Instrumentation: [X] large bowl-bell. [Y] small bowl-bell. [Z] nakkei: damping hand-bell with striker

Soto School Scriptures for Daily Services and Practice
(Sôtôshû nikka gongyô seiten)
Part 2: Eko for Sutra Chanting Services


Part One:
Texts for Sutra Chanting Services

Part Two:
Eko for Sutra Chanting Services
Morning Service
(chôka fugin)
Abbreviated Morning Service
(ryaku chôka fugin)
Kitchen Sutra Chanting
(
sôkô fugin)
Midday Sutra Chanting
(
nicchû fugin)
Evening Sutra Chanting
(
banka fugin)
Prayers Sutra Chanting
(
shukutô fugin)
Sutra Chanting For Tutelary Deities
(
chinju fugin)
Sutra Chanting For Idaten (idaten fugin)
Offering to the Main Object of Veneration
(
honzon jôgu)
Sutra Chanting for Mortuary Hall Patrons
(
shidô danna fugin)
Sutra Chanting for Patron's Ancestors
(
dannotsu senmô ruidai fugin)

Part Three: Verses & Texts for Other Occasions

 

 

Sutra Chanting For Tutelary Deities
(chinju fugin)

Text chanted:

Great Compassion Dharani
(Daihishû)

Eko:

Supernatural merits vast and wide, sacred virtues clear and bright, prayed to by all, and always responsive.

Seeking your sacred wisdom, we beg your illumination.

Having chanted the Great Compassionate Mind Dharani,we transfer the blessings generated thereby to
[name], the tutelary deity of this monastery; to the earth spirit and protecting spirits of this monastery; to the dharma-protecting devas and good spirits; that it may increase their majestic light and their virtues, immeasurable as the ocean.

What we pray for is tranquility within the monastery, practice without hindrance, peace in the land, and harmony among all nations.