Yebul, Morning and Evening Buddhist Ceremonies  

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The Buddhist ceremony called Yebul is offered to pay homage to all Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Yebul is also practiced to cultivate oneself. Buddhists offer these ceremonies twice a day, in the morning and evening. Yebul begins with the Verse of Tea (茶偈) and is followed by: the Verse of Five Scents (五分香偈), the Mantra of Incense Offering (獻香眞言), and the Ritual of Seven Prostrations (七頂禮).

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​The Verse of Tea

  We now offer this pure water as nectar-like tea

  To the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.

  May this be received in compassion!

  May this be received in compassion!

  May this be received in great compassion!

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 ​The Verse of Five Scents

  ​The sweet scent of our observance of the precepts,

  ​Of our meditative concentration, of our wisdom,

  ​Of our liberation, and of the knowledge of our liberation!

  ​We present these offerings to the countless Buddhas,

  ​Dharma, and Sanghas in all of the ten directions,

  ​In the universe pervaded by brightly lit clouds.

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​ The Mantra of Incense Offering

  ​Om Ba A Ra Do Bi Ya Hum (three times)

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 ​​The Ritual of Seven Prostrations

  ​With utmost sincerity,

  ​We pay homage to Sakyamuni Buddha,

  ​The teacher of the universe, the loving father of all beings.

  ​With utmost sincerity,

  ​We pay homage to all sacred Buddhas, 

  ​Always present in all corners of the universe.

  ​With utmost sincerity,

  ​We pay homage to all the teachings,

  ​Eternally existing in the universe.

  ​With utmost sincerity,

  ​We pay homage to Manjusri, Bodhisattva of great wisdom;

  Samantabhadra, Bodhisattva of great action;

  Avalokitesvara, Bodhisattva of great compassion,

  ​And Ksitigarbha, Bodhisattva of great vows.

  ​With utmost sincerity,

  ​We pay homage to the ten major disciples, the sixteen holy ones, 

  ​The five hundred holy ones, self-enlightened ones,

  ​And all of the one thousand two hundred great arhats,

  ​To whom the Buddha entrusted

  ​The transmission of the teachings.

  ​With utmost sincerity,

  ​We pay homage to those great patriarchs, eminent monks and countless teachers,

  ​Who have transmitted the lamp of the Dharma over generations.

  ​With utmost sincerity,

  ​We pay homage to all of the sanghas,

  ​Eternally existing in all the ten directions.

  The inexhaustible Three Jewels!

  ​We earnestly wish that you receive our devotion, 

  ​And bestow your blessings on us.

  ​We further wish that all beings in the universe attain Buddhahood.

  - excerpt from Buddhist English (Intermediate 2) published in 2014 by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism

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