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Foreword
Rongdana (almshouse or dining pavilion) has been an intimate part of Buddhism for a very long time, ever since the time of the Buddha. This is because rongdana plays a critical role in the accumulation of danaparami or the charity stage of spiritual perfections. Danaparami is one of the three pillars of the cultivation of parami that has been promulgated within Buddhism, along with precepts and vipassana.
Alms-giving is the inception of relinquishment by sharing material requisites that are important and necessary to the subsistence of the impoverished and the destitute—enabling them to have foods to subsist daily, for their current benefits. Alms-giving also provides future benefits to the givers, enabling them to develop their mind through forfeiture, sharing, abandonment of parsimony. The givers are transformed from the ones who only seek their own benefits into the ones who benefit others; their minds are elevated into those of complete humans, worthy and not wasted.
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