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Buddhist Religious Services

Buddhist teaching and our gratitude for it are given verbal, visual, and physical expression in our religious ceremonial, a form of mindfulness training developed in the 13th century by Great Master Keizan. In addition to recognition and commitment ceremonies (see Advanced Retreats) the Abbey also offers a full range of Buddhist ceremonial for the laity. Please contact the Guestmaster regarding requests and arrangements for religious services.

Ceremonial for the Laity

  • Funerals
  • Memorials for departed friends and relatives
  • Naming ceremonies for children
  • Weddings (for Buddhists)
  • House blessings
  • Feeding the Hungry Ghosts (transfer of merit for beings who may have died under traumatic conditions such as by violence or suicide)
  • Special ceremonies for aborted or stillborn children and miscarriages
  • Animal ordinations, funerals, and memorials

Shasta Abbey provides a cemetery with reserved plots, as well as facilities for the care of both human and animal cremated remains.

 

 

Transfer of Merit

We offer the merit of our meditation practice to those in need -- the ill, the dying or newly dead, or those in difficult situations. Anyone may request a transfer of merit. Food offerings (or a monetary donation for such) may also be given with a request that the merit of the meal be given to a particular person or persons.

Please contact the Guestmaster regarding requests and arrangements for religious services.

   
 
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A Serene Reflection (Soto Zen) Meditation monastery, Order of Buddhist Contemplatives temple, Shasta Abbey offers monastic and lay retreats, Zen Buddhist meditation, spiritual training, and mindfulness practice; central principles are Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, Buddhist Precepts and Bodhisattva vow, as taught in Shobogenzo by Dogen.