菩薩受齋經 1.5

1.5

The ritual for concluding the bodhisattva fast states: 'Namo Buddhāya, namo Dharmāya, namo Bhikṣu-saṅghāya! I, [name], for such-and-such number of days and such-and-such number of nights, have kept the bodhisattva fast. From distributing dāna in generosity, may I attain the dāna-pāramitā; as I have maintained the precepts, may I attain the śīla-pāramitā; as I have held in mind the people of the ten directions of the world so that they might attain peace and security, may I attain the kṣānti-pāramitā; as I receive prediction [of buddhahood], may I attain the vīrya-pāramitā; as I have sat in dhyāna, may I attain the dhyāna-pāramitā; this is upāyakauśalya, like mahāprajñā-pāramitā.' In accord with the rule of the fast observed by the various bodhisattvas, the sixty thousand bodhisattvas: throughout day and night, one part is for dhyāna, one part for reciting sūtras, and one part for sleeping. This is the rule for the bodhisattva fast day. Receive it on the fourteenth day of the first month and conclude it on the seventeenth; receive it on the eighth day of the fourth month and conclude it on the fifteenth; receive it on the first day of the seventh month and conclude it on the sixteenth; receive it on the fourteenth day of the ninth month and conclude it on the sixteenth.