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Thư Mời TẾT 2018 (Auto)
Thư Mời TẾT 2018 (Auto)
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Xin quý vị ghi tên họ, ngày, tháng, năm sinh, và một hình ảnh ID, gởi cho Chùa Pháp Nhãn sớm để quý Thầy điền vào Điệp Thọ Giới.
Vietnamese American Buddhist Association of Austin, TX
Phap Nhan Temple - A nonprofit Organization
136 The Ranch Road, Del Valle, TX 78617
Tel: 512-366-2686
www.phapnhan.net/ phapnhantemple.com
Email: phapnhantemple@gmail.com
The Invitation Letter of Attending TẾT Holidays
and Praying Peaceful beings for the Year of the Dog - 2018
To Monastics, lay Buddhists, and everyone,
In the poem of New Spring, the author writes:
“The New Spring gives life more fresh colors,
The old and young open their cheerful smiles,
everyone and every family that cultivate together,
welcome the New Spring with their peaceful and joyful minds.”
Every time the old year ends, the new year comes. According to Vietnamese tradition and culture, on the
first spring days of new year, Tết is a good chance and an appropriate time for everyone to come back
home to reunite together joyfully with their loved ones and relatives in their families. Moreover, Tết is a
very important spiritual cultural festival for them to go to a Buddhist Temple or a Church for chanting,
praying for well beings, singing Dharma songs, meditation songs, hymns, and receiving lucky gifts from a
Master at the beginning of new year. In order that your work is convenient, Pháp Nhãn Temple will hold
a Ceremony of Welcoming the Happy Lunar New Year's Eve on Friday evening, February 16, 2018
(on Lunar January 1st in the Year of the Dog). Tết activities program includes:
11:00 am Praying for the Deceased and performing a Ceremony of at the end of lunar year
5:00 pm Performing Repentance
6:00 pm Ceremony of Welcoming the Happy Lunar New Year's Eve, Celebrating Maitreya
Buddha Spring, wishing you the Happy New Year, giving a New Year's lucky gift to you.
On Saturday, Sunday, February 17 & 18, 2018 (on Lunar January 2nd & 3rd)
10:00 am Meditation Practice 10:15 am Chanting the Sutra of blessing & Virtue
11:00 am Dharma Talk 12:00 pm Having cordial lunch
On Saturday, Sunday, February 24 & 25, 2018 (on Lunar January 9th & 10th)
10:00 am Meditation Practice 10:15 am Chanting the Sutra of Medicine Master
11:00 am Dharma Talk 12:00 pm Having cordial lunch
On Saturday, Sunday, March 3 & 4, 2018 (on the Full Day of Lunar January)
10:00 am Meditation Practice 10:15 am Ceremonial Course of Praying for Well beings and
reading your names at the beginning of new year 12:00 pm Having cordial lunch
02:00 pm Ceremony of transmitting Three Triple Gem Refuges and Five Ethical Trainings.2
On occasion of the beginning of the New Year, we wish you and your families peace and happiness in the Dharma.
Tết arrives, all people rejoice in the Buddha –dharma
Spring comes, all places fill with peace – joy.
NAMO MAITREYA BUDDHAYA WITH JOY, PEACE, AND HAPPINESS.
The Abbot of Phap Nhan Temple
Venerable Dharma Teacher Thích Trừng Sỹ
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Please write your full names, DOB, and an ID photo, sent to Phap Nhan Temple so that Master fills them in a Certificate of Ordination.