Kanbutsuge

On Sunday 10th April, there was the festival of Hana Matsuri, known in English also as the Flower Festival to celebrate the birth of the Buddha.

Before the bathing of the baby Buddha with sweet tea in the flower house the monks and nuns opened the ceremony with the Kanbutsuge which is the Bathing of the Buddha gatha or chant, below is a translation of the Kanbutsuge.

We now bath all the Tathagatas, whose Pure Wisdom is adorned with innumerable virtues. They cause sentient beings of the Five Periods of Decay to be seperated from their sufferings and together attain the Pure Dharma-body of the Tathagatas.

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Alex Fox