Rongi
論議
| [Genres] | Shomyo |
Rongi spielt auf den folgenden Alben
| Album | Künstler | |
 | Traditional Music of Japan, The - 01 | |
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Among the numerous kinds of Buddhist charting for ceremonies, Rongi, literally meaning discussion, occupies a, special position. This is because Rongi is performed in the ceremony at which common people do not attend. Those in attendance are only priests in charge of the ceremony, teachers and students. Rongi, used to be a kind of examination through which every priest was qualified and authorized. Later it became formalized into a ceremony held every five years under the attendance of the Emperor's messenger. This is so even today. It is held simultaneously with the ceremony of Hokketaikai which is the biggest event of the Tendai sect, held at Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei, near Kyoto. The discussion in the Rongi ceremony refers to every discipline of Buddhism. In the present record, the discussion refers to the most basic disciplines: how to believe and learn the text of Hokekyo (in Sanscrit Saddharmapundarika-sutra)., This was brought to Japan by Saicho, the founder of the Tendai sect. On this record, the chanting of Rongi is performed by two priests, a teacher and a student, in antiphonal style. It consists of the teacher's question and the student's answer. The melodic feature of the chanting of Rongi is rather simple compared to the other chants of the Tendai sect. But it shows modification of Buddhist chanting from the older and more Chinese style to the later and Japanese style. | ||