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	Bon Festival - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is held from 13th of July to the 16th ("Welcoming Obon" and "Farewell Obon" respectively) in the eastern part of Japan (Kanto), and in August in the western part (Kansai).
		The O-Bon (or Bon) festival is observed all over the country, and the style of celebration varies in some aspects from region to region.
		Bon Odori originates from the story of a Buddhist disciple who envisioned his deceased mother in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts where she was indulging in her own selfishness.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Obon (712 words)

	Ghost Festival - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Ghost Festival (Traditional Chinese: 中元節 pinyin: zhōng yuán jié, and sometimes called 盂蘭盆; pinyin: yulanpen) is a traditional Chinese festival/holiday, which is celebrated by Chinese in many countries.
		A very solemn festival, the festival nevertheless represents a connection between the living and the dead, earth and heaven as well as body and soul.
		The compromise that was made was one that owes to the relevance of the Ghost Festival and ancestor worship.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/g/h/o/Ghost_Festival_8a0c.html (758 words)

	Japanese Festivals and Holidays: An Honors Option for HST 210
		The Bon Festival is when the spirits of the dead are said to return home to their families.
		The Bon Dances, or bon-odori, are performed during the festival, to welcome and comfort the spirits.
		The origin of the festival is believed to be a story of an Indian Priest who could see into the land of the dead, and after seeing this held a large mass, which occurred on July 15th.
	www.msu.edu /~walquis2/bon.html (382 words)

	Dalhousienb.com
		The Bon Ami festival Get Together is held in July when market days, a gigantic beach party, fireworks, parades, pageantry, dancing and sporting events are all on the agenda.
		The Bon Ami Festival is the largest of all the festivals in Dalhousie.
		Bon Ami 2005 is expected to be bigger and better than ever as part of the Town of Dalhousie 100th Anniversary Celebrations.
	www.dalhousienb.com /En/Festivals/index.html (208 words)

	Bon Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This Buddhist festival has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people from the big cities return to their home towns and visit and clean their ancestors' graves.
		The music that is played during the Bon dance is not limited to Obon music and min'yo; some modern enka hits and kids tunes written to the beat of the "ondo" are also used to dance to during Obon season.
		The Bon dance tradition is said to have started in the later years of the Muromachi period as a public entertainment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bon_Festival (1202 words)

	Buddhism - Jodo Shinsu - Bon Odori
		Bon Odori was held in front of the old temple on the unpaved street for the next few years.
		Bon Odori was cancelled for to safety concerns due to potential racial tension in the Temple neighborhood.
		Bon Odori dancing in traditional costumes was performed by members of the Temple Campfire group (youth organization) at the Seattle Center House to celebrate the Campfire organization’s birthday.
	www.seattlebetsuin.com /bonodori_2003.htm (2831 words)

	O-Bon
		Bon Odori is the annual memorial dance to commemorate the lives of loved ones who have passed away during the previous 12 months.
		Bon Odori originates from the story of a Buddhist disciple, Moggallana, who envisioned his deceased mother in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts where she was suffering for her selfishness.
		Today, Bon Odori Festival participants continue this custom as they dance in traditional Japanese dress, including kimono, yukata (less formal cotton, kimono-like garment), and hapi (short coat styled like a kimono top).
	www.budtempchi.org /obonwriteup.html (599 words)

	MIT Japanese "culture-notes" - O-bon, August (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Because the spirits of the dead are said to return at this time, this is a festival for welcoming them home, making offerings to them and holding memorial services.
		The O-bon Festival folk dances (bon-odori) are held in various parts of the country.
		A scaffold is set up on the grounds of shrines and temples, or in parks and squares, or in the streets, and people dressed in informal cotton kimono for summer wear (yukata) dance around it to the folk songs sung and played by the folk musicians.
	web.mit.edu /jpnet/holidays/Aug/obon.shtml (325 words)

	The Anime Blog » Bon Odori in St. Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bon Odori is translated simply as Bon dance and is a traditional Japanese dance held on on July 13-15 respectively during the Bon Festival that honours the spirits of past ancestors.
		Bon Odori is essentially a type of line dance accentuated with graceful movements executed in time with music.
		The Bon Odori is a wonderful way to connect to the traditional Japanese arts and to help understand where some of the new arts come from.
	theanimeblog.com /2006/06/30/bon-odori-in-st-louis (658 words)

	The Asia Rice Foundation: Bhutan Rice Articles
		Gortshom village in Mongar celebrates the vestiges of a Bon festival which was aimed at ensuring soil fertility, timely rainfall, health of cattle, and bumper harvests.
		The Lha Bon and tsawa awaited the return of the sang collectors at the tsawa's house.
		First, the Lha Bon's photsen (male-tsen deity) such as lha tsen Karpo of Phrang Phrangla, Yonten Dorshe and Gonpo Dorshe of Pelphug, and Thratsen Marpo of Tirphub were propitiated, followed by deities of nearby places.
	www.asiarice.org /sections/whatsnew/Bhutan2.html (2118 words)

	The World of Ash: O-Bon
		O-Bon is a Japanese summer festival that honors the spirits of the dead.
		It combines early Buddhist rituals to rescue the souls of the dead from hell with native Japanese Shinto agricultural rites and the tradition of welcoming back the souls of ancestors in late summer.
		The festival serves as a time for family reunions and ancestor veneration at family altars and cemetery plot--the spirits are guided home, feted for several days, and then guided back to the spirit world.
	www.stonebridge.com /ash/Pages/obon.html (214 words)

	The Bon Odori Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This Buddhist dance festival is celebrated as a reminder of the gratefulness one should feel toward their ancestors.
		Bon Odori originates from the story of a Buddhist disciple who envisioned his deceased mother in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts where she was endulging in her own selfishness.
		Today the Bon Odori Festival participants continue this custom as they dance in traditional Japanese dress, including kimonos, yukata (cotton kimonos), and hopi coats (short coats styled like a kimono top).
	www.scu.edu /SCU/Programs/Diversity/bonodori.html (389 words)

	Tokyo Dontaku
		Tokyo Dontaku is a "Bon Odori" dance, a special dance of the O-Bon Festival in Japan.
		In Tokyo, the festival is held during the third week of July.
		For instance, the festival is held at Nikko during the first week of August, at Nagasaki during the second week of August, and at Okinawa during the third week of August.
	www.phantomranch.net /folkdanc/dances/tokyodon.htm (411 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		Obon, referred to as the Lantern Festival, is the time of the year when the Japanese honor their ancestors and departed loved ones.
		Many parts of Japan celebrate this last day with the custom, toro-nagashi in which paper lanterns with the names of the departed written on them are fitted with candles and set upon a lake or waterway to light the way back to the spirit world.
		Throughout the holiday, obon is also celebrated by special dances called Bon-odori and festivals called obon-matsuri which are colorful and are usually accompanied by drum and flute songs.
	www.japancorner.com /obon.asp (219 words)

	Culture Capsules: ESL Student Writing Project
		In that festival there are many street stalls, and at the end of the festival there are fireworks, too.
		The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the lunar calendar.
		Another important activity in the Dragon Boat Festival is dragon boat racing (2), and the origin of this activity is also from this legend.
	www.lclark.edu /~krauss/culturecapsules2002/kurosakiweb/kurosaki.html (1371 words)

	Bon Odori - Japanese Traditional Dance
		Bon means welcoming ancestors' souls and holding a memorial service for the souls.
		During Bon, sometimes all relatives of family gather and hold a memorial service for their ancestors, and enjoy being in a reminiscent mood.
		The Bon Festival is held during in Bon week, and people gathers at the near open-space or the parks, and dance with traditional Japanese music.
	www.japan-101.com /art/art_bon_odori.htm (288 words)

	JAPAN PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The festival coincides with the blooming of peach blossom, branches of the blossom are placed on the platform.
		The Bon festival is held from August 13th-16th.
		Bon dances are performed in every part of the country.
	www.european-schoolprojects.net /festivals/Japan/japan.htm (207 words)

	Thirteen/WNET - Online Pressroom - Press Release
		One of the most popular of all Japanese Buddhist celebrations, the Bon Festival -- feast of lanterns -- commemorates the passing of the souls of family ancestors.
		Since deceased family members are believed to revisit their homes during Bon to be reunited with their family, a small bonfire, known as mukae-bi, or welcoming flame, is lit outside the house to guide the souls back.
		Ken Nakamura, who recently participated in the Bon Festival with his family at Ekoji, a Shin Buddhist temple in northern Virginia, describes this two-day celebration, marked by both dance and meditation: "When we celebrate Bon, we don't think of spirits coming back.
	www.thirteen.org /pressroom/release.php?get=843 (163 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . BELIEF & PRACTICE . Buddhist Obon Festival . July 18, 2003 \| PBS
		It's called Bon or Obon, and our guides were the Nakamuras -- Ken, Nori, and their children, Maya and Greg -- at the Shin Buddhist temple in northern Virginia, where the ashes of forebears are kept.
		KEN NAKAMURA (Shin Buddhist): Bon as it's pretty much observed around the temples in the United States is a two-day celebration.
		The Bon dance is usually first, and the Bon service is the next.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week646/belief.html (626 words)

	Festivals & Holidays (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		July 15 (Lunar calendar), or August 15 (Solar calendar) is celebrated in Japan as "Bon" or Urabon, The Feast of Lanterns, especially by the Japanese Buddhists.
		It is said that during the year, on this day only, the iron pot in hell is opened for the deceased.
		"Bon-Odori" or Bon dance, a religious folk dance, was originally given to comfort the spirit of the dead during the o-bon season.
	mothra.rerf.or.jp.cob-web.org:8888 /ENG/Hiroshima/Festivals/50.html (465 words)

	Obon Festival
		Obon Festival (a/k/a Bon Festival) is Japan's Buddhist festival of the dead.
		The spirits of ancestors return to this world for the festival, to visit their relatives.
		Bon Festival - in Delray Beach, Florida; August 14, 2004; at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Garden
	www.partyguideonline.com /religion/buddhism/Obon.html (150 words)

	Link Banners - Aichi Center for Japanese Studies
		It used to be part of the Tanabata festival, which was traditionally held on the seventh day of the seventh month on the old Japanese calendar.
		The Bon festival is held to pray for the repose of one's ancestors.
		The biggest event of the Bon festival is the Bon odori (Bon dance).
	www.yamasa.org /acjs/english/link_august.html (647 words)

	USARJ/9th TSC Camp Zama, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bon Odori Festival -the Festival is jointly hosted by Camp Zama and Zama City, and has been held since 1959.
		One of the major festival attractions is the Bon Dancing, which normally attracts 20-25 dance groups from both the American and Japanese communities.There are also two omikoshi shrines, food and game booths, Japanese and American entertainment, sports events, sport kites, arm wrestling, and fireworks.
		Everyone on the Camp Zama as well as Zama City and surrounding communities are invited to attend.
	www.usarj.army.mil /events/BonOdori/index.htm (98 words)

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		BON FM, radio station and the events' major sponsor Polar beer, are proud to present the BON FM Festival, an International Latin Festival featuring Jose Alberto "El Canario" from Santo Domingo, Grupo Galé from Colombia, GIO Fuertisimo from Curaçao and supporting act from Glenn and Friends from Bonaire.
		Dive Festival attendance is looking good as well - based on the people who have registered so far for the Festival, attendance is up from last year at this time and, with still another month to go until the Festival, the number is expected to grow.
		In addition to diving (as Dive Festival is in progress), they will also learn about all the other soft-adventure possibilities Bonaire has to offer such as, biking, kayaking and windsurfing.
	www.bonaireentrenous.com /issues/Entrenous_Issue_19_051101.htm (3960 words)

	Travel & Leisure - Around the World: Bon Bini Festival - ArcaMax Publishing
		The party's official title is the "Bon Bini Festival." Bon Bini means welcome in Papiamento, a sometimes spicy-sounding, sometimes lilting language that's a blend of Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese with several African dialects, some English and a little Arawak Indian mixed in.
		The words appear on banners at the airport and on docks where cruise ships disembark, are shouted to passersby by kids playing by the side of the road and said by smiling hotel clerks and shopkeepers.
		Although almost everyone on Aruba speaks English (in addition to Dutch and Spanish), the terms "bon dia" for good morning and "masha danke" for thank you are useful when you tour around the island.
	www.arcamax.com /travel/s-42295-104727 (870 words)

	Bon Festival (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		YOSAKOI1(2004 August at Enomoto Primary School Osaka) Yosakoi2(2004 August at Enomoto Primary School Osaka) O-bon is a Japanese Buddhist holiday to honor the departed spirits of one's ancestors.
		Bon Odori Dancers (2004 August at Imazu Primary School in Osaka) The O-Bon (or Bon) Festival is observed all over the country, and the style of celebration varies in some aspects from region to region.
		In the course of time, the original religious meaning has faded, and has evoked a summery image.
	bon-festival.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (644 words)

	bon jovi - Festival Forums
		Oh yeah, and would love Bon Jovi to play! They are doin a tour leading upto Leeds aswell arent they?
		If Bon Jovi played, my life would be complete.
		You may not love the music, but as a live band, its very hard to beat them.
	www.efestivals.co.uk /forums/index.php?showtopic=1069 (374 words)

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