{"id":231943,"date":"2016-07-12T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=231943"},"modified":"2016-07-12T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:00:31","slug":"shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinto Buddhist Purification Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-231943 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-1\/'>Japan-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231963'>\n\t\t\t\tShinto Buddhists make their way to the site of the ceremony during last week\u2019s purification ceremony held in a vacant parking lot beside Aqua Resort Club in Achugao.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-2-2\/'>Japan-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231964'>\n\t\t\t\tShinto priest Rev. Norimichi Uemura begins the ceremony with the purification prayer.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-3-2\/'>Japan-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231965'>\n\t\t\t\tShinto priest Rev. Norimichi Uemura, right, waves the harae to bless, from left, Venerables Ryushin Onishi, Naomichi Ueda, and Hakuga Murayama.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-4-2\/'>Japan-pix-4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231966'>\n\t\t\t\tFrom left, Venerables Ryushin Onishi, Naomichi Ueda, and Hakuga Murayama recite a mantra in Sanskrit.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-5\/'>Japan-pix-5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231967'>\n\t\t\t\tA member of the Kuentai Japanese group pays his respects.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-6\/'>Japan-pix-6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231968'>\n\t\t\t\tJapanese Consul to the CNMI Toshio Matsumura bows before offering incense.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-7\/'>Japan-pix-7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231969'>\n\t\t\t\tLt. Gov. Victor B. Hococ prepares to offer incense while Shinto Buddhist monks recite mantras.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-8\/'>Japan-pix-8<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231970'>\n\t\t\t\tVeteran Mariano Fajardo offers incense.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-9\/'>Japan-pix-9<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231971'>\n\t\t\t\tSaipan Mayor David M. Apatang said the ceremony is part of the healing process.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shinto-buddhist-purification-ritual\/japan-pix-10\/'>Japan-pix-10<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231972'>\n\t\t\t\tCNMI Lt. Gov. Victor B. Hocog, seated third left, and Japanese Consul to the CNMI Toshio Matsumura, seated second left, join Buddhist priests and monks, and members of Kuentai Japan and Kuentai USA for a group photo after the ceremony.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fotogalleria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}