butsu

This sketch, unfinished, for the Kappa was a mere indication of red locks and a tall, thin form, stood against a pillar of the tokonoma at just the angle where the soft light of the butsu-dan shed a pale glow across it.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

They returned, some hours later, and were busied all the afternoon with the placing and decorations of an exquisite "butsu-dan," or Buddhist shelf, on which the ihai of the dead are placed.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

At the abbot's advice (and yet against all precedent) this was put, not beside the butsu-dan, where Kano's young wife had for so many years been honored, but in Tatsu's own bed-chamber, thus making of it a "mita-yama," or spirit room.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

One is the bronze image of Buddha, twenty-one and a half feet high, known as Dai-butsu, near which is a massive torii.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

In the book Nan-ho-i-butsu-shi it is written that certain red characters can always be found upon the nape of the neck of a real Rokuro-Kubi.

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The book Shin-zoku-butsu-ji-hen calls it the symbol of the voice of the Buddha.

In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Members of Japan's largest Buddhist order, the Pure Land sect, practice repetition of the name of the compassionate Buddha ( "namu amida butsu").

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Members of Japan's largest Buddhist order, the Pure Land sect, practice repetition of the name of the compassionate Buddha ( "namu amida butsu").

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Members of Japan's largest Buddhist order, the Pure Land sect, practice repetition of the name of the compassionate Buddha ( "namu amida butsu").

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Members of Japan's largest Buddhist order, the Pure Land sect, practice repetition of the name of the compassionate Buddha ( "namu amida butsu").

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