Sei Naru Mono -Uta no Mandara 10- [CD+DVD]

[Machine Translation] There are a variety of phenomena we call religion. Festivals, temple and shrine fairs, worship services, funerals, gatherings to mourn the dead, purification ceremonies at shrines, as well as nenbutsu and zazen. Although at first glance they may seem to be separate activities, they actually share a common element. That element is "sacredness. ( Musashi Tachikawa ) Musashi Tachikawa, a distinguished scholar in contemporary Buddhist studies and professor emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology, has completed the 10th work in the "Song Mandala" series, a collection of works with sound and images. This is the tenth work in the "Song Mandala" series, a collection of sound and image works by Musashi Tachikawa (Professor Emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology), a distinguished scholar of contemporary Buddhist studies. On the CD, he sings three songs, "Boundless Light," "Boundless Life," and "24 Chapters of the Sanskrit Kannon Sutra. The accompanying DVD explains what the "Sacred" is based on materials obtained through fieldwork, and is presented in a lecture format.

我々が宗教と呼んでいる現象には様々なものがある。祭り、寺や神社の縁日、参拝、葬儀、亡くなったものを追悼する集、神社で行われるお祓い、さらに念仏や座禅。これらは一見、別個の行為のようではあるが、実は共通の要素を有している。その要素とは「聖なるもの」である。(立川武蔵) 現代の仏教研究における碩学 立川武蔵 (国立民族学博物館名誉教授)が音と映像で送る作品集、「歌のマンダラ」シリーズ10作品目が完成。すべての宗教行為に共通する「聖なるもの」という概念を紐解く。自身の歌唱によるCDには「限りない光」「限りない命」「サンスクリット版観音経24章」の三曲を熱唱。付属のDVDではこれまでのフィールドワークで得た資料を元に「聖なるもの」とは何かを説明し、講義形式で進行する。