灌かん頂じょう

noun

baptism-like ceremony for a bodhisattva attaining buddhahood

In Mahayana Buddhism, a ritual performed by buddhas on a bodhisattva who reaches enlightenment, symbolizing the transfer of wisdom.

• 灌かん頂じょうは、菩ぼ薩さつが仏ほとけになる際さいに諸しょ仏ぶつから受うける儀ぎ式しきである。

  Kanjo is a ceremony that a bodhisattva receives from the buddhas when attaining buddhahood.

noun

esoteric Buddhist initiation ceremony

In esoteric Buddhism, a ritual where a master confers precepts, mystic teachings, or empowerment onto a disciple, often involving water.

• 密みっ教きょうでは、師しが弟で子しに灌かん頂じょうを授さずけて教おしえを伝つたえる。

  In esoteric Buddhism, the master confers kanjo upon the disciple to transmit the teachings.

noun

pouring water on a gravestone

A ritual act of pouring water over a gravestone, often as an offering or purification; derived from the Buddhist ceremony.

• お墓はか参まいりで、墓ぼ石せきに灌かん頂じょうをする。

  When visiting the grave, we pour water over the gravestone as kanjo.

noun

transmission of esoteric techniques in poetry or music

In traditional Japanese arts, the secret teaching of advanced techniques, compositions, or secrets from master to disciple.

• その流りゅう派はでは、秘ひ曲きょくの灌かん頂じょうを受うけた者ものだけが演えん奏そうを許ゆるされる。

  In that school, only those who have received kanjo of the secret pieces are allowed to perform them.