Saṅgha Dāna Ceremony: In Memory of Ven. Dr. Dhammanandi’s Teacher

Reported by Ven. Zhen Yuan
On 3-3-2022, a Saṅgha Dāna Ceremony took place “In Memory of Ven. Dr. Dhammanandi’s Teacher”. Special lunch was served and red packets were offered to all members of IBC, including the security guards and the garbage collectors.

Merits were dedicated to Ven. Dr. Dhammanandi’s Teacher. Blessings and merits were also transferred to both Ven. Dr. Dhammanandi and Ven. Do Thi Hong to have a speedy recovery from their COVID infection also.
Wishes from our members were as follows:

I am very happy to hear about Ven Dr. Dhammanandi’s yearly dāna in honor of her teacher. We are all much relieved that Ven. Dr. Dhammanandi and Ven. Do Thi Hong are both doing well.
May everyone be well, safe and happy through the power of their merits and all the merits dedicated to them through this difficult time.
I am looking forward to having both of them back with us soon.
Metta, Anandajoti

I pray and dedicate the merits for Ven. Dhammanandi's Teacher to take good rebirth in a peaceful land. By the way, I want to say thanks to Ven. Dhammanandi, and we also pray and wish Ven. Dhammanandi, Ven. Do Thi Hong and all Covid patients have a speedy recovery, healthy, and peaceful recovery from Covid.
Sadhu sadhu sadhu.
A Mi Đà Phật (Ven. Le Thi Ngoc Hao)

༄༅།།སེམས་ཅན་ནད་པ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ།
མྱུར་དུ་ནད་ལས་ཐར་གྱུར་ཅིག།
འགྲོ་བའི་ནད་རྣམས་མ་ལུས་པ།
རྟག་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་ཤོག །

sems can and pa ji snyed pa/
myur du nad las thar gyur cig/
'gro ba'i nad rnams ma lus pa/
rtag tu 'byung ba med pat shog//
May all sick beings quickly be freed from disease.
May no disease ever come to all living beings.
ཨོཾ ན མོ བྷ ག བ ཏེ། བྷཻ ཥ ཛྱེ གུ རུ བཻ ཌཱུ རྱ པྲ བྷ རཱ ཛཱ ཡ། ཏ ཐཱ ག ཏཱ ཡ། ཨ རྷ
ཏེ སཾ མྱ ཀ སཾ བུ དྡ ཡ། ཏ དྱ ཐཱ། ཨོཾ བྷཻ ཥ ཛྱེ བྷཻ ཥ ཛྱེ། མ ཧཱ བྷཻ ཥ ཛྱེ བྷཻ
ཥ ཛྱེ། རཱ ཛཱ ས མུ དྒ ཏཱ ཡ སྭཱ ཧཱ།
om namo bhagavate bhaishajye guruvaiduryaprabharajaya tathagataya arhate
samyaksambuddhaya tadyathā/ om, bhaishajye bhaishajye mahābhaishajye bhaishajye
rājasamudgatāya svāhā//
(This is the longer mantra; recite as much as you wish)
ཨོཾ བྷཻ ཥ ཛྱེ བྷཻ ཥ ཛྱེ། མ ཧཱ བྷཻ ཥ ཛྱེ བྷཻ ཥ ཛྱེ། རཱ ཛཱ ས མུ དྒ ཏཱ ཡ སྭཱ ཧཱ།།

om, bhaishajye bhaishajye mahābhaishajye bhaishajye rājasamudgatāya svāhā//
(This is the shorter mantra; recite as much as you wish)
Blessing from Mr. Sonam Rinchan

Thank you very much, Ven. Saksith for sending the notification of Ven. Dr. Dhammanandi's alms giving to transfer merits to the Teacher of Dr. Dhammanandi. I also join with the others to transfer merits to the Late Teacher of Dr. Dhammanandi and send the Blessings of the Triple Gem for Ven. Dr. Dhammanandi and Ven.Do Thi Hong for a speedy recovery from the present
ailment. Thank you.
Sukhi Hotu,
Tilak Kariyawasam.

Firstly I would like to thank Dr. Dhammanandi for the lunch offering. Here, I also join with others to pray and transfer the merit to Ven. Dr. Dhammanandi and Ven. Do Thi Hong for a speedy recovery. May all of us be well, healthy, and stay safe.
Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu.

In conclusion, all members have shown their love and selfless care with compassion and wisdom in this problematic pandemic to move forward, spreading the Dhamma with our hearts
and minds.