厭おん離り

noun

departing from this world in disdain; renouncing the world

Buddhist term for turning away from the defiled world with a sense of revulsion, often in the context of seeking rebirth in the Pure Land. Appears in phrases like 厭離穢土 (おんりえど).

• 厭おん離り穢え土どの心こころを起おこして念ねん仏ぶつする。

  One recites the nembutsu with a mind that has turned away from this defiled world.