Dai sai ge da pu ku musō fuku den e hi bu nyo rai kyo kō do shoshu jo
Great robe of liberation Field far beyond form and emptiness Wearing the Tathagata’s teaching Saving all beings
Before Lecture
An unsurpassed, penetrating and perfect dharma Is rarely met with even in a hundred thousand million kalpas. Having it to see and listen to, to remember and accept, I vow to taste the truth of the Tathagata’s words.
After Lecture
Beings are numberless; I vow to save them. Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them. Dharma gates are boundless; I vow to enter them. Buddha’s way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it.
Purification
All my ancient, twisted karma, From beginningless greed, hate and delusion. Born through body, speech and mind, I now fully avow.