Chinese New Year 2024
Hop into the Year of Dragon with us at BW Monastery! Come, immerse yourself in the festive celebrations as we have an array of activities lining up for the young and old to enjoy the festive celebrations.
Chinese New Year’s Eve, Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3: Brilliance 2024
Wishing for happiness, prosperity, wealth, and good looks? Engage in virtuous deeds at the activity booths to sow happy seeds for a blissful future. Have heart-to-heart talk to the Triple Gem and seek guidance in making the wise decisions to transcend into the better version of ourselves.
Check out the posters below on the exciting line-up of festive offerings:
Chinese New Year’s Eve — Seeking Repentance, fortune blessings
The 88 Buddhas Repentance is the most common and important text and practice upheld in the monastery’s Pujas.
The text comprises of the 53 Buddhas’ name from the King of Medicine and the Superior Physician sutra, and the 35 Buddhas’ name from the Sutra of the Heap of Jewels. It is mentioned in chapter 9 of the Sutra of Ksitigarbha on recitation of the Buddhas’ name that, by reciting one Buddha’s name, the merits are already immeasurable, let alone reciting more Buddhas’ name.
Hence, if one can follow the 88 Buddhas Repentance practice and recite the Buddhas’ name, the merits are inconceivable. With utmost sincerity in repenting, one’s proper faith will arise, eliminating non-virtuous deeds, free from miserable realms rebirth, and increase in bliss and wisdom till attaining Buddhahood.
Hence, at the beginning of the new year, let's recite the 88 Buddhas' name to accumulate virtues and bliss, welcome the new year with great joy, for a safe year with all wishes fulfilled.
Event Date: 09/02/2024 (Eve Of Chinese New Year)
Event Timing: 10.30pm to 11.30pm
Let’s welcome spring and ride on the crest of success in the Dragon year. Have you ever experienced much joy and happiness that arose from an entire monastery being filled with lights and lanterns?
For this Chinese New Year, would you like to hang up auspicious lanterns and let the illumination of the Buddha permeates through every corner of the monastery, bathing everyone with Buddha’s kindness?
Make an offering for your family, relatives and friends with the lanterns of prosperity and seek blessings for smooth-sailing career, progressive advancement in studies, for your family to have peace, bliss and wisdom, and send love to all in the world who are affected by the pandemic.
⭐ Lanterns & Charms Display Period : 24/01/2024 - 24/02/2024
⭐ Online Offering Closing Date : 06/02/2024, Tuesday 9pm (Lanterns & Charms)
Supplicate for 15 days (1st till 15th of the first Lunar month)
🎉 Blessing Date : 10/02/2024 - 24/02/2024
⭐ Online Offering Closing Date : 21/02/2024, Thursday 9pm (Blessing Inscriptions)
2024 Offering to the Heavenly Realm
Recitation of Golden Light Sutra
The heaven realm is where the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas manifest too. Through offering to the heavens, paying reverence and with repentance, through the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas’ strength of aspiration, we will be able to benefit all sentient beings to be free from all sufferings and all eliminate obstacles, for bliss and longevity to be obtained, and supplicate for the country to have prosperity, peace, and social stability for its citizens.
🧧 Puja Date : 18/02/2024, Sunday (9th day of 1st Lunar month)
🧧 Puja Time ：8am - 11am
Day 14 and 15: Fortune Blessings
Need some blessings for a smooth-sailing year ahead? Accumulate vast merits and eliminate hurdles ahead with guidance from Venerable during Fortune Blessings. A total of 3 sessions of Fortune Blessings are open to all. Check them out on our calendar and make time for them.
