༄༅།   །བསྔོ་བ་ཡོན་བཤད་དང་བཅས་པ་བཞུགས།   །

Guidelines for Transference of Merit on Behalf of the Deceased

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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.

1. Offering Prayer: An Ocean of Butter Lamps;
2. Samantabhadra’s Aspiration to Noble Deeds the Aspiration;
3. The Hundred Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva;
4. 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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