Sunday, May 11, 2014

Buddhist Memorial Service

I attended a Buddhist memorial service for my grandmother and an ancestor with my relatives. The event is called "法事, houji" in Japanese.
My grandmother died six years ago when she was 100 years old. She raised six children as a single mother. I really admire her effort to support her children. 
Another person whom we prayed for at the memorial service died 150 years ago. Of course no participants know the ancestor, but after each ancestor died, we have that ceremony every 50 years.
After the Buddhist ceremony, we had a lunch at a Japanese style hotel, ryokan. I had a nice memorial day today.

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