御ご斎さい会え

noun

imperial Buddhist ceremony for national security and good harvests

Historical term for an annual court event held from the Nara to Muromachi periods, where high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month.

See also: 金光明最勝王経

• 御ご斎さい会えは、奈な良ら時じ代だいから室むろ町まち時じ代だいにかけて宮きゅう中ちゅうで行おこなわれた重じゅう要ような仏ぶっ教きょう行ぎょう事じである。

  The Gosaie was an important Buddhist ceremony held at the imperial palace from the Nara period through the Muromachi period.