Ancestral Tablets
Honour your loved ones through the cherished tradition of housing ancestral tablets, preserving their legacy with reverence and care.
Ancestral Tablet S2A
Delicate pink ancestral tablets adorn this suite, honouring the bond between generations. It provides a tranquil space to reflect on ancestors’ lasting memories and wisdom.
Ancestral Tablet S3A
Suite 3A houses a magnificent Maitreya Buddha statue, surrounded by vibrant red and soft pink ancestral tablets, creating a warm and sacred atmosphere for reflection.
Ancestral Tablet S6B
This peaceful suite features a Ksitigarbha King statue as a compassionate guardian, with shimmering crystals in the tablets highlighting reverence for each cherished ancestor.
Ancestral Tablet ES
Designed for serenity and reflection, this suite’s warm golden hues create a calming space for families to honour their ancestors in comfort.
Ancestral Tablet MS
This suite features piano wood and golden accents, creating a serene sanctuary for descendants to honour their ancestors and reflect on their enduring legacy.
Ancestral Tablet HS
With its golden tones, this suite emanates royal elegance, providing families a quiet, private space to reflect and honour their ancestors.
Ancestral Tablet S12A
Suite 12A features Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva holding a golden rod and luminous pearl, symbolising enlightenment and compassionate guidance for souls seeking inner peace.
Ancestral Tablet PS
A thoughtful space for remembrance, this suite’s elegant ancestral tablets feature a soft blue glow and a lotus flower motif embedded in the glass.
Ancestral Tablet H501A
A serene sanctuary of light and tranquillity, this suite features beautifully glazed ancestral tablets, with the guiding presence of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
Ancestral Tablet H503A
This suite combines ancestral tablets and niches, offering a tranquil, convenient space for families to remember and pay tribute to their loved ones.
Ancestral Tablet S70
Suite 70 offers a tranquil, dignified space for families to reflect on heritage. Ksitigarbha stands as a symbol of filial piety and respect for ancestral roots.
Ancestral Tablet S77A
This serene suite combines ancestral tablets and niches, providing families a respectful space to honour loved ones and enabling future generations to pay their respects with reverence.
Ancestral Tablet S77A
This serene suite combines ancestral tablets and niches, providing families a respectful space to honour loved ones and enabling future generations to pay their respects with reverence.
Ancestral Tablet S81
This suite’s crystal glass tablets feature the Flowers Mandala, symbolising blessings. Prajna Sutra Wheels embody wisdom, offering serenity and a path to enlightenment.
Ancestral Tablet S85A
Suite 85A combines niches and glazed tablets symbolising pure light. At its heart, a Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue evokes serenity and comfort for remembrance.
Ancestral Tablet S86
This suite symbolises unity and prosperity, featuring a rotating Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue for spiritual growth and coloured glaze tablets for a tranquil space of reflection.
Ancestral Tablet S2A
Delicate pink ancestral tablets adorn this suite, honouring the bond between generations. It provides a tranquil space to reflect on ancestors’ lasting memories and wisdom.
Ancestral Tablet S3A
Suite 3A houses a magnificent Maitreya Buddha statue, surrounded by vibrant red and soft pink ancestral tablets, creating a warm and sacred atmosphere for reflection.
Ancestral Tablet S6B
This peaceful suite features a Ksitigarbha King statue as a compassionate guardian, with shimmering crystals in the tablets highlighting reverence for each cherished ancestor.
Ancestral Tablet ES
Designed for serenity and reflection, this suite’s warm golden hues create a calming space for families to honour their ancestors in comfort.
Ancestral Tablet MS
This suite features piano wood and golden accents, creating a serene sanctuary for descendants to honour their ancestors and reflect on their enduring legacy.
Ancestral Tablet HS
With its golden tones, this suite emanates royal elegance, providing families a quiet, private space to reflect and honour their ancestors.
Ancestral Tablet S12A
Suite 12A features Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva holding a golden rod and luminous pearl, symbolising enlightenment and compassionate guidance for souls seeking inner peace.
Ancestral Tablet PS
A thoughtful space for remembrance, this suite’s elegant ancestral tablets feature a soft blue glow and a lotus flower motif embedded in the glass.
Ancestral Tablet H501A
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Ancestral Tablet H503A
This suite combines ancestral tablets and niches, offering a tranquil, convenient space for families to remember and pay tribute to their loved ones.
Ancestral Tablet S70
Suite 70 offers a tranquil, dignified space for families to reflect on heritage. Ksitigarbha stands as a symbol of filial piety and respect for ancestral roots.
Ancestral Tablet S81
This suite’s crystal glass tablets feature the Flowers Mandala, symbolising blessings. Prajna Sutra Wheels embody wisdom, offering serenity and a path to enlightenment.
Ancestral Tablet S85A
Suite 85A combines niches and glazed tablets symbolising pure light. At its heart, a Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue evokes serenity and comfort for remembrance.
Ancestral Tablet S86
This suite symbolises unity and prosperity, featuring a rotating Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue for spiritual growth and coloured glaze tablets for a tranquil space of reflection.
Nirvana Memorial Garden Singapore – Ancestral Tablet Pedestals
Ancestral Tablets are Part of Chinese History
Ancestral tablets are a cherished part of Chinese tradition, passed down through generations to honour and remember ancestors. These tablets serve as a reminder of family lineage, helping to maintain a connection to the past. At Nirvana Memorial Garden, our Pedestal Suites offer a serene and respectful space to display these tablets. Here, you can gather with your loved ones to pay respects and preserve your heritage, ensuring the memory of your ancestors endures.
Ancestral Tablet Service at Nirvana Memorial Garden
In Chinese tradition, some families choose to house the Ancestral or Spirit Tablet to honour their loved ones after the 49th day. At Nirvana Memorial Garden, we offer this service, including chanting rituals and inscription of names or photos, ensuring your loved one is remembered throughout the year with reverence and care.
The Ideal Final Resting Place
If you need assistance with relocating a niche, exhumation, or finding cemetery remains, we are here to support you. We have helped many families with niche relocations, including from Mount Vernon Columbarium, ensuring their loved ones are cared for in a peaceful and respectful resting place.
Ancestral Tablet Service at Nirvana Memorial Garden
In Chinese tradition, some families choose to house the Ancestral or Spirit Tablet to honour their loved ones after the 49th day. At Nirvana Memorial Garden, we offer this service, including chanting rituals and inscription of names or photos, ensuring your loved one is remembered throughout the year with reverence and care.
The Ideal Final Resting Place
If you need assistance with relocating a niche, exhumation, or finding cemetery remains, we are here to support you. We have helped many families with niche relocations, including from Mount Vernon Columbarium, ensuring their loved ones are cared for in a peaceful and respectful resting place.
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Ju Xian Dian
Ju Xian Dian is a peaceful lounge bathed in natural light and surrounded by greenery. It offers a comforting space for you and your family to gather, reconnect, and ease the sadness that often accompanies visits to the columbarium.
Hall of Three Buddha
The Hall of Three Buddhas honours Amitabha, Avalokitesvara, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. The unique Sheng Tian Yi Shi ceremony, with continuous chanting and serene lighting, offers comfort and peace, guiding you through a reflective journey as you commemorate your loved ones.
The Hall of Praying
Designed for those wishing to pray and honour their ancestors, this hall offers a peaceful space to worship the three Buddhas of the West. It provides a serene environment for reflection, allowing you to remember and connect with your loved ones through prayer and devotion.
The Ji Ling Suite
Our Ji Ling Suite offers a peaceful space for the 49-day prayer ceremony, honouring your departed loved one. This dedicated room ensures a serene and respectful environment for your loved one’s remembrance and spiritual journey.
Family Suite
Ensure your family stays united even after life’s journey with our Family Suite. This tranquil space is designed for shared remembrance, allowing your loved ones to rest together in peace.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Ancestral tablets isn’t universally “necessary,” but it’s a significant cultural and spiritual practice in many Asian traditions (especially Chinese) for honoring ancestors, symbolizing lineage, and maintaining spiritual connection through filial piety; its necessity depends on your family’s beliefs, as it provides a tangible focal point for remembrance, prayers, and seeking blessings, though modern alternatives exist, and some religions may have different views on ancestor veneration.
Memorial tablet, also called a spirit or ancestral tablet, is a placard used to symbolise the presence of a deceased ancestor or deity. Placed on altars at home or in temples, it serves as a focal point for offerings, prayers, and rituals, allowing families to honor and maintain a spiritual connection with their ancestors and it often carry the ancestor’s name, birth and death dates, and sometimes inscriptions of virtues.
We honour our ancestors to acknowledge our roots, learn from their lives both good and bad, maintain a spiritual connection, and ensure our own well-being and future, recognizing their sacrifices shaped us and their legacy continues through us, providing guidance, strength, and a sense of belonging to a timeless lineage. It’s a universal practice, rooted in gratitude and the belief that they influence our lives and can guide us from the spirit world, strengthening family bonds across generations.
Spirit tablets are traditionally made from wood or stone, but modern versions use materials like crystal glass, marble, metal, or even paper, inscribed with the ancestor’s name to serve as a temporary home for their spirit, allowing descendants to honor them.
Chinese families in Singapore honour ancestors primarily through rituals during the Qingming festival which is known as Tomb Sweeping Day,by visiting graves or columbarium niches to clean, pray and offer food. Other than that, they also do things like burning paper items like joss paper and symbolic “gift” while also maintaining ancestral altars at home for daily offerings and ancestor worship, uniting the family through these traditions.
Ancestors are crucial in chinese culture, because its often seen as continuing family members who influence the living, providing protection, guidance and blessings through their spiritual presence. This make the ancestor veneration a core practice of filial piety and family continuity and connecting the present generation to their roots and the cosmic order.
According to Feng Shui, it is good to place your ancestor altar in a quiet, clean and bright area. Ideally put it in the living room or a dedicated space, facing east or southeast and away from clutters, toilets and direct view from the front door.
