Delivery Buddhist Monk／お坊さん便

Amazon has started a unique service of delivery Buddhist monks.

Actually, the service is provided by their business partner.

We can order the service at a fixed price via Amazon.

We Japanese call a buddhist monk to our homes or visit a temple to ask a monk to read a sutra when we mourn for someone who has died. At that time, we have to pay some money to the monk as a token of gratitude or to the principle deity of the temple as an offering. The amount of money is not fixed clearly, so we tend to be a little bit concerned about it. 

A good aspect of the service provided by Amazon is to be fixed the price, so we don't have to worry about that.

However, I wonder what everyone will think of the service.

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Amazonが、お坊さんを配達するというユニークなサービスを始めました。

そのサービスは、実際にはAmazonの提携先から提供されます。

そのサービスは、Amazonを通して定価で注文できます。

死んだ人を追悼するとき、私たち日本人は、家にお坊さんを呼んだり、お経を読んでもらうため、お寺を訪ねたりします。

そういうとき、お坊さんに謝礼として、あるいは、お寺の本尊にお供え物として、いくらか支払います。