༄༅། །བསྔོ་བ་ཡོན་བཤད་དང་བཅས་པ་བཞུགས། །
Guidelines for Transference of Merit on Behalf of the Deceased
A means for helping the deceased. This manual consists of four prayers to help in the accumulation of merit and purification of obscurations of the departed.
- Offering Prayer: An Ocean of Butter Lamps;
- Samantabhadra’s Aspiration to Noble Deeds the Aspiration;
- The Hundred Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva;
- Sapan’s The Transference of Merit together with instructions (བསྔོ་བ་ཡོན་བཤད་དང་བཅས་པ་བཞུགས།).
These prayers can be observed on behalf of the deceased for a prescribed amount of time such as 49 days; or, daily, weekly, monthly, etc. Those who wish to practice the observance more frequently on behalf of the deceased are encouraged to do so.
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v.1 Guidelines for Transference of Merit on Behalf of the Deceased (print)
Translated by Khenpo Kalsang Gyaltsen, Chodrung-ma Kunga Chodron, John Golden, and the members of Sakya Phuntsok Ling.
Tibetan, English, Transliteration
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v.2 Guidelines for Transference of Merit on Behalf of the Deceased (web-viewing)
Translated by Khenpo Kalsang Gyaltsen, Chodrung-ma Kunga Chodron, John Golden, and the members of Sakya Phuntsok Ling.
Two-page web-viewing
Tibetan, English, Transliteration
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