It is not known who compiled the Repentance Before Eighty-Eight Buddhas, but the sources of the eighty-eight names are known. The names of the first fifty-three Buddhas are found in the Sutra Spoken by the Buddha on the Contemplation of Bodhisattvas King of Medicines and Supreme Medicine (佛說觀藥王藥上二菩薩經), and the remaining thirty-five names are cited in the Mahäratnakütasütra (大寶積經). The Buddha Sakyamuni's name is the dividing point between the two lists.
The article presents the liturgy "The Repentance Before Eighty-Eight Buddhas." It states that the liturgy is famous to some Buddhists in the Chinese tradition. It notes that it is a piece of an evening ceremony. It also mentions that it's texts belongs to Bodhisattva Samantabhadra (Universal Goodness)'s tradition. Moreover, it is chanted to three pentatonic tunes.
