I now bathe the Tathágata.
His pure wisdom and virtue adorn the assembly.
I pray that those living beings of this period of the five impurities
may quickly witness the pure Dharma body of the Tathágata.
May the incense of morality, meditation, wisdom,
and the knowledge and experience of liberation
constantly perfume every realm of the ten directions.
I pray that the smoke of this incense will likewise
do the Buddha’s work of salvation without measure or limit.
I vow to put a stop to the three hells and the wheel of samsara,
completely extinguishing the fires and obtaining the coolness of relief,
so that all may manifest the thought of unsurpassed enlightenment,
perpetually escaping the river of desires
and advancing to the other shore of Nirvana.
―Sutra on the Merit of Bathing the Buddha
