Floating Prayer
With over forty thousand attendees every year, the Shinnyo-en Hawaii Lantern Floating—an adapted version of the traditional Japanese Buddhist obon ritual, tōrō nagashi—is among the largest annually held Buddhist rituals undertaken outside of Asia. One way to approach understanding of this rite is as...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2014, Volume: 3, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 177-197 |
Further subjects: | B
Glocalization
new religious movements
Shinnyo-en
lantern floating
ritual
Hawaii
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Volltext (Verlag) |