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The content of the invitation card is: "The overseas Chinese in Japan will hold a 3-days-4-nights Pu Tu, for the sake of establishing luck by offering and helping all the imprisoned spirits of the water and the earth. The meeting will take place at the Kwan T'i Temple in Kobe city. Please come to the "Tan" (altar) to present incense sticks during the 14th, 15th, and 16th of the 7th moon. (1st, 2nd and 3rd of September 1982).” The card was red in colour.
9
The 13th day and the 17th day of the 7th moon were not mentioned in the invitation card.
10 The Lantern Floating ritual in Japanese is "To Ro Nagashi', which means to float lanterns(s) (to the sea). During the Japanese Obon, lanterns are sent off on the last day of the festival. Through this, the ghosts and the ancestors are all sent back. During the Kobe festival, the ritual, according to the committee members, was to send off the "wandering ghosts or those who are not worshipped by anyone (= Mu Zhi Kuai)". However it seems confusing because after the floating ritual, they continued to give offering to the hungry ghosts as well as to the ancestors for two more nights, and the tablets of the wandering spirits were still inside the Tao Ch'ang. A similar ritual practised in Hong Kong during the Chiao festival is called 'Fong Shui Dang' (t, sending off the water lanterns), which is parallel with the 'Fong Luk Dang" (PW10, put on the street lights) ritual. The rituals are to invite all the water and earth spirits to attend the offering during the Pu Tu or 'Sai Tai Yau* (*9A, to worship the numerous spirits) of the Chiao festival). The prayer book the Obaku Buddhists used for their morning and night rituals is "Obaku Zenlin Choobo Kashoo" (R). The priests called this daily work "Zenlin Kashoo" (M).
See below.
12
Plate 21.
13
Plates 22, 23.
14 The "Pang' was a book-form name-list in yellow. It had 8 pages with an introduction explaining the reason for holding a Pu Tu. (The introduction is printed in the Appendix).
15 See the introduction to the Pang printed in the Appendix.
16 The beach is at the western end of the Prefecture.
17 Plate 24.
18
See footnote 10.
19
20
Plate 25.
The book used for the ritual was "Yoga Enkoo Kahan" (1⁄2μÅμ) which is similar to that used in Hong Kong during the 'Sai Tai Yau' ritual. According to an old taoist in Hong Kong, Mr. Lam Pui ( ), the gesture is called "Poh Yuk” (Z, to break Hell), and through this the ghosts are released and able to come for reincarnation and cross over.
21 Plates 26, 27, 28.
22
No meat was allowed in the festival area. However, meat was presented at the Ming-che VII. One informant explained that it was because the dead like meat, and one committee member sighed and told me that "We have no way, because they are from the other Provinces (of China) (##A)".
20 The sect started from Monk Yin Yuan (C) of Fu-ch'in (Mili), Hokkien. He was invited by the General of the Tokugawa Bankufu (UK) in 1654, In the
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The content of the invitation card is: "The overseas Chinese in Japan will hold a 3-days-4-nights Pu Tu, for the sake of establishing luck by offering and helping all the imprisoned spirits of the water and the earth. The meeting will take place at the Kwan T'i Temple in Kobe city. Please come to the "Tan" (altar) to present incense sticks during the 14th, 15th, and 16th of the 7th moon. (1st, 2nd and 3rd of September 1982).” The card was red in colour.
9
The 13th day and the 17th day of the 7th moon were not mentioned in the invitation card.
10 The Lantern Floating ritual in Japanese is "To Ro Nagashi', which means to float lanterns(s) (to the sea). During the Japanese Obon, lanterns are sent off on the last day of the festival. Through this, the ghosts and the ancestors are all sent back. During the Kobe festival, the ritual, according to the committee members, was to send off the "wandering ghosts or those who are not worshipped by anyone (= Mu Zhi Kuai)". However it seems confusing because after the floating ritual, they continued to give offering to the hungry ghosts as well as to the ancestors for two more nights, and the tablets of the wandering spirits were still inside the Tao Ch'ang. A similar ritual practised in Hong Kong during the Chiao festival is called 'Fong Shui Dang' (t, sending off the water lanterns), which is parallel with the 'Fong Luk Dang" ( PW10, put on the street lights) ritual. The rituals are to invite all the water and earth spirits to attend the offering during the Pu Tu or 'Sai Tai Yau* ( *9A, to worship the numerous spirits) of the Chiao festival). The prayer book the Obaku Buddhists used for their morning and night rituals is "Obaku Zenlin Choobo Kashoo" ( R
). The priests called this
daily work "Zenlin Kashoo" ( M ).
See below.
12
Plate 21.
13
Plates 22, 23.
14 The "Pang' was a book-form name-list in yellow. It had 8 pages with an introduc- tion explaining the reason for holding a Pu Tu. (The introduction is printed in the Appendix).
15 See the introduction to the Pang printed in the Appendix.
16 The beach is at the western and of the Prefecture.
17 Plate 24.
18
See footnote 10.
19
20
Plate 25.
The book used for the ritual was "Yoga Enkoo Kahan" (1⁄2μÅμ) which is similar to that used in Hong Kong during the 'Sai Tai Yau' ritual. According to an old taoist in Hong Kong, Mr. Lam Pui ( ), the gesture is called "Poh Yuk” (Z, to break Hell), and through this the ghosts are released and able to come for reincarnation and cross over.
21 Plates 26, 27, 28.
22
No meat was allowed in the festival area. However, meat was presented at the Ming-che VII. One informant explained that it was because the dead like meat, and one committee member sighed and told me that "We have no way, because they are from the other Provinces (of China) ( ##A)".
20 The sect started from Monk Yin Yuan (C) of Fu-ch'in ( Mili), Hokkien. He was invited by the General of the Tokugawa Bankufu (
UK ) in 1654, In the
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