Buddhist Prayer for Death

Buddhist prayers for the dying offer can comfort through a tradition of helpful suggestions for finding peace amidst chaos and intense changes at the end of life.

History

As Buddhists we strive for a life as one continual prayer. Made up of many Buddhist prayers. Daily prayers. Embraced by so much respect for life. For all life. Even insects, mosquitoes, spiders and gnats.
We believe in rebirth and reincarnation. We know ourselves part of the wheel. The wheel of life. Turning and turning. Until we are complete and enter into Nirvana. Many of us do not get off the wheel until everyone has done so. As our service to humanity.

The Prayer

May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind
quickly be freed from their illnesses.
May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free.
May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another.
May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wildernesses—
the children, the aged, the unprotected---
be guarded by beneficent celestials, 
and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.

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