Buddhist lecture meeting; dharma talk
Specifically a Buddhist gathering for listening to a sermon or lecture. Often used in temple contexts.
Next month, a Buddhist lecture meeting will be held at the temple.
religious association; confraternity
A group formed around a shared religious devotion, often Buddhist. Historically common for pilgrimage or sutra-copying groups.
mutual assistance association; financial cooperative
A traditional mutual-aid group where members contribute money and take turns receiving the pooled funds. Similar to a rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA).
They hold a dharma lecture meeting at the temple.
This religious association makes a pilgrimage to Ise Shrine every year.
In the village, they formed a mutual assistance association to lend money to each other.
The villagers joined the religious association.
He formed a mutual-aid financing group with his neighbors to save money.
講義 is a general academic lecture given anywhere, whereas 講 in this sense specifically means a Buddhist sermon or dharma-talk gathering.
講演 is a public speech or talk on any topic, while 講 (sense 1) refers narrowly to a Buddhist lecture meeting held at a temple.
考 (こう) means 'thought/consideration' while 講 (こう) refers to a lecture or discourse; the two share a reading but differ completely in meaning.
speaker; lecturer · lecturer; instructor · part-time teacher · tutor; cram school teacher
course; lecture series · academic unit; chair
lecture; address; speech
lecture; academic talk
short course; training; workshop
take a lecture; attend a class; take a course
lecture on; expound; read aloud · take measures; devise a strategy; adopt a policy · make peace; reconcile; come to terms · recite poetry at a gathering
start of a course; start of lectures · opening of a new course; offering a course for the first time
auditorium; lecture hall
The kanji 講 originally means 'to reconcile' or 'to discuss,' and came to be used for religious lecture meetings and the groups that organized them. The financial sense developed from the idea of a group pooling resources.
lecture; give a lecture; read aloud · devise; work out; take measures; adopt a policy · confer; hold a conference; negotiate · reconcile; make peace; make up
peace; reconciliation
lecture; discourse; talk
kōdan; dramatic storytelling
reading; translation
cancellation of a lecture or class
critique; review; commentary
lecture attendance; auditing
supplementary lecture; extra class
party where rank and formalities are set aside; free and easy gathering
substitute lecturing; substitute lecturer
explanation; exposition; lecture · long-winded lecture; pompous explanation · storytelling (Edo-period)
tutor to a daimyo or feudal lord · tutor to the emperor or crown prince
giving lectures; lecturing (at another institution)
cram school teacher; teaching at a cram school
recitation of poems at a poetry gathering; introduction of poems
cancellation of a lecture or class
special lecture; lecture on a special topic
religious association; confraternity
Buddhist lecture meeting
meeting of a mutual financing association