..續本文上一頁erfect the Unsurpassed Knowledge. In the Past, Present and Future these Buddhas have achieved the Greatest Surpassing Victory for all living beings and to their Immeasurable Ocean of Accomplishment, I now surrender my life in devotion.

　　This ends the Litany of the Eighty-eight Buddhas, but not the Rite of Confession and Repentance. If the preceding portion of the Rite is omitted, this remaining section must still be used daily.

　　All rise

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　　In the Worlds in all directions dwell the Three Periods Complete Lions of Men, and with our pure clean bodies, speech and thoughts, we have wholly and completely worshipped them, excluding none! The awe-inspiring majesty of P”u Hsien”s Vow of Activity has also been completely manifested before these Tathagatas. His One Body repeatedly manifests itself in bodies as countless as dust with each of these bodies giving worship to Buddhas that are also countless as dust, and, within the center of each grain of dust, there are also Buddhas to be counted: Each of them residing in the center of a Bodhisattva Assembly! Throughout the Inexhaustible Dharma Realm, all grains of dust are also like this! Nevertheless, be firmly convinced that each of these Myriad Buddhas is replete with a Full Ocean of Expounding”s Wonderful Words which can not be used up by all the ages of the future!

　　Sing praises to these Buddhas Very Profound Oceans of Merits, and consider the myriads of Surpassingly Victorious Wonderfully Flowered Garlands which adorn them. Even as they are praised by singing maidens and other female dancers and performers who anoint themselves with perfume and incense to worship these Buddhas; Even as those great leaders and statesmen and those who are entitled to the signs and symbols of authority and others that can wear the Surpassing and Glorious Adornments of Merit worship these Buddhas; so do we also make nourishing offerings to these Tathagatas who are peerlessly robed and peerlessly fragrant.

　　Powdered Incense is burning and the Candles are lighted:

　　One-by-one, all these wonderful and Eminent Buddhas assemble as we wholly make these many kinds of nourishing offerings to the Tathagatas. Because of their Broad and Great Victories, our minds are liberated, and we come to have Deep Faith in all the Buddhas of the Three Realms.

　　We also know that it is because of the Power of P”u Hsien”s Vow of Activity that we can always and continually make this nourishing offering to the Myriad Tathagatas:

　　Bring the palms together and continue solemnly

　　From the beginning all evil karmas have been created by my greed anger and delusion and have stemmed from my body, mouth and mind. All of them I now completely Confess and Repent.

　　Releasing the hands, the Assembly continues normally saying:

　　In the Ten Directions, all the many kinds of living beings take refuge in the Two Vehicles which contain the Knowledge that extends beyond Knowledge, and, All Tathagatas, together with the Bodhisattvas, make use of this Meritorious Achievement to Rejoice in the Welfare of Others!

　　Throughout the Ten Directions they have "Divided the Light," And from this superlative beginning have caused beings to attain the Bodhi-Mind.

　　We now ask, with every fiber of our beings, that they turn the Unsurpassed Mysterious Dharma Wheel by which, in the presence of the passions, All Buddhas proclaim Nirvana, and,

　　With greatest sincerity, we fully, avidly and devotedly meditate on their Vows to always abide in lands as countless as dust for ages without end until the Blessed Joy is arrived at by all living beings.

　　We have completely worshipped, sung hymns of praise and made nourishing offerings to the Buddhas, and,

　　We have invited the Buddha that abides in this World to turn the Dharma Wheel. We have fulfilled our wishes and…

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