Gillian
February 1, 2022, 11:35am
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I’m sorry for the loss of your friend.
I wouldn’t be afraid to ask the bhikkhus what they are/aren’t used to do at funerals/memorials. Generally monks have lots of experience at this sort of thing and understand that lay people need simple questions answered.
Similar questions have been asked before, you might find something helpful in these threads:
What are the suttas commonly chanted at funerals?
In general, but also I’m thinking in particular of the passage that says we come into the world with nothing and leave it with nothing.
Thanks.
hi.
I’ve heard bits and bobs of practices that are done after a death. Chanting something or other? Something about sharing merit? I know no specifics. I would like to know what kind of practices are done after someone dies. Ideally, answers related to EBTs would be great. But anything related to Thai forest tradition customs would be splendid, too.
Hi folks! @Tanakaro and I recently did some funeral chanting for the late grandmother of a friend of his. We decided to also chant the Uppāda Sutta (AN3.136 ), and that’s what I’d like to share with all of you~
[Uppādā Sutta (AN3.136) Chanting]
“Mendicants, whether Realized Ones arise or not, this law of nature persists, this regularity of natural principles, this invariance of natural principles:
all conditions are impermanent.”
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