Eitaikyo Service
Sun, Nov 09
|Watsonville
The Eitaikyo service is an opportunity to gather with family and friends in memory of our past loved ones and express our gratitude for their sacrifices. We are reminded of all that they have given to us. The Buddha’s 8 fold path includes “right thought”. Right thought is to contemplate on all th
Time & Location
Nov 09, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Watsonville, 423 Bridge St, Watsonville, CA 95076, USA
About the event
This month we will conduct a yearly service called the Eitaikyo service. The word is a contraction of the formal term, Ei-tai doku-kyo 永代読経. Ei means eternal, lasting forever. The Chinese character for Ei means a river with many tributaries that flow on forever. Tai means generations and Kyo means sutras, the words of Shakyamuni Buddha. So the word Eitaikyo means to eternally chant or read the sutras in memory of our loved ones for generations and generations forever.