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THE FIRST WORDS

Every day Nuns and Buddhists at Hương Sen Buddhist Temple, California, USA, have practiced and recited following the Vietnamese scripture, “Nghi Lễ Hàng Ngày – 50 Kinh Tụng và các Lễ Vía trong Năm” (Daily Chanting – Fifty Discourses and Annual Festivals) of the Pureland Sect, which was composed in 2021 by Bhikkhunī Thích Nữ Giới Hương. It is based on the original ritual of her late Master, the Venerable Elder Hải Triều Âm at Liên Hoa Temple and Dược Sư Temple.¹

Since many Vietnamese-Americans, Hispanic, native Americans, and English speakers have come to Huong Sen Temple in search of practice and ritual, Bhikkhunī Giới Hương composed an English version of DAILY MONASTIC CHANTING. It encompasses 16 popular rituals to serve the spiritual needs of any Buddhist sect, including the Pure Land and Meditation Traditions as below:

1. Practice Meditation
2. The Ceremony for Peace
3. The Rice Offering to Buddhas
4. The Lunch Offering at the Dining Hall
5. The Ritual Offering Food To Hungry Ghosts
6. The Pureland Course of Amitabha Sutra
7. The Medicine Buddha Sutra
8. The New Year Ceremony 

1 Please read: http://www.huongsentemple.com/index.php/vn/phat- phap/kinh-ta-ng-ca-a-cha-a-hs/6256-nghi-le-hang-ngay-20.

9. The Great Parinirvana Ceremony
10. The Buddha’s Birthday Ceremony
11. The Ullambana Festival (Parents’ Day)
12. The Marriage Ceremony
13. The Blessing Ceremony for The Deceased
14. The Ancestral Ceremony
15. The Enlightened Buddha Ceremony
16. The Uposatha Ceremony (Reciting Precepts)

With regard to mindful chanting, we take sources from the sacred book, Chanting from the Heart: Buddhist Ceremonies and Daily Practices of Thích Nhất Hạnh. In the field of the Pureland School, we have taken material from the above Vietnamese scripture, “Nghi Lễ Hàng Ngày,” and translated it into English.

We should chant at least once a week, any place and any time, or more often if we have more time. The chant will help to avoid negative thoughts, defilements, distractions -any of the myriad things that intrude into the one-pointed mind. We definitely feel the connectedness with Dharma (the Buddha’s teaching), we feel the spirit being lifted up, the awakening and the settling of the mind to enter meditation. We will become bright, enduring, detached, diligent, generous, loving, understanding and so on . . . because we practice following the chanting and the role model of Buddhas.

Chanting out loud or silently listening to chanting can also be very relaxing as we go about our day. It can be used to calm our mind before work or sleeping.

For the sake of all the general practitioners, there are some changes, combinations, additions, reductions, and creations made in this English version. This is the first

time that both traditions have been combined in an English version for the necessary needs at Huong Sen Buddhist Temple.

We would like to gratefully acknowledge with special thanks the Buddhas, Boddhisattvas, Sanghas, the English translators, Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, our Late Respectful Teacher - Venerable Elder Bhikkhunī Hải Triều Âm and others. You all provided us the awakening words to remind and guide us in the right way of practice. We will keep chanting, learning and practicing it until we and all beings get the enlightenment as well as realize our Buddha nature.

If there is any merit in compiling this book, may it be shared with all sentient beings. May they diligently practice and soon gain the way of love and understanding.

Reciting the sutras, practicing the way of awareness

gives rise to benefits without limit.

We vow to share the fruits with all beings.

We vow to offer tribute to parents, teachers, friends,

and numerous beings who

give guidance and support along the path.

(Thích Nhất Hạnh)

Hương Sen Temple, Riverside, California

March 15, 2023

Bhikkhunī TN Giới Hương

1.    THE RICE OFFERING TO BUDDHAS

After the morning chanting course is done and before noon, the ritual of rice offering to the Buddhas is conducted. Then, sangha goes to the hall to take lunch and performs the lunch offering there.

1. Incense offering
2. Paying homage to buddhas and bodhisattvas
3. Mantra recitation of food and water
4. Offering gatha
5. Please accept the offering
6. Sharing the

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1.   INCENSE OFFERING

As wonderful as the lotus flower, as bright as the northern star,

let us come back and take refuge in the teacher of gods and men. (o)

As the incense is lit, sandalwood perfumes the air, making an auspicious rainbow cloud.

I, your disciple, with all my respect offer it to the Buddhas of the Ten Directions.

May we practice the precepts seriously at all times, May we practice concentration diligently,

May we offer the precious fruit of insight as our offering of incense of the heart.

Respectfully we offer incense to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. (o)

Namo Offering the Incense Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

2.   PAYING HOMAGE TO BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS

Namo the Buddhas abiding in the Ten Directions. Namo the Dharmas abiding in the Ten Directions. Namo the Sanghas abiding in the Ten Directions. Namo Sakyamunaye Buddhaya

Namo Amitabhaya Buddhaya

Namo all Buddhas in the Ten Directions and the Three Times. (o)

Namo Manjusraye Namo Samantabhadraya

Namo Mahasthamapraptaya Namo Avalokiteshvaraya Namo Kshitigarbhaya

Namo the Bodhisattvas of the Holy Sangha present in this place of practice. (o)

Namo the Bodhisattvas our Ancestral Teachers of all generations.

Namo the Bodhisattvas who oversees the kitchen.

Namo the ten Bodhisattvas who are judges of the dead.

Namo all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas present in this practice center. (ooo)

3.   MANTRA RECITATION

• THE FOOD MANTRA

(Reflecting the food universally available)

Namo sarvatathagata’valokite.

Om sambhara sambhara hung. (3 times) (ooo)

• THE WATER MANTRA

(Reflecting the water universally available) Namah surupaya tathagataya Tadyatha, Om surupaya surupaya surupaya svaha. (3 times) (ooo)

4.   OFFERING GATHA

The   color,   fragrance   and   taste   of   this food   is   offered    first    to    all    Buddhas, then to all the holy ones and to the people of the six continents.

The offering is made so that all, without distinction, may have enough to eat.

May those who have given this food cross over to the other shore.

Everything that is in the Dharma realms is also offering the Three Virtues and the Six Tastes to the Buddha and the Sangha.

Namo the Buddhas abiding

in the Ten Directions. (3 times) (ooo)

5. PLEASE ACCEPT THE   OFFERING In concentration we make this offering of Dharma nectar

In quantity as great as Mount Sumeru.

Its form, fragrance, beauty and taste fill the whole of space.

Please be compassionate to us and accept it. Namo the Universal Offering

Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

6.   SHARING THE MERIT

Making this offering, practicing the way of awareness gives rise to benefits without limit.

We vow to share the fruits with all beings.

We vow to offer tribute to parents, teachers, friends and numerous beings who give guidance and support along the path.

With this offering to the Buddha, we vow that all beings may fully realize their career of great awakening. (o)

Namo the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in Ten Directions. (3 times) (ooo)

2. THE LUNCH OFFERING AT DINING HALL

Monastics are the persons living in mindfullness all the time and gratitude at any offering. Thus at the dining hall and at the lunch time, first we must perform a formal ritual to offer rice to the Buddha- Dharma-Sangha, return the merit to all beings, especially the rice donars, and finally we can take lunch in mindfullness.

1. Prepare the lunch ritual
2. Offering meal to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
3. Mantra at the food for the hungry ghosts
4. Mantra to make food universally available
5. Mantra recitation of food and water
6. The way of eating
7. Reflecting deeply
8. The first four mouthfuls
9. The five contemplations
10. Rinsing the bowl with clean water
11. When the meal is finished
12. The great chunda mantra
13. Sharing the

1.   PREPARE THE LUNCH RITUAL

1. TAKING THE LID OFF THE BOWL

(Sit front of the bowl, each member takes the lid off and reads in silence)

The bowl of the Tathagata is in my two hands. Giver, receiver, and gift held in perfect oneness. (o)

1. SEEING THE EMPTY BOWL

(Each member sees the empty bowl and reads in silence)

This bowl, empty now, will soon be filled with precious food.

I realize how fortunate I am to have enough to eat to continue the practice. (o)

• HOLDING THE BOWL WHICH IS FULL

(Each member takes rice into his/her bowl and reads in silence)

In this food, I clearly see the entire universe supporting my existence. (o)

2. OFFERING MEAL TO BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS

(Each Buddhist makes the mudra of peace with the

right hand and holds it before the middle of their forehead. While the left hand holds up the bowl in front of the right hand.)

We offer this food to:

The Buddha Vairocana, the pure Dharma body, The Buddha Locana, perfected retribution body,

The Buddha Shakyamuni, the transformation body, which is always and everywhere,

The Buddha Maitreya yet to be born,

The Buddha Amitabha of the land of Great Happiness,

All the Buddhas in the Ten Directions and the Three Times,

Bodhisattva Manjushri of Great Wisdom, Bodhisattva Samantabhadra of Great Action, Bodhisattva Avalokita of Great Compassion,

Bodhisattva    Mahasthamaprapta   of    Great Strength,

All Bodhisattva Mahasattvas.

All beings in all the Dharma realms want to make this offering of the Three Virtues and the Six Tastes to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

As we eat this food we want all beings to realize perfectly the wisdom of awakening. (ooo)

3.   MANTRA AT THE FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY GHOSTS

(The leader makes the mudra of peace over the bowl which contains water and some grains of rice)

The   way  of  the   Buddhas  is   extraordinary. Seven grains of rice fill the Ten Directions.

It is offered everywhere in the Dharma realms as the nectar of compassion which has no limit.

Namo the Universal Offering Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

4.   MANTRA TO MAKE FOOD UNIVERSALLY AVAILABLE

Namo sarvatathagata’valokite.

Om sambhara sambhara hung. (3 times) (ooo)

(The attendant places the bowl with grains and water outside and recites this gatha)

Great Garuda bird, hungry spirits in the great desert, yaksa mother who ceases to eat children’s flesh,

may all be satisfied by the Bodhisattva’s nectar.

Namo the Universal Offering Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

5.   MANTRA RECITATION

• THE FOOD MANTRA

(Reflecting the food universally available)

Namo sarvatathagata’valokite.

Om sambhara sambhara hung. (3 times) (ooo)

• THE WATER MANTRA

(Reflecting the water universally available) Namah surupaya tathagataya Tadyatha, Om surupaya surupaya surupaya svaha. (3 times) (ooo)

6.   THE WAY OF EATING

Leader: The Buddha advises us to eat in mindfulness, establishing ourselves in the present moment so that we can be aware of the food in front of us and the community surrounding us.

We eat in a way that makes peace, joy, brotherhood and sisterhood possible during the whole time of eating. (o)

7.   REFLECTING DEEPLY

(Each member raises his/her bowl at forehead and reads in silence)

There are countless beings struggling to live on this planet.

May they all have enough to eat. (o)

8.   THE FIRST FOUR MOUTHFULS

(Each member takes some rice on his/her spoon put in mounth and reads in silence)

With the first mouthful I practice the love which brings joy. (o)

With the second mouthful I practice the love which relieves pain. (o)

With the third mouthful I practice the happiness of being alive. (o)

With the fourth mouthful I practice equal love for all beings. (ooo)

9.   THE FIVE CONTEMPLATIONS

Dear Sangha, please practice the Five Contemplations as below. (o)

1. This food is a gift of the Earth, the sky, numerous living beings, and much hard and loving
2. May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it.
3. May we recognizeand transform unwholesome

mental formations, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation.

4. May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that we reduce the suffering of living beings, preserve our planet, and reverse the process of global
5. We accept this food so that we may nurture our sisterhood and brotherhood, build our Sangha, and nourish our ideal of serving living (ooo)

Note: If sangha has time, you can chant a short discourse. You can start with an opening verse, and recite one of the sutras such as, The Eight Realizations of the Great Beings, The Four Establishments of Mindfulness, Four Immeasurables of Loving- Kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy And Equanimity, Discourse on Love (Metta Sutta), and so on.

After that, the sangha takes lunch silently and mindfully and then you perform the ritual of closing as following,

10. RINSING THE BOWL WITH CLEAN WATER (After finishing the meal, each member pours water in his/her bowl to drink and reads in silence)

The water which rinses this bowl is the nectar of the gods.

I offer it to hungry ghosts, that they all may drink their fill.

Namo the Universal Offering Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

11.                              WHEN THE MEAL IS FINISHED

(Each member reads in silence)

The meal is finished and I am satisfied.

The four gratitudes: to parents, teachers, friends, and all dharmas

I bear deeply in my mind. (ooo)

12. THE GREAT CHUNDA MANTRA Namo Saptanam Samyak Sambuddha Kuthinam Tadyatha

Om cale cule Cunde svaha. (3 times) (ooo)

13.  SHARING THE MERIT

To  practice   generosity   gives   rise   to   much happiness.

The one who offers joy also experiences joy. (o)

By the merit of this mindful meal, we aspire

that all beings may wholly realize complete awakening. (o)

Namo the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in Ten Directions. (3 times) (ooo)

_ If sangha has time, you can walk and read the Buddhas’name around the mainhall and recite Three Refuges to end the lunch rite.

BẢO ANH LẠC BOOKSHELF

Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Giới Hương composed

1. THE VIETNAMESE BOOKS
2. Bồ-tát và Tánh Không Trong Kinh Tạng Pali và Đại Thừa (Boddhisattva and Sunyata in the Early and Developed Buddhist Traditions).
3. Ban Mai Xứ Ấn (The Dawn in India), (3 tập).
4. Vườn Nai – Chiếc Nôi (Phật Giáo Deer Park–The Cradle of Buddhism).
5. Quy Y Tam Bảo và Năm Giới (Take Refuge in Three Gems and Keep the Five Precepts).
6. Vòng Luân Hồi (The Cycle of Life).
7. Hoa Tuyết Milwaukee (Snowflake in Milwaukee).
8. Luân Hồi trong Lăng Kính Lăng Nghiêm (The Rebirth

in Śūrangama Sūtra).

8. Nghi Thức Hộ Niệm, Cầu Siêu (The Ritual for the Deceased).
9. Quan Âm    Quảng   Trần   (The    Commentary   of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva).
10. Nữ Tu và Tù Nhân Hoa Kỳ (A Nun and American Inmates).
11. Nếp Sống Tỉnh Thức của Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma Thứ XIV

(The Awakened Mind of the 14^th Dalai Lama).

12. A-Hàm: Mưa pháp chuyển hóa phiền não (Agama – A Dharma Rain transforms the Defilement), 2 tập.
13. Góp Từng Hạt Nắng Perris (Collection of Sunlight in

Perris).

14. Pháp Ngữ của Kinh Kim Cang (The Key Words of Vajracchedikā-Prajñāpāramitā-Sūtra).
15. Tập Thơ Nhạc Nắng Lăng Nghiêm (Songs and Poems of Śūraṅgama Sunlight).
16. Nét Bút Bên Song Cửa (Reflections at the Temple Window).
17. Máy Nghe MP3 Hương Sen (Hương Sen Digital Mp3 Radio Speaker): Các Bài Giảng, Sách, Bài viết và Thơ Nhạc của Thích Nữ Giới Hương (383/201 bài).
18. DVD Giới Thiệu   về   Chùa   Hương   Sen,   USA

(Introduction on Huong Sen Temple).

19. Ni Giới Việt Nam Hoằng Pháp tại Hoa Kỳ (Sharing the Dharma - Vietnamese Buddhist Nuns in the United States).
20. Tuyển Tập 40 Năm Tu Học & Hoằng Pháp của Ni sư Giới Hương (Forty Years in the Dharma: A Life of Study and Service—Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương), Thích Nữ Viên Quang, TN Viên Nhuận, TN Viên Tiến, and TN Viên Khuông.
21. Tập Thơ Nhạc Lối Về Sen Nở (Songs and Poems of Lotus Blooming on the Way).
22. Nghi Thức Công Phu Khuya – Thần Chú Thủ Lăng Nghiêm (Śūraṅgama Mantra).
23. Nghi Thức Cầu An – Kinh Phổ Môn (The Universal Door Sūtra).
24. Nghi Thức Cầu An – Kinh Dược Sư (The Medicine Buddha Sūtra).

25. Nghi Thức Sám Hối Hồng Danh (The Sūtra of Confession at many Buddha Titles).
26. Nghi Thức Công Phu Chiều – Mông Sơn Thí Thực

(The Ritual Donating Food to Hungry Ghosts).

27. Khóa Tịnh Độ – Kinh A Di Đà (The Amitabha Buddha Sūtra).
28. Nghi Thức Cúng Linh và Cầu Siêu (The Rite for Deceased and Funeral Home).
29. Nghi Lễ Hàng Ngày - 50 Kinh Tụng và các Lễ Vía trong Năm (The Daily Chanting Rituals and Annual Ceremonies).
30. Hương Đạo Trong Đời 2022 (Tuyển tập 60 Bài Thi trong Cuộc Thi Viết Văn Ứng Dụng Phật Pháp 2022 - A Collection of Writings on the Practicing of Buddhism in Daily Life in the Writing Contest 2022).
31. Hương Pháp 2022 (Tuyển Tập Các Bài Thi Trúng Giải Cuộc Thi Viết Văn Ứng Dụng Phật Pháp 2022 - A Collection of the Winning Writings on the Practicing of Buddhism in Daily Life in the Writing Contest 2022).
32. Giới Hương - Thơm Ngược Gió Ngàn, Nguyên Hà.
33. Pháp Ngữ Kinh Hoa Nghiêm (2 tập). Thích Nữ Giới Hương.
34. Tinh Hoa Kinh Hoa Nghiêm. Thích Nữ Giới Hương. NXB Hương
35. Phật Giáo và Đại Dịch Coronavirus Covid-19. Thích Nữ Giới Hương.
36. Phật Giáo – Tầm Nhìn Lịch Sử Và Thực Hành. Hiệu đính: Thích Hạnh Chánh và Thích Nữ Giới Hương.

1. THE ENGLISH BOOKS
   1. Boddhisattva and Sunyata in the Early and Developed

Buddhist Traditions.

2. Rebirth Views in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra.
3. Commentary of Avalokiteśvara
4. The Key Words in Vajracchedikā Sūtra.
5. Sārnātha-The Cradle of Buddhism in the Archeological
6. Take Refuge in the Three Gems and Keep the Five
7. Cycle of Life.
8. Forty Years in the Dharma: A Life of Study and Service—Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương.
9. Sharing the Dharma -Vietnamese Buddhist Nuns in the United States.
10. A Vietnamese Buddhist Nun and American
11. Daily Monastic
12. Weekly Buddhist Discourse
13. Practice Meditation and Pure Land.
14. The Ceremony for
15. The Lunch Offering
16. The Ritual Offering Food to Hungry Ghosts.
17. The Pureland Course of Amitabha
18. The Medicine Buddha Sutra.
19. The New Year
20. The Great Parinirvana

21. The Buddha’s Birthday
22. The Ullambana Festival (Parents’ Day).
23. The Marriage
24. The Blessing Ceremony for The Deceased.
25. The Ceremony Praising Ancestral
26. The Enlightened Buddha
27. The Uposatha Ceremony (Reciting Precepts).
28. Buddhism: A Historical and Practical Vision. Edited by Dr. Thich Hanh Chanh and Ven. Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.
29. Contribution of Buddhism For World Peace & Social Harmony. Edited by Dr. Buddha Priya Mahathero and Ven. Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.
30. Global Spread of Buddhism with Special Reference to Sri Lanka. Buddhist Studies Seminar in Kandy Edited by Dr. Ven. Kahawatte Siri Sumedha Thero and Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.
31. Buddhism In Sri Lanka During The Period of 19^th to 21st Centuries. Buddhist Studies Seminar in Edited by Prof. Ven. Medagama Nandawansa and Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.

1. THE BILINGUAL BOOKS (VIETNAMESE-ENGLISH)
2. Bản Tin Hương Sen: Xuân, Phật Đản, Vu Lan (Hương Sen Newsletter: Spring, Buddha Birthday and Vu Lan, annual/ Mỗi Năm).
3. Danh Ngôn Nuôi Dưỡng Nhân Cách - Good Sentences

Nurture a Good Manner.

3. Văn Hóa Đặc Sắc của Nước Nhật Bản-Exploring the Unique Culture of Japan.
4. Sống An Lạc dù Đời không Đẹp như Mơ - Live Peacefully though Life is not Beautiful as a Dream.
5. Hãy Nói Lời Yêu Thương-Words of Love and
6. Văn Hóa Cổ Kim qua Hành Hương Chiêm Bái -The Ancient- Present Culture in
7. Nghệ Thuật Biết Sống - Art of

1. THE TRANSLATED BOOKS
2. Xá Lợi Của Đức Phật (Relics of the Buddha), Tham

Weng Yew.

2. Sen Nở Nơi Chốn Tử Tù (Lotus in Prison), many
3. Chùa Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (Overseas Vietnamese Buddhist Temples).
4. Việt Nam Danh Lam Cổ Tự (The Famous Ancient Buddhist Temples in Vietnam).
5. Hương Sen, Thơ và Nhạc – (Lotus Fragrance, Poem and Music).
6. Phật Giáo-Một Bậc Đạo Sư, Nhiều Truyền Thống (Buddhism: One Teacher – Many Traditions), Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma 14^th & Ni Sư Thubten
7. Cách Chuẩn Bị Chết và Giúp Người Sắp Chết-Quan Điểm Phật Giáo (Preparing for Death and Helping the Dying – A Buddhist Perspective).

BUDDHIST MUSIC ALBUMS

from POEMS of THÍCH NỮ GIỚI HƯƠNG

1. Đào Xuân Lộng Ý Kinh (The Buddha’s Teachings Reflected in Cherry Flowers).
2. Niềm Tin Tam Bảo (Trust in the Three Gems).
3. Trăng Tròn Nghìn Năm Đón Chờ Ai (Who Is the Full Moon Waiting for for Over a Thousand Years?).
4. Ánh Trăng Phật Pháp (Moonlight of Dharma-Buddha).
5. Bình Minh Tỉnh Thức (Awakened Mind at the Dawn) (Piano Variations for Meditation).
6. Tiếng Hát Già Lam (Song from Temple).
7. Cảnh Đẹp Chùa Xưa (The Magnificent, Ancient Buddhist Temple).
8. Karaoke Hoa Ưu Đàm Đã Nở (An Udumbara Flower Is Blooming).
9. Hương Sen Ca (Hương Sen’s Songs).
10. Về Chùa Vui Tu (Happily Go to Temple for Spiritual Practices).
11. Gọi Nắng Xuân Về (Call the Spring Sunlight).
12. Đệ Tử Phật (The Buddha’s Disciples).

Please consult the Bảo Anh Lạc Bookshelf at this website:

http://huongsentemple.com/index.php/en/about-us/b-o-anh- l-c-bookshelf

THE LUNCH OFFERING RITUAL

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THE LUNCH OFFERING RITUAL

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First edition © 2023 Huong Sen Buddhist Temple

THE FIRST WORDS

Every day Nuns and Buddhists at Hương Sen Buddhist Temple, California, USA, have practiced and recited following the Vietnamese scripture, “Nghi Lễ Hàng Ngày – 50 Kinh Tụng và các Lễ Vía trong Năm” (Daily Chanting – Fifty Discourses and Annual Festivals) of the Pureland Sect, which was composed in 2021 by Bhikkhunī Thích Nữ Giới Hương. It is based on the original ritual of her late Master, the Venerable Elder Hải Triều Âm at Liên Hoa Temple and Dược Sư Temple.¹

Since many Vietnamese-Americans, Hispanic, native Americans, and English speakers have come to Huong Sen Temple in search of practice and ritual, Bhikkhunī Giới Hương composed an English version of DAILY MONASTIC CHANTING. It encompasses 16 popular rituals to serve the spiritual needs of any Buddhist sect, including the Pure Land and Meditation Traditions as below:

1. Practice Meditation
2. The Ceremony for Peace
3. The Rice Offering to Buddhas
4. The Lunch Offering at the Dining Hall
5. The Ritual Offering Food To Hungry Ghosts
6. The Pureland Course of Amitabha Sutra
7. The Medicine Buddha Sutra
8. The New Year Ceremony

1 Please read: http://www.huongsentemple.com/index.php/vn/phat- phap/kinh-ta-ng-ca-a-cha-a-hs/6256-nghi-le-hang-ngay-20.

9. The Great Parinirvana Ceremony
10. The Buddha’s Birthday Ceremony
11. The Ullambana Festival (Parents’ Day)
12. The Marriage Ceremony
13. The Blessing Ceremony for The Deceased
14. The Ancestral Ceremony
15. The Enlightened Buddha Ceremony
16. The Uposatha Ceremony (Reciting Precepts)

With regard to mindful chanting, we take sources from the sacred book, Chanting from the Heart: Buddhist Ceremonies and Daily Practices of Thích Nhất Hạnh. In the field of the Pureland School, we have taken material from the above Vietnamese scripture, “Nghi Lễ Hàng Ngày,” and translated it into English.

We should chant at least once a week, any place and any time, or more often if we have more time. The chant will help to avoid negative thoughts, defilements, distractions -any of the myriad things that intrude into the one-pointed mind. We definitely feel the connectedness with Dharma (the Buddha’s teaching), we feel the spirit being lifted up, the awakening and the settling of the mind to enter meditation. We will become bright, enduring, detached, diligent, generous, loving, understanding and so on . . . because we practice following the chanting and the role model of Buddhas.

Chanting out loud or silently listening to chanting can also be very relaxing as we go about our day. It can be used to calm our mind before work or sleeping.

For the sake of all the general practitioners, there are some changes, combinations, additions, reductions, and creations made in this English version. This is the first

time that both traditions have been combined in an English version for the necessary needs at Huong Sen Buddhist Temple.

We would like to gratefully acknowledge with special thanks the Buddhas, Boddhisattvas, Sanghas, the English translators, Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, our Late Respectful Teacher - Venerable Elder Bhikkhunī Hải Triều Âm and others. You all provided us the awakening words to remind and guide us in the right way of practice. We will keep chanting, learning and practicing it until we and all beings get the enlightenment as well as realize our Buddha nature.

If there is any merit in compiling this book, may it be shared with all sentient beings. May they diligently practice and soon gain the way of love and understanding.

Reciting the sutras, practicing the way of awareness

gives rise to benefits without limit.

We vow to share the fruits with all beings.

We vow to offer tribute to parents, teachers, friends,

and numerous beings who

give guidance and support along the path.

(Thích Nhất Hạnh)

Hương Sen Temple, Riverside, California

March 15, 2023

Bhikkhunī TN Giới Hương

1.    THE RICE OFFERING TO BUDDHAS

After the morning chanting course is done and before noon, the ritual of rice offering to the Buddhas is conducted. Then, sangha goes to the hall to take lunch and performs the lunch offering there.

1. Incense offering
2. Paying homage to buddhas and bodhisattvas
3. Mantra recitation of food and water
4. Offering gatha
5. Please accept the offering
6. Sharing the

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1.   INCENSE OFFERING

As wonderful as the lotus flower, as bright as the northern star,

let us come back and take refuge in the teacher of gods and men. (o)

As the incense is lit, sandalwood perfumes the air, making an auspicious rainbow cloud.

I, your disciple, with all my respect offer it to the Buddhas of the Ten Directions.

May we practice the precepts seriously at all times, May we practice concentration diligently,

May we offer the precious fruit of insight as our offering of incense of the heart.

Respectfully we offer incense to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. (o)

Namo Offering the Incense Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

2.   PAYING HOMAGE TO BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS

Namo the Buddhas abiding in the Ten Directions. Namo the Dharmas abiding in the Ten Directions. Namo the Sanghas abiding in the Ten Directions. Namo Sakyamunaye Buddhaya

Namo Amitabhaya Buddhaya

Namo all Buddhas in the Ten Directions and the Three Times. (o)

Namo Manjusraye Namo Samantabhadraya

Namo Mahasthamapraptaya Namo Avalokiteshvaraya Namo Kshitigarbhaya

Namo the Bodhisattvas of the Holy Sangha present in this place of practice. (o)

Namo the Bodhisattvas our Ancestral Teachers of all generations.

Namo the Bodhisattvas who oversees the kitchen.

Namo the ten Bodhisattvas who are judges of the dead.

Namo all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas present in this practice center. (ooo)

3.   MANTRA RECITATION

• THE FOOD MANTRA

(Reflecting the food universally available)

Namo sarvatathagata’valokite.

Om sambhara sambhara hung. (3 times) (ooo)

• THE WATER MANTRA

(Reflecting the water universally available) Namah surupaya tathagataya Tadyatha, Om surupaya surupaya surupaya svaha. (3 times) (ooo)

4.   OFFERING GATHA

The   color,   fragrance   and   taste   of   this food   is   offered    first    to    all    Buddhas, then to all the holy ones and to the people of the six continents.

The offering is made so that all, without distinction, may have enough to eat.

May those who have given this food cross over to the other shore.

Everything that is in the Dharma realms is also offering the Three Virtues and the Six Tastes to the Buddha and the Sangha.

Namo the Buddhas abiding

in the Ten Directions. (3 times) (ooo)

5. PLEASE ACCEPT THE   OFFERING In concentration we make this offering of Dharma nectar

In quantity as great as Mount Sumeru.

Its form, fragrance, beauty and taste fill the whole of space.

Please be compassionate to us and accept it. Namo the Universal Offering

Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

6.   SHARING THE MERIT

Making this offering, practicing the way of awareness gives rise to benefits without limit.

We vow to share the fruits with all beings.

We vow to offer tribute to parents, teachers, friends and numerous beings who give guidance and support along the path.

With this offering to the Buddha, we vow that all beings may fully realize their career of great awakening. (o)

Namo the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in Ten Directions. (3 times) (ooo)

2. THE LUNCH OFFERING AT DINING HALL

Monastics are the persons living in mindfullness all the time and gratitude at any offering. Thus at the dining hall and at the lunch time, first we must perform a formal ritual to offer rice to the Buddha- Dharma-Sangha, return the merit to all beings, especially the rice donars, and finally we can take lunch in mindfullness.

1. Prepare the lunch ritual
2. Offering meal to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
3. Mantra at the food for the hungry ghosts
4. Mantra to make food universally available
5. Mantra recitation of food and water
6. The way of eating
7. Reflecting deeply
8. The first four mouthfuls
9. The five contemplations
10. Rinsing the bowl with clean water
11. When the meal is finished
12. The great chunda mantra
13. Sharing the

1.   PREPARE THE LUNCH RITUAL

1. TAKING THE LID OFF THE BOWL

(Sit front of the bowl, each member takes the lid off and reads in silence)

The bowl of the Tathagata is in my two hands. Giver, receiver, and gift held in perfect oneness. (o)

1. SEEING THE EMPTY BOWL

(Each member sees the empty bowl and reads in silence)

This bowl, empty now, will soon be filled with precious food.

I realize how fortunate I am to have enough to eat to continue the practice. (o)

• HOLDING THE BOWL WHICH IS FULL

(Each member takes rice into his/her bowl and reads in silence)

In this food, I clearly see the entire universe supporting my existence. (o)

2. OFFERING MEAL TO BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS

(Each Buddhist makes the mudra of peace with the

right hand and holds it before the middle of their forehead. While the left hand holds up the bowl in front of the right hand.)

We offer this food to:

The Buddha Vairocana, the pure Dharma body, The Buddha Locana, perfected retribution body,

The Buddha Shakyamuni, the transformation body, which is always and everywhere,

The Buddha Maitreya yet to be born,

The Buddha Amitabha of the land of Great Happiness,

All the Buddhas in the Ten Directions and the Three Times,

Bodhisattva Manjushri of Great Wisdom, Bodhisattva Samantabhadra of Great Action, Bodhisattva Avalokita of Great Compassion,

Bodhisattva    Mahasthamaprapta   of    Great Strength,

All Bodhisattva Mahasattvas.

All beings in all the Dharma realms want to make this offering of the Three Virtues and the Six Tastes to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

As we eat this food we want all beings to realize perfectly the wisdom of awakening. (ooo)

3.   MANTRA AT THE FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY GHOSTS

(The leader makes the mudra of peace over the bowl which contains water and some grains of rice)

The   way  of  the   Buddhas  is   extraordinary. Seven grains of rice fill the Ten Directions.

It is offered everywhere in the Dharma realms as the nectar of compassion which has no limit.

Namo the Universal Offering Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

4.   MANTRA TO MAKE FOOD UNIVERSALLY AVAILABLE

Namo sarvatathagata’valokite.

Om sambhara sambhara hung. (3 times) (ooo)

(The attendant places the bowl with grains and water outside and recites this gatha)

Great Garuda bird, hungry spirits in the great desert, yaksa mother who ceases to eat children’s flesh,

may all be satisfied by the Bodhisattva’s nectar.

Namo the Universal Offering Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

5.   MANTRA RECITATION

• THE FOOD MANTRA

(Reflecting the food universally available)

Namo sarvatathagata’valokite.

Om sambhara sambhara hung. (3 times) (ooo)

• THE WATER MANTRA

(Reflecting the water universally available) Namah surupaya tathagataya Tadyatha, Om surupaya surupaya surupaya svaha. (3 times) (ooo)

6.   THE WAY OF EATING

Leader: The Buddha advises us to eat in mindfulness, establishing ourselves in the present moment so that we can be aware of the food in front of us and the community surrounding us.

We eat in a way that makes peace, joy, brotherhood and sisterhood possible during the whole time of eating. (o)

7.   REFLECTING DEEPLY

(Each member raises his/her bowl at forehead and reads in silence)

There are countless beings struggling to live on this planet.

May they all have enough to eat. (o)

8.   THE FIRST FOUR MOUTHFULS

(Each member takes some rice on his/her spoon put in mounth and reads in silence)

With the first mouthful I practice the love which brings joy. (o)

With the second mouthful I practice the love which relieves pain. (o)

With the third mouthful I practice the happiness of being alive. (o)

With the fourth mouthful I practice equal love for all beings. (ooo)

9.   THE FIVE CONTEMPLATIONS

Dear Sangha, please practice the Five Contemplations as below. (o)

1. This food is a gift of the Earth, the sky, numerous living beings, and much hard and loving
2. May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it.
3. May we recognizeand transform unwholesome

mental formations, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation.

4. May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that we reduce the suffering of living beings, preserve our planet, and reverse the process of global
5. We accept this food so that we may nurture our sisterhood and brotherhood, build our Sangha, and nourish our ideal of serving living (ooo)

Note: If sangha has time, you can chant a short discourse. You can start with an opening verse, and recite one of the sutras such as, The Eight Realizations of the Great Beings, The Four Establishments of Mindfulness, Four Immeasurables of Loving- Kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy And Equanimity, Discourse on Love (Metta Sutta), and so on.

After that, the sangha takes lunch silently and mindfully and then you perform the ritual of closing as following,

10. RINSING THE BOWL WITH CLEAN WATER (After finishing the meal, each member pours water in his/her bowl to drink and reads in silence)

The water which rinses this bowl is the nectar of the gods.

I offer it to hungry ghosts, that they all may drink their fill.

Namo the Universal Offering Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

11.                              WHEN THE MEAL IS FINISHED

(Each member reads in silence)

The meal is finished and I am satisfied.

The four gratitudes: to parents, teachers, friends, and all dharmas

I bear deeply in my mind. (ooo)

12. THE GREAT CHUNDA MANTRA Namo Saptanam Samyak Sambuddha Kuthinam Tadyatha

Om cale cule Cunde svaha. (3 times) (ooo)

13.  SHARING THE MERIT

To  practice   generosity   gives   rise   to   much happiness.

The one who offers joy also experiences joy. (o)

By the merit of this mindful meal, we aspire

that all beings may wholly realize complete awakening. (o)

Namo the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in Ten Directions. (3 times) (ooo)

_ If sangha has time, you can walk and read the Buddhas’name around the mainhall and recite Three Refuges to end the lunch rite.

BẢO ANH LẠC BOOKSHELF

Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Giới Hương composed

1. THE VIETNAMESE BOOKS
2. Bồ-tát và Tánh Không Trong Kinh Tạng Pali và Đại Thừa (Boddhisattva and Sunyata in the Early and Developed Buddhist Traditions).
3. Ban Mai Xứ Ấn (The Dawn in India), (3 tập).
4. Vườn Nai – Chiếc Nôi (Phật Giáo Deer Park–The Cradle of Buddhism).
5. Quy Y Tam Bảo và Năm Giới (Take Refuge in Three Gems and Keep the Five Precepts).
6. Vòng Luân Hồi (The Cycle of Life).
7. Hoa Tuyết Milwaukee (Snowflake in Milwaukee).
8. Luân Hồi trong Lăng Kính Lăng Nghiêm (The Rebirth

in Śūrangama Sūtra).

8. Nghi Thức Hộ Niệm, Cầu Siêu (The Ritual for the Deceased).
9. Quan Âm    Quảng   Trần   (The    Commentary   of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva).
10. Nữ Tu và Tù Nhân Hoa Kỳ (A Nun and American Inmates).
11. Nếp Sống Tỉnh Thức của Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma Thứ XIV

(The Awakened Mind of the 14^th Dalai Lama).

12. A-Hàm: Mưa pháp chuyển hóa phiền não (Agama – A Dharma Rain transforms the Defilement), 2 tập.
13. Góp Từng Hạt Nắng Perris (Collection of Sunlight in

Perris).

14. Pháp Ngữ của Kinh Kim Cang (The Key Words of Vajracchedikā-Prajñāpāramitā-Sūtra).
15. Tập Thơ Nhạc Nắng Lăng Nghiêm (Songs and Poems of Śūraṅgama Sunlight).
16. Nét Bút Bên Song Cửa (Reflections at the Temple Window).
17. Máy Nghe MP3 Hương Sen (Hương Sen Digital Mp3 Radio Speaker): Các Bài Giảng, Sách, Bài viết và Thơ Nhạc của Thích Nữ Giới Hương (383/201 bài).
18. DVD Giới Thiệu   về   Chùa   Hương   Sen,   USA

(Introduction on Huong Sen Temple).

19. Ni Giới Việt Nam Hoằng Pháp tại Hoa Kỳ (Sharing the Dharma - Vietnamese Buddhist Nuns in the United States).
20. Tuyển Tập 40 Năm Tu Học & Hoằng Pháp của Ni sư Giới Hương (Forty Years in the Dharma: A Life of Study and Service—Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương), Thích Nữ Viên Quang, TN Viên Nhuận, TN Viên Tiến, and TN Viên Khuông.
21. Tập Thơ Nhạc Lối Về Sen Nở (Songs and Poems of Lotus Blooming on the Way).
22. Nghi Thức Công Phu Khuya – Thần Chú Thủ Lăng Nghiêm (Śūraṅgama Mantra).
23. Nghi Thức Cầu An – Kinh Phổ Môn (The Universal Door Sūtra).
24. Nghi Thức Cầu An – Kinh Dược Sư (The Medicine Buddha Sūtra).

25. Nghi Thức Sám Hối Hồng Danh (The Sūtra of Confession at many Buddha Titles).
26. Nghi Thức Công Phu Chiều – Mông Sơn Thí Thực

(The Ritual Donating Food to Hungry Ghosts).

27. Khóa Tịnh Độ – Kinh A Di Đà (The Amitabha Buddha Sūtra).
28. Nghi Thức Cúng Linh và Cầu Siêu (The Rite for Deceased and Funeral Home).
29. Nghi Lễ Hàng Ngày - 50 Kinh Tụng và các Lễ Vía trong Năm (The Daily Chanting Rituals and Annual Ceremonies).
30. Hương Đạo Trong Đời 2022 (Tuyển tập 60 Bài Thi trong Cuộc Thi Viết Văn Ứng Dụng Phật Pháp 2022 - A Collection of Writings on the Practicing of Buddhism in Daily Life in the Writing Contest 2022).
31. Hương Pháp 2022 (Tuyển Tập Các Bài Thi Trúng Giải Cuộc Thi Viết Văn Ứng Dụng Phật Pháp 2022 - A Collection of the Winning Writings on the Practicing of Buddhism in Daily Life in the Writing Contest 2022).
32. Giới Hương - Thơm Ngược Gió Ngàn, Nguyên Hà.
33. Pháp Ngữ Kinh Hoa Nghiêm (2 tập). Thích Nữ Giới Hương.
34. Tinh Hoa Kinh Hoa Nghiêm. Thích Nữ Giới Hương. NXB Hương
35. Phật Giáo và Đại Dịch Coronavirus Covid-19. Thích Nữ Giới Hương.
36. Phật Giáo – Tầm Nhìn Lịch Sử Và Thực Hành. Hiệu đính: Thích Hạnh Chánh và Thích Nữ Giới Hương.

1. THE ENGLISH BOOKS
   1. Boddhisattva and Sunyata in the Early and Developed

Buddhist Traditions.

2. Rebirth Views in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra.
3. Commentary of Avalokiteśvara
4. The Key Words in Vajracchedikā Sūtra.
5. Sārnātha-The Cradle of Buddhism in the Archeological
6. Take Refuge in the Three Gems and Keep the Five
7. Cycle of Life.
8. Forty Years in the Dharma: A Life of Study and Service—Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương.
9. Sharing the Dharma -Vietnamese Buddhist Nuns in the United States.
10. A Vietnamese Buddhist Nun and American
11. Daily Monastic
12. Weekly Buddhist Discourse
13. Practice Meditation and Pure Land.
14. The Ceremony for
15. The Lunch Offering
16. The Ritual Offering Food to Hungry Ghosts.
17. The Pureland Course of Amitabha
18. The Medicine Buddha Sutra.
19. The New Year
20. The Great Parinirvana

21. The Buddha’s Birthday
22. The Ullambana Festival (Parents’ Day).
23. The Marriage
24. The Blessing Ceremony for The Deceased.
25. The Ceremony Praising Ancestral
26. The Enlightened Buddha
27. The Uposatha Ceremony (Reciting Precepts).
28. Buddhism: A Historical and Practical Vision. Edited by Dr. Thich Hanh Chanh and Ven. Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.
29. Contribution of Buddhism For World Peace & Social Harmony. Edited by Dr. Buddha Priya Mahathero and Ven. Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.
30. Global Spread of Buddhism with Special Reference to Sri Lanka. Buddhist Studies Seminar in Kandy Edited by Dr. Ven. Kahawatte Siri Sumedha Thero and Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.
31. Buddhism In Sri Lanka During The Period of 19^th to 21st Centuries. Buddhist Studies Seminar in Edited by Prof. Ven. Medagama Nandawansa and Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.

1. THE BILINGUAL BOOKS (VIETNAMESE-ENGLISH)
2. Bản Tin Hương Sen: Xuân, Phật Đản, Vu Lan (Hương Sen Newsletter: Spring, Buddha Birthday and Vu Lan, annual/ Mỗi Năm).
3. Danh Ngôn Nuôi Dưỡng Nhân Cách - Good Sentences

Nurture a Good Manner.

3. Văn Hóa Đặc Sắc của Nước Nhật Bản-Exploring the Unique Culture of Japan.
4. Sống An Lạc dù Đời không Đẹp như Mơ - Live Peacefully though Life is not Beautiful as a Dream.
5. Hãy Nói Lời Yêu Thương-Words of Love and
6. Văn Hóa Cổ Kim qua Hành Hương Chiêm Bái -The Ancient- Present Culture in
7. Nghệ Thuật Biết Sống - Art of

1. THE TRANSLATED BOOKS
2. Xá Lợi Của Đức Phật (Relics of the Buddha), Tham

Weng Yew.

2. Sen Nở Nơi Chốn Tử Tù (Lotus in Prison), many
3. Chùa Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (Overseas Vietnamese Buddhist Temples).
4. Việt Nam Danh Lam Cổ Tự (The Famous Ancient Buddhist Temples in Vietnam).
5. Hương Sen, Thơ và Nhạc – (Lotus Fragrance, Poem and Music).
6. Phật Giáo-Một Bậc Đạo Sư, Nhiều Truyền Thống (Buddhism: One Teacher – Many Traditions), Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma 14^th & Ni Sư Thubten
7. Cách Chuẩn Bị Chết và Giúp Người Sắp Chết-Quan Điểm Phật Giáo (Preparing for Death and Helping the Dying – A Buddhist Perspective).

BUDDHIST MUSIC ALBUMS

from POEMS of THÍCH NỮ GIỚI HƯƠNG

1. Đào Xuân Lộng Ý Kinh (The Buddha’s Teachings Reflected in Cherry Flowers).
2. Niềm Tin Tam Bảo (Trust in the Three Gems).
3. Trăng Tròn Nghìn Năm Đón Chờ Ai (Who Is the Full Moon Waiting for for Over a Thousand Years?).
4. Ánh Trăng Phật Pháp (Moonlight of Dharma-Buddha).
5. Bình Minh Tỉnh Thức (Awakened Mind at the Dawn) (Piano Variations for Meditation).
6. Tiếng Hát Già Lam (Song from Temple).
7. Cảnh Đẹp Chùa Xưa (The Magnificent, Ancient Buddhist Temple).
8. Karaoke Hoa Ưu Đàm Đã Nở (An Udumbara Flower Is Blooming).
9. Hương Sen Ca (Hương Sen’s Songs).
10. Về Chùa Vui Tu (Happily Go to Temple for Spiritual Practices).
11. Gọi Nắng Xuân Về (Call the Spring Sunlight).
12. Đệ Tử Phật (The Buddha’s Disciples).

Please consult the Bảo Anh Lạc Bookshelf at this website:

http://huongsentemple.com/index.php/en/about-us/b-o-anh- l-c-bookshelf

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THE FIRST WORDS

Every day Nuns and Buddhists at Hương Sen Buddhist Temple, California, USA, have practiced and recited following the Vietnamese scripture, “Nghi Lễ Hàng Ngày – 50 Kinh Tụng và các Lễ Vía trong Năm” (Daily Chanting – Fifty Discourses and Annual Festivals) of the Pureland Sect, which was composed in 2021 by Bhikkhunī Thích Nữ Giới Hương. It is based on the original ritual of her late Master, the Venerable Elder Hải Triều Âm at Liên Hoa Temple and Dược Sư Temple.¹

Since many Vietnamese-Americans, Hispanic, native Americans, and English speakers have come to Huong Sen Temple in search of practice and ritual, Bhikkhunī Giới Hương composed an English version of DAILY MONASTIC CHANTING. It encompasses 16 popular rituals to serve the spiritual needs of any Buddhist sect, including the Pure Land and Meditation Traditions as below:

1. Practice Meditation
2. The Ceremony for Peace
3. The Rice Offering to Buddhas
4. The Lunch Offering at the Dining Hall
5. The Ritual Offering Food To Hungry Ghosts
6. The Pureland Course of Amitabha Sutra
7. The Medicine Buddha Sutra
8. The New Year Ceremony 

1 Please read: http://www.huongsentemple.com/index.php/vn/phat- phap/kinh-ta-ng-ca-a-cha-a-hs/6256-nghi-le-hang-ngay-20.

9. The Great Parinirvana Ceremony
10. The Buddha’s Birthday Ceremony
11. The Ullambana Festival (Parents’ Day)
12. The Marriage Ceremony
13. The Blessing Ceremony for The Deceased
14. The Ancestral Ceremony
15. The Enlightened Buddha Ceremony
16. The Uposatha Ceremony (Reciting Precepts)

With regard to mindful chanting, we take sources from the sacred book, Chanting from the Heart: Buddhist Ceremonies and Daily Practices of Thích Nhất Hạnh. In the field of the Pureland School, we have taken material from the above Vietnamese scripture, “Nghi Lễ Hàng Ngày,” and translated it into English.

We should chant at least once a week, any place and any time, or more often if we have more time. The chant will help to avoid negative thoughts, defilements, distractions -any of the myriad things that intrude into the one-pointed mind. We definitely feel the connectedness with Dharma (the Buddha’s teaching), we feel the spirit being lifted up, the awakening and the settling of the mind to enter meditation. We will become bright, enduring, detached, diligent, generous, loving, understanding and so on . . . because we practice following the chanting and the role model of Buddhas.

Chanting out loud or silently listening to chanting can also be very relaxing as we go about our day. It can be used to calm our mind before work or sleeping.

For the sake of all the general practitioners, there are some changes, combinations, additions, reductions, and creations made in this English version. This is the first

time that both traditions have been combined in an English version for the necessary needs at Huong Sen Buddhist Temple.

We would like to gratefully acknowledge with special thanks the Buddhas, Boddhisattvas, Sanghas, the English translators, Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, our Late Respectful Teacher - Venerable Elder Bhikkhunī Hải Triều Âm and others. You all provided us the awakening words to remind and guide us in the right way of practice. We will keep chanting, learning and practicing it until we and all beings get the enlightenment as well as realize our Buddha nature.

If there is any merit in compiling this book, may it be shared with all sentient beings. May they diligently practice and soon gain the way of love and understanding.

Reciting the sutras, practicing the way of awareness

gives rise to benefits without limit.

We vow to share the fruits with all beings.

We vow to offer tribute to parents, teachers, friends,

and numerous beings who

give guidance and support along the path.

(Thích Nhất Hạnh)

Hương Sen Temple, Riverside, California

March 15, 2023

Bhikkhunī TN Giới Hương

1.    THE RICE OFFERING TO BUDDHAS

After the morning chanting course is done and before noon, the ritual of rice offering to the Buddhas is conducted. Then, sangha goes to the hall to take lunch and performs the lunch offering there.

1. Incense offering
2. Paying homage to buddhas and bodhisattvas
3. Mantra recitation of food and water
4. Offering gatha
5. Please accept the offering
6. Sharing the

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1.   INCENSE OFFERING

As wonderful as the lotus flower, as bright as the northern star,

let us come back and take refuge in the teacher of gods and men. (o)

As the incense is lit, sandalwood perfumes the air, making an auspicious rainbow cloud.

I, your disciple, with all my respect offer it to the Buddhas of the Ten Directions.

May we practice the precepts seriously at all times, May we practice concentration diligently,

May we offer the precious fruit of insight as our offering of incense of the heart.

Respectfully we offer incense to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. (o)

Namo Offering the Incense Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

2.   PAYING HOMAGE TO BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS

Namo the Buddhas abiding in the Ten Directions. Namo the Dharmas abiding in the Ten Directions. Namo the Sanghas abiding in the Ten Directions. Namo Sakyamunaye Buddhaya

Namo Amitabhaya Buddhaya

Namo all Buddhas in the Ten Directions and the Three Times. (o)

Namo Manjusraye Namo Samantabhadraya

Namo Mahasthamapraptaya Namo Avalokiteshvaraya Namo Kshitigarbhaya

Namo the Bodhisattvas of the Holy Sangha present in this place of practice. (o)

Namo the Bodhisattvas our Ancestral Teachers of all generations.

Namo the Bodhisattvas who oversees the kitchen.

Namo the ten Bodhisattvas who are judges of the dead.

Namo all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas present in this practice center. (ooo)

3.   MANTRA RECITATION

• THE FOOD MANTRA

(Reflecting the food universally available)

Namo sarvatathagata’valokite.

Om sambhara sambhara hung. (3 times) (ooo)

• THE WATER MANTRA

(Reflecting the water universally available) Namah surupaya tathagataya Tadyatha, Om surupaya surupaya surupaya svaha. (3 times) (ooo)

4.   OFFERING GATHA

The   color,   fragrance   and   taste   of   this food   is   offered    first    to    all    Buddhas, then to all the holy ones and to the people of the six continents.

The offering is made so that all, without distinction, may have enough to eat.

May those who have given this food cross over to the other shore.

Everything that is in the Dharma realms is also offering the Three Virtues and the Six Tastes to the Buddha and the Sangha.

Namo the Buddhas abiding

in the Ten Directions. (3 times) (ooo)

5. PLEASE ACCEPT THE   OFFERING In concentration we make this offering of Dharma nectar

In quantity as great as Mount Sumeru.

Its form, fragrance, beauty and taste fill the whole of space.

Please be compassionate to us and accept it. Namo the Universal Offering

Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

6.   SHARING THE MERIT

Making this offering, practicing the way of awareness gives rise to benefits without limit.

We vow to share the fruits with all beings.

We vow to offer tribute to parents, teachers, friends and numerous beings who give guidance and support along the path.

With this offering to the Buddha, we vow that all beings may fully realize their career of great awakening. (o)

Namo the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in Ten Directions. (3 times) (ooo)

2. THE LUNCH OFFERING AT DINING HALL

Monastics are the persons living in mindfullness all the time and gratitude at any offering. Thus at the dining hall and at the lunch time, first we must perform a formal ritual to offer rice to the Buddha- Dharma-Sangha, return the merit to all beings, especially the rice donars, and finally we can take lunch in mindfullness.

1. Prepare the lunch ritual
2. Offering meal to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
3. Mantra at the food for the hungry ghosts
4. Mantra to make food universally available
5. Mantra recitation of food and water
6. The way of eating
7. Reflecting deeply
8. The first four mouthfuls
9. The five contemplations
10. Rinsing the bowl with clean water
11. When the meal is finished
12. The great chunda mantra
13. Sharing the

1.   PREPARE THE LUNCH RITUAL

1. TAKING THE LID OFF THE BOWL

(Sit front of the bowl, each member takes the lid off and reads in silence)

The bowl of the Tathagata is in my two hands. Giver, receiver, and gift held in perfect oneness. (o)

1. SEEING THE EMPTY BOWL

(Each member sees the empty bowl and reads in silence)

This bowl, empty now, will soon be filled with precious food.

I realize how fortunate I am to have enough to eat to continue the practice. (o)

• HOLDING THE BOWL WHICH IS FULL

(Each member takes rice into his/her bowl and reads in silence)

In this food, I clearly see the entire universe supporting my existence. (o)

2. OFFERING MEAL TO BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS

(Each Buddhist makes the mudra of peace with the

right hand and holds it before the middle of their forehead. While the left hand holds up the bowl in front of the right hand.)

We offer this food to:

The Buddha Vairocana, the pure Dharma body, The Buddha Locana, perfected retribution body,

The Buddha Shakyamuni, the transformation body, which is always and everywhere,

The Buddha Maitreya yet to be born,

The Buddha Amitabha of the land of Great Happiness,

All the Buddhas in the Ten Directions and the Three Times,

Bodhisattva Manjushri of Great Wisdom, Bodhisattva Samantabhadra of Great Action, Bodhisattva Avalokita of Great Compassion,

Bodhisattva    Mahasthamaprapta   of    Great Strength,

All Bodhisattva Mahasattvas.

All beings in all the Dharma realms want to make this offering of the Three Virtues and the Six Tastes to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

As we eat this food we want all beings to realize perfectly the wisdom of awakening. (ooo)

3.   MANTRA AT THE FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY GHOSTS

(The leader makes the mudra of peace over the bowl which contains water and some grains of rice)

The   way  of  the   Buddhas  is   extraordinary. Seven grains of rice fill the Ten Directions.

It is offered everywhere in the Dharma realms as the nectar of compassion which has no limit.

Namo the Universal Offering Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

4.   MANTRA TO MAKE FOOD UNIVERSALLY AVAILABLE

Namo sarvatathagata’valokite.

Om sambhara sambhara hung. (3 times) (ooo)

(The attendant places the bowl with grains and water outside and recites this gatha)

Great Garuda bird, hungry spirits in the great desert, yaksa mother who ceases to eat children’s flesh,

may all be satisfied by the Bodhisattva’s nectar.

Namo the Universal Offering Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

5.   MANTRA RECITATION

• THE FOOD MANTRA

(Reflecting the food universally available)

Namo sarvatathagata’valokite.

Om sambhara sambhara hung. (3 times) (ooo)

• THE WATER MANTRA

(Reflecting the water universally available) Namah surupaya tathagataya Tadyatha, Om surupaya surupaya surupaya svaha. (3 times) (ooo)

6.   THE WAY OF EATING

Leader: The Buddha advises us to eat in mindfulness, establishing ourselves in the present moment so that we can be aware of the food in front of us and the community surrounding us.

We eat in a way that makes peace, joy, brotherhood and sisterhood possible during the whole time of eating. (o)

7.   REFLECTING DEEPLY

(Each member raises his/her bowl at forehead and reads in silence)

There are countless beings struggling to live on this planet.

May they all have enough to eat. (o)

8.   THE FIRST FOUR MOUTHFULS

(Each member takes some rice on his/her spoon put in mounth and reads in silence)

With the first mouthful I practice the love which brings joy. (o)

With the second mouthful I practice the love which relieves pain. (o)

With the third mouthful I practice the happiness of being alive. (o)

With the fourth mouthful I practice equal love for all beings. (ooo)

9.   THE FIVE CONTEMPLATIONS

Dear Sangha, please practice the Five Contemplations as below. (o)

1. This food is a gift of the Earth, the sky, numerous living beings, and much hard and loving
2. May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it.
3. May we recognizeand transform unwholesome

mental formations, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation.

4. May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that we reduce the suffering of living beings, preserve our planet, and reverse the process of global
5. We accept this food so that we may nurture our sisterhood and brotherhood, build our Sangha, and nourish our ideal of serving living (ooo)

Note: If sangha has time, you can chant a short discourse. You can start with an opening verse, and recite one of the sutras such as, The Eight Realizations of the Great Beings, The Four Establishments of Mindfulness, Four Immeasurables of Loving- Kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy And Equanimity, Discourse on Love (Metta Sutta), and so on.

After that, the sangha takes lunch silently and mindfully and then you perform the ritual of closing as following,

10. RINSING THE BOWL WITH CLEAN WATER (After finishing the meal, each member pours water in his/her bowl to drink and reads in silence)

The water which rinses this bowl is the nectar of the gods.

I offer it to hungry ghosts, that they all may drink their fill.

Namo the Universal Offering Bodhisattva Mahasattva. (3 times) (ooo)

11.                              WHEN THE MEAL IS FINISHED

(Each member reads in silence)

The meal is finished and I am satisfied.

The four gratitudes: to parents, teachers, friends, and all dharmas

I bear deeply in my mind. (ooo)

12. THE GREAT CHUNDA MANTRA Namo Saptanam Samyak Sambuddha Kuthinam Tadyatha

Om cale cule Cunde svaha. (3 times) (ooo)

13.  SHARING THE MERIT

To  practice   generosity   gives   rise   to   much happiness.

The one who offers joy also experiences joy. (o)

By the merit of this mindful meal, we aspire

that all beings may wholly realize complete awakening. (o)

Namo the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in Ten Directions. (3 times) (ooo)

_ If sangha has time, you can walk and read the Buddhas’name around the mainhall and recite Three Refuges to end the lunch rite.

BẢO ANH LẠC BOOKSHELF

Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Giới Hương composed

1. THE VIETNAMESE BOOKS
2. Bồ-tát và Tánh Không Trong Kinh Tạng Pali và Đại Thừa (Boddhisattva and Sunyata in the Early and Developed Buddhist Traditions).
3. Ban Mai Xứ Ấn (The Dawn in India), (3 tập).
4. Vườn Nai – Chiếc Nôi (Phật Giáo Deer Park–The Cradle of Buddhism).
5. Quy Y Tam Bảo và Năm Giới (Take Refuge in Three Gems and Keep the Five Precepts).
6. Vòng Luân Hồi (The Cycle of Life).
7. Hoa Tuyết Milwaukee (Snowflake in Milwaukee).
8. Luân Hồi trong Lăng Kính Lăng Nghiêm (The Rebirth

in Śūrangama Sūtra).

8. Nghi Thức Hộ Niệm, Cầu Siêu (The Ritual for the Deceased).
9. Quan Âm    Quảng   Trần   (The    Commentary   of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva).
10. Nữ Tu và Tù Nhân Hoa Kỳ (A Nun and American Inmates).
11. Nếp Sống Tỉnh Thức của Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma Thứ XIV

(The Awakened Mind of the 14^th Dalai Lama).

12. A-Hàm: Mưa pháp chuyển hóa phiền não (Agama – A Dharma Rain transforms the Defilement), 2 tập.
13. Góp Từng Hạt Nắng Perris (Collection of Sunlight in

Perris).

14. Pháp Ngữ của Kinh Kim Cang (The Key Words of Vajracchedikā-Prajñāpāramitā-Sūtra).
15. Tập Thơ Nhạc Nắng Lăng Nghiêm (Songs and Poems of Śūraṅgama Sunlight).
16. Nét Bút Bên Song Cửa (Reflections at the Temple Window).
17. Máy Nghe MP3 Hương Sen (Hương Sen Digital Mp3 Radio Speaker): Các Bài Giảng, Sách, Bài viết và Thơ Nhạc của Thích Nữ Giới Hương (383/201 bài).
18. DVD Giới Thiệu   về   Chùa   Hương   Sen,   USA

(Introduction on Huong Sen Temple).

19. Ni Giới Việt Nam Hoằng Pháp tại Hoa Kỳ (Sharing the Dharma - Vietnamese Buddhist Nuns in the United States).
20. Tuyển Tập 40 Năm Tu Học & Hoằng Pháp của Ni sư Giới Hương (Forty Years in the Dharma: A Life of Study and Service—Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương), Thích Nữ Viên Quang, TN Viên Nhuận, TN Viên Tiến, and TN Viên Khuông.
21. Tập Thơ Nhạc Lối Về Sen Nở (Songs and Poems of Lotus Blooming on the Way).
22. Nghi Thức Công Phu Khuya – Thần Chú Thủ Lăng Nghiêm (Śūraṅgama Mantra).
23. Nghi Thức Cầu An – Kinh Phổ Môn (The Universal Door Sūtra).
24. Nghi Thức Cầu An – Kinh Dược Sư (The Medicine Buddha Sūtra).

25. Nghi Thức Sám Hối Hồng Danh (The Sūtra of Confession at many Buddha Titles).
26. Nghi Thức Công Phu Chiều – Mông Sơn Thí Thực

(The Ritual Donating Food to Hungry Ghosts).

27. Khóa Tịnh Độ – Kinh A Di Đà (The Amitabha Buddha Sūtra).
28. Nghi Thức Cúng Linh và Cầu Siêu (The Rite for Deceased and Funeral Home).
29. Nghi Lễ Hàng Ngày - 50 Kinh Tụng và các Lễ Vía trong Năm (The Daily Chanting Rituals and Annual Ceremonies).
30. Hương Đạo Trong Đời 2022 (Tuyển tập 60 Bài Thi trong Cuộc Thi Viết Văn Ứng Dụng Phật Pháp 2022 - A Collection of Writings on the Practicing of Buddhism in Daily Life in the Writing Contest 2022).
31. Hương Pháp 2022 (Tuyển Tập Các Bài Thi Trúng Giải Cuộc Thi Viết Văn Ứng Dụng Phật Pháp 2022 - A Collection of the Winning Writings on the Practicing of Buddhism in Daily Life in the Writing Contest 2022).
32. Giới Hương - Thơm Ngược Gió Ngàn, Nguyên Hà.
33. Pháp Ngữ Kinh Hoa Nghiêm (2 tập). Thích Nữ Giới Hương.
34. Tinh Hoa Kinh Hoa Nghiêm. Thích Nữ Giới Hương. NXB Hương
35. Phật Giáo và Đại Dịch Coronavirus Covid-19. Thích Nữ Giới Hương.
36. Phật Giáo – Tầm Nhìn Lịch Sử Và Thực Hành. Hiệu đính: Thích Hạnh Chánh và Thích Nữ Giới Hương.

1. THE ENGLISH BOOKS
   1. Boddhisattva and Sunyata in the Early and Developed

Buddhist Traditions.

2. Rebirth Views in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra.
3. Commentary of Avalokiteśvara
4. The Key Words in Vajracchedikā Sūtra.
5. Sārnātha-The Cradle of Buddhism in the Archeological
6. Take Refuge in the Three Gems and Keep the Five
7. Cycle of Life.
8. Forty Years in the Dharma: A Life of Study and Service—Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương.
9. Sharing the Dharma -Vietnamese Buddhist Nuns in the United States.
10. A Vietnamese Buddhist Nun and American
11. Daily Monastic
12. Weekly Buddhist Discourse
13. Practice Meditation and Pure Land.
14. The Ceremony for
15. The Lunch Offering
16. The Ritual Offering Food to Hungry Ghosts.
17. The Pureland Course of Amitabha
18. The Medicine Buddha Sutra.
19. The New Year
20. The Great Parinirvana

21. The Buddha’s Birthday
22. The Ullambana Festival (Parents’ Day).
23. The Marriage
24. The Blessing Ceremony for The Deceased.
25. The Ceremony Praising Ancestral
26. The Enlightened Buddha
27. The Uposatha Ceremony (Reciting Precepts).
28. Buddhism: A Historical and Practical Vision. Edited by Dr. Thich Hanh Chanh and Ven. Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.
29. Contribution of Buddhism For World Peace & Social Harmony. Edited by Dr. Buddha Priya Mahathero and Ven. Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.
30. Global Spread of Buddhism with Special Reference to Sri Lanka. Buddhist Studies Seminar in Kandy Edited by Dr. Ven. Kahawatte Siri Sumedha Thero and Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.
31. Buddhism In Sri Lanka During The Period of 19^th to 21st Centuries. Buddhist Studies Seminar in Edited by Prof. Ven. Medagama Nandawansa and Dr. Bhikṣuṇī TN Gioi Huong.

1. THE BILINGUAL BOOKS (VIETNAMESE-ENGLISH)
2. Bản Tin Hương Sen: Xuân, Phật Đản, Vu Lan (Hương Sen Newsletter: Spring, Buddha Birthday and Vu Lan, annual/ Mỗi Năm).
3. Danh Ngôn Nuôi Dưỡng Nhân Cách - Good Sentences

Nurture a Good Manner.

3. Văn Hóa Đặc Sắc của Nước Nhật Bản-Exploring the Unique Culture of Japan.
4. Sống An Lạc dù Đời không Đẹp như Mơ - Live Peacefully though Life is not Beautiful as a Dream.
5. Hãy Nói Lời Yêu Thương-Words of Love and
6. Văn Hóa Cổ Kim qua Hành Hương Chiêm Bái -The Ancient- Present Culture in
7. Nghệ Thuật Biết Sống - Art of

1. THE TRANSLATED BOOKS
2. Xá Lợi Của Đức Phật (Relics of the Buddha), Tham

Weng Yew.

2. Sen Nở Nơi Chốn Tử Tù (Lotus in Prison), many
3. Chùa Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (Overseas Vietnamese Buddhist Temples).
4. Việt Nam Danh Lam Cổ Tự (The Famous Ancient Buddhist Temples in Vietnam).
5. Hương Sen, Thơ và Nhạc – (Lotus Fragrance, Poem and Music).
6. Phật Giáo-Một Bậc Đạo Sư, Nhiều Truyền Thống (Buddhism: One Teacher – Many Traditions), Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma 14^th & Ni Sư Thubten
7. Cách Chuẩn Bị Chết và Giúp Người Sắp Chết-Quan Điểm Phật Giáo (Preparing for Death and Helping the Dying – A Buddhist Perspective).

BUDDHIST MUSIC ALBUMS

from POEMS of THÍCH NỮ GIỚI HƯƠNG

1. Đào Xuân Lộng Ý Kinh (The Buddha’s Teachings Reflected in Cherry Flowers).
2. Niềm Tin Tam Bảo (Trust in the Three Gems).
3. Trăng Tròn Nghìn Năm Đón Chờ Ai (Who Is the Full Moon Waiting for for Over a Thousand Years?).
4. Ánh Trăng Phật Pháp (Moonlight of Dharma-Buddha).
5. Bình Minh Tỉnh Thức (Awakened Mind at the Dawn) (Piano Variations for Meditation).
6. Tiếng Hát Già Lam (Song from Temple).
7. Cảnh Đẹp Chùa Xưa (The Magnificent, Ancient Buddhist Temple).
8. Karaoke Hoa Ưu Đàm Đã Nở (An Udumbara Flower Is Blooming).
9. Hương Sen Ca (Hương Sen’s Songs).
10. Về Chùa Vui Tu (Happily Go to Temple for Spiritual Practices).
11. Gọi Nắng Xuân Về (Call the Spring Sunlight).
12. Đệ Tử Phật (The Buddha’s Disciples).

Please consult the Bảo Anh Lạc Bookshelf at this website:

http://huongsentemple.com/index.php/en/about-us/b-o-anh- l-c-bookshelf

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