This document describes the chanting and procedures involved in Buddhist ordination ceremonies in the Ukasa style. It involves chanting verses while kneeling, bowing, and standing in order to pay homage. The ordinand seeks refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha and receives the ten precepts from the preceptor. They request dependence on their preceptor and undergo a question and response examination regarding their robes, bowl, and qualifications before receiving full ordination.
This document contains Pali chanting and prayers used in Buddhist ceremonies. It begins with an introduction describing the purposes of chanting in Buddhism, such as remembering the Buddha's teachings and concentrating the mind. The document then provides the full text of several chants and prayers, including dedications of offerings, praise for the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, and reflections on impermanence, non-self, and ending suffering. The chants are meant to be recited by monks, novices, and laypeople during morning ceremonies.
This document contains chants and teachings used in Buddhist practice, including:
- The Anekajati Gatha, a poem about the endless cycle of rebirth.
- The description of dependent origination, explaining how ignorance leads to suffering through a chain of causation.
- A list of the different types of conditional relations between phenomena.
- Ten reflections for monks to contemplate, such as how one's life now depends on others' gifts and how all that is pleasing will decay.
This document describes the chanting and procedures involved in Buddhist ordination ceremonies in the Ukasa style. It involves chanting verses while kneeling, bowing, and standing in order to pay homage. The ordinand seeks refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha and receives the ten precepts from the preceptor. They request dependence on their preceptor and undergo a question and response examination regarding their robes, bowl, and qualifications before receiving full ordination.
This document contains Pali chanting and prayers used in Buddhist ceremonies. It begins with an introduction describing the purposes of chanting in Buddhism, such as remembering the Buddha's teachings and concentrating the mind. The document then provides the full text of several chants and prayers, including dedications of offerings, praise for the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, and reflections on impermanence, non-self, and ending suffering. The chants are meant to be recited by monks, novices, and laypeople during morning ceremonies.
This document contains chants and teachings used in Buddhist practice, including:
- The Anekajati Gatha, a poem about the endless cycle of rebirth.
- The description of dependent origination, explaining how ignorance leads to suffering through a chain of causation.
- A list of the different types of conditional relations between phenomena.
- Ten reflections for monks to contemplate, such as how one's life now depends on others' gifts and how all that is pleasing will decay.