About how to read sutras.

Hello.

I don't know what temple video this is, but I can say that, and I think there are parts that can't be said.

Sutras are composed of two types of poetry forms: “Nagayo (Jōgo)” in prose form, and Ge Ju (geju), which has 4 or 5 characters in one phrase.

In the former case, it feels like reading a normal document, and there are no regularities such as a regular number of characters or rhymes. It's hard to say “get on the rhythm with a good tempo” in Konoten.

However, in the latter case, regularity such as a regular number of characters and rhymes comes out, and you get used to “riding a rhythm with a good tempo” like “rap.”

Reading sentences in a messy manner cannot be made into a score, but reading aloud according to the regularity of a poem can be done like a sheet music, so it can be said “get on the rhythm at a good tempo.”

Hello.

“Obscene” is a word that expresses something that makes you think really admirable (even though it's not admirable).
I think sutras are “splendid things” from the beginning, so I don't think the expression “ostentatious” reading sutras is appropriate. Read it carefully with all your heart.

If you look up rap music, it is said that rap music spread in Japan in the 1980s, and techniques of rhyming in Japanese were used based on chanting sutras, so there may be a high affinity between sutras and rap.
In the Soto sect, which is the sect I belong to, many people often read sutras together. Hundreds of monks all need to read at the same speed all at once, so I think a sense of rhythm is necessary. but it's like real rap music hey! yo! Chekera! It doesn't mean you should read it like that. I think the basic thing is to read carefully with all your heart.
(The Heart Sutra also has wooden fish, so I think a sense of rhythm is necessary, but since it's important, I write it over and over again. please. hey! yo! It's not. Please read it carefully with all your heart)

By the monk
There are good and bad
Individuality also comes out
The official way to read each sutra is decided.

If there are also large intonation sutras
There is also the recitation of sutras in stick reading.
There are also places that rhyme
There are also rhythmic parts.
The mentor reads it with all his heart
In that sense, it might be the same as rap.

As for sutras, I'm reading the Chinese translation of the sutras in Wu, which is a southern Chinese sound,
In the first place, I thought about rhythm when translating into Chinese, and I read in a Buddhist Chinese book that it was translated.

Isn't it a story from a later time that they began to sing loudly?