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Terms for subject Religion (3849 entries)

Bonden	Huge shrine decorations consisting of 3 metre poles wound with cloths of five different colours and hung with shide and other decorations. Their shape is something like a giant pair of trousers. At the bonden festival of the Asahi-okayama-jinja, Akita on February 17th they are carried by groups of 20-30 youths who shake and twirl the bonden and compete to get theirs first to the shrine for consecration. At the Izuyama-jinja, Akita on the same day bonden are floated across a river on rafts to reach the shrine
Book Of Common Prayer	BCP
Born Again Modularization	BAM
Bosatsu	The Buddhist bosatsu is an embodiment, visible or invisible, of the highest ideal of Mahayana Buddhism and is for all practical purposes indistinguishable in character from the various Mahayana ('great vehicle') Buddhas (butsu, nyorai) She or he—the most popular in Japan is the female bosatsu possessed of the highest wisdom, compassion and other perfections of selflessness and therefore appears in this world not as a result of craving or desire like other beings but only to engage in "skilful means" to bring living beings to enlightenment. To perform their liberating work bosatsu appear in various convenient forms including those of local Before the period shrines or shrine-temple complexes (jisha, jinguji) routinely worshipped kami as bosatsu or Buddhas. Named bosatsu and kami were correlated more or less systematically with each other according to the history, legends and affiliations of the shrine-temple in question. Until 1868 for example Hachiman was Hachiman dai-great bosatsu, Susa-no-o was Tenno Statues and paintings (shinzo, kaiga) of Buddhas and bosatsu were employed from the Nara period onwards as of the kami but with a few chance exceptions were burnt or disposed of as part of bunri
Breakthrough School Of Ministry	BSM
Brethren Mennonite Council	BMC
Bridgeport Catholic Academy	BCA
Bring A Friend	BAF
Bring Your Own Bible	BYOB
Bringing Religion Ideas Discussion God To Everyone	BRIDGE
Brock Christian Fellowship	BCF
Brooklyn Ecumenical Cooperatives	BEC
Bruin Christian Fellowship	BCF
Buddhist Summit Organizing Committee	BSOC
Bugaku	Formal ceremonial music and dancing performed at shrines, popular among the nobility from the 8th century. There are 160 kinds of bugaku; 30 from Korea (the so-called "right hand' dances) and 130 from China, Tibet, Central Asia, India and Siberia (the 'left hand" dances) See
Build My Church	BMC
Bukki	Mourning. See
Bunrei	Divided spirit, fraction of a spirit. A ceremony to divide and then install the bunrei of the kami of a main shrine is the normal means by which a branch shrine (bunsha) is established and empowered. The rei or mitama of the kami is not diminished in any way by this 'division'. Famous shrines may distribute thousands of bunrei over time, to establish new shrines or enhance the power of existing ones. The Iwashimizu-Hachimangu is reputed to have distributed 30,000 bunrei, the Usa Hachimangu 15,000 and the Suwa Taisha over 10,000. function in a similar way to bun-rei but are intended for the home which does not have the status of a recognised shrine
Burn This Church	BTC
Byakko shinko-kai	A successful postwar Shinto-related sect (formerly Byakko koseikai) founded by Goi, Masahisa (b.1916) a spiritualist and disciple of Taniguchi, Masaharu, founder of Seicho-no-ie. The sect emphasises the importance of miracles and the role of guardian angels (shugo-rei) and regards Japan as the spiritual centre of the world, from where peace will radiate. It has a special "white light'-producing ritual prayer for world peace and is responsible for erecting poles across the world inscribed with the words 'may peace prevail on earth"