勅修百丈清規 7.1

7.1

Fascicle Seven

9. Format for the Accounting Record

Inscribed on a Wooden Board

The following is the record of the auction revenue and its expenditure regarding the late Venerable So-and-so’s possessions:

A revenue of one thousand guanwen (i.e., one guan = one thousand wen). (This is the total revenue from the auction. If there are any other items of revenue, they must be detailed in a serial list.)

An expenditure of ninety-one guanwen. (The items to be recorded on the wooden board.)

Itemized in detail:

Fifteen guanwen: The funeral shrine. Three guanwen: Procurement of funeral offerings. Three guanwen: The rice gruel offering. One guanwen: The shrine lamp oil. Ten guanwen: Paper, brushes, and so on for records; flags, artificial

flowers, and wicker leaves. One guanwen: For shaving the head of the deceased. Two guan and five hundred wen: For the rite of lifting the shrine

and transport of the deceased. Five hundred wen: For preparing hot water for bathing the deceased. Two guanwen: For bathing and cleaning the corpse. One guanwen: For the shrine attendant to serve rice gruel and rice. Five hundred wen: For treasury office attendants to report and

prepare the funeral offering. Five hundred wen: For setting the area of the funeral rite with curtains,

floormats, and so on.

Five hundred wen: For the work of accounting the revenue and

expenditure in detail.

Five hundred wen: For funeral offerings prepared and delivered

from the treasury office to the shrine attendant.

Five hundred wen: For a kitchen subfunctionary to cook food

provisions.

Five hundred wen: For a treasury office tea serving attendant to

offer tea and sweet hot water.

Five hundred wen: For a ceremonial leader to assist the attendants’

activities.

Two guanwen: To the practice hall attendants to help provide

information.

Five hundred wen: For the foreman to arrange manpower for various

work and activities.

Five hundred wen: For the abbot’s attendant to convey the master’s

commands and carry his incense case.

Ten guanwen: For the novice attendants to participate in various

prayers and sutra chanting.

One guanwen: For practice hall attendants to display the monetary

gift records and strike the wooden sounding block.

Two guanwen: For attendants of the four offices to serve tea.

Fifteen guanwen: For manpower required to lift and carry the

portable funeral shrine.

One guanwen: For attendants to play cymbals for ceremonies.

Three guanwen: For attendants to play drums for ceremonies.

Three guanwen: For six workmen to carry the incense table, flags,

candles, and so on.

Five hundred wen: For novice attendants to create and distribute

paper flowers and branches for the funeral procession.

One guanwen: For a workman to help with the cremation.

Three guanwen: For workmen to assist the abbot’s group for the

procession.

One guanwen: For workmen of the four offices to transport the

bamboo cases to auction.