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

Morning Service
(chôka fugin)

Part One:
Texts for Sutra Chanting Services

Part Two:
Eko for Sutra Chanting Services
Morning Service
(chôka fugin)

Buddha Hall Sutra Chanting
(butsuden fugin)

Sutra Chanting for the Arhats (ôgu fugin)

Ancestors Hall Sutra Chanting (sodô fugin)

Sutra Chanting for Founding and Former Abbots
(kaisan rekijû fugin)

Mortuary Hall Sutra Chanting (shidô 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
Founding and Former Abbots
(kaisan rekijû fugin)

Text chanted:

Great Compassion Dharani (Daihishû)

Eko:

We humbly beg your true compassion and illumination.

Having chanted the Great Compassionate Mind Dharani, we dedicate this service to each of the following great teachers, that we may repay their compassionate blessings:

[Note: chant either the left or right column, continuing as appropritate.]

 

Great Teacher [name], [name] Daioshô,
Great Teacher [name], [name] Daioshô,

We also offer this karma to Great Teachers [names], that it may enhance their names.