Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Robe Chant

In the morning we do very little sutra chanting. After the first sitting we do a simple one called the Robe Chant:

Dai zai geda puku
Mu so fuku den e
Hi bu nyo rai kyo
Ko do sho shu jo

Dai zai geda puku
Mu so fuku den e
Hi bu nyo rai kyo
Ko do sho shu jo

Great robe of liberation
Field far beyond form and emptiness
Wearing the Tathagata's teaching
Saving all beings


I enjoy doing the chants in Japanese but don't care for them in English. English doesn't seem lend itself to the chants; it seems a little contrived.

I don't have this memorized yet so I refer to the Kannon Do's Chant Book, reciting from it.

If anyone knows where I can find this written in Japanese (kanji) characters, please let me know.

_/\_

1 comments:

  1. Hi Eric too late perhaps but here you are.

    大哉解脱服
    無相福田衣
    披奉如来教
    広度諸衆生

    Gassho
    Shohei

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