May the Blessings of the Noble Triple Gem be with you!
Dear Devotees,
It is with great pleasure that Florida Buddhist Vihara announces and invites you all to the “Vesak Ceremony-2569, (2026)” where we celebrate the Birth, the Supreme Enlightenment and the Parinibbana” of our Omniscient Samma Sambuddha, Sri Siddhartha Gauthama. This Vesak Full Moon will mark the 2569th year from the day of Parinibbana of the ever-greatest teacher who guided the Divine and Humans to the absolute and ultimate freedom. The annual celebration of Vesak festival at the Florida Buddhist Vihara will be held this year on May 30th 2026 throughout the day at the Vihara premises.
There will be many events of Dana, Seela and Bhavana for all of you to participate in many ways and accumulate merits. In keeping our tradition, during this Vesak Ceremony, we will conduct special “Aloka Puja” by making Vesak lanterns and offering those to our Supreme Sambuddha to respect His Supreme and Infinite Wisdom.
The ceremony will begin at 9.30 a.m. and end at 9.30 p.m. The Complete Program Schedule is as follows. Further details and relevant information will be sent to you again as needed.
Main Program
| 09.30 am | Arrival of devotees |
| 09.40-10.00 am | Observance of the Eight Precepts (Atasil ) |
| 10.00 am | Starting of children’s Salpila |
| 10.00-10.50 am | Dhamma sermon (English) |
| 11.00-11.30 am | Buddha Pooja |
| 11.30-12.00 pm | Serving alms to clergy and devotees who have observed eight precepts |
| 12.00-01.15 pm | Lunch for laity |
| 01.30-02.30 pm | Dhamma sermon and discussion (English) |
| 02.30-02.45 pm | Break |
| 02.45-03.45 pm | Dhamma sermon and discussion (Sinhala) |
| 03.45-04.15 pm | Tea break |
| 04.15-05.30 pm | Meditation for adults in the new building and Dhamma activities for children in the Shrine room (English) – (Required for all Dhamma Schools students) |
| 5.30 – 6.30 pm | Evening food stall |
| 06.30-07.30 pm | Atavisi Buddha Pooja |
| 07.30-08.30 pm | Commencement of Aloka Pooja- Lighting of Vesak lanterns |
| 08.30-09.15 pm | Bhakti Gee (Devotional songs by children and adults) |
| 09.30 pm | End of the ceremony |
The people who are willing to donate money for the monk’s expenses please sign up at the link below.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mqU8erePAiuO06kQogDpau7YRo8Of6jmgcOtTKnErIg/edit?usp=sharing
To reserve the Physical Pirikara please sign up at the link below.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZUujFIlvBdmTnnPgmq33KIQH-nuKv_Dn5pAZIx0h_Vo/edit?usp=sharing
(01) Dana (11.30-12.00 pm)
If you would like to offer a dana item(s) to the Monks on this day, please see the attached Google list and sign up for the item/s.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RJ-TFU9cgQesqmmsLhFQ0c3fnonsyvSNRGGXZpuYXwg/edit
(02) Childrens’ Salpila (Start at 10.00am)
Salpila will be conducted by the students, teachers and parents of the Dhamma Schools. You are encouraged to bring items such as plants, fresh vegetables, sweetmeats, and short-eats to sell at the Salpila. Please note that the scheduled time for the Salpila is 10.00a.m. -12.00p.m. So, plan accordingly. All proceeds from Salpila will go toward the Maintain Fund at the Florida Buddhist Vihara. Please bring cash/checks for the purchases. You can sign up for donations using the link below.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oA88CX2ieqzw0ZkSe6kei0WoDK9CxeuTi9LshiS5__Q/edit?usp=sharing
(03) Evening Food Stall (from 05.30 pm to 06.30pm)
Devotees of the temple will organize the evening Sri Lankan food stall this year as well. You may purchase your dinner from the stall prior to evening activities. Food stall will be open from 05.30pm till 06.30 pm. Please bring cash for purchasing food. All proceeds will be donated to FBV maintain fund.
(04) Atavisi Buddha Pooja (06.30 pm – 07.30pm)
All proceeds from “Atavisi Buddha Pooja” & “Atapirika” will go toward the Maintain Fund at the Florida Buddhist Vihara. Please bring cash/checks for the purchases. Be kind enough to sign up for the Pooja & Atapirikara using the links below.
Reserve – “Atavisi Buddha Pooja”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c6y94ZuQ1tja-WbU5LBdAtVTX5FhS1Wez79JV3W2QyQ/edit?tab=t.0
Reserve – “Atapirika”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdPRoVaqB73r3kptGjJt21w6KaWGAFz10z6sdh7AzrI/edit?tab=t.0
(05) Wesak Lanterns (Lighting of Vesak lanterns 07.30-08.30pm)
Children are invited to participate in illuminating the Vesak lanterns. Parents, please encourage children by making Vesak lanterns (kudu) together with your child and bringing the finished lantern/s to the temple on Wesak day. We expect at least one lantern from one child in each family.
(06) Devotional Songs ( 08.30 – 09.15p.m.)
Student Bhakthi Gee
Each Bhakthi gee will be introduced by a student from each Dhamma School. Please note the following.
Adult Bhakthi Gee
Those who wish to participate in this event have to be dressed all in white (white sari/white long skirt and blouse/white long pants and white shirt). If you are not meeting this dress code, please try to refrain from taking part in the event.
If you have questions/comments, you may reach the temple at 813-621-1337 or 813-313-9784 (cell number).
Essential things for the temple. Please check the link below.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rx5Dks2NggPxWJvb6o6hu5UnAoLd_0VY5oCJ8jT_KXk/edit
*The following link will enable you to join the Vesak program online
https://meet.google.com/sug-gpbq-fcv
With Blessings of the Triple Gem !
Florida Buddhist Vihara.
Florida Buddhist Vihara
2208 Maydell Drive
Tampa, FL 33619.
813-621-1337 / Cell 813-313-9784
Dear Devotees,
We are pleased to inform you of the Monthly-Pooja organized by the Florida Buddhist Vihara for the month of March. It will be held virtually & physically on Saturday March 28th 2026. The main sponsors for this event are Mr. Chathura Brahmanage and Mrs. Yamuna Brahmanage.
Our Program
06.30 PM Preparing Puja
07.00 PM Starting Puja
07.30 PM Seth Pirith chanting
08.00 PM Dhamma Talk
09.15 PM Ending
By having the following items prepared during this occasion, you will be able to join us in paying homage to the Lord Buddha (Buddha Vandana) as well:
*The following link will enable you to join the above program:
https://meet.google.com/sug-gpbq-fcv
*Essential Items for the Temple:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rx5Dks2NggPxWJvb6o6hu5UnAoLd_0VY5oCJ8jT_KXk/edit?usp=sharing
(Please forward this to your friends and others who may be interested)
Further contact: 813-621-1337, 813-313-9784
With Metta,
May the noble triple gem bless you all !
Florida Buddhist Vihara
Florida Buddhist Vihara
2208 Maydell Drive
Tampa, FL 33619.
813-621-1337 / Cell 813-313-9784
Dear Devotees,
We are pleased to inform you of the Monthly-Pooja organized by the Florida Buddhist Vihara for the month of February. It will be held virtually & physically on Saturday, February 28th, 2026.
Our Program
06.30 PM Preparing Puja
07.00 PM Starting Puja
07.30 PM Seth Pirith chanting
08.00 PM Dhamma Talk
09.15 PM Ending
By having the following items prepared during this occasion, you will be able to join us in paying homage to the Lord Buddha (Buddha Vandana) as well:
*The following link will enable you to join the above program:
https://meet.google.com/sug-gpbq-fcv
*Essential Items for the Temple:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rx5Dks2NggPxWJvb6o6hu5UnAoLd_0VY5oCJ8jT_KXk/edit?usp=sharing
(Please forward this to your friends and others who may be interested)
Further contact: 813-621-1337, 813-313-9784
With Metta,
May the noble triple gem bless you all !
Florida Buddhist Vihara
Florida Buddhist Vihara
2208 Maydell Drive
Tampa, FL 33619.
813-621-1337 / Cell 813-313-9784
Dear Devotees,
We are pleased to inform you of the Monthly-Pooja organized by the Florida Buddhist Vihara for the month of January. It will be held virtually & physically on Saturday, January 31st, 2026.
Our Program
06.30 PM Preparing Puja
07.00 PM Starting Puja
07.30 PM Seth Pirith chanting
08.00 PM Dhamma Talk
09.15 PM Ending
By having the following items prepared during this occasion, you will be able to join us in paying homage to the Lord Buddha (Buddha Vandana) as well:
*The following link will enable you to join the above program:
https://meet.google.com/sug-gpbq-fcv
*Essential Items for the Temple:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rx5Dks2NggPxWJvb6o6hu5UnAoLd_0VY5oCJ8jT_KXk/edit?usp=sharing
(Please forward this to your friends and others who may be interested)
Further contact: 813-621-1337, 813-313-9784
With metta,
May the noble triple gem bless you all !
Dear Devotees,
On January 1st, 2026, Florida Buddhist Vihara has planned to perform the traditional Kiribath (milk rice) Buddha-Pooja followed by the chanting of Dhamma Chakkappavattana sutra to bless you all, once again, for the new year. With this email, we kindly invite you to attend the above blessing ceremony.
Agenda
09.00 a.m. Arrival of devotees
09.30 a.m. Offering of milk rice & Gilanpasa
10.00 a.m. Brief Dhamma sermon (Sinhala & English)
10.30 a.m. Chanting of Pirith (Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta)
11.15 a.m. Offering of the Buddha-Pooja
11.30 a.m. Offering of Dana (alms) to the monks
11.35 a.m. Serving of refreshments to participants
12.15 p.m. Distribution of chanted threads and blessed water
We kindly inform you that chanted threads and blessed water will be made available later for those devotees who would find it inconvenient to attend the ceremony.
We also kindly request devotees to provide flowers incense, T light candles and fruit juice for the Buddha-Pooja.
In addition, we will appreciate your contributions in terms of disposable plates, paper-cups, paper-plates, small water bottles, milk rice, chili paste (Lunumiris) and other Sri Lankan delicacies appropriate for the occasion.
The following link will enable you who are willing to join virtually the above program:-
https://meet.google.com/sug-gpbq-fcv
Essential things for the Temple
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rx5Dks2NggPxWJvb6o6hu5UnAoLd_0VY5oCJ8jT_KXk/edit
May the Triple Gem bless you !
With Metta,
Florida Buddhist Vihara
Further contact: 813-621-1337, 813-313-9784
With metta,
සුපින්වත,
2026 නව වසරට සෙත් පතා පවත්වනු ලබන විශේෂ කිරි ආහාර බුද්ධ පූජාව හා දම්සක්පැවතුම් සූත්ර සජ්ජායනාව මෙවරත් 2026 ජනවාරි මස 01 වන දින ෆ්ලොරිඩා බෞද්ධ විහාරස්ථානයේ දී පැවැත්වීමට කටයුතු සංවිධානය කොට ඇත. ඒ සඳහා පැමිණ සහභාගී වී ආශීර්වාද ලබාගන්නා ලෙස ඔබ සැමට මෙත් සිතින් ඇරයුම් කරමු.
වැඩසටහන
පෙ:ව: 09.00 පැමිණීම
පෙ:ව: 09.30 කිරි අහාර සහ ගිලන්පස බුද්ධ පූජාව
පෙ:ව: 10.00 කෙටි ධර්මානු ශාසනාව (සින්හල/ ඉංග්රීසි)
පෙ:ව: 10.30 දම්සක් පැවතුම් සූත්ර සජ්ඣායනාවේ ආරම්භය
පෙ:ව: 11.15 බුද්ධ පූජාව
පෙ:ව: 11.30 දන් පිළිගැන්වීම
පෙ:ව: 11.35 කිරිබත් සමගින් තේපැන් සංග්රහය
ප: ව: 12.15 පිරිත් පැන් සහ පිරිත් නූල් බෙදාදීම
නියමිත වෙලාවට පැමිණීමට අපහසු පින්වතුන්ට ද පසුව පැමිණ පිරිත් පැන් සහ පිරිත් නූල් ලබාගත හැකිබව කාරුණිකව සිහිපත් කරනු කැමැත්තෙමු.
සම්බුද්ධ පූජාව සඳහා, මල්-හදුන්කූරු-ඉටිපහන් (T light candles ) හා ගිලන්පස ද, සහභාගීවන හැමදෙනාට සංග්රහය සඳහා කුඩා වතුර බෝතල්, පේපර් කප්ස් හා පේපර් ප්ලේට්ස්, කිරිබත්, ලුණුමිරිස්, බිස්කට්, කෙසෙල්ගෙඩි සහ වෙනත් ලාංකික රසකැවිලි ආදිය ද සමග පැමිණීම අගය කරමු.
මෙත් සිතිනි !
ෆ්ලොරිඩා බෞද්ධ විහාරය
813-621-1337, 813-313-9784
Florida Buddhist Vihara
2208 Maydell Drive
Tampa, FL 33619.
813-621-1337 / Cell 813-313-9784
Dear Devotees,
We are pleased to inform you of the Monthly-Pooja organized by the Florida Buddhist Vihara for the month of November. It will be held virtually & physically on Saturday, November 29, 2025.
Our Program
06.30 PM Preparing Puja
07.00 PM Starting Puja
07.30 PM Seth Pirith chanting
08.00 PM Dhamma Talk
09.15 PM Ending
By having the following items prepared during this occasion, you will be able to join us in paying homage to the Lord Buddha (Buddha Vandana) as well:
*The following link will enable you to join the above program:
https://meet.google.com/sug-gpbq-fcv
*Essential Items for the Temple:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rx5Dks2NggPxWJvb6o6hu5UnAoLd_0VY5oCJ8jT_KXk/edit?usp=sharing
(Please forward this to your friends and others who may be interested)
Further contact: 813-621-1337, 813-313-9784
With metta,
May the noble triple gem bless you all !
Florida Buddhist Vihara
2208 Maydell Drive
Tampa, FL 33619.
813-621-1337 / Cell 813-313-9784
Dear friends in the Dhamma,
We would like to share merits with all who contributed to the successfully concluded Kathina Ceremony for 2025 at the Florida Buddhist Vihara. Moreover, we would like to bless upon all the Mahasangha who participated in the Katina ceremony, sponsors for this year’s Katina ceremony, those who dedicated a night sleeplessly to sew the Katina robe, sponsors for the Pirikaras and Dana, all contributors and organizers of the Dhaham pasela children’s pola, those who cleaned up the temple prior to the event and once the event was concluded, and to all of you who participated in person and through the online event.
May the blessings of the triple gem be with you all !
Florida Buddhist Vihara,
Ven. Morathota Ananda
Florida Buddhist Vihara
2208 Maydell Drive
Tampa, FL 33619.
813-621-1337 / Cell 813-313-9784
Dear Devotees,
Florida Buddhist Vihara is organizing the Annual Shramadana to clean the temple premises, clear the garden area, in preparation for the Kathina Ceremony on October 31 and November 1. The Shramadana will be held on Sunday, October 26, 2025 from 9.00am till 5.00pm.
All devotees are kindly invited to participate in this highly important meritorious deed. Volunteering your labor and efforts to clean the Vihara Premises, Shrine room and the Bodhi tree vicinity are extremely praised acts by our Supreme Sambuddha, the Greatest among the three worlds.
Kindly sign in the links below and let us know how many participants can be expected. Please bring gloves, masks, and any other garden tools that will help you.
Sign-Up for the Sramadana
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KOOjcouZB6G3agqLJQzYa4lGeqble5H514UmXx8yLAQ/edit?tab=t.0
Shramadana Day (October 26) Lunch Sign-Up Sheet
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hO2SAnJfONyS5KL5rCV3YP9GGmGi8kap0_WPvxFqflo/edit
May the Blessings of the Noble Triple Gem be with you all!
With Metta,
Florida Buddhist Vihara
Florida Buddhist Vihara
2208 Maydell Drive
Tampa, FL 33619.
813-621-1337 / Cell 813-313-9784
Dear Devotees,
Florida Buddhist Vihara cordially invites you to the ”Katina Ceremony 2025” and Pirith chanting on Friday, October 31 and ”Dane ” offering (Lunch) on Saturday, November 01 at the Florida Buddhist Vihara premises.
Program
Friday October 31st
| 06.30 pm | Arrival of devotees and guests. |
| 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm | Gilanpasa Buddha Pujawa |
| 08.00 pm – 08.30 pm | Offering of Gilanpasa for monks. Tea & coffee for laity. |
| 08.30 pm – 09.00 pm | Welcome speech and introducing the Venerable monks. Short Dhamma talk (Anusasanawa) of pirith. |
| 09.00 pm | Maha Piritha chanting. |
| 10.00 pm | Dhammachakkhapawattana Sutta. |
| 11.00 pm | Conclusion of pirith chanting. Distribution of blessed threads. (Pirith threads). |
| 12.00 am | Commencement of sewing of the ”Katina Robe”. |
Saturday November 01st
| 06.30 am – 07.00 am | Preparing ”Heel Dane” |
| 07.00 am – 07.15 am | Offering of the “Buddha Pujawa” |
| 07.15 am – 08.15 am | Offering of “Heel Dana” to the monks. Breakfast for laity. |
| 10.00 am – 11.00 am | Children’s Pola (trade fair). |
| 11.00 am – 11.15 am | Offering of midday “Buddha Poojawa” |
| 11.30 am | Offering of “Dana” for monks. Lunch for laity. |
| 01.00 pm – 01.30 pm | ”Katina” Perahera (Procession). |
| 01.30 pm – 02.30 pm | Offering of the “Katina Robe”. Dhamma sermon (Anusasanawa). |
| 02.30 pm | Punyanumodanawa (Transfer of merits) and vote of thanks. |
| 02.45 pm | Conclusion of “Katina” ceremony. Cleaning of the premises. |
Kathina Dane (Lunch) Sign-Up Sheet November 01, 2025
Kindly note that Face Masks are Required While Offering Dana.
Please join us virtually via the link given below if you are unable to attend in person.
Further contact: 813-621-1337, 813-313-9784
With metta,
May the noble triple gem bless you all !
Florida Buddhist Vihara
2208 Maydell Drive
Tampa, FL 33619.
813-621-1337 / Cell 813-313-9784
Dear Devotees,
We are pleased to inform you of the Monthly-Pooja organized by the Florida Buddhist Vihara for the month of October. It will be held virtually & physically on Saturday, October 25, 2025.
Our Program
06.30 PM Preparing Puja
07.00 PM Starting Puja
07.30 PM Seth Pirith chanting
08.00 PM Dhamma Talk
09.15 PM Ending
By having the following items prepared during this occasion, you will be able to join us in paying homage to the Lord Buddha (Buddha Vandana) as well:
*The following link will enable you to join the above program:
https://meet.google.com/sug-gpbq-fcv
*Essential Items for the Temple:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rx5Dks2NggPxWJvb6o6hu5UnAoLd_0VY5oCJ8jT_KXk/edit?usp=sharing
* Please find the attachment below
“Buddha Wandana Book”
(Please forward this to your friends and others who may be interested)
Further contact: 813-621-1337, 813-313-9784
With metta,
May the noble triple gem bless you all !
