Notes:

[1] NC Buddhist Vihara's chanting is excerpted from http://www.employees.org/~sammuthu/public/pirith1.wma. Bodhi Lankarama's chanting is excerpted from http://www.bodhilankarama.net/Chanting/03-Bodhi-Puja-09-01-10.mp3. For more information, see the "Acknowledgments."

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[2] This verse of homage is attributed to various people who engage the Buddha throughout the first four collections (nikāyā) of the Pali Canon's Sutta Piṭaka, including:

• Sakkapañha Sutta (DN 21; PTS D.ii.288)
• Cūḷahatthipadopama Sutta (MN 27; PTS M.i.177)
• Piyajātika Sutta (MN 87; PTS M.ii.112)
• Brahmāyu Sutta (MN 91; PTS M.ii.140)
• Dhanañjanā Sutta (SN 7.1; PTS S.i.160)
• Samacittavaggo 7 (AN 2.37 [2.1.4.6]; PTS A.i.67)
• Kāraṇapāli sutta (AN 5.194 [5.4.5.4]; PTS A.iii.238)

Elsewhere in the canon it is inserted by redactors prior to major sections of various works.

Ānandajoti (2004), p. 4, provides this verse with the Pali title of Namakkāraṃ, which Ānandajoti translates as "Reverence." In Gunaratana (2008), p. 14, this verse is without a specific title and is simply inserted at the top of the Tiratana Vandanā ("Homage to the Triple Gem").

[3] ^{a b c d} The primary source of this chanting guide's Pali texts is the Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project (SLTP) redaction, accessible on-line from Bodhgaya News and Metta Net. In particular, the last three chants on this page were obtained from Bodhgaya News' text for the Dhajagga Sutta (SN 11.3; PTS S.i.218) starting at http://www.bodhgayanews.net/tipitaka.php?title=sutta pitaka&record=4222. For additional sources, clarifications and refinements, see Ānandajoti (2004), Ānandajoti (2007) and Gunaratana (2008).

In general, the SLTP's punctuation has been retained (even when it differs from the provided English translation's punctuation) while a few key compound Pali terms have been separated into individual words connected by hyphens (e.g., following Gunaratana, 2008).

[4] This chanting guide's "Homage" (Namakkāraṃ) chant uses the English translation of Bodhi (2000), p. 254, for the Dhanañjānī Sutta (SN 7.1). Below are some alternate translations.

[5] This verse appears to be one of the most frequent refrains found within the Pali Canon. Using Dr. Peter Friedlander's Pali-literature search engine available at "Bodhgaya News" (www.bodhgayanews.net/pali.htm), a rudimentary search for this verse found 155 matches in the Canon's Sutta Piṭaka. (In particular: Dīgha Nikāya: 29 matches; Majjhima Nikāya: 28; Saṃyutta Nikāya: 56; Aṅguttara Nikāya: 37; Khuddaka Nikāya: 5 [Itivuttika: 1; Suttanipāta: 2; Niddesa: 1; Netti: 1]. These matches were identified keying off the variant compound terms "vijjācaraṇasampanno" [154 of these matches] and "vijjācaraṇa sampanno" [one match], allowing for typographic variations such as the insertion of commas after terms and minor orthographic and sandhi differences, such as "itipiso"/"itipi so"/"iti'pi so"/"iti pi so" and "lokavidū"/"lokavidu." Arguably non-identical passages ["false positives," such as those preceded by "hoti," as opposed to "itipiso bhagavā"] were excluded based on a visual gloss of all matched passages.)

The Pali title used here for this verse, Buddha–guṇa–vandaā is taken from Ānandajoti (2004), p. 7, which Ānandajoti translates as "Worshipping the Virtues of the Buddha." In Gunaratana (2008), p. 14, this verse is without an individual title and is included with the other verses on this web page under the general title, Tiratana Vandanā ("Homage to the Triple Gem").

Ānandajoti (2006), pp. 30-1, analyzes this verse metrically as four six-gaṇa lines. This chanting guide's structuring of this verse follows Ānandajoti's analysis.

[6] ^{a b c} This chanting guide's last three chants use Bhikkhu Bodhi's English translation (Bodhi, 2000, p. 319-21) of "The Crest of the Standard" discourse (Dhajagga Sutta, SN 11.3). John Bullitt's "Access to Insight" (www.accesstoinsight.org) website provides two alternative translations of this sutta on-line, Piyadassa (1999) and Thanissaro (1998).

[7] A search of the Pali literature for this verse using the "Bodhgaya News" search engine (www.bodhgayanews.net/pali.htm) found 67 matches in the Pali Canon. (In particular: Dīgha Nikāya: 6 matches; Majjhima Nikāya: 1; Saṃyutta Nikāya: 47; Aṅguttara Nikāya: 12; Khuddaka Nikaya: 1 [Netti]. This search was based on the phrase, "dhammo sandiṭṭhiko akāliko ehipassiko," partly due to a size limitation on the allowable search string and partly to sidestep minor textual variaions such as an occasional footnote attached to "opanayiko" indicating that the CSCD redaction uses instead the Pali word "opaneyyiko" and to allow for inclusion (twice?) of the emphatic phrase "kho pana tena" after the first word of this chant [e.g., in DN 19, which Walshe, 1987/1995, p. 302, simply translates as "truly"].)

The Pali title used here for this verse, Dhamma–guṇa–vandaā is taken from Ānandajoti (2004), p. 8, which Ānandajoti translates as "Worshipping the Virtues of the Dhamma." In Gunaratana (2008), p. 14, this verse is without a specific title and is included with the other verses on this page under the general title, Tiratana Vandanā ("Homage to the Triple Gem").

[8] A search of the Pali literature for this verse using the "Bodhgaya News" search engine (www.bodhgayanews.net/pali.htm) found 62 matches in the Pali Canon. (In particular: Dīgha Nikāya: 3 matches; Majjhima Nikāya: 1; Saṃyutta Nikāya: 47; Aṅguttara Nikāya: 11. Searches were based on the phrases, "yadidaṃ cattāri purisayugāni" [66 matches] and "yadidaṃ cattāri purisa yugāni" [1 "false positive"], due to a size limitation on the allowable search string, to the search engine's occasional difficulty locating terms with ñ, and to sidestep minor textual variaions such as alternate SLTP spellings of "pāhuneyyo"/"pāhuṇeyyo," different punctuations of the same verse and the occasional introduction of footnotes. A visual gloss of matches eliminated five partly similar but different passages [two in the Aṅguttara Nikāya, three in the Khuddaka Nikāya], including one from the Netti which lists the Pali adjectives without the refrain "bhagavato sāvakasaṇgho.")

The Pali title used here for this verse, Saṇgha–guṇa–vandaā is taken from Ānandajoti (2004), p. 8, which Ānandajoti translates as "Worshipping the Virtues of the Saṇgha." In Gunaratana (2008), p. 14, this verse is without an individual title and is included with the other verses on this web page under the general title, Tiratana Vandanā ("Homage to the Triple Gem").