Lantern Floating Hawai‘i
MONDAY, MAY 28, 6:30 TO 7:30 P.M.
Certainly one of the more beautiful and touching memorial ceremonies in Hawai’i is the Lantern Floating Ceremony hosted by Shinnyo-en.
Annually, since 1999, the Shinnyo-en school of Buddhism hosts the Lantern Floating Ceremony held here in Honolulu at Ala Moana Beach Park in Kaka’ako. Lanterns will be available to participants from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on which one may write remembrances.
During the ceremony at sunset one can personally place their lantern along with the other participants into the ocean lagoon at Ala Moana Beach Park. One may also go to the website and write a note to go on a collective remembrance lantern.
The event is a blend of Buddhist and Hawaiian practices, beginning with a pū or conch shell to start the event, followed by taiko, hula and traditional offerings. It concludes with the lighting and floating of more than 7,000 lanterns in the evening light at Ala Moana Beach Park.
Free, Ala Moana Beach Park, 1201 Ala Moana Blvd.
http://www.lanternfloatinghawaii.com/page/ceremony
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