And trying to get some robe (outfit) ideas. My fiancee and I want to wear robes, since we are being wed in a zen monistary (temple). we're going to have Monks chanting and tea ceremonies, and incense offerings. However, we are designing our own outfits. We're having them tailor made. But I would like to know if anyone had any ideas that might be helpful to contribute! I'd greatly appreciate it!! Thank you =)
2006-11-21 14:30:40 · 6 answers · asked by Mistique 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just plain white...
2006-11-21 14:33:19 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
During the ceremony you probably have to smell some burning special plant for purifying purpose. Go circle the temple or Datsan 3 times by clockwise way, remember go and circle by clockwise way! Um Mani Badme Hum Have a great familylife ever after! :-)
For dressing a groom better to wear blueish dressing and a bride wear reddish dressing symbolising male and female unity.
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Christianity is also very young religion on this land too before all these Shamanism was the only religion on this land for thousands of years do not forget the fact please!
2006-11-21 14:38:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you Buddhists?
Did the monks recommend anything? Did you listen?
You are trying to obtain "enlightenment", I would assume that any attire would be fine.
Buddhism is a young religion in America, and it will not be embedded in American culture for another hundred years.
Unless you are planning to be a monk/nun, forget the robes. There is no use wearing something on the outside, when the inside is so lacking.
2006-11-21 14:53:19 · answer #3 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My friend just had a Buddhist wedding, India - there is a robe/outfit called a sari that is the common wedding attire.
2006-11-21 15:06:18 · answer #4 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. "You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler, "and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift." The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away. Ryoken sat naked, watching the moon. "Poor fellow," he mused, "I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
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Yamaoka Tesshu was a tutor of the emperor. He was also a master of fencing and a profound student of Zen.
His home was the abode of vagabonds. He had but one suit of clothes, for they kept him always poor.
The emperor, observing how worn his garments were, gave Yamaoka some money to buy new ones. The next time Yamaoka appeared he wore the same old outfit.
"What became of the new clothes, Yamaoka?" asked the emperor.
"I provided clothes for the children of Your Majesty," explained Yamaoka.
2006-11-23 17:55:45 · answer #5 · answered by The Zen Hippo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple white or light colored dress
2006-11-21 14:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by JaSam 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋