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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Main Author: Montrose, Victoria Rose (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: 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
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)