Former name - Kyumei

…The so-called “Snow Mountain Verse” from the Nirvana Sutra, “All things are impermanent, this is the law of birth and death, birth and death have been completed, nirvana is happiness,” is a representative example, and from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period, some inscriptions were replaced with the Sanskrit mantra Dharani. In addition to the original inscriptions made at the time of casting or immediately thereafter, there are also inscriptions added with details of repairs or relocations, inscriptions that existed before recasting, old inscriptions that include inscriptions from the time of recasting, and later inscriptions that were made over time on uninscribed items at the time of casting. Furthermore, false inscriptions are often seen. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "old names" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…〈涅槃（ねはん）経〉の〈諸行無常　是生滅法　生滅々已　寂滅為楽〉のいわゆる〈雪山の偈〉といわれるものなどがその代表で，平安末から鎌倉にかけては梵字真言陀羅尼をもって銘に代えたものもみられる。銘文には鋳造時またはその直後に施された原銘のほか，修繕や移転の顚末（てんまつ）などを追記した追銘（ついめい），改鋳前にあった銘，またそれに改鋳時の銘文を併記などした旧銘，鋳造時に無銘であったものに時を経て施した後銘（あとめい）がある。さらに偽銘もままみられる。…

※「旧銘」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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