灌
かんじょう・かんちょう
灌頂
表記・読み:かんじょう・かんちょう
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baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood
- 2
baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism)
- 3
pouring water onto a gravestone
- 4
teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)