Three Circumcisions to the Right - Unyo Sanso

Japanese: 右遶三匝 - うにょうさんそう
Three Circumcisions to the Right - Unyo Sanso

…It is also called niyobutsu (walking around the Buddha) or senyo (giving pilgrimage to the Buddha). In India, there is a belief that the right hand is pure and the left hand is impure, and it is customary for monks to circumambulate the Buddha three times (circling around the Buddha clockwise). In China, there is a belief that the left is superior, so monks sometimes circumambulate the ordination platform counterclockwise. In Japan, too, the jiyunkou (the person who circumambulates the Buddha with an incense stick to wake one up during zazen) circumambulate counterclockwise, but all other circumambulations are clockwise.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "three right circles" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…遶仏(にようぶつ),施遶(せによう)ともいう。インドでは右手を浄,左手を不浄とする思想があり,比丘たちは仏に対して右遶三匝(うにようさんそう)する(右回りに3回回る)のが例法となった。中国では左を上位とする考えがあって戒壇を巡るときに左回りすることもあり,日本でも座禅のときに眠けを覚ますための香版(警策)をもって回る役の巡香(じゆんこう)は左回りであるが,そのほかはすべて右回りである。…

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