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Segaki

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The ritual is held at Buddhist temples and there is a custom to place segaki-dana (rack for gaki) or gaki-dana (shelf for gaki) at home, present offerings (traditionally rice and water) for hungry ghosts who are wandering in this world as muenbotoke during Urabon'e or
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or to travel to hell himself, a feat that resulted in the escape of all gaki into the world and necessitating the segaki to force them to return to their realm. Another story says that the student
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was told by a gaki that he would become one himself in three days; he thus had to feed strangers to prevent the transformation. In reality, the segaki is likely an adaptation of a
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or keeps the spirits of the dead from falling into the realm of the gaki. The segaki may be performed at any time, but traditionally performed as part of the yearly
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tormented by an insatiable hunger. Alternatively, the ritual forces them to return to their portion of
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Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth: Contemporary Sri Lankan Practice and Its Origins
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to specifically hungry gaki or muenbotoke, not for spirits of one's ancestor.
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Index

ritual
Japanese Buddhism
restless ghosts
Gaki
餓鬼
Jikininki
食人鬼
無縁仏
ghosts
hell
Urabon'e
Sanskrit
alms
O-bon
Moggallana
Sakyamuni
gaki-do
Lotus Sutra
Ananda
Chinese
Sri Lanka
Obon
Ghost Festival
Exorcism
Dharma name
Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN
9780824832049
ISBN

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