LF41 – Compassionate Donor

🌻 Generous Offerings to the Sangha, Infinite Merit!

🍃 Merits of Offering to the Three Jewels
🪔 Observing precepts, refraining from killing, eating vegetarian food, and offering meals to the Sangha generates inconceivable merit.
 As stated in the Buddha’s Discourse on Giving, offering to the Three Jewels brings fivefold benefits:
Handsome and dignified appearance
Increased vitality and strength
Longevity
Peace and happiness
Mastery of eloquence and wisdom

🍃  Merits of the Donor’s Contribution
🪔 Supporting the construction of the monastery, allowing the Dharma to remain and flourish.
🪔 Offering meals to the lineage masters, including Tsongkhapa and his disciples, Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva, Maitreya Bodhisattva, Nāgārjuna Bodhisattva, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions, and lineage masters.
🪔 These offerings nourish the Sangha and cultivate the merit of all beings, ensuring the donor enjoys Dharma sustenance in this and 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 & Dedication
🪔 The monastery will prepare a Family Blessing Plaque for the donor. The donor may add up to two additional names, praying that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas bless the family with compassion and wisdom.
🪔 A Lamp of Boundless Blessings will be offered for the donor, invoking long life, health, and auspiciousness.
🪔 Offerings will also be arranged in the mandala, bringing complete happiness, well-being, increased merit and wisdom, and endless prosperity to the donor and family in this life and future lives.
🪔 The donor is specially invited as a principal benefactor of the Lamp Festival.
🪔 The presiding Dharma teacher will chant the donor’s name for dedication.
🪔 With the profound merit of supporting the monastery construction, The Sangha, and the Lamp Festival, we dedicate:
“May your family be safe, harmonious, and blessed. May body and mind be healthy, longevity increase, and all sicknesses, karmic obstacles, and afflictions be eliminated. May you attain wealth and honor in this life and the next, enjoy abundant food and clothing, a dignified appearance, and the admiration of beings. May all your wishes be fulfilled, under the protection of the Three Jewels. May you cultivate the Bodhi mind, complete both internal and external practices in accordance with the Dharma, gain great wisdom, master the five sciences, penetrate worldly and Dharma principles, develop supreme faculties, perfect merit and wisdom, and swiftly attain Buddhahood.”