灌頂
かんじょう
Also written かんちょう
Meanings
- Noun baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood
- baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism)
- pouring water onto a gravestone
- teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)
Kanji
Words containing 灌頂
- 伝法灌頂 (でんぼうかんじょう) consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)