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<div class="bildtext">excerpt from [http://echoes.bluemandala.com/ Echoes of Incense] [2010/9]<br /> Text and fotos © Don Weiss </div> | <div class="bildtext">excerpt from [http://echoes.bluemandala.com/ Echoes of Incense] [2010/9]<br /> Text and fotos © Don Weiss </div> | ||
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| − | {{fl|I}} visited Saba Daishi [...] on the day of the temple's semi-annual Fire Walk. I got there early, but merchants were already setting up stalls to sell souvenirs and antiques. The ladies of the parish were preparing lots of tea and noodles that, later, were given to the 300 or so people who came to the ceremony. | + | {{fl|I}} visited Saba Daishi [...] on the day of the temple's semi-annual Fire Walk. I got there early, but merchants were already setting up stalls to sell souvenirs and antiques. The ladies of the parish were preparing lots of tea and noodles that, later, were given to the 300 or so people who came to the ceremony. Meanwhile, the priests were preparing a sacred enclosure for the big outdoor goma that would end with nearly the whole village walking barefoot behind the priests along a five meter path of hot coals. |
| − | All goma services are basically the same, though they vary in length, setting, and the principal deities involved. More than three thousand years ago, Vedic priests of ancient India sat before altars, mentally created a sacred space, and invited Agni, the Fire God, to enter the space and consume grain, oil, and other symbolic offerings. Mahayana Buddhism adopted this fire ceremony. I once saw a goma in Lhasa that was little different from what I saw in Shingon temples on Shikoku, at the sect's | + | All goma services are basically the same, though they vary in length, setting, and the principal deities involved. More than three thousand years ago, Vedic priests of ancient India sat before altars, mentally created a sacred space, and invited Agni, the Fire God, to enter the space and consume grain, oil, and other symbolic offerings. Mahayana Buddhism adopted this fire ceremony. I once saw a goma in Lhasa that was little different from what I saw in Shingon temples on Shikoku, at the sect's headquarters at Koyasan, and in the many cave temples on the island of Shodoshima in the Inland Sea. |
As soon as the sacred space was prepared for the goma that would end with the fire walk, the head priest went to the Fudo Hall, where he performed an indoor goma. It was, as always, an exciting, moving performance. Even in the modern goma halls favored by priests who don't want to burn down their temples, goma services call every sense to attention. | As soon as the sacred space was prepared for the goma that would end with the fire walk, the head priest went to the Fudo Hall, where he performed an indoor goma. It was, as always, an exciting, moving performance. Even in the modern goma halls favored by priests who don't want to burn down their temples, goma services call every sense to attention. | ||
Version vom 21. März 2022, 18:08 Uhr
- Echoes of Incense, A Pilgrimage in Japan, Don Weiss (en.)
Erfahrungsbericht eines amerikanischen Pilgers aus dem Jahr 1993.