LSCT tEMPLE

嗡。古魯。蓮生悉地吽。
Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hum. Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hum. Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hum.

List Of Services

  • Provide a venue for spiritual cultivation.
  • Buddhist teachings
  • schedule a visit
  • consecration of Buddhist statues
  • Annual Deity of Longevity Registration : Lighting the Lamp of Enlightenment : Annual Guardian deity Registration
  • Deliverance Recitation of Bardo & Performed recitation of scriptures for auspicious
  • Placing memorial tablets for ancestors, attached spirits, and unborn or deceased children

Any Questions, CALL

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+1(425) 882-0916

服務項目

  • 提供修行場所
  • 佛學解說
  • 預約參訪
  • 佛像開光
  • 安太歲、點光明燈、安延生位
  • 紅白事誦經
  • 安奉祖先牌位、水子靈牌位、纏身靈牌位

有任何疑問，請撥

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+1(425) 882-0916

服務項目

  • 提供修行場所
  • 佛學解說
  • 預約參訪
  • 佛像開光
  • 安太歲、點光明燈、安延生位
  • 紅白事誦經
  • 安奉祖先牌位、水子靈牌位、纏身靈牌位
Provide a venue for spiritual cultivation.

Temple is open every day, welcome everyone to visit, and join the cultivation

Cultivation is about correcting one’s behavior. “Do no evil, practice all virtues, purify one’s intentions. This is the teaching of all Buddhas.” In the realm of True Buddha Tantric Dharma, reciting the Purification Mantra serves as an antidote to impure body, speech, and mind. Reciting the Invocation Mantra is an antidote to the lack of affinity with the Buddha (not being close to sentient beings and Buddhas/Bodhisattvas). Engaging in grand prostrations is an antidote to one’s arrogance. Practicing Samadhi meditation is an antidote to one’s scattered mind and so on. Through consistent and diligent cultivation, one naturally cultivates inner brightness and experiences the joy of the Dharma. In the future, one will ascend to the pure land of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, attaining the fruition of enlightenment.

 

Open Hours:
Monday to Saturday: 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday Group Practice Activity: 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Sunday: 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Buddhist teachings

In the mundane world, there is more suffering than joy, and every individual faces various problems in body and mind. Shakyamuni Buddha taught the eighty-four thousand Dharma approachs as remedies for the eighty-four thousand afflictions of sentient beings.

Once, someone asked Living Buddha Lian-Sheng, “How can we eliminate karmic afflictions?”

 

Living Buddha Lian-Sheng replied, “It is not through eliminating calamities and seeking blessings or longevity, nor solely through worshiping deities and Buddhas that we can eliminate karmic afflictions. All sentient beings with physical bodies are inevitably subject to birth, aging, illness, and death. Form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness are the intangible aggregates of karma. The greed, anger, and ignorance in our minds are the fundamental intangible karmic afflictions. By cultivating purity in body, speech, and mind, we are eliminating karmic afflictions. It is essential to sincerely repent for past karmic offenses and diligently practice the teachings of Buddhism to truly eliminate karmic afflictions.”

 

Repentance is used to counter past afflictions.
Altruism is used to counter jealousy.
Purifying the body is used to counter impure physical actions.
Purifying speech is used to counter false speech, divisive speech, harsh speech, and frivolous speech.
Purifying the mind is used to counter deluded thoughts and scatteredness…

 

The Buddha Dharma is profound and subtle, vast and pure, beyond conception. It can bring immeasurable peace and happiness to sentient beings. Everyone is welcome to seek advice on the Buddha Dharma, discuss its principles, and attain the perfect clarity of wisdom, ultimately realizing the fragrance of the Fivefold Dharmakaya of one’s true nature.
schedule a visit

Schools, organizations, students, and individuals from all walks of life are welcome to make reservations for visits to Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple. Please send a letter or email to the temple, and we will assist you in arranging the necessary details.

Once, someone asked Living Buddha Lian-Sheng, “How can we eliminate karmic afflictions?”

 

Living Buddha Lian-Sheng replied, “It is not through eliminating calamities and seeking blessings or longevity, nor solely through worshiping deities and Buddhas that we can eliminate karmic afflictions. All sentient beings with physical bodies are inevitably subject to birth, aging, illness, and death. Form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness are the intangible aggregates of karma. The greed, anger, and ignorance in our minds are the fundamental intangible karmic afflictions. By cultivating purity in body, speech, and mind, we are eliminating karmic afflictions. It is essential to sincerely repent for past karmic offenses and diligently practice the teachings of Buddhism to truly eliminate karmic afflictions.”

 

Repentance is used to counter past afflictions.
Altruism is used to counter jealousy.
Purifying the body is used to counter impure physical actions.
Purifying speech is used to counter false speech, divisive speech, harsh speech, and frivolous speech.
Purifying the mind is used to counter deluded thoughts and scatteredness…

 

The Buddha Dharma is profound and subtle, vast and pure, beyond conception. It can bring immeasurable peace and happiness to sentient beings. Everyone is welcome to seek advice on the Buddha Dharma, discuss its principles, and attain the perfect clarity of wisdom, ultimately realizing the fragrance of the Fivefold Dharmakaya of one’s true nature.
consecration of Buddhist statues

Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple holds a group practice event every Saturday, and respectfully invites the Grand master, Sheng Yen Lu to consecrate the Buddha statues.

If devotees have Buddha statues that need consecration, they can bring the statues to the main hall in advance and place them on the altar table designated by the staff. The sponsorship fee is voluntary

 

The significance of consecration is to merge the Dharma body and the physical body.

 

When the Dharma body and the physical body are merged, we offer incense, make prostrations, and praise, obtaining ten benefits: 1) fertility of the land, 2) safety and prosperity of the home, 3) deceased ancestors reborn in heavenly realms, 4) longevity and well-being for the living, 5) fulfillment of aspirations, 6) protection from water and fire disasters, 7) elimination of depletion and waste, 8) prevention of nightmares, 9) divine protection in all activities, 10) encountering holy causes more frequently.

 

Opening the eyes illuminates the world, opening the mouth benefits and saves others with speech, opening the ears hears and relieves suffering, opening the heart shows compassion to all beings, opening the hands displays supportive Dharma mudras, opening the feet travels far and wide, and opening the golden body radiates light in every pore.

 

The practitioner with opened eyes resides as the ruler of the mind. Through the lineage of the honored ones transmitting the Dharma, the self-nature returns to awakening.
Annual Deity of Longevity Registration : Lighting the Lamp of Enlightenment : Annual Guardian deity Registration

The Chinese traditional calendar is based on the system of heavenly stems and earthly branches for chronological reckoning. This year is represented by Gui Mao. In terms of direct conflict (known as clashing), it clashes with the Rabbit and Rooster zodiac signs, while in terms of indirect conflict, it clashes with the Horse and Rat zodiac signs.

Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple has already prayed for the compassionate protection and blessings of General Pi Shi, the Great Commander of the Yearly Tai Sui Star, in the Year of Gui Mao. Everyone is welcome to sign up and offer reverence to the Pi Shi Star of the current year, ensuring the well-being and prosperity of oneself and the whole family. The cost is voluntary and based on your own willingness.
 
Tai Sui Incantation:
The three lights shine brightly, commanding the heavenly sun and moon to respond. The Southern and Northern Dipper guide the Five Elements. Om Buddha reveals the divine decree. The Eight Trigrams and ancestral masters take their form. Following the imperial edict, in the Year of Ren Yin, we welcome the Pi Shi Star to guard this temple. The Seven Stars and Five Thunderbolts protect from both sides, while the Six Jia divine generals stand before the temple. The Six Ding heavenly soldiers guard the rear camp. Heavenly officials bestow blessings, and auspicious gods gather here. With the disciples’ sincere three prostrations, we humbly invite the Star Deity to ensure peace and security, bringing light and respect to this temple. May the entire family be safe and prosperous, protecting lives and homes. As the Yearly Tai Sui arrives, we urgently request adherence to this decree.
 
2. Lighting the Brightness Lamp
Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple provides an annual service of lighting the Brightness Lamp. Everyone is welcome to sign up for lighting the lamps. The cost is voluntary and based on your own willingness.
As taught by the Buddha, “If sentient beings make offerings of light, they will receive ten kinds of merits: (1) Illuminating the world like a lamp, (2) Having indestructible physical eyes, (3) Attaining the divine eye, (4) Developing good wisdom regarding good and evil, (5) Dispelling great darkness, (6) Attaining wisdom and brightness, (7) Transmigrating in the world, always avoiding dark places, (8) Accumulating great blessings, (9) Being reborn in heaven upon death, (10) Attaining speedy realization of Nirvana. These are the ten kinds of merits obtained from making offerings of light.”
 
3. Bestowing Ancestral Life Seats
On the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month, as well as on the holy birthdays of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple conducts grand ceremonies with ancestral life seat dedications. During the ritual, monastic sangha recites the Medicine Buddha’s sacred mantra and performs empowerment, dedicating the merits to ancestral life seats. We wish all virtuous devotees who dedicate ancestral life seats: May the Buddha’s light shine upon your destined time of birth, as calamitous stars recede and auspicious stars appear. May the Nine Radiations safeguard longevity and bring harmony to your fortune. May you be blessed with eternal well-being and longevity.
Everyone is welcome to sign up for dedicating ancestral life seats for the current year. The cost is voluntary and based on your own willingness.
Deliverance Recitation of Bardo & Performed recitation of scriptures for auspicious

The term "red and white events efers to occasions that are either joyous and celebratory (represented by the color red) or solemn and mournful (represented by the color white).

For devotees who have joyous occasions such as weddings or wish to seek health, longevity, and other worldly blessings, you can contact our temple for red event chanting and blessings. The sponsorship fee is voluntary, and devotees are kindly requested to bear the expenses for offering supplies to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
 
In the event of a funeral in the family, devotees can contact our temple for white event chanting and rituals for the salvation of the departed. The white event chanting and rituals can take place either in our temple’s main hall or at the funeral parlor. The sponsorship fee is voluntary, and devotees are kindly requested to bear the expenses for offering supplies to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

 

Placing memorial tablets for ancestors, attached spirits, and unborn or deceased children

Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple has a Ksitigarbha Hall where devotees from all walks of life can enshrine memorial tablets for their ancestors, spirits of water, and spirits in need of help.

Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple has a Ksitigarbha Hall where devotees from all walks of life can enshrine memorial tablets for their ancestors, spirits of water, and spirits in need of help. During the noon offering ceremony, the monastic sangha visits the Ksitigarbha Hall to chant sutras and dedicate merits for the liberation of all departed beings to the Pure Land.

 

Regarding ancestral tablets, it is important to note that families with the same surname or address should enshrine their ancestors on the same tablet.

 

For the spirits of water, there is a general tablet, and a separate register has been created to provide detailed information.

 

For the spirits in need of help, there is also a general tablet, and a separate register has been created to provide detailed information.

 

Once the tablets are enshrined, they will remain in the Ksitigarbha Hall permanently. The sponsorship fee is still voluntary, and the enshrining parties are kindly requested to consider the relevant expenses of the temple.
We welcome those who wish to pay their respects in person or send donations for offering rituals and other virtuous acts of support.

Welcome everyone to come and offer incense to pay respects to the Buddha

Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hum. Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hum. Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hum.
嗡。古魯。蓮生悉地吽。