The Daily Recitation Handbook: Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (English and Chinese Edition) - Softcover

Buddhist Text Translation Society

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881398578 ISBN 13: 9780881398571

Publisher: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2002

Synopsis

This handbook contains the liturgy for daily morning and evening recitation as well as for special ceremonies in Mahayana Buddhist monasteries. The text for these ceremonies is accompanied by Yale Romanization and English translation.
Morning ceremony, which traditionally last from 4 to 5 am every morning, consists of the Surangama Mantra (from the Surangama Sutra), the Great Compassion Mantra and other shorter mantras, the Heart Sutra, and the Ten Great Vows of Samantabhadra (Universal Worthy) Bodhisattva taken from the Avatamsaka (Flower Adornment) Sutra. Evening ceremony traditionally lasts between 6 to 7 pm and alternates between the Amitabha Sutra and the Eighty-Eight Buddha Repentance Ceremony.
In addition, the handbook contains ceremonies for liberating life, bathing the Buddha, the Great Compassion Repentance Ceremony, among others. It also includes the Ullambana Sutra, the sutra on the practice of filial piety.

Edition details

• Publisher: Buddhist Text Translation Society
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881398578
• ISBN 13: 9780881398571
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256