Dear Dharma Friends,
Thrangu Monastery will perform Tomb-Sweeping Festival Prayers (Prayers for the Deceased) on April 5, 2011.
Session one: 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Session two: 7:30pm-9:00pm
According to Chinese traditions, the Tomb-Sweeping Festival is a time to pay respects to one's ancestors and to tidy their gravesites. This year, the Tomb-Sweeping Festival falls on April 5th. On that day, The Thrangu Monastery will perform prayers for the deceased and you are invited to join us. Family members can make offerings to the three jewels, recite mantras and prayers, and dedicate the merits to the deceased. By those merits we aspire that the deceased could be reborn in the Pure Land of the Amitahba Buddha and achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible. 
Through the prayers for the deceased, negative karmas can be purified, and their consciousness can be transferred to the Pure Land. It is also beneficial to those who have died recently and are in the intermediate state on their way to the lower realms. The prayers can help change their rebirths to the human realm or the Pure Land. Other sentient beings can also be liberated from the lower realms and reborn in the Pure Land. By performing the pujas and prayers, family members and friends who are left behind can also accumulate a lot of merits through their offerings of flowers and lights and paying respects to the deceased. Please come and join us in this meritorious event.
Registration:
1. By mail: Please fill out the form Request For Prayers For the Deceased and send it together with a check to:Thrangu Monastery, 8140, No. 5 Road, Richmond, BC V6Y 2V4
2. In person: at the Thrangu Monastery office front desk
3. Email the information to rabjor@thrangumonastery.org with the subject: (Prayers for the Deceased) or fax the completed form to 778-297-6033, and call the office with credit card payment details.
Note : All payments should be made before 7:00pm on April 5, 2011 (Tuesday)
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Tel: (778) 297-6010
E-mail: rabjor@thrangumonastery.org