Agon Shu Toronto Buddhist Temple
Upcoming Event
Mando-E Memorial Lantern Rite - Special Event
Sun, Aug 25
|Toronto
Prayers beyond remembrance and honour - to bring them the light they sought Light up lanterns and pray together to honour and cast the light of liberation to your ancestors - with the holy presence and benevolence of Buddhist Stupa.
Time & Location
Aug 25, 2024, 12:00 p.m. EDT
Toronto, 18 Wynford Dr #608, North York, ON M3C 3S2, Canada
Guests
About the event
Event Type: Official
Mando-E Memorial Lantern Rite is an annual festival held as a religious and cultural tradition of Agon Shu Buddhism based on the firm understanding that humanity requires and is responsible for ancestral veneration and purification since the unresolved sorrows and attachments of ancestors dictate the fate of descendants, working as an irresistible and cumulative force that chains one down to karmic cycle.
Memorial Lanterns are lit, and the Memorial Ceremony will be held before the Sacred Stupa in memory and honour of one's ancestors on this special occasion. Lighting memorial lanterns and praying for ancestors in Agon Shu temple holds great significance because it righteously enshrines the legendary Buddhist Stupa, endowed with Dharmic Power - the definite and absolute force required to purge karma and liberate souls. Dharmic Power cannot be easily found, and true ancestral liberation and karmic liberation cannot be completed even if one realizes…