Sunday, July 18, 2010

Eighty-Eight Buddhas Repentance Ceremony

To the Greatly Kind Compassionate Ones who rescue living beings,

The Ones of Great Joyous Giving who rescue conscious beings,

The Ones Adorned with the Light of Hallmarks and Fine Characteristics,

The Assemblies return their lives in worship with utmost sincerity.

Homage to, I take refuge with all the Buddhas of the Ten Directions to the End of Empty Space.

Homage to, I take refuge with all the Venerable Dharmas of the Ten Directions to the End of Empty Space.

Homage to, I take refuge with Sangha of all Sages and Worthies of the Ten Directions to the End of Empty Space.

Homage to the Thus Come Ones, Worthy of Offerings, of Proper and Universal Knowledge,

Perfect in Understanding and Conduct,

Skillful in Leaving the World Through Liberation,

Unsurpassed Knights.

Taming Heroes, Teachers of Gods and People, Buddhas, World Honored Ones.

1. Homage to Universal Light Buddha

2. Homage to Universal Understanding Buddha

3. Homage to Universal Purity Buddha

4. Homage to Tamalapattra and Chandana Fragrance Buddha.

5. Homage to Chandana Light Buddha

6. Homage to Mani Banner Buddha

7. Homage to Treasury of Happiness and Accumulation of Mani Jewels Buddha.

8. Homage to Supreme Great Vigor that All Worlds Delight to See Buddha

9. Homage to Mani Banner and Lamps’ Light Buddha

10. Homage to Wisdom Torches’ Shining Buddha

11. Homage to Sea-Vast Virtue’s Radiance Buddha

12. Homage to Vajra Firm and Shedding Golden Light Everywhere Buddha

13. Homage to Great Firm Vigor and Courage Buddha

14. Homage to Greatly Compassionate Light Buddha

15. Homage to King of Kindness and Strength Buddha

16. Homage to Treasury of Kindness Buddha

17. Homage to Adornments and Victory in Chandana Cave Buddha

18. Homage to Worthy and Wholesome Leader Buddha

19. Homage to Wholesome Mind Buddha

20. Homage to King Vast Adornments Buddha

21. Homage to Golden Flowers’ Light Buddha

22. Homage to King Self-Mastery Power Like A Jeweled Canopy Shining In Space Buddha.

23. Homage to Light of Precious Flowers in Space Buddha

24. Homage to King Adorned with Lapis Lazuli Buddha

25. Homage to Form-Body’s Light Appearing Everywhere Buddha

26. Homage to Light of Unmoving Wisdom Buddha

27. Homage to King Demon-Horde-Subduer Buddha

28. Homage to Gifted and Brilliant Buddha

29. Homage to Wisdom Victory Buddha

30. Homage to Maitreya, Immortal Light Buddha

31. Homage to King Well-Stilled Moon-Sound and Wonderful Venerable Wisdom Buddha

32. Homage to Pure Light for the World Buddha

33. Homage to Supreme and Venerable Dragon-King Buddha

34. Homage to Light of Sun and Moon Buddha

35. Homage to Pearl Light of Sun and Moon Buddha

36. Homage to Victorious King Wisdom-Banner Buddha

37. Homage to King Lion’s Roar and Power of Self-Mastery Buddha

38. Homage to Wonderful Voice and Victory Buddha

39. Homage to Banner of Eternal Light Buddha

40. Homage to Lamp that Contemplates the World Buddha

41. Homage to King Awesome Lamp of Wisdom Buddha

42. Homage to King Dharma-Victory Buddha

43. Homage to Sumeru Light Buddha

44. Homage to Sumana Flower Light Buddha

45. Homage to King Rare as the Udumbara Flower Buddha

46. Homage to King Great Wisdom-Power Buddha

47. Homage to Akshobya, Light of Joy Buddha

48. Homage to King Infinite Voices Buddha

49. Homage to Gifted and Bright Buddha

50. Homage to Golden Sea of Light Buddha

51. Homage to King Wisdom Like Mountains and Seas and Self-Mastery’s Penetrations Buddha

52. Homage to Light of Great Penetrations Buddha

53. Homage to King Forever Replete in All Dharmas Buddha,

54. Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha

55. Homage to Vajra-Indestructible Buddha

56. Homage to Precious Light Buddha

57. Homage to Venerable Dragon-King Buddha

58. Homage to Vigor’s Army Buddha

59. Homage to Vigor and Joy Buddha

60. Homage to Precious Fire Buddha

61. Homage to Precious Moonlight Buddha

62. Homage to Manifesting Without Delusion Buddha

63. Homage to Precious Moon Buddha

64. Homage to Undefiled Buddha

65. Homage to Apart From Defilement Buddha

66. Homage to Courageous Giving Buddha

67. Homage to Purity Buddha

68. Homage to Pure Giving Buddha

69. Homage to Swo Lyu Na Buddha

70. Homage to Water Deva Buddha

71. Homage to Firm Virtue Buddha

72. Homage to Chandana Merit and Virtue Buddha

73. Homage to Infinite Handfuls of Light Buddha

74. Homage to Bright Virtue Buddha

75. Homage to Virtue Free of Worry Buddha

76. Homage to Narayana Buddha

77. Homage to Flower of Merit and Virtue Buddha

78. Homage to Lotus-Flower Light, Roaming in Spiritual Power Buddha

79. Homage to Wealthy in Merit and Virtue Buddha

80. Homage to Virtue and Mindfulness Buddha

81. Homage to Merit and Virtue and Good Renown Buddha

82. Homage to King Blazing Red Imperial Banner Buddha

83. Homage to Skillful Travel and Merit and Virtue Buddha

84. Homage to Victorious in Battle Buddha

85. Homage to Skillfully Traveling Buddha

86. Homage to Encompassing Adornments and Merit and Virtue Buddha

87. Homage to Precious Flower Traveling Buddha

88. Homage to King Precious Lotus Skillfully Dwelling Beneath the Sala Tree Buddha

Homage to Amita Buddha, Whose Body is the Treasury of the Dharma Realm.

And other Buddhas like them, World Honored Ones of Worlds,

Who Dwell in the World Forever.

May all the World Honored Ones kindly be mindful of me,

as I repent of the offenses I have committed in this life and in former lives.

Throughout births and deaths without beginning,

Whether I have done myself or told others to do it, or condoned their being done:

Such as taking things from Stupas, from a Sanghas, or From the Sangha of the Four Directions,

Either taking by myself, telling others to take them, or condoning their being taken;

Or committing the Five Avici Offenses, either committing them myself, telling others to commit them, or condoning their being committed;

Or committing the Ten Evils, either committing myself, telling others to commit them, or condoning their being committed;

All such obstructing offenses, whether hidden or not,

Which merit my falling into the hells or among the hungry ghosts or animals or any other evil destiny

Or into a lowly life, a life in the border regions, or a life as a Mleccha;

I now repent and reform all the obstructing offenses I’ve committed.

Now may the Buddhas, World Honored Ones, certify me; may they be mindful of me.

Before the Buddhas, World Honored Ones, I further speak these words:

Any good roots that I have gained in this life, or in past lives,

Through giving, through guarding pure precepts,

Simply through giving a morsel of food to an animal, or through cultivating pure conduct;

Any good roots from bringing living beings to accomplishment;

Any good roots from cultivating Bodhi;

And any good roots from attaining supreme wisdom:

All of them, accumulated and reckoned up throughout my life spans,

I transfer to Annutara Samyak Sambodhi.

My transference is like the transferences made by the Buddhas of the Past, Present, and Future.

I repent and reform every offense, compliantly rejoice in blessings,

Seek the Buddha’s merit and virtue, and vow to accomplish the unsurpassed wisdom.

To Buddhas of Past and Present, supreme among living beings,

With seas of infinite merit and virtue, I now return my life in worship.

Throughout the worlds in the Ten Directions,

Before Lions Among Men in the Past, Present, and also in the Future,

With body, mouth, and mind entirely pure,

I bow before them, omitting none.

With the awesome spiritual power of Samantabhadra’s Vows,

I appear at the same time before every Thus Come One,

And n transformed bodies as many as motes of dust in lands,

Bow to Buddhas as many as motes of dust in lands.

In every mote of dust are Buddhas as many as motes of dust,

Each dwelling amid a host of Bodhisattvas,

Throughout motes of dust in endless Dharma Realms it is the same:

I deeply believe they are filled with Buddhas.

With seas of each and every sound, I everywhere let fall

Words and phrases,

Wonderful and endless

Which exhaust all kalpas of the future, and

Praise the wide, deep sea of the Buddhas’ merit and virtue.

Flower garlands supreme and wonderful,

Music, perfumes, parasols and canopies,

And other decorations rich and rare,

I offer up to every Thus Come One.

Fine clothing, superior incense,

Powdered and burning incense, lamps and candles

Each one heaped as high as wonderfully high mountain,

I offer completely to the Tathagatas.

With a vast, great, supremely liberated mind,

I believe in the Buddhas of the Three Periods of Time:

With the strength of Samantabhadra’s conduct and vows,

I make offerings to the Thus Come Ones Everywhere.

For the evil deeds I have done in the past

Based on beginningless greed, anger, and delusion,

And created by body, speech and mind,

I now know shame and repent of them all.

Of all beings in the Ten Directions,

The Learners and Those Past Study in the Two Vehicles,

And all Thus Come Ones and Bodhisattvas,

I rejoice in all their merit and virtues.

Before the Lamps of the Worlds of the Ten Directions,

Those who first accomplished Bodhi,

I now request and beseech them

To turn the foremost wondrous Dharma Wheel.

If there are Buddhas who wish for Nirvana,

I request with deep sincerity

That they dwell in the world for as many Kalpas as there are dust motes in Kshetras,

To bring benefit

And bliss to every being.

All good roots from worshipping, praising, and making offerings to Buddhas,

From requesting that Buddhas dwell in the world to turn the Dharma Wheel,

From compliantly rejoicing, from repenting and reforming,

I transfer to living beings attaining the Buddhas Way.

May this supreme merit and virtue,

Be transferred throughout the unsurpassed true Dharma Realm.

To the Nature and appearance of the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha,

These two truths are fused and understood by the impress of Samadhi’s sea.

Of all such infinite seas of merit and virtue,

I now make complete transference.

May all the Karmic obstruction of living beings’

Body, mouth, ad mind—view delusions,

False accusations, self, dharmas, and so forth—

Be entirely extinguished without remainder.

In every thought may my wisdom encompass the Dharma Realm,

And widely cross over living beings to irreversibility,

Till the exhaustion of the realm of Empty Space,

And the Exhaustion of Living Beings, of Karma, and of Afflictions.

Just as these four Dharmas are vast and boundless,

I now vow that my transference will be so, too.


Homage to the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva of Great Conduct

Homage to the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva of Great Conduct

Homage to the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva of Great Conduct


Homage to the Avalokitasvara Bodhisattva of Great Compassion

Homage to the Avalokitasvara Bodhisattva of Great Compassion

Homage to the Avalokitasvara Bodhisattva of Great Compassion


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