FOUR GREAT VOWS

 

Living beings are numberless

I vow to save them

Delusions are inexhaustible 

I vow to transform them

Dharma doors are boundless

I vow to enter them

The Buddha Way is unsurpassable

I vow to embody it

 

 

SHI GU SEI GAN MON

(FOUR GREAT VOWS, SINO-JAPANESE VERSION)

 

SHU JO MU HEN SEI GAN DO

BON NO SHU JIN SEI GAN DAN

HO MON MU RYO SEI GAN GAKU

BUTSU DO MU JO SEI GAN JO