佛說報恩奉盆經 1.5

1.5

The Buddha told Maudgalyāyana: "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, for the sake of the parents of seven lifetimes who are in adversity and distress, one should prepare dried cooked grain, the five kinds of fruits, vessels for drawing and pouring water, fragrant oil, lamps and torches, beds, couches, and bedding, exhausting all the world's sweet delicacies to make offerings to the monastic Saṅgha. On this day, all the noble assembly—whether meditating in the mountains, attaining the four fruits of the path, walking beneath the trees, or having attained the six supernormal knowledges and flying through the air to teach and transform the śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas, while great bodhisattvas expediently manifest as monks within the great assembly—all united with a single mind, receive the food bowls (pātra). Their way of the noble assembly is complete with pure precepts, and their virtue is vast as the ocean. If anyone makes offerings to such an assembly, their parents of seven lifetimes and five kinds of kin will be freed from the three wretched paths, immediately liberated, with clothing and food coming spontaneously."