Koloa Jodo Mission - Buddhist Temple Since 1910
Yesterday, Nirvana Day Service was a pleasant and memorable event for me. Uncle Mo took his friend, JT from Oregon, to the service and they performed songs by Violin and Guitar after the service. We also had surprise visitors and one of them was a Vietnamese Buddhist priest, Thích TríThiện who had come to the service here before.
What a treat! I truly enjoyed such a wonderful music, meeting old and new friends, and Dharma Talk by Thích TríThiện. It was my first time to learn how to say "Namu Amida Butsu" in Vietnamese. It was "Nam mô A di đà Phật." I followed what he wrote and what he said, and finally got it. I can now recite
Nam mô A di đà Phật in Vietnamese!
This event actually gave me wonderful opportunities to look for how to say "Namu Amida Butsu" in other languages. It was very interesting because this was something I never done before. After checking several sites of this theme, I found that Wikipedia provided the best information. Based upon that informatiom, I added some phonetics and made easy to know differences as follows.
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Written As: |
Phonetic |
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Japanese |
南無阿彌陀佛(Kanji) 南無阿弥陀佛 (Kanji) なむ あみだ ぶつ(Hiragana) 南无阿弥陀仏(Simplified Kanji) なもあみだぶつ(Hiragana) |
Namu Amida Butsu Namo Amida Butsu Namu Amida Bu Nammandabu Naman-dabu
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Korean |
南無阿彌陀佛(Hanja) 나무아미타불 (Hangul) |
Namu Amita Bul |
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Chinese |
南無阿彌陀佛(Traditional) 南无阿弥陀佛(Simplified) |
Nāmó Ēmítuófó Namo Āmítuó Fó |
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Vietnamese |
Nam mô A di đà Phật/南無阿彌陀佛 |
Nammo Ayida Fut (Southern) |
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Sanskrit |
नमोऽमिताभाय |
Namo Amitābhāya |
Now I'm thinking to practice "Namu Amida Butsu" sometimes in other languages.
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Nguyen Hoang Hai (Monday, 05 August 2013 05:23)
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