How to assemble a Buddhist altar

by **plwk** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:51 am

From the Tendai Hokke Ichijo Ryu perspective...

by **Jainarayan** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:52 pm

Nice video. Thanks for posting this. :smile:

I learned some things.

by **Jikan** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:10 am

related:

viewtopic.php?f=64&t=3949&start=20#p116067

by **Seishin** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:47 am

I have, in my trusty note pad, some notes of my own about lay altars. At some point I'll make them more coherent and post them here :smile:

Gassho,
Seishin

by **plwk** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:30 pm

By the way Jikan, aside from Tendai and Pretendai, is the video a standard presentation and explanation for a lay altar in Tendai? :thanks:

by **Seishin** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:00 pm

Although I can't speak for Jikan, from what I understand, the "standard" in Japan is different from the "standard" in the West. Japan lay butsudans have many levels and layers with such things as what is described in the video plus ancestral tablets, small bells, wooden fish bell (mokugyo), golden dangling ornamants (the heavens), images of the founder, of family members etc.

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Western style butsudans tend to have a lot less because of space/family/cost constraints

Gassho,
Seishin

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