One Hundred Thousand Buddhas Great Liberation
Ullambana Festival
23 Aug to 7 Sept 2025
The Ullambana Festival, held in the seventh month of the Lunar calendar, is significant in many Asian Buddhist cultures.
It aims to liberate all sentient beings, including our parents, ancestors and departed loved ones. During this period, we will come together for merit accumulation through offering to the Triple Gem, charity to the wandering spirits and reciting mass prayers. By spreading Buddha's universal compassion through these activities, we will benefit both the living and the departed.
This year, our resident Sanghas will be engaged in the practice of 100,000 Buddha Names Sutra, Vairocana Dawning of Blessings Puja and various rituals to request for protection and blessings for everyone. May all beings of the six realms experience the transformative power of great compassion and liberation!
Led by Singha Rinpoche, join us in our yearly tradition of reciting the Samadhi Water Repentance in Mandarin.
Date:
Part 1 - 26 Aug (Tue), 8pm*
Part 2 - 30 Aug (Sat), 2.30pm*
Part 3 - 6 Sept (Sat), 2pm*
*Live streaming will be available.
Divine Protection & Blessings
Four Tormas Puja
《四朵玛法会》
Date:
28 Aug (Thu), 4pm
This puja is beneficial for the healing of various types of illnesses caused by imbalance in the four elements. The ritual also helps us to resolve the vengeful hatred in our karmic creditors towards us.
Ocean of Offering Clouds Raining Down Good Fortune
《祥云降宝香供法会》
Date:
6 Sept (Sat), 8am
By offering sublime incense through a sacred prayer passed down by lineage masters, this ritual helps to purify negativities and bring about wellbeing, auspicious conditions, and great wealth.
Grand Puja for the Congregation of Wealth Deities
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财主护法诸天大法会
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Date:
6 Sept (Sat)
, 5pm
Our resident Sanghas will be performing this auspicious puja to purify the causes of poverty, and invoke the holy presence of wealth deities for bestowing blessings of spiritual and material abundance.
Vairocana Blessings Invocation Grand Puja
《普明大日如来大法会》
Date:
7 Sept (Sun), 7.30am-4pm
This puja is an extensive prayer ritual to Vairocana Buddha, the King of Light, to purify the dark energy and heavy karma for ourselves and our ancestors, and bring about a surge of love, positivity, and support.
Generate Great Merits on Buddha's Joyful Day
佛欢喜日广修福田
Date:
6 Sept (Sat)
According to the Ullambana Sutra, one who makes offering to the noble Sanghas on Buddha’s Joyful Day can accumulate Vast merits for parents of this life and past seven livetimes. Offering of requisites will be made collectively to more than 200 Venerables, including:
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Lineage Gurus and resident Sanghas of
International Thekchen Choling Temples
🪷 Shelkar Cheode Ganden Legshedling (Nepal)
🪷 Namgyal Jyangchub Choeling Monastery (Nepal)
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Chuwar Gadhen Drophen Ling Monastery (Nepal)
Merits will be dedicated in the respective temples for the names received.
Ceremony of One Hundred Thousand Buddhas
十万佛洪名大法会
Date:
27*, 28, 29, 30, 31, Aug
2, 3 Sept
*Live streaming will be available.
When all Buddhas throughout time and space achieve enlightenment, their names have the power of all their past cultivation and prayers. That is why reciting their names have so much power to purify our defilements and eons of negative karma.
Through offering and supporting our Sanghas in the recitation of this rare Sutra, brings bountiful merits and favourable conditions for abundance and the flourishing of Dharma. Merits will be dedicated before the Buddhas with a light offering, beneficial for the living or departed.
Generate great merit by supporting the recitation of this sublime text.
Grand Meritorious Offering and Charity
超荐与普施功德法会
Experience Thekchen Choling's annual tradition of elegant food offerings, merging transmigratory prayers for ancestors, karmic creditors, and wandering spirits. This grand prayer ceremony generates wholesome merits, benefiting both the deceased and the living.
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Grand Gratitude Offering to Ancestors
感恩超荐历代祖先
Date:
30 Aug (Sat), 2.30pm
🪷 Grand Harmonising Offering to Karmic Creditors
化解超荐冤亲债主
Date: 30 Aug (Sat), 2.30pm
🪷 Grand Meritorious Charity to Wandering Spirits
普施超荐无主孤魂
Date: 31 Aug (Sun), 2.30pm
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Great Compassion & Liberation Tablets
慈航普渡牌位By offering the tablets, merits generated from our collective prayers will be dedicated to your family ancestors/dearly departed/past creditors/unfortunate unborn/beings we have eaten and harmed.
🪷 Grand Memorial Tablet for the Ancestors
堂上历代祖先莲位
🪷 Memorial Tablet for the Dearly Departed 往生者莲位
🪷 Tablet for the Past Creditors 累世冤亲债主莲位
🪷 Grand Dedication Tablet for the Past Creditors
累世冤亲债主大莲位
🪷 Memorial Tablet for the Unfortunate Unborn (Abortion) 堕胎婴灵莲位
🪷 Memorial Tablet for the Unfortunate Unborn (Miscarriage) 流产婴灵莲位
🪷 Dedication Tablet for the Beings We have Eaten and Harmed 累世我所食及所害之众生莲位
🪷 Rainbow Bridge Memorial Tablet 爱宠莲位
Request Protection from Guanyin 观音菩萨护佑
The names of devotees will be placed at the throne of Thousand-Arm Guanyin to request protection against sudden illnesses, unfortunate events and spirit disturbances in the lunar 7th month period.
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Compassion and Liberation Set
慈航配套Each set comes with 10 essential offerings for a dedication tablet of your choice. Our Venerable Sanghas will personally bless the offerings and recite a special prayer according to the name indicated on the tablet, praying for the departed to have swift rebirth in Amitabha’s Pureland.
Exquisite Ceremonial Offering
内坛御供We will be setting up elaborate shrine offerings in the main hall before the Dharma Throne with ceremonial wares holding light, incense, flowers, fruits and vegetarian delicacies. These will be offered to all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, realised masters, protectors and celestial beings. Through this offering, may you have a deep connection with Buddha and have all aspirations fulfilled!
Prayers for Dearly Departed Pets
为已逝的宠物祈愿
In our Ullambana event, these tablets with names of deceased pets will be placed at the temple, where our resident Sanghas will dedicate merits everyday to pray for their higher and more fortunate rebirth.
You may join any of the chanting programmes, or offer flowers to express your kind thoughts.
Geshe Kangyur: Story of the Ullambana Sutra
持称格西:《佛说盂兰盆经》的故事
Ullambana Festival is one of the many names for this festival that takes place on the 15th day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar, celebrated by many Asian cultures.
Did you know? This festival has a Buddhist origin, and the most important practice on this day is actually to make offerings to the Sangha (ordained monks and nuns), as taught by Shakyamuni Buddha in ‘Ullambana Sutra’.
➤ Watch Geshe Kangyur's explanation on YouTube
➤ Read more about Ullambana here
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