| 先祖 |
ancestor(アンセスター) |
| 先祖墓 |
family tomb(ファミリー・トゥーム) |
| 線香 |
joss stick / incense stick |
| 線香をたく |
burn incense |
| 命日 |
death day |
| 焼香 |
incense offering |
| 宗旨 |
sect / denomination |
| 香典 |
obituary gift / incense money |
| 戒名 |
posthumous Buddhist name |
| 位牌 |
mortuary tablet |
| 清め塩 |
purification salt |
| 供養 |
mass for the dead |
| 祈祷(きとう) |
prayer |
| 仏教経典 |
Sutra(スートラ) |
| 輪廻(りんね) |
trancemigration (of the soul)
metempsychosis
the cycle of reincarnation |
| 仏壇 |
Buddhist altar |
| 住職 |
chief priest (of a Buddhist temple) |
| 数珠 |
Buddhist rosary / praying beads |
| 浄土 |
pure land |
| 浄土宗 |
Jodo sect / Pure Land sect |
| 浄土真宗 |
Jodo-shin sect / True Pure Land sect |
| お坊さん |
Buddhist priest / monk
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