心念口称

しんねんくしょう

contemplating buddha while chanting his name

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

口称

くしょう

chanting the invocation to amida buddha

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

念持仏

ねんじぶつ

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

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

念仏三昧

ねんぶつざんまい

praying devoutly to amida buddha

踊り念仏

おどりねんぶつ

Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing

専修念仏

せんじゅねんぶつ

intently praying to Buddha (esp. Amitabha)

隠れ念仏

かくれねんぶつ

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

別時念仏

べつじねんぶつ

recitation of amida buddha's name on a specified day and time period (practice of pure land buddhists)

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)

念仏踊り

ねんぶつおどり

Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing

融通念仏宗

Yuzu Nembutsu (school of Pure Land Buddhism)

蛇心仏口

じゃしんぶっこう

being cunning and spiteful, yet honey-tongued with feigned kindness

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

念仏を唱える

ねんぶつをとなえる

to chant (repeat) the name of Buddha