礼らい盤ばん

noun

raised platform for chanting in front of a temple's main image

Buddhist term. A platform from which the officiating monk chants sutras or performs rituals before the principal image.

• 住じゅう職しょくは礼らい盤ばんに上あがり、読経どきょうを始はじめた。

  The head priest stepped onto the platform and began chanting sutras.