棚たな経ぎょう

noun

chanting sutras before a Bon shelf

A Buddhist practice during the Bon Festival where a monk chants sutras in front of a shōryōdana (精霊棚), a shelf for ancestral spirits.

See also: 精霊棚 (しょうりょうだな)

• お盆ぼんの時じ期きになると、お寺てらの僧そう侶りょが各かく家いえを回まわって棚たな経ぎょうをあげる。

  During the Bon season, temple monks visit homes to chant sutras before the ancestral shelf.