to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death
Buddhist saint; man of high repute; guest of honor; guest of honour
Bon festival; Feast of Lanterns
sutra; Buddhist scriptures
merit; virtuous deed; divine reward (for virtuous deeds); grace (of the buddhas and gods); merit; meritum
skull (esp. weatherbeaten, used as symbol of death); death's head; cranium
antecedents; ancestor; previous position; previous existence; predecessor organization; predecessor organisation
handle of an axe; handle of a hatchet
welcoming fire for returning spirits (on the first night of the Bon festival)
garden lantern; hanging lantern
ceremonial bonfire (seeing off the spirits on the final night of O-Bon)
form (as opposed to substance); formality; method; system; format; mode
person (or their spirit) who died with no one to tend their grave
Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river
memorial service for old needles
Yamashiro (former province located in the south of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine
offering to a deity or somebody's spirit; tribute to a person who is about to depart
addition; increase; Canada
monk; priest, particularly a high-ranking Zen monk honored by the imperial court
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
fruit; nut; seed; (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.; content; substance
the dead; ghost; person who is obsessed (with money, power, etc.); person with a blind lust (for)
innocence; insentient (i.e. plants, inanimate objects, etc.); free from obstructive thoughts; to pester someone (for cash, etc.)
regret; chagrin; mortification; freedom from obstructive thoughts
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
heart; mind; bottom of one's heart; core (of one's character); centre; center; heart (organ)
lecture; sermon; preaching; moralizing; moralising
reason; cause; circumstances
all things have the Buddha nature
spirit of a poem; true meaning of a poem
padding; lining; foundation
silent reading of sutra; Amitayurdhyana Sutra
all living things; mankind; the people; the world
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)