The Design of Lamp Offerings at Dharma Drum Mountain

Upon entering the Grand Buddha Hall at Dharma Drum Mountain World Center for Buddhist Education at Jinshan District in Taiwan, the visitors won’t find traditional red or golden lamp offerings commonly seen in other Buddhist monasteries. Instead, what greets their eyes are the Three Buddhas, Amitabha Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha, and Medicine Buddha, enshrined in the center of the Hall, as well as the Buddhist niches on both sides of the hall.
 
Embedded within the white walls beside the Three Buddhas of the Grand Buddha Hall are many Buddhist niches. Inside the Buddhist niches are statues reduced to miniature size of the Three Buddhas at the Hall. The design of the lamp offerings of Dharma Drum Mountain consists in white Buddhist niches featuring white Buddha statues. The pure white lamp offerings shine at the pure white Grand Buddha Hall, creating a distinctive scene of lamp offerings at Dharma Drum Mountain.
 
Dharma Drum Mountain Sangha performs daily morning and evening services, weekly group practices, monthly Dharma services, and yearly large-scale Dharma assemblies. The sangha transfers the merits to those who pray and make the everlasting lamp offerings at the Grand Buddha Hall at Dharma Drum Mountain World Center for Buddhist Education, sincerely wishing each of them physical and mental well-being, freedom from hindrances in every aspect of their lives, and fulfillment of all wishes.



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Resource: Issue 281 of Humanity  Magazine, Dharma Drum Publishing Corporation
Translation: Sinag-ling Li (李祥苓)
Editing: Keith Brown, YKL