勅修百丈清規 6.43

6.43

喪至涅槃臺。知事燒香上茶。次住持上香歸位。維那出燒香請住持秉炬佛事。直歲問訊度火把。候舉佛事畢。維那向龕念誦云（是日則有新圓寂某甲上座。既隨緣而順寂。乃依法以茶毘。焚百年弘道之身。如一路涅槃之徑。仰憑尊眾資助覺靈。南無西方極樂世界大慈大悲阿彌陀佛。十聲罷。上來稱揚十念資助往生。惟願。慧鏡分輝真風散彩。菩提園裏開敷。覺意之花。法性海中蕩滌塵心之垢。茶傾三奠香爇一爐。奉送雲程。和尚聖眾）　知事候念茶傾香爇時。躬出傾爇。表山門禮。維那就行之非禮也。舉大悲呪。回向云（上來念誦諷經功德。奉為新圓寂某甲上座茶毘之次莊嚴報地。十方三世一切云云）知客平舉楞嚴呪。回向同前（但無念誦二字）鄉人法眷諷經回向（亦同）。

When the funeral procession arrives at the Nirvāṇa Platform, the administrators burn incense and offer tea; next the abbot burns incense and returns to his position; the karmadāna comes forward, burns incense, and requests the abbot to perform the Buddhist rite of applying the torch; the annual officer greets with folded hands and hands over the torch, waiting until the recital of the Buddhist rite is finished. The karmadāna recites facing the casket: "On this day, there is the newly deceased Senior Monk So-and-so: having followed conditions and peacefully entered cessation, he is cremated in accordance with the Dharma; burning this body of a hundred years that propagated the Way, it is like the single path toward nirvāṇa. We rely upon the venerable assembly to assist the awakened spirit: Homage to the Great Compassionate Amitābha Buddha of the Western Land of Ultimate Bliss." After ten recitations, [he continues]: "The ten recitations just proclaimed assist his rebirth; we only pray that the mirror of wisdom may reflect brilliance and the true wind may scatter radiance, that within the garden of bodhi the flower of awakening mind may bloom, and within the ocean of Dharma nature the defilements of the worldly mind may be washed away. Three libations of tea are poured, a single censer of incense is burned, to respectfully send him on his journey through the clouds, Upādhyāya and holy assembly!" When the administrators wait for the words "tea is poured, incense is burned," they bow and step forward to pour and burn, expressing the etiquette of the monastery; for the karmadāna to do it himself is improper. He leads the Great Compassion Dhāraṇī and dedicates the merit, saying: "The merit of the recitation and chanting just performed is dedicated on behalf of the newly deceased Senior Monk So-and-so upon his cremation, to adorn his realm of reward; to the ten directions, the three times, all...", etc. The guest master evenly chants the Śūraṅgama Dhāraṇī, with the dedication of merit as before (only without the words "recitation and"). The townsmen and Dharma relatives chant scriptures and dedicate the merit (likewise).