KYOTO –
Children with freshly shaved heads walked slowly via the corridors of Higashi Honganji in Kyoto as they took half in a Buddhist ordination ceremony marking their formal entry into the priesthood.
The ceremony, referred to as tokudo, is performed by the Otani department of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. Participants might endure ordination from the age of 9, the identical age at which the sect’s founder, Shinran, entered the priesthood.
Children on summer time trip participate within the ceremony every year throughout this era.
After present process a ritual involving a ceremonial razor, the members obtained black Buddhist stoles and spiritual names as proof that they’d develop into ordained monks.
Source: TBS