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Goeika

Buddhist devotional poem

Buddhism

The goeika (御詠歌) is a poem or chant recited at the end of a Buddhist religious service. Goeika are said to have been composed by Emperor Kazan after he abdicated and became a Buddhist monk a little over a thousand years ago (reign 984–986).

In English
Buddhist poem

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