like the taste of nectar and the remains of the Holy Spirit or the objects of ritual character was blessed, or the items placed on the corpse. Members of the Nyingma tradition of separate facilities to sign a secret place blessing, the Holy chart of tone letters written by ancient Indian or Tibetan, known as' liberation by collision'' and the Holy chart where the heart or in other parts of the body.

Religion served in time of the dead.

At the time of his death, serving many of the Forum on Religion as prayer and meditation, that is the intention of peace, love and blessings of air, this is a benefit. The following rituals are some of the service, meaning that the Tibetan lamas or offerings.

Guidance for the average person.

The best time to receive the guidance, counseling or teaching is while we are still alive. Thus we can hear and understand what the instructions say for themselves. The instructor should give advice, things that make my heart is open and what we can digest absorb. If a person dies resist adopting the approach of death should not guide this time. Instead of using the good thing to teach the common or about the treatment. That would not make him afraid, but will use some attention to the feeling of peace and understanding.

If deaths are also willing to hear about their own death, they will recall about meditation as well as the blessings of their energy. The instructor should let them know what waits in their journey to death, the last natural intermediate body and how to treat with these experiences.

He Dodrupchen Rinproche compendium of the important things for the dead, acquired in downtime as follows:

You have to think about the following things many times. Think about his death! Which has now come to you, happens to all. Let all that is left dependent as love someone so much as the ownership and capacity. In previous Awakened Repent of sins and all the western province of misconduct that you have created in the present life or the life of the past. Both are known or not known. Be spontaneous prayer for yourself and to the enlightened that you will not make the act was wrong again. For he has done with your mind, with the sense of joy that, then you do not need to worry anymore. Think back to all acts of virtue that you've done in the past and should be fun, or because they repeated, not a few pride or conceit, and he also taught that: dedicate the merit and create enthusiasm for many times; think and say in the middle of my life constantly, hoping that I can be done by the nature of the path to enlightenment. May I be guided by the teacher of virtue. I have been praying for the assets of the conviction, diligence, understanding and awareness. I did not pray to be miserable because you lack those virtues as well as acts of suffering.''

It is very important that there are moral ideals at the time of the incident. Dodrapchen He said:

"In many sutras Shakyamuni Buddha taught and told many stories to explain why a few people who became his disciples. In many cases, the main reason that he has come up, because what these people have created expectations virtue heat when they died. So what you expect to do it now will have a short breathing propulsion great for your rebirth.''

As mentioned above, ritual, meditation is called important Phowa (transference of spirit ), he can do both for before or after death (part of English books at page 265). Will be of benefit to the death if you can relive the spirit of your teacher, the person you have confidence in their teachings and the spirit gods as well as field experience spirit that once you are familiar with. Thus, the compassion of heat Development outlook beings to bring progress to Buddhahood.

Guidance and service for the complete death of meditation

If the death is a yogi practicing meditation in perfect order, the authors have experience with meditation or friends that you should be ready to guide. In this tutorial you recall the deceased teacher had to recall and recognize meditation as well as contact with them and to revive this. If there are no perfect people assisted suicide, the best thing is to allow practitioners to meditate in silence went away, there should be some disturbances. Those students or friends of their Master should practice reciting prayers in silence. Or at a distance with his flesh. It is very important to keep the peace with the air surrounding the departure of Master you can condition several hours or days like that.

A few teachers who still breathing meditation for many hours or days after expired. There was no activity of breathing or heart again, but there will be a small operation where the scope of the warmth of the heart. These are signs that the Great Master may now leave the body and are continuing to live in meditation. If so it is best to keep the body calm and peace keeping air around it. But if you need to move her body, a few others should be willing to help or at least some religious ceremonies, this will wake University professor from the natural state was peaceful. If no one here can help you do the ritual forms, even the flexible hours of music or ringing ceremony to pray or do some Religious music, or soak up the bay, these things will hit University professors from the mode choke the other. Then you can take care of her flesh appropriately with your ability. Some people may intentionally to preserve his corpse with the appropriate changes, while others can be preserved only simpler. For a great monk, or preserving a simple way to adapt will be no different.

However Tsele wrote that: 'According to some scholars who have independent practice and play for the common assumption was that everyone who reserves the corpse in the longer time after death in meditation, this is definitely not true. Sometimes these can also be attached to it outside the body of her dependence.''

Stood in terms of tradition, the disciple of the great teachers can do that "reliance on meditation master'' and get four times the capacity (as reported above with his meditation Vajrasattva (Vajrasattva). Or they can focus back on "ritual of devotion to master'' and gain power by themselves. They can also make the western province and doing good to the Spirit for the great master. Even if the penance and merit is not essential for the great teachers in high-grade tu documents. We will benefit those whose teacher was connected with karma. What is more important than who should Meditation practitioners for their minds consistent with an enlightened mind of the teachers and think their minds are one. If there was a ritual form possible, please say a few prayers, do some meditation that you are familiar, that will be much more useful. It is important to remember that; have the opposite of ordinary people need prayer ceremony the super masters do not need to or can not want to have them. That is why many teachers who sometimes highly entertaining to 'die like dogs or'' they said. Even as a wild dogs can also breathe at the curb next to that someone no heed. So, the teachers also hope that there is someone mindful of their mortality, so they will be free to move from this life in a way that they will be peaceful.

Religion served after death.

Ritual in thirteen ladder of death is the ritual that we used to practice when I was growing up in eastern Tibet. The implementation for the dead by the practitioner or practice Zen followers have taken refuge, can also be done before his death or when he died. This ceremony music usually have different names in Tibet. Introduced as' e can Rituals "that it can be done by the lamas while the remaining corpses Also known as:" Ritual'' idols. Because prayer can be done with the corpse idols instead. Some of the rules towards rituals as "liberation from the realm.'' The lama was the hand at the ceremony for the seeds of karma of the deceased that it would be the cause of rebirth in the six realms of reincarnation. Another name here simply as "ritual for the dead''.

Requiem Tibetan practice limited to a form of worship in many forms of ritual or buddhas and their Mandala or the Pure Land. These included rituals of the Buddha of Boundless Light (Amitabha) Buddha of compassion (Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva), the Buddha of the western province (He Vajrasattva), hundreds of peaceful and wrathful deities, the Buddha's pure realm of the downgrade (Sarvavid Vairochava) and unless death is past (Vajrabhaivara). But the ceremony will bring more results if those who make choosing a Buddha and a god for that position that he is also attractive as well as the relationship.

A summary of thirteen ladder rituals for the dead. First, at a preparatory character for death rituals of the lamas who assisted suicide or chanting and meditation refuge in the Three Jewels and then develop Bodhicitta.

Second, this should reflect and be that they are a god, the Buddha of Compassion, in which Pure Land is filled with countless enlightened beings. Please recite the mantra of the Buddha - Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum (or HUNG). They see, hear and feel the blessings of existence with the power of the Spirit with Pure Land. Then he divided the blessings in the form of light and reaching all over the Universe. This is shown through the visualization and should think that the light was full of blessings where all human beings, like the whole universe and that has made all the filled places; the evolution of each of the places of intellectual beings, compassion and competence.

Third, they meditate on the altar of the Spirit of the Pure Land and landscape water-filled nectar St. make merit, offering them the good things and the use of things like pretty flowers aroma of food and music (actually or specifying). At the same time economic concept of the Spirit of praise with the ideas of the great veneration. Or reciting mantra, they meditate on the Spirit. Gods blessing on the jar and pour nectar flowing stream of light that wisdom. Then the Spirit of sinking into the water and nectar, they become one entity.

Fourth, they received from the foreign gods Patron of the average household Mandala of sanctification. In other languages, in other words through meditation where the pitcher of nectar like a Buddha with Pure transparent appearance, sound and experience, filled with the existence of the gathered Buddhas and Buddhas quality; average Mandala is the energy source of tremendous value.

The fifth step, with competence and revealed the true words, they summoned the understanding of the deceased (if he is dead) into a random object (or body if still present) and calm it. Then their teachings to the deceased person in the photographic recording important to her or his mind to other gods and the spiritual path, the Buddha and Pure Land, the teachings and the religious education teacher. They just do not lead to the deceased hanging on to the world with the love of someone or give the property to stay behind because they are the only appreciation and misery generally impede development than the spiritual path.

The sixth step, they perform rituals "liberation from the realm." This is a perfect ritual that the other focus is the liberation of the deceased from the cycle of rebirth in the realms by the western province for six miserable situation was in every way a realm. And then the relationship will give power or blessings where body, speech and mind of the Buddhas.

Saturday, then they are offering good items such as cooked food or drink. According to many documents, most of them born in the intermediate state can not be happy with hard food and they'll feel full with cooked food smells.

In economic Ayushpatti - Yathakara - Paripriccha (Business to talk about how happy he died), the Buddha explained that there was no interest in the food offerings for the dead, because when there is a body large, they can not be happy with great food is. If with a sad heart or immoral, you will change some of the dead food on the table, as this is done in some cultures, you will not explain the starvation death , not of much merit can create for you, if there is spirit, prayer, compassion or generosity included therein. However, in the solemn ceremony, a blessing where food was flavored with meditation and dedicate the food for the dead would enjoy a healthy life.

In a clear area flame burns have been prepared no smoke rising from burning wood or fuel oil are used to and there are burning the food drive as well as spreading the beverages around the fire . A few small pieces of clothing can also be burned as an offering of worship.

 Among the food offerings in ritual good, the meat should go away, because it fate or drastically. And harmful to the mental strength. So according to my conception of a thing is not to use fruit is alive or whether some of the products. This is the reason to generate odors when burned. In Tibet the map were used as the map is offered vegetarian barley flour and butter by mixing together a few small new clothes, clothes symbolize. In the West, you can use to adapt to the cake was baked and a pair of new clothes. But if you can not give food offerings to fire, you should change with vegetarian food and drinks on the table to extend throughout the ceremony and then you can treat them as in a fire or to leave it clean must be put into place behind closed doors.

During the ceremony was purely with the power of deep compassion, the capacity of the power of meditation and mantra, cleanses us all things that are not pure, containing items added filled with sand and be transformed them into material that death would be happy as well as the benefits from it. So the smoke will not only appeared to die as the food and beverages, but also what people need and they long lost. Even if the implementation can not rely as meditation in every detail and if they have taken refuge with the Buddha, bless the good people of prayer and worship him for the donation of the deceased with pure love , then the other pure devotion will become vigorous and benefits. If we worship the good map for all suffering beings with love and tolerance, then that would create a great merit. If we dedicate and enthusiasm for the many beings, then the dead would be happy with great merit for the inspiration of us to produce all the ideas have the benefit of others and how the offerings mercy from.

The eighth step is done Phowa (transference of consciousness) in the mobile command or spiritual consciousness of the dead into the mind of the Buddha's enlightenment; so they will be reborn in a Pure World of the Buddha.

Ninth step is funeral service body has been preserved. In Tibet there are two main ways the body of the dead back to nature: cremation and for feeding the canal channel. This form Westerners call 'sky burial''. The lamas practice meditation rituals to bless the body as the nectar of wisdom and cremation fuel channels or channel as the Holy Spirit and the scene of their Pure Land. Then their bodies as offering nectar for the gods to hand at the evil karma and so perfect for the merits and wisdom of the deceased. They also burned corpse (or gods) is a sign of autism spend intoxicated, the anguish of the situation and form evil karma with all the marks of years of intellectual fire; What is the ultimate and natural qualities of the soul. Or they can do for your body to channel food channel. Even then they want to burn small pieces of bones that followed the ceremonies.

Tenth Step, they gathered the bones (skeleton was missing then) and brought to the ceremony special bone strain: the net for weeks or even similar. To this they perform rituals for the "liberation from the realm", as mentioned before. There are also other opportunities for the western province of pure evil karma of the deceased, using continuous existence in the form of ashes.

The eleventh step, after reinforcing the western province, the ashes are a mixture of dirt mixed with ash and stuffed into the small tower is a sign that the deceased had belonged to the evolution of physical qualities Buddha. The tower is the mental image of the Buddha wisdom. Another ritual blessing is done in a week or so bless, dedicate those crowded into the tower, as the body of the Buddha wisdom.

Twelfth Step, the tower is loaded into the core is a place for offerings to the river or the sea as well as allowing sink into the natural so there is something left by the deceased at all. Not to leave something that is difficult to take away easily, because not being kept or exist for the great awakening as immoral by the dependence relations. However, Buddhists or keep a few things left by a few well-known great masters in the form of tablets of the anniversary of Religion; so this will be subject to the direction of and reliance is also a valuable resource.

Finally, the participants did dedicate all the merit that even the group that contains the deceased person and for being such a cause of action to move the peace process as well as the joy of rebirth (for Dewachen example of the Buddha Amitabha). Be should dedicate all merits as seed; they chant prayers with sincerity to explain the objectives of this relationship.

The other ceremonies.

For meditation, short, simple, and the prayer service, you should see where the appendix B.

For Requiem for the achievement level was high, the venerable teacher, or the lamas or practitioners perform ceremony music of the common rules of natural threshold for several days or more weeks. This includes both ritual devotion of the teacher, the specified direction of the teacher of meditation, making offerings of food and music for the ceremony itself can the Divine character, with the western province of practice to create merit and fervor.

This ritual between family and friends should support and resources for doing good work for the good of the deceased. These include the chanting of prayer and meditation practices, for the gifts with personality or physical mental, health and protection of lives, protection rituals and prayers, building the a beer and celebrate the protection, development of the leaf banners and prayer wheel transfer law, the school sponsors and meditation centers and bring peace and harmony in society .

After doing a few things, let's dedicate it as a merit for human happiness and enlightenment for all sentient beings, especially for the deceased and do other nice things for the same purpose was . Then through the experience of the deceased as well as the intermediate of rebirth becomes a journey from happiness to happiness is another drag.

In the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, this extremely popular offering is the matter of a few jobs for many Buddhist monks, the monastery, the character of a charity to make merit for the dead problem with prayer and religious aspirations make merit for them, even if you do not have the money or physical assets to make offerings, you can also think of the offerings to the image of the property and virtue of about worshiping it for them with a great joy and generosity. Many offerings that will create a great work is the achievement of such merit.

The Buddhists believe that even if you offer a little something for the big goal is your merit may become increasingly generous as the main purpose of the merit it, like every drop of water rain flowing into the sea and will never dry until the sea was dry. Thus if a karmic connection with other beings and even if the offering even though small as a cup of tea matter, it is also a driving force and that results can never lose. Because of the sacredness of the person is someone that you are offering.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY BACH LIEN HOA.( TAM THANH ).29/4/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).