What is Ancestral Tablet?
When a Chinese person past away, if the family wishes to pay for a memorial in a temple, in addition to a gravestone or a columbarium niche, they will elect to have an ancestral tablet made up. As the Chinese worship or revere their ancestors, they will then have a place where they can go to pay their respects throughout the year, as well as going to the gravestone or niche during Tomb Sweepings which occurs in early April of each year.
Why should have it?
Buddhist & Taoist believe when someone have return to nature it will look after or bless the next generation. If the ancestral have been worship properly the power of them to bless their family members are better. Some believe that a person past away need to be worship to live better & prevent suffering from other world.
Why in the temple?
In this era, we all are too busy from daily work & hard to properly worship our ancestors. Some of the living space are not allowed to have an ancestral altar to worship. To place it in the temple is the best solution to worship the ancestor. In the temple, they have workers worship you ancestor every day with joss stick & playing chanting mantras.
Who must have it?
In many situations, you have to worship your ancestor not only paying respect & memorial. They will look after you in other world.
For those who are:
- No others family members worship you ancestor etc your brothers or uncles
- You are the eldest among your brothers
- Your home no place for ancestral alter
- If you having hard time in your life maybe is your ancestor problem, try to find out who are worship them currently and make some changes.
- If you have no son you should pre-plan for yourself because in Chinese tradition daughter will not allow to worship their own ancestor after marriage.
For those who are interested in installing an Ancestral Tablet with Nirvana
Please contact
谢志雄
Philemon Chay
012-656 9554
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