The Threefold Puja (Graham Patterson)

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• (Posted 2024-05-09)  CPDL #80589:       

Editor: Graham Patterson (submitted 2024-05-09).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 117 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The Threefold Puja
Composer: Graham Patterson
Lyricist: Sangharakshita^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Liturgical music

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: unpublished
Description: A Buddhist devotional work written in 2019 for Triratna Buddhist choirs including non-readers.

Original text and translations

English text

I. OPENING REVERENCE

We reverence the Buddha, the perfectly Enlightened One,
    the Shower of the Way.
We reverence the Dharma, the Teaching of the Buddha,
    which leads from darkness to Light.
We reverence the Saṅgha, the fellowship of the Buddha's disciples,
    that inspires and guides.

2. REVERENCE TO THE THREE JEWELS

We reverence the Buddha, and aspire to follow Him.
The Buddha was born as we are born.
What the Buddha overcame, we too can overcome,
What the Buddha at­tained, we too can attain.

We reverence the Dharma, and aspire to follow it
With body, speech and mind until the end.
The Truth in all its aspects, the Path in all its stages,
We aspire to study, practise, realize.

We reverence the Saṅgha, and aspire to follow it:
The fellowship of those who tread the Way.
As, one by one, we make our own commitment,
An ever-widening circle, the Saṅgha grows.

3. OFFERINGS TO THE BUDDHA

Reverencing the Buddha, we offer flowers:
Flowers that today are fresh and sweetly blooming,
Flowers that tomorrow are faded and fallen,
Our bodies too, like flowers, will pass away.

Reverencing the Buddha, we offer candles:
To Him, who is the Light, we offer light.
From His greater lamp a lesser lamp we light within us:
The lamp of Bodhi shining within our hearts.

Reverencing the Buddha, we offer incense:
Incense whose fragrance pervades the air.
The fragrance of the perfect life, sweeter than incense,
Spreads in all directions throughout the world.