踊り念仏

おどりねんぶつ

Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing

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

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

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)

隠れ念仏

かくれねんぶつ

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

踊り

おどり

dance

融通念仏宗

Yuzu Nembutsu (school of Pure Land Buddhism)

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

踊り子

おどりこ

dancer (usu. female)

都踊り

みやこをどり みやこおどり

dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district