Thousand Guests Vegetarian Banquet for the
Grand Celebration of Buddha’s Birthday
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On this lunar calendar April
8 (or
In the afternoon of
Months of detailed planning and reviewing of the event site have gone
into the preparation for this ‘Thousand Guests Vegetarian Banquet for the Grand
Celebration of Buddha’s Birthday’ event. Before the news of this event was
officially advertized, the tickets for the larger part has already sold out.
Additional VIP tickets which were included to meet the overwhelming demand
remain available for sale only.
To date, the event anticipates the arrival of guests akin to the scene
of a quick successive formation of white clouds over the blue sky. There are
several well known artists of the local
The program for the night of celebration consists of ‘Showering the baby
Buddha ceremony’, welcome speech, baby Buddha showering by the congregation,
the Chinese mythical unicorn dance, various Chinese folk songs, flute serenade,
cultural dances and etc. The highlight of the event is to feature the Far East
Business Enterprise and the Renaissance of the Chinese millennium culture.
The abbot Rev. Dayi added that the Buddhist monastic and laity in
response to the recent tragedy of earthquake struck Yushu township of the
Chinghai autonomous has to date raised over fifty six hundred of Canadian
dollars and the donation soon will be on its way to help the earthquake
affected victims.”
The
Significance of the Baby Buddha Shower and Being a Vegetarian
Rev.
Dayi said, “The yearly event organized by the temple over the past year had
received overwhelming support by the community at large. The magnitude of the
guest attendance, the size of the banquet and the celebration program had over
the year raised awareness to a notch higher each time. The popularity of the
event reflects and affirms the Buddhist life value of ‘no killing and liberty
for all life and the environmental co-existence’ is gradually gaining massive
recognition and support.”
Rev.
Dayi highlighted the significance that performing the act of giving shower to
the baby Buddha reciprocates in cleansing our tainted soul, further growth in
happiness and wisdom. When with pure heart, we raise the clean water to give
shower in bathing the icon of the baby Buddha, the acts performed by our body,
silent speech and thoughts help to rid us of our three poisons of greed, hate
and delusion. In return we are assured of receiving discipline, equanimity and
wisdom.
Discipline is a kind of human life practising value. The aim is to
control excessive greed. When we live our life instilled with this discipline,
our hearts start to incline towards goodness. The outcome brings about a
peaceful community.
The life value of being a casual vegetarian moving toward a frequent
vegetarian and eventually becoming a full time vegetarian not merely
underscores the goodness of our heart and the care for the co-existence of the
environment but also underscores the relentless expansion of our compassionate
heart which leads us down the path of receiving higher wisdom.
‘When pure is the heart so becomes also the purity of the land.’ This further makes clear the profound significance of the acts of showering the baby Buddha and being a vegetarian.”
The latest development of the
Dayi shi said he had recently just
returned to
Rev. Dayi shi recalled
that the first phase of the development for the Great Buddha Hall construction
components took more than 200 shipping containers to reach
Rev. Dayi shi
explained that he had made a special trip to the Fujian Huian factory site to
supervise the design and facial features of the rock sculptured Maitreya
Buddha. This rock statue of Maitreya Buddha which measures at 13 meters in
height is considered for now the tallest in
The body of Maitreya
Buddha measures 7.6 meters high, 8.0 meters wide and 7.0 meters deep. The total
weight measures 280 tons. The head portion of the statue alone weighs 25 tons.
The lotus flower petals seat measure 2.0 meters high and are composed of 60
petals. Each petal is made of carved rock and weighs 1.5 tons.
Rev. Dayi shi further explained that the blessed pagodas of the Amitabha
Buddha’s 48 vows that measures 5.0 meters high are presently in production at
the
**Be early to place offering for your donation of the ten thousand carved
Buddha plaques of the Wutai Shan Buddhist Gardens in Canada**
The carved Buddha plaques
totalling ten thousand pieces will be on display mounted on the interior walls
of the Great Buddha Hall of the
The Cham Shan Temple invites all devotees to support and to donate for the good cause by sowing seeds in the field of merits, to place offering of donation for the Amitabha Buddha’s pagoda of 48 vows or for one of the ten thousand carved Buddha plaques, or donate to the development of the four great Buddhist mountains in Canada. Together we can accomplish this opportunity of once in a lifetime to benefit the posterity in the sacred enterprise of spreading the Dharma of Truth of Buddhism.
For further information please
call 905- 886-1522 ext. 234 or ext. 227. For in person enquiry, the address is
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