地點：印度　菩提迦耶　金剛座 Mahabodhi Stupa, Bodhigaya, India
時間：2007年12月24日 24th Dec., 2007
報導：噶舉祈願法會文宣組 Tashi Paljor
攝影：噶瑪善治 / 噶瑪諾布 / 生命電視台
Bamboo 重新编辑 Edit by Bamboo (10/3/2022)

The main event of the morning was the Alms Procession. The gelongs and gelongmas, wearing chogos and namjars, began assembling under the Bodhi Tree at 10am in their monastic order.

上午10:30開始，443位比丘和比丘尼由金剛座前開始進行托缽儀式。

The procession made its way slowly around the outer circuit to the main entrance gate where the alms round began. From the gate, across the plaza and down the main road, the route was lined with people from different regions and countries, standing on the right-hand side, each offering fruit, nuts, biscuits, packs of namkeen and other edible food. Some people touched their malas and bunches of protection cords to the bowls in order to receive the blessings of the Sangha, as they made their way down to the Rose Park. The begging bowls had to be emptied every few meters because the donors were so generous and enthusiastic. All the food was collected and distributed in large bags to the Sangha after the noon meal. On the grass in the Rose Park the monks and nuns sat in silent ordered lines, overseen by the Gyalwang Karmapa, and were served by Chinese Buddhist volunteers.

托缽行列依序緩緩慢行，莊嚴肅穆，與會者都法喜充滿。托缽行列由正覺大塔的東門開始，穿越噶舉大祈願法會的深紅色大拱門，緩緩走到大街上，最後進入正覺塔園旁玫瑰花園中，路線全長約500公尺。將缽中的食品倒入僧團大袋中後，僧眾端正地坐在草坪上，將缽放在面前，行列整齊，靜靜等候法王的巡視。接著，行堂組的義工一一上前為僧眾打菜。用餐時，園內依然一片寂靜，僧眾威儀依舊，一心不亂。

For the ordained Sangha, the experience of making the alms round is very humbling. Gyalwang Karmapa’s revival of this ancient Buddhist tradition into the Kagyu lineage is historic, and a significant move for the continuation of the Sangha and the time-honored relationship between ordained and lay disciples.

托缽儀式讓人體驗到托缽古制的德輝，僧眾時時持心而自然展現的威儀，讓見者心生歡喜，對僧團與佛制更加敬重。參與托缽的僧眾也感懷托缽古制的善巧，殷殷敦促僧眾修心持律。參與此次托缽儀式的僧俗大眾，都受益良多，歡心縈繞，久久不減。願佛制德輝遍滿十方三世！