2025/04/05
上野・両大師
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More than a dozen temples dot the city center, including Seisho-ji, shown here from the main gate at the east edge of the property.
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Now 30 minutes before breaking for lunch, the microphone picks up the amplified voice of the lead priest in the annual ceremony as he chants with certain lines reinforced by the voices of the four supporting priests. Certain points in the reading involve parishioners' choral responses, too.
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At the end of the morning chanting for the annual ceremony, the hosting priest invites one and all to share a meal together in the vegetarian, Buddhist style of 'devotional cuisine' (Shojin Ryori, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cuisine), 精進料理.
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Chanting excerpt, December 8 ceremony at Buddhist temple:
among Buddhist priests and laypersons there is appreciation for vocal tone and stylistic artistry. The amplified voice of the leftmost priest has a quality that is easy to listen to, even with the background hiss from the kerosene space heater nearby.
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