i'm buddhist. :cute:
every new year, chinese new year, and wesak day, we head over to the temple to receive blessings from the monks and become vegetarians for the day.
I dont know if every temple does the same thing, but here's my version.
while we pray the monks will chant and sprinkle holy water at us (using a chrysanthemum flower), and after that we burn josticks, they look like incense sticks, the amount of josticks each person holds is according to the number of family members (i dont know if everyone does it like that, but my family do). and we'll receive this orange strings to tie around our wrists, they're normal cotton strings, and some temples have it in red, or even a few colours in one.
I remember my mom told me that after praying you have to say 'sadu sadu sadu', its like saying thank you before you get up. I like temples, its the perfect place to meditate.
last year i joined my school's buddhist club, and every meeting we have to chant before we start. i dont know the exact spelling, forgive me.
namo tasa, bahavarto araharto sama, sam buddha sa
every new year, chinese new year, and wesak day, we head over to the temple to receive blessings from the monks and become vegetarians for the day.
I dont know if every temple does the same thing, but here's my version.
while we pray the monks will chant and sprinkle holy water at us (using a chrysanthemum flower), and after that we burn josticks, they look like incense sticks, the amount of josticks each person holds is according to the number of family members (i dont know if everyone does it like that, but my family do). and we'll receive this orange strings to tie around our wrists, they're normal cotton strings, and some temples have it in red, or even a few colours in one.
I remember my mom told me that after praying you have to say 'sadu sadu sadu', its like saying thank you before you get up. I like temples, its the perfect place to meditate.
last year i joined my school's buddhist club, and every meeting we have to chant before we start. i dont know the exact spelling, forgive me.
namo tasa, bahavarto araharto sama, sam buddha sa
November 16th, 2008 at 04:33am