Generating Boundless Merits through the Power of Generosity

Generosity is a fundamental virtue celebrated in various cultures and spiritual traditions worldwide, including Buddhism. It encompasses three types of generosity: material giving, giving fearlessness and giving wisdom. Engaging in these acts of generosity brings numerous benefits, fostering connection, compassion, and personal growth. Let's explore these types of generosity and the encouraging reasons to embrace them in our lives.

  1. Material Generosity: Material generosity involves giving possessions, resources, or aid to those in need. By sharing our resources, we alleviate suffering, cultivate empathy, and detach from material possessions, promoting inner peace and gratitude.

  2. Generosity of Fearlessness: Generosity of fearlessness offers support and comfort to those facing difficulties. By providing emotional, mental, or physical assistance, we create a caring community and develop courage, empathy, and interconnectedness.

  3. Generosity of Dharma: Generosity of Dharma entails sharing knowledge and insights to uplift others. By imparting wisdom, we inspire growth, foster collective well-being, and deepen our own understanding and commitment to personal growth.

365 Days Auspicious Mother Lamp Sponsorship

Offering light, in particular, is a special door of dependent arising to quickly complete the accumulation of merit and receive blessings. It is said in the Second Chapter of the Root Tantra of Chakrasamvara (manifestation of Shakyamuni Buddha), “If you wish for sublime realization, offer hundreds of lights”. The lamp symbolizes the light of wisdom that dispels the darkness of ignorance. As expounded by Lord Buddha in the Sutra of Clarifying Karma, making lamp offerings would also allow one to receive great enjoyment of wealth, to be reborn in the deva or human realm, and to swiftly attain liberation and enlightenment.

The Auspicious Mother Lamp is constantly lit, symbolizing a continuous stream of blessing that benefit yourself and all sentient beings.

Prayer Wheel Sponsorship

Prayer wheels are an important element of Tibetan Buddhist practice, and they are very holy objects. They are cylinders filled with compassionate prayers known as mantras; when a prayer wheel is turned, blessings spread to surrounding sentient beings and the general environment. The blessings are multiplied by the number of prayers inside the wheel, thus multiplying the benefits. The teachings say that whenever a prayer wheel is spun, that location becomes a blessed holy place. Merely turning a prayer wheel brings great purification of negative actions, benefit beings in the lower realms and accumulation of merits.

Types of Prayer Wheels:

  • Amitabha Prayer Wheel

  • Medicine Buddha Prayer Wheel

  • Vajrasattva Prayer Wheel

  • White Tara Prayer Wheel

  • Chenrezig Prayer Wheel

  • Green Tara Prayer Wheel

  • Padmasambhava Prayer Wheel

  • Dzambala Prayer Wheel

Buddha Niche Sponsorship

“By making statues of the Buddha and by making offerings to statues of Buddha, one accumulates infinite, inconceivable merit that immediately becomes a cause of enlightenment. Every merit accumulated by making statues and by making offerings to statues immediately becomes the cause of enlightenment. Without a doubt, every single one becomes a cause of enlightenment.”

By sponsoring Buddha statues, one will not only bring blessings to oneself, families, friends and home or businesses, one will also firmly establish connections with the Buddha and their embodiments (ie. Manjusri is the embodiment of Wisdom), purify obstacles, and accumulate immeasurable merits.

 Types of Statues Offerings:

  • Medicine Buddha: For good health, swift recovery from sickness and  purification of obscurations.

  • Manjusri: For wisdom, increase in knowledge and studies.

  • White Tara: For long life, happiness, swift purification of obstacles and blessing of compassion.

  • Green Tara: For swift purification of obstacles and receive blessings rapidly.

  • Yellow Dzambala: For prosperity in order to undertake various Dharma activities,  ripens and enhances our karma so that we may realize an abundance of resources, smooth career and growth of businesses.