Sutra Chanting for Repaying Blessings
(hôon fugin)
Text chanted:
Heart
Sutra (Hannya shingyô)
Eko:
Having chanted the Heart of Great Perfect Wisdom Sutra,
we reverently offer the merit generated thereby to our Great
Benefactor and Founder of the Doctrine, the Original Teacher
Shakyamuni Buddha [or whatever other figure is currently
enshined as the main object of veneration in the practice place],
to the Eminent Ancestor Dogen, to the Great Ancestor Keizan,
to the successive generations of buddhas and ancestors who transmitted
the flame, to the founding abbot of the monastery, Great Teacher
[name], and to the eternal three jewels in the ten directions,
that we may repay their compassionate blessings. We further offer
it to the tutelary deities of this monastery, the dharma-protecting
devas, and good spirits.
What we pray for is the flourishing of the true dharma, harmony
among all nations, tranquility within the monastery, and that
all conditions may be favorable.
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