The Great Compassion Repentance Puja

Name: The Great Compassion Repentance Puja
Start: 2024-09-27T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 6292 Lockhill Road, San Antonio, TX, United States, Texas 78240

Schedule

Fri Sep 27 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

6292 Lockhill Road, San Antonio, TX, United States, Texas 78240 | San Antonio, TX

According to the “Avatamsaka Sutra,” young Sudhana visited 53 great spiritual benefactors on his path to seek enlightenment. His 27th visit was to Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva (also known as Guanyin Bodhisattva/Quan Am Bo Tat), who was residing at Mount Pu Tuo at that time. Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva taught Sudhana the practice of great compassion to realize the bodhisattva path. To commemorate this, the monastery will conduct the Great Compassion Repentance Puja on Friday, September 27 at 6:30pm.
The Great Compassion Repentance Puja is centered on the chanting of Avalokiteshvara Boddhisattva’s “Great Compassion Dharani Repentence.” It is said that “if one wishes to become a Buddha, one has to practice the Bodhisattva path.” By participating in The Great Compassion Prayer, one not only repents on one’s past negative karma, but also give rise to the qualities of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s noble qualities of compassion, wisdom, motivation and right action. The merits accrued from participating in the Great Compassion Prayer allows one to cultivate self-awareness and reflection and purify one’s mind, freeing them from suffering and past negative karma through the blessings of the Bodhisattva.
During the Puja, we will chant the 25th chapter of the Lotus Sutra, the Great Compassion Mantra 7 times, and Avalokiteshvara’s name 108 times.