Chinese Buddhist Evening Ceremony: Repentance 佛教 晚課 八十八佛 (1)

The evening ceremony on even-numbered dates begins with the Great Repentance before the Eighty-Eight Buddhas. It is stated in the sutras that if a person hears, praises, recites, and respects the Buddhas' names, they would not fall into the evil paths and will ultimately meet the Buddhas of the ten directions. Furthermore, if someone had committed the four sins (killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, and false speech) or the five grand offenses (killed one's father, mother, or an arhat, shed the blood of a Buddha, or destroyed the harmony of the Sangha), they should repent with a sincere resolve before the Buddhas. The number eighty-eight symbolically represents all the Buddhas of the past, present and future. While reciting the eighty-eight Buddhas' names, all past and present faults are sincerely repented and the resolve to follow the Buddha's path is strengthened.

The English translation can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/terriraehellerich/webs/EightyEightBuddhas.htm

雙日晚課《八十八佛大懺悔文》是宋朝不動法師依《三十五佛名禮懺文》整理。據《觀藥王藥上二菩薩經》所說，如果有人聽聞、讚歎、稱念，恭敬禮拜三十五佛洪名，生生世世不墮­惡道，常值十方諸佛，除滅四重五逆諸罪。又《大寶積經:優波離會》載，佛說若有眾生成就五無間罪，應當於三十五佛前殷重懺悔。綜合以上二經所說，並輔以普賢行願品，遂有八­十八佛洪名寶懺流通於世。八十八佛為過去、現在、未來諸佛的聖名，「八十八」只是象徵的數字，如取大海一瓢，甘美本色不減絲毫。唱誦時隨文反省自己一天的身口意三業，至誠­向諸佛懺悔無始劫來罪業，並藉著誦諸佛名號，引發向佛學習之心。

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