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Holy Buddhist
Relics Exhibition
at Quang Duc Monastery
(11th-19th
October 2008)
Saturday: 11-10-2008:
05.00am-06.30am:
Wake up and Morning chanting (by Ven Nguyen Tang)
07.00am-08.00am: Breakfast
11.00am-12.00pm:
Opening
Ceremony - Welcoming the
Holy Relics to the Main Shrine (photo)
12.00pm-01.30pm: Lunch time (free vegetarian meal will be
served)
02.00pm-03.30pm: Teaching: “Buddhist Relics: Why they
are revered & how to view them” (Presented by Geshe
Konchok Tsering, Spiritual Director of The Great Stupa)
(photo)
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04.00pm-05.00pm: DVD presentation: “The Great Stupa of
Universal Compassion”
05.30pm-06-15pm: Dinner
07.00pm-08.30pm: Teaching: Senior Ven. Thich Quang Ba
from Canberra (photo)
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08.00pm-10.00pm: Viewing of Relics
(photo)
Sunday: 12-10-2008:
05.00am-06.30am: Wake up and Morning chanting (by Ven Nguyen
Tang)
07.00am-08.00am: Breakfast
09.00am-10.00am: Viewing of Relics
10.30am-12.00pm: Sunday Vietnamese Chanting (Conducted
by Senior Ven. Thich Tam Phuong)
(photo)
12.30pm-01.30pm: Lunch
02.00pm-03.30pm: Teaching: Venerable
Thubten Gyatso
(photo) -->
mp3
04.00pm-05.30pm: Movie: “Kundun” (about the life of the His
Holiness the Dalai Lama)
05.30pm-06-15pm: Dinner
07.00pm-08.30pm: Teaching: Venerable Thich Nguyen Tang)
(photo) --->mp3
09.00pm-10.00pm: Viewing of Relics & Resting
Monday: 13-10-2008:
05.00am-06.30am: Wake up and Morning chanting (by Ven
Nguyen Tang)
07.00am-08.00am: Breakfast
09.00am-10.00am: Viewing of Relics
10.30am-12.00pm: Vietnamese Chanting (Conducted by
Senior Ven. Thich Tam Phuong)
12.30pm-01.30pm: Lunch
02.00pm-03.30pm: Viewing of Relics
04.00pm-05.30pm: Movie:
05.30pm-06-15pm: Dinner
07.00pm-08.30pm: Teaching: Venerable
Kotte Santhindriya
Thero (photo) -->mp3
09.00pm-10.00pm: Viewing of Relics & Resting
Tuesday: 14-10-2008:
05.00 am-06.30am: Wake up and Morning chanting (by Ven
Nguyen Tang)
07.00am-08.00am: Breakfast
09.00am-10.00am: Viewing of Relics
10.30am-12.00pm: Vietnamese Chanting (by Senior Ven.
Thich Tam Phuong)
12.30pm-01.30pm: Lunch
02.00pm-03.30pm: Viewing of Relics
04.00pm-05.30pm: Movie:
05.30pm-06-15pm: Dinner
07.00pm-08.30pm: Teaching:
Venerable Losang
Tenzin: “Karma” (photo) -->
mp3
09.00pm-10.00pm: Viewing of Relics & Resting
Wednesday: 15-10-2008:
05.00am-06.30am:
Wake up and Morning chanting (by Ven Nguyen Tang)
07.00am-08.00am: Breakfast
09.00am-10.00am: Viewing of Relics
10.30am-12.00pm: Vietnamese Chanting (by Senior Ven.
Thich Tam Phuong)
12.30pm-01.30pm: Lunch
02.00pm-03.30pm: Viewing of Relics
04.00pm-05.30pm: Movie:
05.30pm-06-15pm: Dinner
07.00pm-08.30pm: Teaching:
Venerable Ayya
Sucinta (photo) -->
mp3
09.00pm-10.00pm: Viewing of Relics & Resting
Thursday: 16-10-2008:
05.00am-06.30am: Wake up and Morning chanting (by Ven
Nguyen Tang)
07.00am-08.00am: Breakfast
09.00am-10.00am: Viewing of Relics
10.30am-12.00pm: Vietnamese Chanting (by Senior Ven.
Thich Tam Phuong)
12.30pm-01.30pm: Lunch
02.00pm-03.30pm: Viewing of Relics
04.00pm-05.30pm: Movie:
05.30pm-06-15pm: Dinner
07.00pm-08.30pm: Teaching:
Venerable Jampa
Drolma, (photo) -->
mp3
09.00pm-10.00pm: Viewing of Relics & Resting
Friday: 17-10-2008:
05.00am-06.30am: Wake up and Morning chanting (by Ven
Nguyen Tang)
07.00am-08.00am: Breakfast
09.00am-10.00am: Viewing of Relics
10.30am-12.00pm: Vietnamese Chanting (by Senior Ven.
Thich Tam Phuong)
12.30pm-01.30pm: Lunch
02.00pm-03.30pm: Viewing of Relics
04.00pm-05.30pm: Movie:
05.30pm-06-15pm: Dinner
07.00pm-08.30pm: Teaching:
Venerable Thubten
Lhundrup
(photo) -->
mp3
09.00pm-10.00pm: Viewing of Relics & Resting
Saturday: 18-10-2008:
05.00am-06.30am: Wake up and Morning chanting (by Ven
Nguyen Tang)
07.00am-08.00am: Breakfast
09.00am-10.00am: Viewing of Relics
11.00am-12.00pm: Tibetan Chanting (by Ven. Khedup and
Ven. Michael Yeshe) :
mp3
11.00am-12.00pm: Kathina ceremony
at the Srilanka Temple: (photo)
12.30pm-01.30pm: Lunch
02.00pm-03.30pm: Teaching:
Venerable Chi Kwang
Sunim: “The 10 Ox Herding Teachings”
(photo) -->
mp3
04.00pm-05.30pm: Movie:
05.30pm-06-15pm: Dinner
07.00pm-08.30pm: Vietnamese Chanting (by Senior Ven.
Thich Tam Phuong) (photo)
09.00pm-10.00pm: Viewing of Relics & Resting
Sunday: 19-10-2008:
05.00am-06.30am: Wake up and Morning chanting (by Ven
Nguyen Tang)
07.00am-08.00am: Breakfast
09.00am-10.00am: Viewing of Relics
10.30am-12.00pm: Closing Ceremony (photo)
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Holy Buddhist relics
to bless Melbourne
Melbourne will be blessed by a tour of one of the world’s largest
collections of sacred Buddhist relics. Several thousands Buddhists are
expected to view and venerate these relics which are said to provide a
blessing to each city they visit.
The Great Stupa Holy Relic Tour Melbourne 2008 will held at Quang Duc
Temple, 105 Lynch Road, Fawkner. It will be open daily from October 11
to 19 and entry is free. The relic tour will commence with a magnificent
multi-tradition ceremony on the morning of Saturday October 11. All are
most welcome to attend.
The relics are on loan from the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion that
is being built in Bendigo Victoria. Around 100 individual relics will be
on display including those of Shakyamuni Buddha, Kasyapa Buddha, 16
Arhants, Shariputra, the 5th and 13th Dalai Lama, Masters from the Thai,
Vietnamese, Chinese and Tibetan traditions. Many of these relics date
from the time of the Buddha and even earlier. Even in these days, holy
beings are still manifesting relics. Several relics in the Great Stupa
Holy Relic collection have been produced in recent years. For example
Luang Poo Chob, a forest monk from Thailand and Geshe Lama Konchog from
Nepal, whose heart relic is included in the tour, passed away in 2001.
This relic tour has already been viewed by tens of thousands in
Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
In each city it is hoped that the Great Stupa Holy Relic Tour will be
the cause of harmony and unification between Buddhist groups and all
religions.
The visit will coincide with Buddhist talks and updated information on
the Melbourne tour can be found on the Great Stupa website:
www.stupa.org.au and Quang Duc website:
www.quangduc.com
For further information please phone:
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Ian Green,
Chairman, The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion
on 0417 398877.
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Venerable Nguyen Tang,
Quang Duc Temple on 0412 794254.
The Great Stupa - a powerful
force for world peace
The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion is being built at Atisha Centre
near Bendigo in southern Australia.
It will be the same size and design as the Great Stupa of Gyantse that
was built in Tibet in the 15th century. Being 50 metres
square at it's base and rising to a height of nearly 50 metres the Great
Stupa will be the largest stupa in the western world.
The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion will be a symbol of peace in the
world. It will also be place of pilgrimage for Buddhists of all
traditions. Located next to the Stupa are a meditation centre and a
monastery.
"This stupa will be very significant for Buddhist Spirituality and
Tibetan culture. Support for such noble work is a good method to create
virtuous Karma." His Holiness Dalai Lama
"It will give so much peace, so much peace of mind to people all over
the world. It will purify the mind so that people get inner peace."
Lama Thubten Zopa (Spiritual Director FPMT)
Sacred relics of the Buddha
Relics arise due to the purity of the spiritual master’s
mind. Small, crystalline, pearl-like deposits called ringsel appear
within the ashes when the body is cremated. From the time of the Buddha
these relics have been objects of veneration. Buddhists believe that by
paying respect to relics they purify their minds, collect positive merit
and create the causes to achieve liberation and enlightenment.
Shortly after his passing, the Buddha instructed his students to cremate
his body and place his relics in a stupa. People could visit the stupa,
venerate it and renew their connections with the teachings. Since that
time hundreds of thousands of stupas have built, commemorating great
teachers and symbolising the brilliance of the enlightened mind.
In
the “Lion’s Roar of Maitreya” Sutra, the Buddha said;
“Whether you make offerings to me now or in the future
you make offerings to my relics the merit will be the same
the ripened result will be the same.”
Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said that "Viewing and venerating these
holy objects creates the cause for enlightenment"
Relics on tour to Melbourne
Relics being toured to Melbourne include Shakyamuni
Buddha, Buddha Kasyapa, Moggalana, Shariputra, 16 arhants, Lama Je Tsong
Khapa, His Holiness 5th Dalai Lama, His Holiness 13th
Dalai Lama, Phra Sivali, Luang Poo Choop, Thai arhants, relics from the
Sakya tradition, Atisha, Dromtonpa, holy objects from the Gyantse stupa, Venerable
Pai Sheng, Master Ven. Shih Siew Chin, Venerable Thich Huyen Vi, Guru
Rinpoche, His Holiness 16th karmarpa, Lama Thubten Yeshe,
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Geshe Lama Konchog and Ribur Rinpoche.
About Stupas
A
stupa is a sacred symbol of Enlightenment and the path to Enlightenment
that promotes harmony and peace within our world. As Lama Zopa Rinpoche
said "Just seeing, touching or even dreaming about such a great stupa
can be the cause for Enlightenment." As His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse
Rinpoche said "A stupa creates a lightning rod for the blessings of your
guru, and for the blessings of the Buddha's of the 10 directions and the
three times to descend."
Stupas are often a repository for the relics of great saints and
teachers. To a Buddhist such relics give immense power to a stupa
because the essence of the teacher's wisdom is distilled into their
relics.
The word "stupa" is Sanskrit for "to heap" and this refers to the mound
like shape of the earliest stupas. Stupas were first built in
pre-Buddhist times as burial mounds raised over the graves of Asian
kings.
Shortly after his passing, the Buddha instructed his students to cremate
his body and place his remains in a stupa. People could visit the stupa,
venerate it and renew their connections with the teachings. Since that
time hundreds of thousands of stupas have built, commemorating great
teachers and symbolising the brilliance of the enlightened mind.
Ven Nguyen Tang of Quang Duc Temple discusses
Melbourne Relic Tour with Judy and Ian Green.
The
weekly radio program Spirit of Things on ABC Radio National features
an interview with Ian Green regarding the Holy Relics at Quang Duc
Monastery. The program went to air at 6pm on Sunday and is repeated
Tuesday 1pm and Wednesday 2am. Quang Duc net readers can hear the
interview on line in here or
download
