placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary)
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Noun, Participle, Verb, Intransitive
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placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary), interring ashes
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祖母の納骨を済ませた。
We completed my grandmother's interment of ashes.
故人の遺骨は、四十九日の法要後に納骨されるのが一般的だ。
It is common for the deceased's ashes to be interred after the 49th-day memorial service.
納骨堂は、遺骨を一時的または永続的に安置するための施設である。
A charnel house (ossuary) is a facility for temporarily or permanently enshrining remains.
日本の伝統では、お墓に納骨することが一般的です。
In Japanese tradition, it is common to inter ashes in a grave.
納骨の際には、僧侶による読経が行われることが多い。
During the interment of ashes, Buddhist chanting by a monk is often performed.
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