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In celebration of Vesak Day, Singapore's Thekchen Choling temple has opened its doors to the animal kingdom.

In the Buddhist religion, the festival marks Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death.

For Singha Rinpoche, the spiritual director of the temple, inviting families to bring their pets for the blessing is an expression of Buddha's love for all living things.

Buddhists believe in rebirth or reincarnation, and this extends to animals too, so one day your pet could be reborn in human form.

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And also we, we, we see our animals as a family and also as - in our, in our animal realm.

So we like to accumulate merit for, for my pets, so that in future he may be, he may be, become a human just like us and not be an animal."

It took us quite a while, for, for us to get close to her.

And now that she has warm up to us, we feel that adopting to being blessed together with us in a Vesak Day even will bring all of us closer."

To commemorate the occasion, there were an abundance of photo opportunities for owners with their much loved pets.

Some even took paw prints to mark the occasion.

Singha Rinpoche: "We pray to plant a seed of enlightenment for the pet.

Because in - we believe that even a pet will become a Buddha one day."

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