Illustration: In the courtyard of a neighborhood Buddhist temple, a monk with a shaved head and simple robes pauses while sweeping fallen leaves. Prayer beads hang at the wrist, and the open hall behind contains a Buddhist altar.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

お坊ぼうさん

obousan

Buddhist monk

A familiar, respectful way to refer to a monk. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 庄内地方しょうないちほうの南禅寺豆腐なんぜんじとうふは、京都きょうとのお坊ぼうさんが酒田市さかたしの豆腐屋とうふやに作つくり方かたを伝授でんじゅした説せつがある。

    It is said that a Buddhist priest from Kyoto taught a tofu store in Sakata City how to make Nanzenji tofu, and then Nanzenji tofu became widely known in Shonai Region.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 小・中学生しょうちゅうがくせいが集あつまり、お経きょうを唱となえたり、写経しゃきょう、お坊ぼうさんの法話ほうわなど普段ふだんできない生活せいかつを体験たいけんし、礼儀作法れいぎさほうを勉強べんきょうする。

    This event provides elementary and junior high school students with an opportunity to study etiquette through activities that they can hardly experience in real life, such as reciting sutras, copying sutras, listening to a sermon made by priests.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 博士課程はくしかていを卒業そつぎょうしても職しょくがないので、インドに行いってお坊ぼうさんになります。

    Even if I finish my doctoral program, there won’t be a job for me, so I’m going to India to become a Buddhist monk.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 坊

  • 坊boy; priest's residenceOnボウ・ボッ

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