On July 30, 2023 (Sunday) 9:00am, Ocean Sky will hold the Ullambana Filial Piety Ceremony. By reciting the Ullambana Sutra and making meal offerings to the Buddha and Sangha, we pray that through the compassion of the Three Jewels, our parents in past lives will be liberated and reborn in better realms, and our living parents will enjoy bountiful blessings and long lives. In this way, we truly repay their kindness and show our respect. It is written in the Ullambana Sutra that Maudgalyayana, using his supernatural Dharma eye, saw his deceased mother suffering in the realm of hungry ghosts as retribution for her evil deeds. He offered her a bowl of food, but it turned into ashes right away. The Buddha taught him how to save his mother: “On the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, the culmination of the Sangha summer retreat, make an offering of the finest food to the Three Jewels. The limitless merits obtained from such offerings can liberate our parents in the past seven or more lives from suffering. This is how we can repay their love and kindness in raising us.” Everyone is invited to take part in this auspicious ceremony to listen to and cultivate the Dharma. May all sentient beings be blessed with merits and wisdom as well as attain enlightenment together.

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April 2, 2023 (Sunday), 9:00 am, Ocean Sky Chan Monastery will hold the Qing Ming Memorial Ceremony, promoting Buddhist compassion in liberating all sentient beings as well as the virtues of filial piety and gratitude. During the ceremony, The Practices and Vows of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva of the Avatamsaka Sutra will be chanted, followed by the Grand Meal Offering, Memorial Prayers, Dharma Talk, and Offering to the Sangha.

We will dedicate all merits from this ceremony towards world peace and prosperity for all people: may our deceased ancestors, loved ones, and foes get reborn in better realms; may our family, friends, and all others be filled with blessings and wisdom; may sentient beings across the ten Dharma realms be liberated from suffering and attain enlightenment. We therefore invite everyone to attend this ceremony to listen to the Dharma teachings and be replete with Dharma Joy.

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To commemorate the birth of the Fundamental Teacher, Shakyamuni Buddha, Ocean Sky Chan Monastery will hold the Buddha Bathing Ceremony on May 20, 2018(Sunday) at 9:00 am. The Buddha Bathing activity will continue for the whole week until May 27 (Sunday).

Buddha was born to this world 3045 years ago, on the 8th day of the 4th month of the lunar calendar. From birth to nirvana, his life story transpired in eight stages and Buddha used pure Dharma water to wash away the suffering and vexations of sentient beings, in order to help them manifest their original pure nature.

The Sutra states: “By bathing the Buddha statue as if he was still living in this world, one can obtain limitless blessings, the amount of which cannot be quantified.” All virtues of the Buddha are perfect and pure. By offering flowers, incense, banners, and by bathing the Buddha statue with fragrant water, we gain limitless blessings and merits.

We urge all devotees to take this auspicious opportunity to bathe the Buddha statue. By outwardly bathing the Buddha statue, we inwardly wash away all polluted thoughts and purify our own mind; that is the true meaning of bathing the Buddha statue.

To celebrate Mothers’ Day, we will also chant The Sutra on the Profound Kindness of Parents, and will dedicate the blessings and merits attained to our parents and teachers, to the Three Jewels, to all sentient beings, and to our country. We will also offer the blessings and merits towards the liberation of all suffering beings in the three miserable realms.

On the same day, after the Buddha Bathing Ceremony, the Monastery will also begin the yearly tradition of summer retreat with the Medicine Buddha Gratitude Ceremony. Afterwards, starting on May 21, lasting a period of three months, the daily chanting of Medicine Buddha Sutra shall take place Mondays thru Fridays, at 7:00–8:00pm.We pray for prosperity for all the people of the world, the attainment of world peace, and the enlightenment of all sentient beings. We welcome your whole family to join in this auspicious triple-event ceremony, and share in Dharma joy.