CNY302 - Offering The Seven-Color Lanterns

🧧 May health, peace, wisdom, wealth, and supportive benefactors, along with many favorable conditions, always protect you and your family.

💫 Introduction : Seven-Color Lanterns
During the Chinese New Year period, the monastery will hang seven lanterns of different colors within the hall to solemnly adorn the sacred space, bringing great joy to all devotees who come to pay homage.
🏮Offering lanterns shaped like a treasure bowl brings abundant wealth and prosperity in every lifetime.
🏮Offering lamp light nurtures clarity of mind and the growth of wisdom.
🏮Offering Seven-Color Lanterns symbolizes the fulfillment of wishes for longevity, health, peace, joy, wisdom, wealth, and the support of benefactors.
🏮Offering silk lanterns brings abundance in clothing and food across lifetimes.
🏮Adorning the monastery creates the causes for dignity, beauty, and a noble appearance in present and future lives.

💫 Merits of the Offering
🏮 Support the monastery construction, ensuring the propagation of the True Dharma and the widespread of the teachings. 
🪔 Offering auspicious food to the Buddhas as a birthday tribute and providing meals to the Sangha and the public, praying to receive the nourishment of Dharma in all future lives.
🏮 Any remaining funds will continue to support the monastery's Dharma propagation efforts, benefit sentient beings, and support the Sangha's education and livelihood, thereby increasing the donor’s blessings and merits.

💫 Blessings & Dedications
🏮Names for those seeking blessings will be inscribed and hung under the lanterns for dedication of merits.
🏮 Dedication of merits from The Grand Puja for Offering to the Wealth Deities, Dharma Protectors, Heavenly Beings, and Naga Kings
🏮 Dedication of merits from the Fortune Blessings Pujas.
🏮 Dedication of merits from Grand Offering on the 15th day of the First Lunar Month
🏮 Overall dedication of merits: In the new year, May the whole family be blessed with health and peace, grow in blessings and wisdom, and see all virtuous wishes swiftly fulfilled.