The homage to the Blessed One, chanted three times, opening the evening service as it opens the morning.
- When chanted
- Chanted three times at the opening of the evening service, after the leader's invitation calls for it.
A note on this chant. The book prints this chant in Pali only, with no Thai translation. The English here is a working translation prepared for this edition — it is not the book's own, and has not yet been checked by a teacher.
Historical background
The same single line as earlier in the book, and printed here the same way — three times in full, rather than once with a note to repeat it. The book gives it no title in either place; the name used in this app is taken from the invitation that calls for it.
That it is set out again at all, rather than cross-referenced, says something about what kind of book this is.
Meaning and purpose
The line is unchanged, so the reading is unchanged: homage, and then the Blessed One under three epithets — fortunate, worthy, perfectly enlightened by himself — spoken of rather than spoken to.
What is worth noticing in the evening printing is the repetition itself. A book economising on paper would have written 'as on page 2'. This one prints the whole thing again, and will go on doing so for the rest of the evening service.
The reason is practical and it governs everything that follows. The page has to be usable by somebody chanting from it in a dim hall, at speed, with no free hand to turn back. A chanting book is not a reference work, and where the two aims conflict this one chooses the hall.
The chant
As the book prints it: page 52 →
นะโม ตัสสะ ภะคะวะโต อะระหะโต สัมมาสัมพุทธัสสะ.
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa.
Homage to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, perfectly enlightened by himself.
นะโม ตัสสะ ภะคะวะโต อะระหะโต สัมมาสัมพุทธัสสะ.
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa.
Homage to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, perfectly enlightened by himself.
นะโม ตัสสะ ภะคะวะโต อะระหะโต สัมมาสัมพุทธัสสะ.
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa.
Homage to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, perfectly enlightened by himself.