nembutsu

With fifty, with seventy, with a hundred and seventy priests, all reciting the _Sutra_, intoning the _nembutsu_, the noise and confusion rose high above the sound of storm and spectre.

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

Surrounded by the jibing menacing mass of spirits, steadily and without fear he hung on to his scroll, read the _sutra_, intoned the _nembutsu_.

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

Rosary in hand and intoning the _nembutsu_ he stepped forth.

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

"You're connecting yourself to everything else (by reciting the nembutsu)," he said.

The Buddhist Channel 2010

Shin Buddhists often recite the nembutsu, "Namo Amida Butsu," meaning "I'm calling Amida Buddha," which is a way of affirming gratitude, Fujimoto said.

The Buddhist Channel 2010

A practitioner with fifteen minutes for practice each morning might go to their practice place, bow, light a candle, say half a mala of nembutsu, pause in silence for three minutes, say the closing verse, bow, and then go to work.

lotusinthemud Sujatin 2009

So long as the practice of the house where one is a guest is not actually unethical then there is no reason why an Amida-shu follower cannot see the local practice as a form of nembutsu.

lotusinthemud Sujatin 2009

In fact, it is because we regard the nembutsu as the bedrock that we can be flexible.

lotusinthemud Sujatin 2009

I have been asked, what practice should one do daily as a follower of Amida-shu? the nembutsu.

lotusinthemud Sujatin 2009

The important thing from an Amida-shu perspective is that one regard whatever offerings one makes as nembutsu - as acts of refuge in Amida Buddha or in all the Buddhas, in a spirit of gratitude.

lotusinthemud Sujatin 2009