- Functions of Water
- Master Lu’s Portrait on the Buddhist Altar
- Wear Proper Attire When Offering Incense
- During Incense Offering, Can Improperly-Positioned Incense Be Removed and Re-Inserted?
- Use Scissors To Trim Flowers Offered to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Do Not Snap Them With Bare Hands
- Setting up of a Mini Altar in a Hospital Private Room
- Incense and Oil Lamps May Be Lit When Participating in Online Group Study on Buddhism From Home
- Do Not Turn on the Lotus Lamp on the Buddhist Altar When No Incense Is Offered
- Wiping the Incense Burner To Pray for Wealth Is Considered a Wish for Worldly and Heavenly Blessings, and Will Expend One’s Merits
- The Oil Lamp Should Be Put Out When One Performs Recitation While Doing Household Chores
- When To Extinguish the Oil Lamp
- Setting up Buddhist Altars for Others Will Accumulate Enormous Merits
- Can One Offer the Same Type of Incense but With Different Length?
- Bottled Water for Offering to Bodhisattva Should Be Differentiated From Those Meant for Personal Consumption
- Can We Offer Incense With Different Length?
- Offering of Bottled Water on Buddhist Altar
- Grand Incense May Be Offered Many Times in a Day
- At What Time Should We Offer Incense To Invite Bodhisattva
- Can Fruit Offerings Be Placed on a Car Seat?
- Use Left Hand When Performing One-Handed Gesture of “Putting Both Palms Together”
- Offering Grand Incense Every Day
- Prostration Is the Ingenious Way To Eliminate Karmic Obstacles
- On Wiping the Incense Burner for Better Wealth Luck
- When We Lose Count on the Number of Prostrations Done, Do More, Not Less
- Do Not Put Ashes That Fell Outside the Incense Burner Back Into the Burner
- Can the Downlight That Shines on the Buddhist Altar Be Switched on for 24 Hours?
- Is It Wrong To Offer Fruits to Bodhisattva Based on Our Personal Liking?
- Do Not Leave Empty Cup on the Buddhist Altar
- What To Do if the Incense We Offer Is Tilted?
- Timings for Daily Offering of Morning and Evening Incense
- Placing of Pendant With Image of Bodhisattva on Buddhist Altar
- Can We Make Prostrations at Guan Yin Temple After the Oil Lamp and Incense Have Been Extinguished?
- Bodhisattva Will Appear Regardless of What Time We Set up a Buddhist Altar During the Day. However, Do Not Do So After 10PM
- Levelling Ashes in Incense Burner Is Also a Meritorious Deed
- Use the Same Type of Oil Lamps on an Altar
- Which Side of the Buddhist Altar Should an Oil Lamp Be Placed On?
- Collective Recitation of Buddhist Scriptures During the Setting up of a Buddhist Altar Adds Solemnity to the Occasion
- Rice Is Only a Stopgap When There Isn’t Enough Incense Ashes in Incense Burner
- It Is Advisable Not to Directly Face Bodhisattva in the Guan Yin Hall When Taking off Our Jacket or Drinking Water
- May We Offer Fruits That Are Round in Shape To Pray To Be Accommodating and Unhindered in All Aspects?
- When Making Obeisance to Buddha, the Body Must Be Upright During the First Prostration
- Handling of Cleaning Cloth for Buddhist Altar
- Do Not Use Transparent Plastic Plates on Buddhist Altar
- After Washing Undergarments or Socks, Wait 15 Minutes Before Offering Incense
- Using a Dry Cloth To Clean a Statue of a Bodhisattva
- Do Not Use Toothbrush To Clean Offering Cup, Use Cloth
- Kneeling for Prostration
- Key To Efficacious Prayer When Offering First Incense
- Use a Brand New Cloth To Clean the Image or Statue of Bodhisattva
- Do Not Touch the Top of the Incense With Our Hands
- Can We Replace Fresh Flowers and Fruit on a Buddhist Altar at Night?
- The Sequence for Placing Offerings Onto a Buddhist Altar
- Retreat by Walking Backwards To Show Respect
- Portraits of Bodhisattva To Be Rolled From Bottom to the Top?
- Q&A 171. Dedicated mini Buddhist altar for performing recitation
- Does Bodhisattva’s Blessed Aura Still Exist in Partly Rotten Fruits Removed From the Altar?
- Allow 15 Minutes After Bowel Movement Before Offering Prayers
- The Incense Sticks’ Length and Thickness Should Be Consistent
- Even on Days That We Offer ‘First Incense’, Do Not Offer Incense After 2AM
- What Is the Significance of Incense Burning Slowly or Quickly?
- Q&A 138. Photographing statues or images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
- Q&A 132. Great Compassion Water
- Replacement of the Fruits and Flowers on Altar While the Oil Lamp Is Lit
- What Matters Most to Bodhisattva Is Our Sincerity, Not the Size of Our Altar
- Q&A 93. Things to be aware of when placing statues or images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas on an altar
- Q&A 87. Making Oil offerings
- How To Dispose of Old Yellow Landscape Picture When Replacing Altar?
- Offering Heart Incense to Bodhisattva Enshrined at Home While Whole Family Is Away
- The Energy of Fruit Offerings Will Be Depleted Four Days After Their Removal From the Altar
- How To Ensure That Our Altar Invites Bodhisattva and Not Foreign Spirits?
- When Offering Heart Incense, Pay Respect to All Bodhisattvas You Make Offerings to on Your Altar
- How To Clean the Dust on the Statue of Guan Yin Bodhisattva
- Put off Oil Lamp Before Cleaning the Floor
- Question Regarding Hanging the Poster of Great Compassion Mantra
- Do Not Sweep the Floor When the Incense and Oil Lamp on Altar Are Lit Up
- Do Not Place Portrait/Statue of Bodhisattva on the Stool
- Lotus Lamps With Bent Rods Are Not Suitable for Altars
- Can We Perform Prostration in Front of Altar at Home Without Offering Incense
- Do Not Put Sand in Incense Burner
- Fruit Offering to Bodhisattva
- Do Not Share Your Own Home’s Altar Picture in Group Chats
- Is It Appropriate To Offer Incense to Bodhisattva and Ancestors at the Same Time?
- What Should We Do When Incense Breaks or Is Extinguished in the Process of Placement Into the Incense Burner
- Proper Way To Pray
- With Bodhisattva in Your Heart, Any Place Is a Good Place for an Altar
- Q&A 47. The number of candles and oil lamps on a Buddhist altar
- Q&A 42. Fruit and flower offerings to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
- Q&A 26. Quantity of fruit required for making offerings
- Q&A 5. Placement of a Buddhist altar
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