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to beg for food (of monks)
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  *齋* | 齋* | *齋
to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc / vegetarian diet / study room / building / to give alms (to a monk)
vegetarian food
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄
to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian
study (room)
to beg for (vegetarian) food
to stop following a vegetarian diet / to break a fast
to fast / to abstain from food
fast (in several religions) / Ramadan (Islam) / see also 齋月|斋月
to observe a religious fast; to abstain from food or certain activities before a ritual
fasting days / a fast
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
food given to Buddhist monks as alms
Saitō (Japanese surname)
(religious) offerings
festival of fasting (esp. Eid al-Fitr)
Ramadan (Islam)
Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism
to fast
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
great fast / Christian lent
Lent
(Islam) Eid al-Fitr, festival that marks the end of Ramadan
dining hall in a Buddhist temple
to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc


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