💫 Location: Ban Foo Monastery (Ulu Tiram, Johor)
💫 Puja Schedule:
☘️ Date: November 8, 2025 (Saturday), Lunar Calendar 9th Month, 19th Day — Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva’s Renunciation Day
10:00–11:30am: Devotional Offering of the Great Compassion Repentance, Grand Offering before the Buddhas, and Blessing Ceremony
11:30am–12:30pm: Vegetarian Lunch
☘️ Date: November 16, 2025 (Sunday), Lunar Calendar 9th Month, 27th Day
9:00am–12:00pm: Devotional Offering of the Compassionate Medicine Buddha Repentance (Volumes I–III), Grand Offering before the Buddhas, Blessing & Memorial Ceremony
12:00pm–1:00pm: Vegetarian Lunch
🔶 Introduction to the "Great Compassion Repentance"
The full name of the "Great Compassion Repentance" is the "Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Great Compassion Dharani Repentance Ritual." It is a supreme practice established by combining the "Great Compassion Mantra" and selected verses from the "Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Great Compassion Dharani Sutra." This practice integrates offerings, reverence, vows, and repentance, making it one of the most popular repentance rituals. Participating devoutly in the Great Compassion Repentance Puja fosters a sense of humility and inspires the Bodhi Mind. This devotion invites blessings from Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, dispelling obstacles, increasing merits, and bringing auspicious outcomes. As the verse says: "In every place where prayers are made, responses are received; In the ocean of suffering, the Bodhisattva becomes a ferryboat to save beings."
🔶 Special Introduction to the Compassionate Medicine Buddha Repentance
The 30th Day of the 9th Lunar Month marks the Holy Birthday of Medicine Buddha. Medicine Buddha made Twelve Great Vows, all dedicated to bringing peace, health, and ultimate enlightenment to all sentient beings. Those who sincerely venerate Medicine Buddha and cultivate according to the Dharma will certainly be compassionately protected and received by Medicine Buddha and all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
The Compassionate Medicine Buddha Repentance states:
“Ordinary beings have limited ability and may not be able to fully perform the elaborate offerings and adornments described in the scriptures. Therefore, this Repentance Ritual for Dispelling Calamities and Extending Life was translated from the Medicine Buddha Sutra of Original Vows and Merits, enabling practitioners, lay devotees, and monastics to gather in temples or homes, to offer as best as they can. By faithfully following the ritual in recitation and prostration before the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, their sincere aspirations will be fulfilled.”
🔶 Significance of the Puja
☘️ On November 8, Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva’s Renunciation Day, Ban Foo Monastery will devote 200 recitations of the Great Compassion Repentance, praying for the compassionate protection of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva.
☘️ In commemoration of Medicine Buddha’s Holy Birthday, on November 16, the Sangha at Ban Foo Monastery will devote 300 recitations (900 volumes) of the Compassionate Medicine Buddha Repentance, praying for the illumination of Medicine Buddha’s radiant light.
☘️ A Grand Offering before the Buddhas will be conducted. With the collective devotion of Sangha and lay participants, offerings will be made to the Triple Gem, together with blessing and memorial ceremonies. Through the combined power of the Dharma assembly’s merits and the Sangha’s blessings, all prayer and memorial tablets will receive dedicated empowerment.
☘️ All merits from the puja will be dedicated to donors and their families:
For the Living: purification of negative karma, avoidance of misfortune, elimination of obstacles, extension of life, physical and mental well-being, removal of karmic and health afflictions, success in work and career, abundance of wealth, family harmony, and fulfillment of wishes.
For the Departed: rebirth in Pure Land, encountering the True Dharma, and eventual attainment of Buddhahood.
◈ Online Offering Deadline: November 13, 2025 (Thursday), 9:00pm
◈ Offerings made before November 5, 9:00pm will receive blessings on both November 8 and 16. Memorial services will be performed during the Dharma assembly on November 16.
◈ Ban Foo Monastery reserves the final decision regarding the format of dedication names or inscriptions that do not meet the submission requirements.
◈ Any remaining balance will be dedicated to Ban Foo Monastery's construction and Dharma propagation, bringing ever-increasing merits.
