勅修百丈清規 7.22

7.22

Five hundred wen: For the attendant at the auction to affix an identity

tag on each item to be auctioned.

Five hundred wen: For attendants to show each item at the auction. Five hundred wen: For an alms-serving attendant to give each

successful bidder a tally. Five hundred wen: For an alms-serving attendant to place auctioned

items back into the basket at the auction. Five hundred wen: For the meal-proceeding attendant to deliver the

lottery tray to bidders at the auction. Five hundred wen: For a workman to collect the remains after

cremation. One guanwen: For a workman to lift the box of ashes when depositing

the remains in the tower. One guanwen: For workmen to attend the tower at the time of

depositing the remains.

The foregoing are the items included in the expenditure of ninety-one guanwen.

An expenditure of two hundred and seventy guanwen. (An amount totaling three-tenths of what remains after the foregoing expenditures recorded on the wooden board is to be added to the temple’s annual revenue.)

An expenditure of one hundred and thirty-five guanwen for Buddhist funeral rites.

Itemized as follows:

Twenty guanwen: For the material cost of the cremation rite. Ten guanwen: For a monetary gift at the rite of applying fire to the

pyre. Forty guanwen: For the rites of closing and lifting the shrine and

lifting and depositing the remains. Twenty guanwen: For monetary gifts at the four ceremonial rites of

the foregoing events. Thirty guanwen: For the prayer rite at the funeral site by the director

of practitioners’ affairs, auction records by the guest reception

official and the attendant of the guardian bodhisattva. Fifteen guanwen: For three monetary gifts for the foregoing events.

An expenditure of fifteen guanwen: five guanwen each for the funeral procession headed by the primary seat official, rear-guarded by the head administrative official, and the chanting led by the director of practitioners’ affairs with the hand bell. These are itemized for the above total.

An expenditure of nine guanwen: three guanwen each for the chanting led by the guest reception official and the abbot’s assistant who carried the incense case; two guanwen for the attendant of the guardian bodhisattva who handled the auction revenues; and one guanwen for the maintenance official who provided the torch. These are itemized for the above total.

An expenditure of fifteen guanwen for the attendants of the abbot, the dual order officials, and the practice hall official who served at the auction proceedings and made the records of itemized objects and prices; incidental food provisions three times for their work, of which the cost is received by the abbot’s office. These are itemized for the above total.

An expenditure of twenty guanwen for the inspection and sanction by the abbot and the dual order officials of the contents of auction, of which the cost of two is received by the abbot’s office. These are itemized for the above total.

An expenditure of four hundred and forty-four guan and five hundred wen for the service of sutra chanting by the practitioners, of which Guanyin, (Avalokiteśvara) Bodhisattva, the guardian bodhisattva (shengseng), and the abbot each receive the amount of two guanwen; approximately four hundred regular practitioners each receive one guanwen; the practice hall attendants who participate in the chanting, the practitioners-in-absentia, and the recent arrivals, together numbering seventy-five, each receive one half, five hundred wen. These are itemized for the above total.

Excluding the foregoing expenditures, an expenditure of five hundred wen (diverted for public use by the practice hall office).

The foregoing report is prepared as before [the venerables’ inspection]

Date and year Prepared by So-and-so attendant

The practice hall office

Records kept by: Assistant of the guardian bodhisattva,

So-and-so (signed)

Guest reception official, So-and-so (signed)

The maintenance official The Buddha hall master

The kitchen hall official The bath hall master

The treasury official The Tripiṭaka hall master

The director of The Tripiṭaka hall master

practitioners’ affairs

The treasury official The secretarial official

The administrative official The rear practice hall official

The head administrative The primary seat official

official

Signed by all dual order officials