Ullambana 2022

Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Dhamma,

This year Ullambana falls on Sunday, 14 August. As most of you are well aware that the ceremony is held in gratitude to our ancestors and the opportunity to perform meritorious and wholesome deeds so as to transfer the merits accrued from such acts to our ancestors and relatives to relieve them of any sufferings and help them gain rebirth in happy realms.

Ullambana celebration was based on a discourse given by the Buddha principally to the Venerable Mogallana on the practice of filial piety. To help Ven. Mogallana save his deceased mother from suffering the realm of the hungry ghost (Peta), The Buddha advised Mogallana to offer rice, fruits other delicacies as well as requisites to the Sangha members. Only the meritorious power of these monks, who hold the precepts completely and purely, can deliver his mother from the great sufferings in…