Buddha Bathing Ceremony

All sentient beings originally possess the pure Buddha-nature, but it is obscured by the dust and defilements of ignorance. Through the ritual of Bathing the Buddha, we cleanse our minds so that their original luminosity may shine forth again.

【Date】5/16 (Saturday)

【Time】10 am ~ 12 pm

【Content】

• Sutra chanting for blessings
• Bathing the Buddha
• Dharma talk by the monastics
• Dedication of merit in gratitude
• Offerings of lamps and flowers in front of the Buddha statues, with online memorial tablet registration available
• This Dharma service also includes special offerings to support meal service and to the Sangha

【Registration and offering sign-up】 DDM San Francisco Bay Area Center/Fremont Events-Please click here to register

【Register online memorial tablets for「Blessings」and「Remembrance」】 Click here for online memorial tablet registration

*Offerings in front of the Buddha statues (personally offered or presented on your behalf by a volunteer) 

• Offering registration deadline：5/13， 5pm
• ​​Participants who register for offerings placed by volunteers may collect ​their offered items at the centre within 2 weeks after the event, or call the front desk to arrange a pickup date. After two weeks, the center will share the offerings with the community on your behalf​.

• Lamp offerings (cannot be retrieved after the ceremony，limited to 80 lamps）: $60 per lamp
• Flower offerings (reclaimable)，limited to 30 pots）: $60 each

*Symbolic Meaning of the Offerings

——《Lamp Offerings》——

Enlightenment and wisdom

May your vision be clear and bright, your career go smoothly, and may you gain the right understanding and wisdom in its fullness.

——《Flower Offerings》——

​Countless practices are the causes, like flowers, that blossom into the unsurpassed fruit​ –​ the perfected, adorned reward body of the Buddha.

​If one offers a flower with a pure mind, even a single petal plants the seed of bodhi in the heart.

You are warmly welcome to donate in support of the Three Jewels, sponsor a meal offering, or make an offering to the Sangha I want to make an offering