Monday, December 11, 2006

Customary #2

(2) Marriage Dana

Yesterday 10th December(Sunday) we gave our Marriage Dana in Temple.

This is the second time i join them for the praying. Im still not familiar with the reciting. Cannot catch up !!

Dana means we are giving vegetarian lunch to the temple people as a form of offering to the temple to bless our marriage. One of the Buddhist sutra requires 88 times of kneeling up & down. My mum-in-law said they seldom recite this on sunday, maybe the venerable chose this for our marriage Dana.

After the praying, we proceed to vegetarian lunch. where we both bring the food to the venerable and they return us with the portion of food as kind of blessing.

This is the first celebration of our wedding with the blessing of venerables.

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