ULLAMBANA.

Question: What is  the origin of the Lantern?

A:  Vu Lan ceremony originated from the  Buddhist Buddhist theory ULLAMBANA.  According to this sutra, the Buddha taught him: "As a disciple of the filial piety, you must remember to make offerings to your parents. Every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the children have to pay tribute to the parents of this life as well as the parents of the past seven generations who celebrate the Vajra festival, offering the Buddhas and monks a message of grace. The parents have nourished themselves. "He Mien Kien Lien according to the Buddha, the ten-year-old son offering them increased, turning merit to his mother in the underworld, causing her to escape the ghost, reincarnation Pure Land.

Q: What is the  meaning of Vu Lan Bath?

A:  Vu Lan Bath is the sound from Sanskrit Ullambana. Italian translation is to  save the island .According to his secret, Vu Lan means inversion, allotment of the hung (inverse) of beings in hell. Tanks are pots, brass, representing objects that rescue those sentient beings. Therefore, the common translation of Vu Lan ceremony is the "Saving the island, break the suffering" ( Vu Lan  Buon Kinh Su ,  book down ).

Q:  How to save sentient beings, messiahs, in the world?

A:  Sutra tells us that Moggallana uses his personal spiritual power to try to save his mother in hell and fails. Therefore, in order to save sentient beings in the hell realms, they need to rely on the power of collective monks, the true monks. Previously, on the full moon in April, the Buddha and the monks, (ie, stay a place to practice, not begging alms to avoid stepping on insect bugs reproduce in the rainy season). July is the last day of summer, Buddhists and monks gather to recite the world, sermon. Then the monks will use their pure virtue to guide the sentient beings suffering in the lower world.

Q:  During the ceremony, how do you make offerings?

A:  According to the Buddha, those who want to tastes to parents of seven generations must bring the gastronomy to place in a pot (or container) to offer monks in ten directions. The use of pots or containers of large capacity is to imply that all offerings are for the Sangha collective not dedicated to special monks. All these offerings will be distributed evenly to all monks and nuns.

Q:  Each country, each locality is organized differently, so how the organization is relatively consistent with the Buddha Dharma teachings?

A: The  Emperor Wu in the fourth year (538 AD) had come to Dong Thai pagoda to celebrate the rising, offering. After that, every year, it became common practice, the emperors are very important to the Vu Lan ceremony. In the Way, the Great Emperor also held extremely solemnly, by giving the monk, offering offerings in the palace. In the later tradition of universalization throughout the world, many colors of secular shades (such as burning gold, paper money, worshiping ..), as well as human customs (singing and dancing) are added, complete. The whole truth is not the Buddha taught. Later on in the Thanh Dynasty, there are many monks advocating the worship of Vu Lan Bon, offerings Tam Bao in the daytime, while the evening worship her soul, super hungry ghost.

For the layman, the most basic spirit that Vu Lan is meant to manifest, lies in three aspects:

1. On the basic aspect of being a human being, Vu Lan is a chance to reflect on our own: to make ourselves known to our parents who are still alive and to know our duty to rescue our parents in our past lives as well as to rescue them. the ghost, the hell beings.

2. On the side of cultivating blessed tuition, Vu Lan ceremony is an opportunity to sincerely cultivate heart: you have to know the worship of monks, serve the Three Jewels.

3. On the liberation side, the feast of Vålan is the opportunity to cultivate great compassion: we must see the suffering of all sentient beings as our own.

Because the content of the spirit is a very serious, serious. Therefore, all shades of entertainment, outwardly do not bring true benefits and certainly will not bring merit, if not to say that will cultivate suffering for tomorrow.END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.23/2/2018.