The concept of “life support” indeed leads to opportunities and responsibilities to enhance a person’s dignity, and is crucial to ensuring that our society continues to thrive. Faced with a rapidly aging population and a declining increase of living space, as well as changes in our traditional family structure, incessantly challenge the ways we give life and respect to our ancestors and reminders of the ideals of life. Fu Gui Nirvana’s entire range of products, concepts, and services have been tailored to the needs of Buddhist society, with emphasis on the importance of adhering to religious practices and traditional culture through classic design. Non-secular environment and culture-friendly services contribute to peace and spiritual sovereignty. In January 2003, Nirvana Asia Group adopted the philosophy of traditional culture, funeral ceremonies, and environmental stewardship, and introduced the concept of the Celestial Guardian to bring peace and environmental protection to the community.
Inspired by the Buddhist belief in the cycle of birth and death, the final destiny of any living thing is the attainment of Nirvana. When a person passes away, it signifies the termination of a life’s cycle, which is only the beginning of another. Fulfilling traditional values and embracing the fundamental needs of our society, Nirvana Memorial Park leads a meaningful path by introducing Buddhism and Culture into the exclusive design for everyone. Focused on cultural development, the basis of the Buddha’s teaching and highlighted the significance of traditional family values, for which gives meaning to life and the relationship between human beings.
Overview of Fu Gui Nirvana
Every part, every design, and every material used for Fu Gui Nirvana was carefully planned so that they would meet the specific requirements of all Chinese Buddhist believers for years and decades to come. The amount of love, care, and development time invested is seen as an actual inspiration which shines as a light on the path leading to a peaceful connection of togetherness. The following three-section wind and rain-resistant design ensures that both Fu Gui Nirvana’s divine principles are served in unity and that modern technology allows for both beautiful and practical solutions to official building regulations and religious practices.
This large-scale event, arranged by the ones left behind in keeping with traditional rituals, is conducted in full accordance with Buddhist practices while family members, friends, and a host of others also take part. At Fu Gui Nirvana, all the steps involved contribute towards the cherished idea of unity within heaven, earth, and humanity. Modern technology, meanwhile, ensures that everything can still be completed in a single day according to the traditional rituals.
Importance of Honoring Buddhist Traditions
Diminishing the instinct to help those in need, acting with quick passion and compassion, demonstrates a deep level of human dignity, care, and love from a detached perspective. Not cherishing the truth of life, the ignorant public lives in a great blind spot, treating death with great care, and lives without compassion. Being kind to others is not only a great compassion but also the Dharma of bodhisattvas.
Honoring Buddhist traditions, understanding religious devotions, attitudes, and customs of worship between family members are very crucial. Although it is a terminal rite, it helps family members emotionally face the same disaster bravely through relationships with the deceased people and friends. Fu Gui Mei Dang is committed to creating a religiously harmonious atmosphere. Gui Mei Group not only provides a one-stop service of life by creating different scenarios, thousands of Buddha variegated faces, and hundreds of thousands of times with a unitary heart of thousands of Buddha, but also enriches the religious life of believers, making wishes and offering offerings. This is conducive to the development of the Buddhist legacy in modeling the concepts of quality life and also plays a role in life-level quality coexistence.
In traditional Chinese Buddhism, the practice of filial piety is often emphasized to nurture and shape the character of youngsters and adults. Being filial and respecting their parents form the basic beliefs and values in Buddhism and are vital for transferring good morals and character to the next generation. Whether children or adults, natives or immigrants, they all share the same values of family, loyalty to the country, and respect for Buddha, which are molded by the great national spirit. This spirit is also the core of the Buddha statue. Buddhism, which is a combination of culture and religion, has spread like a sea wave through centuries, with moral concept bubbling in the sea on the fiery shores of various lives at all levels.
Columbarium Services
In 2004, the spirits of the Fu Gui shrine descendants were placed in the incorruptible Pure Land. Being able to elaborate on the “Nine Ambassadors” who sponsored the launching of the Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park. The columbarium reception center of the Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park has a unique round design. It is constructed on the highest ground within the site to bring about good Qi and is intended to enable Buddhists arriving here to obviate the trouble of queuing for funeral services. The Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park complex is the first in the country to offer a comprehensive and inclusive combination of all five senses. The signature column of all our pool consists of imported tiles originating from China and are of mixed and matched colors. Not only are they radiant and shimmer when looked at from every angle, but they also keep the fans happy. They are often termed “Twinkling Pearls”. In addition, we have an excellently landed magic arch upon which the breasted characters of the “Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park” proposal radiantly in all sixteen strokes. Materials used in the construction of this tomb complex are all imported top-quality proven materials. For example, furnishings, Brand’s “Fu Gui” floor tiles, etc. All are specially imported from China.
Building on our rich traditional Buddhist heritage, the architecture of the Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park with its round-shaped reception area, its luxuriously designed columbarium structure, its elaborate display rooms and offering halls, reflects a unique and artistic flavor of Buddhism. The uniqueness of the Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park only becomes apparent after a person has actually stepped into its compound. Only then does one really understand why it is called a place with the utmost elegance, luxury, and traditions. Like top-quality items, they have been given a finish second to none. One which is brimming with symbols of wealth, prosperity, abundance, and harmony. Symbols which we Chinese hold dear to our hearts. Observers become lost in an implicit luxury and our ritualistic beliefs in the life hereafter are uncontrollably enriched.
Features of Fu Gui Nirvana’s Columbarium
Environmental-Friendly Concept: The ‘forming earth’ concept includes a trench being excavated surrounding the perimeter for architectural stability and innovative outer wall bearing columns for support; thus, it allows a greater reach in mingling with natural light and ventilation all year round, leading to a most welcoming and serene display sensitively capped with mild diffused lighting at strategic locations to conjure an alluring, spiritual, and reverential ambience exuding from the special and medium-life ornamented furnishing, showing breathtaking exuberance conducive for Buddhist rituals, in comfort, during inclement weather. This expansive, conservational, and environmentally-friendly design not only meets expectations from potential clients from all walks of life, it also satisfies a variety of needs. Families can partake of traditional Buddhist funeral rituals in quiet intimate spaces gracefully allocated on every floor of the Columbarium, designed for private worship, offering soothing relief from the vagaries of weather and crowd dwellers.
Features of Fu Gui Nirvana’s Columbarium: The aesthetic and ornamental beauty transcends beyond traditional urn placement, creating an illumined ambience pleasing to the senses. With its silk-lined, soft arching at 18 to 20cm ‘niche’ walls and a tiered gallery-like setting, where every pair of ‘niche’ crowds are tastefully designed with ancient Chinese rosettes, adjacent 2, 4, 6, or 8-cells are arranged on a linear, patchwork symmetric slated with 8 standard, 4 small, and 2 jumbo ‘niches’ per memorial lot, thus giving more space in creating a soulful personal appeal. An aura of grandeur is felt in the spacious measurement of 1.6 sq. meters each, designed for the needs of an individual paying homage to their loved ones. To date, the ornate remains a two-tiered arrangement.
2.2 Types of Columbarium Niches Available
As part of China’s traditional cultural heritage, people at that time were traditionally cremated. However, in an effort to achieve immortality after death, they were buried in earthen and wooden boxes. These efforts had been attempted for 2,000 years, and the results included preserved corpses that puzzled modern medical researchers. The concept of a Columbarium itself is a Buddhist tradition, with niche architecture originating during the early periods of Buddhist development. Designed as a housing unit for “venerated” human ash remains, the building form consists of an assembly of cubes. These lesser mortals, with less wealth and prestige, too wanted a niche that carried similar architecture for themselves. In time, under the influence of Buddhism, the practice of cremation as a funerary custom began to be applied to all.
Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park in Malaysia will provide the readers with a broad overview of the Buddhist religious ceremonies, including what can be expected at a typical Malaysian Chinese funeral. There are many traditional Chinese customs and traditions followed by the Buddhist community, in which one of the Buddhist teachings is concerning life and death. In the Buddhist doctrine, everyone’s destiny is life and death, with no exception. The teaching reminds one not to forget the importance of both life and living one’s life, and to face all circumstances and issues with equanimity. To prepare oneself for death, there is always the thought of building a magnificent mausoleum to eternally memorialize oneself. However, this only caters to the rich people who can afford to pay such high prices for a niche. Defy the natural and learn from history that everyone will come to face this outcome. Fu Gui Nirvana broke this tradition by offering the convenience of preparing for your afterlife beforehand, thus ensuring future generations can pay their respects and pray to their loved ones anytime, without limitations.
Maintenance and Care of Columbarium Niches
Poh can absorb moisture and even become slippery, so maintaining your niche’s interior cleanliness and dryness is your top priority. Use a soft dry brush to gently brush the poh off the figurines, altarpieces, and tablet, and collect them in a clean bag or box. Take the figurines to an area of deep breath and, using a mask, clean the figurine by slowly brushing the poh off over a trash bag, and then re-wrap the figurines in an absorbent clean cloth. Continue to the tablet and altarpiece as needed. Do not use strong solutions or water to clean the figurines as it may risk loosening the poh. Contact the onsite staff if you feel uncomfortable or require assistance or special care with the maintenance of your niche and its contents. Each niche is uniquely leased to different families. Ensure that the contents and appearances within the niche are managed with respect to the different traditions, cultures, beliefs, and symbolism.
All artifacts within the niches are precious and should be handled with the utmost care. To facilitate proper maintenance, with the exception of cleaning, dislodgment of the niche or its contents should never be attempted. If the urn’s lid should shift, please contact our staff for immediate attention. Niche design and permanently affixed urns are made to deter such instances, but minor shifts can happen over time with natural decomposition of organics such as bone ash. Previous niches have had minor shifts, and their external stability can be easily corrected with one of our staff. To maintain the integrity of your niche’s placement, please avoid moving the nicest point of attachment or leaning against the niche. Care should be taken to avert any likelihood of theft or defilement of the niche’s contents from outside of the columbarium, i.e. through the windows, etc. Preventing children, adults of limited capabilities, or errant balls from accidentally impacting your niche is a top priority and should be considered during your visit. High frequency of visiting a niche often avoids accidentally misspent.
Funeral Packages
Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park provides an exclusive pick-up service and takes care of the logistics arrangements for the family members and guests. The symbol of the lotus is often associated with the virtues of Buddha, and Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park wishes to spread positive mental energies to everyone. At the very beginning of the funeral arrangement, the lotus would be given to the family members, and once they returned to the Memorial Park, they shall relay the lotus to the family members who had not yet received the information about the funeral, in order to make sure that everyone would appreciate the eternal virtues of Buddhism.
Under the guidance of Fu Gui Buddhist Monastery’s benevolent spirit, “Fu Gui, the virtuous; Nirvana, the eternal enduring; meaning that one who keeps the virtuous way in life will obtain eternal beginner’s mind.” Yet to appreciate this heartfelt philosophy, it is necessary to carry out the funeral arrangements by following the regulations of Buddhism. For the same reasons, the professionals would ensure that during the funeral processions, the family members would not be dressed inappropriately.
Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park offers prestigious facilities and services suitable for fulfilling families’ needs when organizing funeral wakes, making memorial arrangements, or paying tribute to the deceased. All the exclusive services ensure that the quality of the rituals is solemn and grand, so as to cherish the memory of your loved ones and grant the greatest respect towards them.
Traditional Buddhist Funeral Rites
Foreigners and other religious practitioners would benefit from understanding the core essence of the Chinese Buddhist funeral rite; in the case the assistance is needed to learn of local customs. The essence of jiazu (family lineage) is concealed within the tradition, and it seeks to identify the key succession of a family’s jia faction over time. In the family lineage structure, the family genealogy records a congregation’s factual explanation, which includes arranging the funeral and investing in a columbarium. Educational insecurities, pregnancy, or the sacrament of a Buddhist monk are also a few of the many family lineage activities. In this study, we describe the spiritual practice of the Chinese people, and specifically the Chinese Hall of Buddhist Cards, as witnessed during the Shanghai Grand Hall’s spring festival of Kuala Lumpur. We share what we have learned as academics regarding how hopes and desires can be translated into a transcendent cultural framework for preserving the practical use of the tablet and also settled in during weekday evening events. Some findings indicate unique cultural developments for potential expansion that may impact various contemporary forms of practice.
Buddhist funeral rites follow a sequence of events upon the deceased passing, from the time when the person passes away onwards. Precautionary aspects of the Buddhist funeral rite have undergone changes in recent years in order to accommodate modern ways of living. The core essence of the Chinese tradition still remains for these changes during the expression of grief or funeral matters. This research focuses on the Chinese Buddhist funeral rite, which is less understood by the public compared to the earlier stages of the rite. The objective of our article is to explore the process of the Chinese Buddhist funeral rite with regard to shifts in tradition and transition in recent years. The importance of understanding the significance of the Chinese Buddhist funeral rite to the Chinese community is that it details their cultural heritage and the transition that the tradition has accumulated.
Fu Gui Nirvana’s Funeral Package Options
The Casket Selection Service: The last package offered is the Casket Selection Service. The Fu Gui Nirvana store provides moderate, high-quality, or luxurious caskets. In addition to the casket itself, there are a variety of casket decorations available to bespeak. Before purchasing the merchandise, the store gives the customer the option for a reinsurance of the casket to the client’s beloved relatives. The client could order online, by phone, or visit, with the guarantee of professional and sincere service to allow the customer peace of mind.
The VIP custom funeral: For family clouds with higher requirements on the funerary service, needs can be met through the VIP Funeral customization service. With the VIP service, requirements can be made to upgrade the two attended ceremonies into all-three attended ceremony sessions (which includes the attendance of the Fu Ji Kai, Zhou Jiu Ji, and Hui Yuan Ji). The number of tables for memorial service all-you-can-eat snacks can be accordingly added. Regular services can also be adjusted and customized according to the needs of the customer.
3.2 Fu Gui Nirvana’s Funeral Package Options: There are three service package options available at the Fu Gui Nirvana Memorial Park: the regular funeral package, the VIP package, and the Casket Selection Service. The price for the regular funeral package starts from NT$700,000 (about US$20,000). It is worth mentioning that the quoted price includes the service of a professional apparition makeup artist selected from the Shi-Yuan (Civil Affairs Bureau) Professionals Group. Also included in the package is the use of the Ritual Hall, the Memorial Hall or Columbarium for seven days; two sets of conveniently used mourning clothes (each set includes inner and outer clothing); a white money with uniform design; and providing a land car, decorations, 50 tables of food, and two sets of traditional ritual instruments (including deployment, storage, and disassembling matters). The first paper starts from NT$685 (about US$19). The store also provides a 3-in-1 high-class VIP vehicle transportation and also provides catering service of various scale religious rituals and the necessary carving of religious ceremonial matters such as “invitation”.
Additional Services and Offerings
Closure products are products that need to be separately managed after the deceased. Fu Gui Canada mainly includes: magical display, fireworks, floating unity, eight-fold table, cows, bulls (dead), coral, reason, five-claw high-powered living, 124 paper horses, and funeral products. Living instructions, cremation, and other services. After the deceased is deceased, he is placed in the Taoist Association of Canada Tai Fa Temple of the Fu Gui group warehouse, and people can participate in lively prayers at 1 PM for calculation after death. No matter whether the overall service cancellation is immediately guaranteed, unused goods and/or extra deposit balances will be refunded or refunded. An additional disclaimer must be filed on the service cancellation date, otherwise years of purchase planning will repay 10% of the account. The unused items are based on the basic package items, and the ancillary items are not refundable.
Fu Gui Nirvana has introduced a new product offering: customized aid packages for Buddhists who have “negative” needs. Knowing that the launch is simple, many Buddhists may not know the big and small things in the same. That’s why Fu Gui Nirvana provides Buddhist funeral packages of different sizes according to the needs: a mountain oil, a mountain package, etc., there is always one suitable for you! Auxiliary package (Buddhist decoration bed, welcome bed): these budgets can be deducted from the main package for matching, sub-pack service time 12 hours (five days before the 6th day of service), no extra hours beyond the time, time for use include staff travel time.
Customization and Personalization of Funeral Packages
Furthermore, there are packages for each and every religion. You may consider choosing packages from our local Chinese Temple columbarium, world-class Buddhist columbarium, or organic urns. Choose from stylish urn suits, urn cases, shadow boxes, lockets, ornaments, or specially made urns. Funeral services in Taoist Temple columbarium packages can be combined with packaging from a Buddhist Temple Singapore. Choose from a selection of cremation funeral services, green burials, fine entombments, ship burials, or sea burials. Choose a fitting urn to keep at home or a solitary urn to visit at tabletop urns. Soon, we realized that there are many customers and clients who would like a more permanent memorial for their loved one.
Each individual is unique in their way of life, personal beliefs, interests, and career. At Fu Gui Fu Chi (Singapore) Buddhist Temple, we recognize that your loved one is special and different. That is why we offer a large selection of funeral services, so you can choose the kind of services that truly honor your loved one’s life. In fact, if something identical does not already exist, we can make a completely landscape urn for you. Just bring in a set of drawings, and we will create an urn that suits your desires
