Nembutsu
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Even to weep were now beyond my strength!—quickly, quickly repeat the Nembutsu for me... quickly!...
From Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Hearn, Lafcadio
Why, the simple fact that you long supposed O-Tsuyu to be dead, and repeated the Nembutsu for her, and made offerings before her tablet, is itself the proof!…
From In Ghostly Japan by Hearn, Lafcadio
For such surely is the charm of the Sacred Name—the paper with the sacred characters of the Nembutsu, Namu Amida Butsu.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
We have daily recited the Nembutsu for your soul these many moons!”
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
Every day thereafter he presented offerings, and repeated the Nembutsu; and the memory of O-Tsuyu was never absent from his thought.
From In Ghostly Japan by Hearn, Lafcadio
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