Name: Ohigan Service
Start: 2024-09-29T11:30:00-07:00
Location: 5191 24th St, Sacramento, CA, United States, California 95822

The Higan Service is a memorial service for our ancestors held during a week of Higan in March and in September. The fourth day of the Higan week is the equinox day. Higan literally means "the other shore," and the purpose of Higan Service is to send the merit of reciting the Lotus Sutra and chanting Odaimoku to the ancestors' spirits on the other shore of enlightenment. We also practice the Buddha's teaching in order to cross the river from this shore of illusions to the other shore of enlightenment by holding Higan Service. Typical practice is called six paramitas: 1) to give alms, 2) to keep precepts, 3) to be patient, 4) to endeavor, 5) to meditate, and 6) to see the truth.
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