Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Obaku Archbishop Ven. Kondo Hiromichi's 近藤博道 Inauguration Ceremony in Oct. 27, 2015


On Oct.27, 2015 (today), a new Obaku Archbishop Ven. Kondo Hiromichi近藤博道 will be inaugurated as the sixty-second abbot of Manpukuji. I am always fascinated by the ritual ceremonies of the Obaku sect in Japan and wondering how much have been preserved since Yinyuan's time. The agenda below shows the basic structure of the ceremony still maintains some elements from the seventeenth century. It will be a great topic to do religious and ethnographic research. The inauguration ceremony of the Sixtieth generation abbot Sengoku Taizan 仙石泰山 on Oct. 28, 2001 has been put on Youtube and a link is provided below.

黄檗宗管長近藤博道大和尚晋山式



来る十月二十七日 (火) 黄檗宗大本山萬福寺 第六十二代堂頭、黄檗宗管長近藤博道大和尚晋山式を挙行いたします。
08:00総門より晋山 三門祝問 諸堂巡拝
09:00維那 上堂第一請東方丈寿位の間にて
受付開始大殿横テント
10:30来賓・賀客・役位は順次法堂に入堂法堂
11:00祝國開堂式
12:00本堂前にて記念撮影 祝辞 鏡開き
祝斎各斎会会場にて
14:00散会予定

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