A comment on the 六曜 (six days). This is actually not a “Buddhist calendar”, but actually more of a Chinese systems of days based on Taoist beliefs in cycles, and miscellaneous folk beliefs. Japan imported this from China during the Edo Period, but this survived in modern use, despite the introduction of the Western Calendar in the Meiji Period.

It is true that there is a kind of “Buddhist calendar”, which is really just a lunar calendar used in places like Thailand, Burma and China, but the Six Days are a later invention that were integrated with this. In Buddhism, the death of the Buddha is observed on Nirvana Day (涅槃会, nehan-e), which varies a little depending on Buddhist tradition.

Hope that helps. Great lesson and dialogue. I always wondered about these six days myself, so I spent some time a while back researching it. Hence the information above.

Keep up the great work!

For me したら seems to imply a definite sequence of events: drink and then drive - which is surely illegal.

On the other hand, 乗るなら、飲むな seems better translated as “if you are going to drive, then don’t drink” - as in: you can drive to the party (if you want to) but then if you drink - you better not drive.

Comments welcome.

Neil

ps. I’m not going to tell you what I was doing to elicit ”誤るなら、するな”　- so too bad.

すべてJapanesepod101にお知られた言葉のおかげですよ。

面白い！！！ 　Since 四　is a homophone of 死 right?

Bob1-san

That’s a good one!!! I love it! 賢いジョークですね。

ジャービジ　さん＞どういうことですか??　すいません　

タネさん＞よかったです　 　がんばってください　

Bob1 さん＞　笑笑笑　

I liked this lesson, but the grammar was a bit off the pace of recent ones. Anyway, おつかれさまで~す.

I’m obsessively methodical. I’ll get to these eventually– still plowing through LI Season 1. Still, I couldn’t resist having the chance to be the first to comment on a lesson.

Happy studies, all!