New
Year's Resolution: Go vegetarian! Start with your
Chinese New Year's Eve family reunion
dinner (or lunch, if you hold the Eight-fold
Fasting Precepts) on Saturday, February 13. Tips on getting
started & choose from a wide
variety of
Veggie Recipes.
***If you have medical conditions or are on
medications, please consult your physician before making major
changes to your diet.***
A note to local
students who whish to set up phone or in-person interviews for their
school projects: We'd be glad to help. Please call 562.438.8902
for appointments (preferably for weekday or Saturday afternoons.)
Also, you are always welcome to join us anytime between 8 AM and 2 PM on Sundays.
A
note to
our laity: In 2010, Long Beach Sagely Monastery's Bathing the Baby
Buddha Ceremony will be moved up by one week to May 9, together with
our Happy Mother's Day celebration.
敬告善信：長堤聖寺二0一0年浴佛節提前一週至五月九日，當日並祝福母親節。
-
The Repentance Dharma-door >>
Calendar懺悔法門
>> 法會時間表
- Venerable
Master Hsuan Hua's recorded commentary on Avatamsaka Sutra 恭聽
宣公上人講解華嚴經淺釋錄音
- Great
Compassion Repentance 禮大悲懺
Lunar New Year, Sunday, 02-14 星期日（正月初一）:
- Lunar New Year Mantra Recitation for Protecting the
Nation and Quelling Disasters >>Calendar
新年護國息災法會 >> 法會時間表
"Let’s
sincerely recite the Disaster Eradicating Auspicious Spirit
Mantra...If we can recite it
wholeheartedly, we will definitely have an inconceivable response...For
the sake of all living beings, to eradicate the disasters and to bring
auspiciousness to the whole world...."
"Sure, the parents can move into
retirement homes...but there is no kindred affection to speak of. They are left
on their own, almost all alone with no one
to rely on. It would be best for children to show filial devotion and care
for their own parents, allowing them peace of mind in the waning years of their
lives.,,. It is especially efficacious if humans can be filial to their
parents. How is that so?" --Earth Store Sutra, Preface. A Commentary by Ven. Master
Hsuan Hua
-
New!
Flower Adornment Syllabary
(the 3 columns to the right are: streaming m3u files; PDF files;
and mp3 files)
- 新!
觀世音菩薩普門品（男眾法師領眾）直播m3u；mp3下載（長堤聖寺每月的觀音法會也包括禮誦普門品，歡迎您參加。）(To our English readers: This is the Universal Door Chapter led by
the monks of CTTB. Though the chanting is in Chinese, you may
still follow the pin yin in the PDF file [in the Calendar
page, under "The Gwan Yin Dharma Door" or in the
LBSM Posters page, under "Dharma Flower
Sutra".] The verses, which start about 1/4 into the sound files,
are particularly exquisite.) (You are welcome
to join Long Beach Sagely Monastery's monthly Gwan Yin Dharma-door
ceremony which
includes the same chanting and bowing to the verses of Universal Door
Chapter.)
A note to local
students who whish to set up phone or in-person interviews for their
school projects: We'd be glad to help. Please call 562.438.8902
by phone (and NOT by e-mail, please)
for appointments (preferably for weekday or Saturday afternoons.)
To contact this website, to report errors and usage problems, or to
share photos you took of events at LBSM 有關網站上的錯誤和使用問題，或分享您所照的長堤法會照片:
We are open to the public during the hours
when events are scheduled (usually Sundays, 8 AM to 2 PM). We
urge you to check our
calendar of events before planning a
visit.
Once a year (usually
in June), when the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas holds its
ceremonies commemorating the anniversary of our Venerable Master
Hsuan Hua's Entering Nirvana, we
do not host local events but instead arrange for our laity to travel to CTTB
for the entire weekend.
Modest and comfortable
clothing will be more conducive to the activities in which you may wish to
participate, such as seated meditation, circumambulatory (walking) recitation and bowing.
You may wish to wear socks or stockings as visitors are asked to remove
their shoes at the front entrance.
樸實舒適的服裝將方便您參加打坐、繞念、禮佛等道場的活動。因須脫鞋，故建議您穿襪。
Where to Park 何處停車
We do not have a parking lot,
and you will have to find street parking. We are sorry about the
inconvenience.
Please note: On May 16
and October 17, 2010, due to community activities taking place onOcean Boulevard, and Ocean Boulevard will
not be accessible.
