観かん経ぎょう

noun

sutra reading; chanting of sutras

Buddhist term for the practice of reading or chanting sutras aloud.

• 朝あさの勤ごん行ぎょうで観かん経ぎょうを行おこなう。

  We perform sutra reading during the morning service.

noun

Amitayurdhyana Sutra

Abbreviation of 観無量寿経, a specific Mahayana sutra. Used mainly in Buddhist contexts.

See also: 観無量寿経

• 観かん経ぎょうは浄じょう土ど教きょうの重じゅう要ような経きょう典てんの一ひとつです。

  The Amitayurdhyana Sutra is one of the important scriptures of Pure Land Buddhism.