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A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

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Beside the Sea 263<br />

liberated from the karma <strong>of</strong> their former errors, —<br />

shall experience immeasurable bliss, — shall re-<br />

ceive excellent features and complete bodies,<br />

—<br />

shall be rid <strong>of</strong> all their terrors, — and, after hav-<br />

ing partaken <strong>of</strong> the food-<strong>of</strong>ferings which have<br />

been changed for them into amrita <strong>of</strong> delightful<br />

taste, shall soon be reborn into the Pure Land<br />

[Jodo]."<br />

After the invocation <strong>of</strong> the Five Tath^gatas,<br />

other verses are recited ; and during this recita-<br />

tion the food-<strong>of</strong>ferings are removed, one by one.<br />

(There is a mysterious regulation that, after hav-<br />

ing been taken from the altar, they must not be<br />

placed under a willow-tree, a peach-tree, or a<br />

pomegranate-tree.) Last <strong>of</strong> all is'recited the DhJram<br />

<strong>of</strong> Dismissal, seven times, — the priest each<br />

time snapping his fingers as a signal to the ghosts<br />

that they are free to return. This is called the<br />

Hakken, or Sending -Away.<br />

Ill<br />

The sea never ebbs far on this steep coast,<br />

though it <strong>of</strong>ten rises tremendously, breaking into<br />

the town ; and its gentler moods are not to be

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