捡骨 (撿骨) jiǎngǔ
jiǎngǔ
noun
bone-gathering
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage at a different location (CC-CEDICT '撿骨')
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- Scroll 1 Sūtra on Burial Rites After the Buddha’s Nirvāṇa (Fo Miedu Hou Guan Lian Zansong Jing) 佛滅度後棺斂葬送經 — count: 1