Great necessity Offering Ceremony for Over 40,000 Temples

Date: April 22, 2025
Venue: Dhammakaya Temple, Thailand

Great Alms Offering Ceremony for Over 40,000 Temples

We warmly invite you to join this auspicious grand ceremony, where we come together in unity to accumulate merits and bring light to the world.

You are welcome to attend in person to experience the grandeur of this sacred gathering. If you are unable to be present, you are still welcome to participate by making an offering with a joyful heart.

Refrain from all evil, cultivate all good, purify the mind, and eliminate mental greed, hatred, and delusion.

Diligently accumulate merit, cultivate oneself, realize the Dhamma, support Buddhism, and propagate the Dhamma for the benefit of all beings.

Schedule on Earth Day 2025
22 April 2025
At Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Pathum Thani province

The Morning Session at Dhammakaya Assembly Hall
09.30 Meditation session
10.45 Ceremony of Scholarship Presentation to teachers in the 4 southern provinces
11.00 Food offering to monastic community
11.20 End of morning session

The Afternoon Session at Dhammakaya Assembly Hall
13.00 The monastic seminar on “Stability and Prosperity of Buddhism”
15.00 End of afternoon session

The Evening Session at the grounds of Maha Dhammakaya Cetiya
15.30 All monks and laypeople gather at Meditation Square
16.30 Ecclesiastical officials from over 40,000 temples throughout Thailand are seated on stage at the grounds of Maha Dhammakaya Cetiya.
17.00 Necessity offering ceremony to over 40,000 temples across Thailand
- Ecclesiastical officials from over 40,000 temples throughout Thailand give blessing to celebrate 81st birth anniversary of Luang Por Dhammajayo.
- The laypeople representative delivers a speech for the necessity offering to monastic community.
- Laypeople offer necessities to the monks from over 40,000 temples across the country.
- The monastic chairman gives a speech on the benefits of making this merit.
- The monastic blessing to laypeople
- End of necessity offering ceremony

You might join the ceremony online at
youtube.com/gbnuslive
Facebook.com/gbnus
or request more information at Tel. 02-831-1000.

Resolution for the Grand Necessities
Offering to Over 40,000 Temples

By the power of merit
that I have resolved, a merit unprecedented in this era,

of the grand neccessities offering to more than 40,000 temples.
may this merit, bear exceptional result
in physical wealth, material wealth, spiritual wealth,

retinue wealth, and celestial wealth,
to support the pursuit of perfections through every lifetime.
May I be blessed with happiness and success,
success in life, profession, and aspirations,
May I be free from afflictions and adversities,
enjoying longevity,
and rebirth into families of right view where Buddhism flourishes.
May my family experience harmony and tranquility,
surrounded by kalyanamitra
and protected from malevolent influences.
May I be endowed with supreme wisdom,
demonstrating aptitude in both worldly and spiritual matters.
May I possess non-recklessness in life, able to teach oneself
May I attain enlightenment quickly and conveniently,

and attain favorable conditions to reach enlightenment and the Utmost Dhamma
May I achieve all these factors easily and speedily
I dedicate these meritorious deeds to my ancestors,

benefactors, and departed relatives
May all these resolutions be fulfilled completely and absolutely.
Until the attainment of Nibanna, Until the attainment of Nibanna,

Until the attainment of Nibanna, Nibbana Paccaya Hotu."