June 8, 2008, Sunday: The Commemoration of the Thirteenth
Anniversary of
the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's Entering Nirvana
Wonderful Enlightenment Mountain,
City of 10,000 Buddhas' Founding Patriarch,
the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
The Venerable Master manifested the stillness on June 7, 1995...

Respectfully welcoming the return of the Founder of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas

Arriving at the Buddhahall. Reverently bowing nine times to the Master. Transporting the casket.

Remembering the Venerable Master's Kindness
The international assembly, elder monks, and honored guests. The Memorial Ceremony.

Ceremony of Passing Offerings. Bowing the Avatamsaka Repentance. Carrying the casket to the cremation site

The cremation site. The hot-air balloon carrying the Master's ashes into the air. Scattering the ashes:
I came from empty space and I will return to empty space...

The Master's
sharira
