世界和平大法會

十月滬發起祝願。世界和平法會。眾議請公主法派方子藩等迎請十二月十一日抵滬執旗獻花者。千餘眾。法會定農曆十月廿六日。啟建水陸並請應慈靜權等。十大德副之。僧眾七十二人。至十二月十四日圓滿。參謁者如潮。

宣化偈曰：

法會祈求世和平。道場殊勝各安寧。
消災免劫彌戾氣。增福延壽降吉星。

Hosting a Great Dharma Assembly for world peace

In the tenth lunar month, the people of Shanghai decided to convene a Dharma assembly for world peace. They met and requested the Master to be the Dharma Host. Fang Tzu Fan and others were sent to invite and escort him. They returned to Shanghai on the eleventh, and more than a thousand people waving flags and offering flowers welcomed the Master. The meeting was set for the twenty-sixth day of the tenth lunar month, and ceremonies for the welfare of creatures both on land and in the water were held. Dharma Masters Ying Tz'u and Ching Ch'uan, among ten eminent monks, were requested to assist, and seventy-two other monks took part. The assembly lasted until the fourteenth of the twelfth lunar month and participants swarmed the Way-place.

The gatha says:
The purpose of the Dharma Assembly was to pray for peace in the world.
The Bodhimanda was most supreme, and all in it were at ease.
Ending disaster and stopping war, they did away with violence.
Blessings increased and lives were lengthened - an auspicious star had descended.