僧侶そうりょ (souryo)

僧侶そうりょがデモ行進こうしんをするという事件じけんが起おきた

There was an incident when priests held a demonstration march.

源信(僧侶)を「第六祖」とする。

Genshin is the 'sixth patriarch.'

彼かれは僧侶そうりょに近ちかい禁欲きんよく生活せいかつをしている。

He practices austerities almost like a monk.

虚無僧は僧侶の資格を失い、民籍に編入された。

The Komuso lost their right to be priests and, they were incorporated into family registers.

また、四度加行は真言宗の僧侶にとって必修であり、基本の行法(修法)である。

In addition, Shidokegyo is an essential for every Shingon monks and is a basic method in esoteric Buddhist discipline.

ヘビは男に捨てられた怒りに火を吹き暴れるが、僧侶の必死の祈りに堪えず川に飛び込んで消える。

The snake breathes fire and thrashes violently, overcome with rage at being deserted by a man, but unable to stand the prayers of the priests, jumps into a river and disappears.

当時の高野山には、僧侶は食べる手段と割り切った信心の薄い下僧と、権力に眼を眩ませる上僧が蠢く有り様であった。

In Koya-san Mountain at that time, there were many lower rank priests who were not very religious and thought that being a priest was a tool to live and higher rank priests who were blinded with power.

和泉式部の激情がほとばしる恋歌から、赤染衛門の細やかな思い遣りの贈答歌、能因・良暹ら僧侶歌人の旅情豊かな歌、曾禰好忠の大胆な型破りの歌まで、その作者・作風ともに多様である。

The poets and styles of poetry are diverse: Izumi Shikibu wrote love poems in which she expressed her passion; Akazome Emon composed delicate zotoka (poetry exchanged between a man and a woman); poems appealing to travelers' sentiments were composed by priest poets such as Noin and Ryozen; and SONE no Yoshitada made bold and unconventional poems.

身分制度については、江戸幕府下の「士農工商」の別を廃止し、旧武士階級を士族、それ以外を平民とし、「四民平等」を謳う一方、旧公家・大名や一部僧侶などを新たに華族として特権的階級とすると同時に、宮内省の支配の下に置くことになった。

Regarding the class system, the government advocated equality of all people, abolishing the hierarchy of samurai, farmers, artisans, and merchants under the Edo Shogunate, and changing former samurai class to the warrior class and the rest of classes to commoner class, whereas they gave the privileges of nobility to former court nobles, feudal lords, and some of the Buddhist monks so as to put them under the control of the Ministry of the Imperial Household.