ksitigarbha bodhisattva

finn SG

may i know which temple offers chanting sessions for 地藏菩萨圣号 where i can join?

please advise if you know.. thanks

Dawnfirstlight SG

Every Thursday from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm at Singapore Buddhist Youth Mission （新加坡佛教青年弘法团) in Clementi. You have to take bus 52, 105 or 106 from the bus stop at Clementi MRT station and alight at the 2nd bus stop. PM me if you need clearer direction. Chanting session is for 地藏经. It is usually地藏经 plus 地藏菩萨圣号. I've not come across any temple that have chanting session for 地藏菩萨圣号 only.

There will be many temples having daily chanting session for 地藏经 in the lunar 7th month. Besides Buddhist Youth Mission, Buddhist Lodge is one of the temple. See the link below :

http://www.sbl.org.sg/images/stories/Events/DiZhangFaHui/dizhangxiaoqingbaoenfahui.jpg

Almond Cookies SG

wrong post

finn SG

There will be many temples having daily chanting session for 地藏经 in the lunar 7th month. Besides Buddhist Youth Mission, Buddhist Lodge is one of the temple. See the link below :

http://www.sbl.org.sg/images/stories/Events/DiZhangFaHui/dizhangxiaoqingbaoenfahui.jpg

thanks... i will check out temples in the east/central 'cos clementi is too far for me.

actually i m looking for chanting of 地藏菩萨圣号 only.

i tried to chant 地藏经 before but find that i can't... gets a bit too scary on the description of hell... how to overcome?

Dawnfirstlight SG

thanks... i will check out temples in the east/central 'cos clementi is too far for me.

actually i m looking for chanting of 地藏菩萨圣号 only.

i tried to chant 地藏经 before but find that i can't... gets a bit too scary on the description of hell... how to overcome?

In the past I found the description of hell and behaviour of the spirits in the 地藏经scary and disgusting. I even doubted it but now I believe every word that is said in the 地藏经. In fact, the truth is even scarier and disgusting than what it is being described in the sutra. The sutra is using words that are considered refine if compare to the truth. I say that because there was a non Buddhist saw the behaviour the spirit similar but worse than what was described in the sutra. She was a Muslim and of course had never read 地藏经 before but she saw and could describe the behaviour of the spirit similar to that being described in the sutra but more disgusting and scarier. What it is written is truth, so to overcome it, you have to face the truth.

2009novice SG

Observe the 5 Precepts... U can chant without fear Lol!

finn SG

actually it's not only the fear per se. it's like the images of ghosts spirits hell death linger in the mind during and after chanting. i find it's very depressing to imbue the mind with these thoughts.

Almond Cookies SG

may i know which temple offers chanting sessions for 地藏菩萨圣号 where i can join?

please advise if you know.. thanks

If no temple chant that Pusa's name y not chant it yourself at home. Or listen to Namo Di Zhang Wang Pu Sa on mp3 and chant with the music mentally.

Almond Cookies SG

Lastime I saw Dante's divine commedy on history channel the hell images linger in my mind I even dream about It in my dreams. After sometime I was OK.

2009novice SG

I was filled with fear after chanting... the descriptions are too vivid...

don't be too depressed about it... think of dedicating merits to them... you feel more positive instead

Almond Cookies SG

Last night I listened to namo di zhang wang pu sa for a long time on my MP4.

Leogirldreamer SG

There is a method taught in the Sutra how to improve your memory. Put a cup of water in front of 地藏菩萨 , chant his name for 49 days and drink the cup of water. You will be blessed by auspicious dream and your memory will be very good after that.

Chanting 地藏菩萨 sutra will help any of your deceased family members/friends/relatives suffering in the haze/hell if you dedicate your merits of chanting to them.

地藏菩萨 sutra is the first sutra i completed (three volumes) and i have always like it.

I chant the whole three books in a temple and the nun came to light the sandalwood sticks for me in the huge incense holder.

Leogirldreamer SG

thanks... i will check out temples in the east/central 'cos clementi is too far for me.

actually i m looking for chanting of 地藏菩萨圣号 only.

i tried to chant 地藏经 before but find that i can't... gets a bit too scary on the description of hell... how to overcome?

This temple main deity is Kitisargarbhva Bodhisattva.

It's a very modern temple with the first eco design in Singpore.

Poh Ern Shih (temple of thanksgiving)

www.pohernshih.org

2009novice SG

Chanting 地藏菩萨 sutra will help any of your deceased family members/friends/relatives suffering in the haze/hell if you dedicate your merits of chanting to them.

地藏菩萨 sutra is the first sutra i completed (three volumes) and i have always like it.

I chant the whole three books in a temple and the nun came to light the sandalwood sticks for me in the huge incense holder.

Cartoon~ lol

Please watch at 2.18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQFhA2GOh2k&feature=related

shanfan SG

Is the sutra about all kinds of spirits on earth and everywhere?

Leogirldreamer SG

Wow ! informative cartoons.

Here is one for today’s Guan Yin Enlightenment Day. How did Guan Yin become a bodhisattva, the origin.

http://youtu.be/e9sNLcBPt5I

shanfan SG

Wow ! informative cartoons.

Here is one for today’s Guan Yin Enlightenment Day. How did Guan Yin become a bodhisattva, the origin.

http://youtu.be/e9sNLcBPt5I

My goodness, this is totally different from what I know! I saw the movie on how Guan Shi Yin Pusa became guan shi yin pusa. Was a her. A daughter of the emperor. She chopped off her hand to cure the father. After that she became guanshi yin pusa.

Confusing.

Leogirldreamer SG

That story is in another lifetime of Guan Yin. Here is another story.

http://youtu.be/Eg46qNVR-lU

Leogirldreamer SG

Keynotes from the Guan Yin Symposium at Poh Meng Temple.

“We need to understand that we ourselves can embody Guan Yin, by developing skills to actually help people, not by looking at people from a distance with some kind of abstract compassion, but by embodying Guan Yin’s compassion in our own lives and in our own behaviour” – Professor Gene Reeves, keynote speaker

Amitayus48 SG

周廣大先生臨終念佛往生

一九八八年在美國首都華府，有位周廣大先生，也是在臨終前三天念佛往生的。他得的病是血癌，醫生放棄治療，這時他的家人慌了，他家裡沒有一個是信仰宗教的，一家人在華府開一間麵包店，此時家人才到處求神求佛，希望有奇蹟出現。也算他運氣好，因緣殊勝，遇到華府佛教會的一位龔振華居士。龔居士是念佛最虔誠的人，專修淨土，講話心直口快，容易得罪人。周先生碰到這麼一個人。龔居士一看，他的病不可能好，所以直截了當勸他不要求病好。他說：「人在世間太苦，你好了之後還不是一樣更苦，有甚麼意義？不如往生到西方極樂世界，到那裡去作佛、作菩薩，回來再度你的家親眷屬，這多好！」周廣大一聽很有道理，立刻就相信，就接受，要求他的太太兒女都幫助他念佛，求往生淨土不求病好。這一個決定下得正確！

佛教會的同修也有幾位前去幫他助念，三天三夜佛號沒有停止。念到第二天，見到地藏菩薩來了，他說出菩薩的樣子，大家聽他講的樣子，是地藏菩薩。龔居士很難得，立刻提醒他，不管甚麼樣佛菩薩、甚麼人，你見到都不能跟他去，一句阿彌陀佛念到底，不見到阿彌陀佛絕對不可以去。這一句非常非常重要。他回過頭來專心念「阿彌陀佛」，念了沒多久，地藏菩薩不見了。念到第三天，他說西方三聖：阿彌陀佛、觀音、勢至，從雲端下來接引他住生。這是現代人，還是在美國，真是稀有的因緣。周先生一生從來沒有接觸過佛教，臨終才遇到龔居士，走得清清楚楚、明明白白，他真的往生，絕對不是假的。

For general knowledge, it depends, 地藏菩薩 may be a demon (mara).