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Chinese New Year's 2011 Program

Please send e-mails to pvmpc@pvfhk.org if you would like to attend these activitites

 

  •     There will be no walking and sitting in the evening from 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm during the week of Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2011 and no Friday night practice on Feb 3, 2011. These activities will be resumed from  Feb. 7, 2011

 

   

30.01.2011 (27.12.2010) Sunday
16:00

17:00

 


Offering to the Hungry Ghosts Ceremony

Sangha's Year End Dinner

02.02.2011 (30.12.2010)  Wednesday

New Year's Eve Program

19:00

Dinner

20:30 - 21:30

Walking meditation

22:00 - 23:15

Listening to Thay's Dharma talk from France (in Vietnamese), translation into English

23:30

Sitting meditation

24:00

New Year's Ceremony

03.02 - 04.02.2011
(01 & 02.01.2011, Year of the Rabbit) 
Thursday & Friday)


Programs for the first and second day of the new year

10:00

Ceremony for offering peace and well-being (Thursday Feb. 3)1

Sitting and chanting (Feb. 4, Friday)

11:00

Oracle readings

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Rest

15:00

Receiving guests

18:00

Dinner

19:00

Walking meditation

20:00

Receiving guests

21:00

Rest

 

Notes:

1. Sangha's members can submit names of relatives and friends to receive the merit of this ceremony. In China and Vietnam, this ceremony is often carried out on the 1st and the 14th day of each lunar month, to offer peace and fearlessness for those who are sick or facing difficulties, and offer well-being to them and their loved ones. The Sutra "The Strength of Avalokiteshvara" and the discourse "Turning to the Tathagata" are recited in this ceremony.