Transference of Merit and Self Surrender (Graham Patterson)

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• (Posted 2024-04-30)  CPDL #80454:       

Editor: Graham Patterson (submitted 2024-04-30).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 126 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Transference of Merit and Self Surrender
Composer: Graham Patterson
Lyricist: Shantideva^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Liturgical music

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: unpublished
Description: The seventh section of the Sevenfold Puja, written in 2013 for Triratna Buddhist choirs including non-readers.

Original text and translations

English text

May the merit gained
In my acting thus
Go to the alleviation of the suffering of all beings.
My personality throughout my existences,
My possessions,
And my merit in all three ways,
I give up without regard to myself
For the benefit of all beings.

Just as the earth and other elements
Are serviceable in many ways
To the infinite number of beings
Inhabiting limitless space;
So may I become
That which maintains all beings,
Situated throughout space,
So long as all have not attained
To peace.