Is it useful to go to a temple and light a lamp for someone who has been dead for years?

Useful. Lighting a lamp at a temple is useful not only for those who have just passed away, but even for a hundred years after their death. In addition, lighting lamps can not only benefit the deceased, but also help the living to light lamps to increase wisdom and wealth.

If there is a Buddhist hall in your home, you can also light a lamp at home to support the Buddha and Bodhisattva, which is of great benefit to yourself and your family. However, when doing the work of lighting the lamp, it is best to make a big vow before or when the lamp is lit, and dedicate yourself after the lamp is lit.

In this way, not only can you gain benefits in this life, but you can also get benefits in future lives, and eventually you can become a Buddha.

It is useful to go to the temple and light lamps for people who have been dead for many years. In Buddhism, the lighting ceremony is an expression of remembrance and blessings to the deceased loved ones, hoping that they will find peace and detachment, and also praying to the Buddha for some comfort and protection. It is a way to accumulate merit and do good, to feel the power of Buddhism, and to help those in need.

In this case, it is useless at all, it is just to ask for peace of mind, it is impossible to be useful at all, if it is useful, there will not be so much trouble, not so many things will happen.

I don't know if this is useful or not, but it's still very useful to comfort my soul. Best wishes!

In the temple, the deceased is lit with a lantern, mainly depending on the heart, and if it is for the deceased, it is very special. The offering of Buddha lamps has two kinds of merit: the world and the world. From the worldly point of view, the person who offers the lamp will not become blind even if his eyes are not good and his body is not healthy, but he can also regain his sight and gain health through the lamp, and he can also make a fortune and grow wisdom.

And the most important thing is its merit in the world, offering lamps that can enable us to obtain the light of wisdom in our lifetimes, to dispel the ignorance and darkness of countless beings, and to see the dignity of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

If it is to set up a tablet for the deceased, it is not appropriate to enshrine the lamp to the deceased, and the temple is a place for Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and monks to practice and live, and cannot be used as a place to store ashes and mourn the deceased. The place where the temple is occupied has its own cause and effect. One is to lead sentient beings astray.

In addition, you have occupied the place of the monastery of the monk Bimenggaran (monastery), and you will have to repay it in the future.

Now to the number of demolitions, what kind of tablet is erected, the left one is ......The seepage bridge was built for a few thousand yuan, and a new house was built for the memorial temple. Yes, you took the money, but it didn't benefit the Dharma. In addition, the Sangha does not allow you to live with money.

This kind of behavior that is not in accordance with the law should not be done. For the dead, we should recite sutras, mantras, and release lives to solve these problems, and do not set up long-term tablets in monasteries.

The lamp is lit only on the seventh day of deathBecause of the traditional Chinese funeral customs, a person will return home on the seventh day of death, and at this time, the family should prepare his favorite meals for him in advance, but the person cannot show his face, can not let the soul of the deceased see, and relatives should not quarrel and talk about some unhappy things, which will make the deceased have regrets in the world, and will be reluctant to leave because of greed for ordinary things, which is not conducive to reincarnation.

So light the lights on this day in case the souls of your loved ones can't find a home. Therefore, there is also "the first seven soul nights, the yin people return to the door, and they will not go anywhere, just go home." This is the case.

1. Since ancient China, the funeral customs include: the custom of the original grave three days after the funeral date, that is, those who are buried in the cemetery need to go to the cemetery, put on the beam, place offerings, put incense, step on the house, burn paper and other procedures. (If the urn is stored in the funeral home, only offerings, incense, and paper are burned).

2. From the date of death, burn the paper once every seven days, burn it seven times, and pass through the seven halls, altogether.

Seven. Seven, forty-nine days, this is the burning seven. Now it is common to change doing seven to four, i.e., one.

VII.III. VII.V.

Seven, seventy-seven. According to the custom of murder, burn.

One. Seven, seven.

7. The son of the deceased is the main one, and it is called: there is a head and a tail; Three.

7. Mainly the daughter-in-law of the deceased; Five.

7. Mainly the daughter of the deceased. (Burn five pots of paper flowers).

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Death.

There are many ways to pray for blessings, but depending on the way, the things that need to be prepared are also different. As far as the matter of lighting a lamp is concerned, it is mainly to pray in the form of lighting a lamp, and lighting a few lamps is something that we need to consider carefully, because the number of waits is related to whether our prayer can achieve the effect, or whether it is not enough.

Light the lamps and pray for blessings.

There are usually several lamps lit for blessings.

In fact, one lamp is enough, and the Buddha and Bodhisattva are not greedy. The more the merrier, how much you order, it depends on your intentions.

The type of illumination.

Order a birthday.

Lamp, may you have a happy birthday, and you can do whatever you want.

Light a remembrance lamp, may the deceased rest in peace, and the living cherish;

Light a fortune lamp, may business prosper and wealth roll;

Light a lamp of repentance, may repent and reform, and all good things in the future are waiting.

Light a lamp and pray for a blessing.

The ten fingers are together, and the prayer is not fulfilled.

May the world bless you, pass on energy, and a better life is waiting for you to harvest.

Light the lamps and pray for blessings.

Light the lamp and pray. In all the worlds of the ten directions, all the people of the three worlds are the masters.

With a pure body, speech, and mind, I have done everything in my bows.

Fugen. Wishing for the power of the gods to manifest everything as it comes.

Former. A reappearance of the dust body and the Buddha of the dust one by one.

In the dust, count the Buddhas in the dust, and the Bodhisattvas everywhere in the assembly.

The same is true of the Endless Dharma Realm Dust, and I am convinced that all Buddhas are full.

Each with all the sounds of the sea of endless wonderful words.

In the future, all the calamities praise the Buddha and the sea of merits.

With the best of the best, the best of the flowers, the music of incense and umbrella covers.

If it is the most victorious, solemn and solemn, I will make offerings such as come.

The best clothes, the most incense, the last incense, incense and candles.

All of them are like Myoko, and I make offerings such as coming.

I am convinced of all the three Buddhas with a vast understanding of the mind.

With the power of universal willingness, universal offerings such as come.

All the bad karma I created in the past was caused by beginningless greed and hatred.

From body, speech, and mind, I repent of everything.

All sentient beings in the ten directions have learned and unlearned in the two vehicles.

All the merits of the Bodhisattva are rejoicing.

All the worldly lamps of the ten directions were the first to attain Bodhi.