Category: buddhism
Kyushu (Kagoshima)
いへ【位牌】
(Noun) Spirit tablet, memorial tablet, ancestral tablet
Ryukyu (Kunigami: Kin)
いーへ【位牌】
(Noun) Spirit tablet, memorial tablet, ancestral tablet
Honshu (Standard)
まら【魔羅・摩羅・末羅】
(Noun) Mara – a Buddhist demon of temptation and impulse; penis, phallus
Ryukyu (Okinawa)
うびー【御水】
(Noun) Water offering
Ryukyu (Okinawa)
ぼーじ【坊主・房主】
(Noun) Buddhist monk, monk; someone with a shaven head
Ryukyu (Okinawa)
いーふぇー【位牌】
(Noun) Spirit tablet, memorial tablet, ancestral tablet
Honshu (Standard)
マーラ
(Noun) Mara – a Buddhist demon of temptation and impulse
Kyushu (Nagasaki)
さんぐ【散供】
(Noun) The practice of scattering uncooked rice, money or other as offerings to deities
Honshu (Standard)
がっぱい【月牌】
(Noun) Mortuary tablet placed in a temple for which a Buddhist memorial service is held monthly
Ryukyu (Amami: Koniya)
いふェー【位牌】
(Noun) Spirit tablet, memorial tablet, ancestral tablet
Ryukyu (Okinawa)
みるく【弥勒】
(Noun) Maitreya (Bodhisattva)
Honshu (Standard)
にっぱい【日牌】
(Noun) Mortuary tablet placed in a temple for which a Buddhist memorial service is held daily
Ryukyu (Okinawa)
うちゆ【浮世・浮ち世】
(Noun) Fleeting world, ephemeral world, transient world
Ryukyu (Okinawa)
ちょーむん【経文・經文】
(Noun) Buddhist scripture, Buddhist text, sutra
Ryukyu (Okinawa)
くゎんぬん・くぁんぬん【観音・觀音】
(Noun) Avalokiteśvara (bodhisattva of compassion), Guanyin, Kannon
Ryukyu (Okinawa)
しむく【撞木】
(Noun) Wooden mallet used to strike a temple bell
Honshu (Standard)
ちはつ【薙髪】
(Noun) Shaving one's head to become a monk or nun
Ryukyu (Okinawa)
かみふとぅき【神仏】
(Noun) Gods and buddhas, gods and Buddha