勅修百丈清規 4.30

4.30

Value is placed on having the aspiration for the Way. At the two meal times of gruel and rice, he makes offerings and strikes the mallet for leaving the hall. Morning and evening, he checks the bedding spaces; at midnight, he trims the lamps. Together with the karmadāna, he collects the proceeds from auctioning a deceased monk's robes. When the abbot passes away, he handles the inventory. When a prefect holds the whisk, he burns incense for him or strikes the mallet on his behalf. When his term of reciting the Buddha's name is completed, he is granted the title of attendant at this mountain. When the two elders Tuigeng and Duanqiao were among the assembly, they regularly filled this post, because it creates affinity with the assembly and spurs one's aspiration for the Way.