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According to traditional Japanese beliefs, all humans have a spirit or soul called a reikon ().When a person dies, the reikon leaves the body and enters a form of purgatory, where it waits for the proper funeral and post-funeral rites to be performed so that it may join its ancestors. [1]
Japanese tradition. When a person dies, it is believed that their reikon will remain in a type of purgatory until they are given proper funeral rites.
Yomi or Yomi-no-kuni (黄泉, 黄泉の国, or 黄泉ノ国) is the Japanese word for the land of the dead (World of Darkness). [1] According to Shinto mythology as related in Kojiki, this is where the dead go in the afterlife. Once one has eaten at the hearth of Yomi it is (mostly) impossible to return to the land of the living. [2]
Naraka (Sanskrit: नरक; Chinese: 地獄／奈落; pinyin: Dìyù/Nàiluò; Japanese: 地獄／奈落, romanized: Jigoku/Naraku) is a term in Buddhist cosmology [1] usually referred to in English as "hell" (or "hell realm") or "purgatory". [2] [3] Another term used for the concept of hell in earlier writings is niraya. [4]
Reikai Monogatari (霊界物語, Tales of the Spirit World or Tales from the Spirit World) is a tale dictated by Onisaburo Deguchi (出口王仁三郎), the co-founder of the Japanese new religious organization Oomoto. It is a scripture of Oomoto which its followers read. [1] It consists of 81 volumes of 83 books. [2] (As Volume 64 is composed ...
These days, you can get a deal on anything. Even salvation! Pope Benedict has announced that his faithful can once again pay the Catholic Church to ease their way through Purgatory and into the ...
A mythological river in Japanese Buddhism. Shakadvipa: A land mass west of the Ural Mountains in Hindu mythology. Shambhala: In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a kingdom hidden somewhere in the Himalayas; Theosophists regard it as the home on the etheric plane of the governing deity of the earth, Sanat Kumara. Siddhashila
It's been two years since Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes started dating, and they're still going strong! The country star, 31, and the Outer Banks actor, 32, celebrated their two-year ...