念仏

ねんぶつ

Buddhist prayer, prayer to Amitabha

観念念仏

かんねんねんぶつ

Contemplating Amida Buddha and the Pure Land

念持仏

ねんじぶつ

Buddhist image used as jewellery or to decorate one's home

空念仏

そらねんぶつ からねんぶつ

empty words

大念仏

だいねんぶつ

loudly reciting Amithaba's name

別時

べつじ

another time, time of separation

鬼の念仏

おにのねんぶつ

demon's prayer (Ōtsu-e motif depicting a demon wearing monk's robes and holding a bell)

口称念仏

くしょうねんぶつ

reciting a prayer

念仏三昧

ねんぶつざんまい

praying devoutly to amida buddha

専修念仏

せんじゅねんぶつ

intently praying to Buddha (esp. Amitabha)

念仏往生

ねんぶつおうじょう

passing away peacefully to be reborn in Paradise through invocation of Amitabha

踊り念仏

おどりねんぶつ

Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing

念仏踊り

ねんぶつおどり

Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing

隠れ念仏

かくれねんぶつ

secret Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism (practised in Kyushu in the Edo period)

融通念仏宗

Yuzu Nembutsu (school of Pure Land Buddhism)

時間別

じかんべつ

differentiated by time

念仏を唱える

ねんぶつをとなえる

to chant (repeat) the name of Buddha

馬の耳に念仏

うまのみみにねんぶつ

not heeding what others say, in one ear and out the other, reading the nenbutsu into a horse's ear

仏

ふつ ぶつ ほとけ

Buddha, merciful person, Buddhist image