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The Yeongsanjae Ritual
As preserver/transmitter of The Yeongsanjae Ritual
(Rep. of Korea Important Intangible Cultural Property
No. 50), Bongweonsa Temple's Yeongsanjae Preservation
Association conducts regular performances for world peace
and national reunification.
The Yeongsanjae Ritual is a symbolic reenactment of
the historical Buddha Sakyamuni's delivery of the Lotus
Sutra on Mt. Grdhrakuta some 2,600 years ago, in which
offerings are made to the Buddha and Bodhisattvas in
attendance. The ceremony is held in hopes of leading both
the living and the departed into the joy of enlightenment
and perpetual peace.
Consequently, The Yeongsanjae Ritual should be revered
as a truly important Buddhist ritual, not as simply a
'performance.' It is a ceremony that prays for the unity
of the living and the deceased in the Dharma throughout
the universes, and it is Buddhism's most magnificent and
impressive Buddhist ritual passed down through the ages.
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