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OBON/ Bon Odori Festival
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Deeply worried, Mokuren sought guidance from his mentor, the Buddha.
Who told Mokuren to make offerings to Buddhist monks, and provide them with food, oil and lanterns.
Reference List
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- Minamoto, K 2008, Japan’s Obon Festival, [Online] Available URL: http://ancientworlds.net/aw/Article/1082456 [Accessed 3rd December 2012].
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While Mokuren was meditating, he tried reaching out to the spirit of his deceased mother
But Mokuren’s mother was skin and bones.
The story of Mokuren Songa (Disciple of Buddha)
How did the festival Originate?
Not ready to make her pilgrimage to the next world
She was starving: “A hungry ghost”
Mokuren did as he was told and his mother was released.
Mokuren began to dance with joy.
This dance is known as the Bon Odori dance today.
Fireworks scare away bad spirits
What are some of the key elements?
- Togo Nagashi – floating lanterns in rivers
- Mukae-bi bonfires lead spirits to homes
- Okuri-bi bonfires help spirits return
- Chochin lanterns lit in and front of house to guide spirits
- Family crest drawn on lanterns
"To hang UPSIDE DOWN"
(Sanskrit)
Ullambana
Urabon
Obon
The 'Bon Odori' Dance
- Each region has a different variation
- People line up in a circle, tell a story by dance
- Timed claps and synchronized movements
FOOD
'Yukata'
Summer cotton dress
- Offering to the monks freed Mokurens mother
- Cuisine is more of an art- vegetable cuts are very intricate
- Eggs aren’t allowed to be purchased
Chicken terriyaki
Rice cakes
Sushi
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University Of Wollongong in Dubai
- Argentina
- Brazil
- China
- Malaysia
- United States
- Canada
Obon is also celebrated in:
What is Obon?
To honour the spirits of one's ancestors
Three day Buddhist festival in Japan
Also known as "Feast of Lanterns"
The Japanese Obon Festival
People visit ancestral places
And perform the
Bon Odori Dance
Obon is celebrated from July 13-16
Clean graves
To Conclude...
Rather than the Japanese who liberate the ancestors, it is the ancestors who liberate us.
Obon is a time for recognizing responsibility to life, not merely the marking of death and separation.