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Date of the document's last update/modification 03/09/93
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This file is the work of Stan Rosenthal. It has been placed here, with his kind
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permission, by Bill Fear. The author has asked that no hard copies, ie. paper
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copies, are made.
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Stan Rosenthal may be contacted at 44 High street, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire,
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Dyfed, Wales, UK. Bill Fear may be contacted at 29 Blackweir Terrace, Cathays,
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Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, UK. Tel (0222) 228858 email fear@thor.cf.ac.uk.
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Please use email as first method of contact, if possible. Messages can be sent
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to Stan Rosenthal via the above email address - they will be forwarded on in
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person by myself - B.F.
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GLOSSARY
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A
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Ai-nuke (mutual escape)
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Ai-uchi (mutual striking down)
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Akago no kokoro (mind of an infant; child's mind)
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Amado ("rain door")
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Angya (travelling on foot: a Buddhist pilgrimage)
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Antan (assignment of living space)
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Arayashiki (all conserving consciousness)
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Baito (tea made with plum seed and sugar served as the ceremony for the
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beginning of each day)
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Banka (evening services)
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Banka soji (evening cleaning)
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Bhutakoti (limit of reality)
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Bodhi (enlightenment)
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Bodhidharma (also P'u-t'i Ta-mo or Ta-mo or Daruma; the twenty-eighth Buddhist
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patriarch, founder of Zen)
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Bosatsu (Bodhisattva or p'u-sa; a great enlightened one)
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Buddha (also, Butsudo or hondo; Guatarma Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism)
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Bukkwa (becoming and being; see Wu-hua)
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Bushi (a knight or military scholar)
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Bushido ("the way or code of the military or martial scholar")
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Busshin-gyo (Buddha-mind act)
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Butsuden (temple building enshrining an image or images of the Buddha)
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C
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Ch'a-ch'a/sassatsu (lively and self assured)
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Chado (the way of tea; the ritual of the tea ceremony)
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Ch'an (Zen)
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Ch'ang (forever)
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Ch'ang-tao ("always-so-ness")
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Cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony)
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Chen/tei (perseverance)
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Cheng (the state of things as they are)
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Ch'eng/makoto (sincerity)
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Ch'eng-ch'eng/jojo (droop and drift)
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Chen-jen (true man)
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Chih/jaku/chi (wisdom, tranquility)
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Ch'i/ki (spirit, abstract form of energy originating in the Tan Tien or Hara)
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Chih-jen : see Shijin
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Chih-mo : see Shih-mo (suchness)
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Choka (Morning services)
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Chu-chang/shujo (staff)
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Ch'un ch'i (pure spirit)
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Chung Yung : see Chuyo (doctrine of the Mean)
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Chuyo/Chung Yung (doctrine of the Mean)
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D
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Daido mumon (from the preface to the Mumonkan, a Zen text by Hui- k'ai
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(1183-1260), a monk of the later Sung dynasty. Discourses on the text,
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comprising forty-eight cases are frequently held in Zen monasteries.
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Daienkyochi (mirror wisdom)
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Daigaku/Ta Hsueh (great learning)
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Dai-hannya (ceremony of reading the sutra titles)
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Daikon-hatsu (collecting white radishes for pickling)
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Daiyu/Ta-yung or Myoyu/Miao-yung (an aesthetic quality perceivable in a work of
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art or in nature itself. The sword in the hand of a swordsman, or any
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activity carried out with something more than technique)
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Daruma (Japanese name for Bodhidharma)
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Daruma-ki (memorial day for the Bodhidharma, 5th October)
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Dentoroku/Ch'uan-teng Lu ("transmission of the lamp")
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Deshi (a disciple or pupil of a Shisho [spiritual master or teacher])
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Doka (poetry of the Tao)
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Dokusan (individual consultation with a Zen master; a form of sanzen)
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Donai (that part of a monastery other than its administrative quarters)
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Donai fugin (chanting scriptures in the meditation hall)
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ekagrata (one-pointedness)
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Enju (growing vegetables)
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Enjudo (life prolonging room; the healing room of a monastery)
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Fen/bun (mutuality)
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Fudo-shin (immovable mind)
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Fuga (refinement of life)
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Fugin (chanting scriptures)
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Funi (nonduality)
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Furyu (feeling for nature)
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Fushiki or Fuchi/Pu-shih (beyond knowledge)
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Fusu (monk in charge of the accounts and business affairs of a monastery)
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Fuzui (a monk assigned as attendant to the head monk)
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Gaki (hungry spirits)
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Gyodo (ceremony of chanting scriptures whilst moving)
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Haiku (form of poetry having three lines; five syllables in the first line,
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seven in the second, five in the third)
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Hakama (a divided skirt worn as 'over-trousers')
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Haka naki (transient vain)
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Handaikan (waiting on the table of the dining room)
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Hange (mid-term or half term day)
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Hansai (special meal)
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Haori (upper or outer coat)
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Happo biraki (open on all sides)
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Hashin kyuji (rest, mending and preparation; taking up the needle and moxa
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treatment)
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Heijo-shin (everyday mind) Higan-hatsu ("Equinox bowl"; equinox begging)
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Hin/P'in (poverty)
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Hinsetsu (receiving visitors at the head temple)
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Hoben (skillful means)
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Hokku (dharma drum)
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Hoko (escapade at night)
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Hondo ('main hall'; alternative name for the Butsuden or Buddha Hall)
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Honrai no memmoku/Pen-lai mien-mu (original face)
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Honshin (original mind)
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Hoshin/Fang-hsin (runaway mind)
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Ho....u (chanting, used by monks whilst walking in the street, begging. "The
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rain of Dharma")
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Hsi-hsi/Kiki (wreathed in smiles)
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Hu-jan nien ch'i/Kotsunen nenki (sudden awakening of thought)
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i/gi (justice)
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ichinen/i-nien (one thought)
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iho/ihori (hut)
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Inji [sanno] (attendant to the master)
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Inji gyo (secret good deeds)
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innen (anecdote or incident)
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isagi-yoku (leaving no regrets; with a clear conscience; like a brave man; with
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no reluctance)
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jaku (tranquility)
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jaku metsu (absolute tranquility; absolute nothingness; complete annihilation
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of the ego)
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jen-jin (love)
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ji/shih (the particular, as distinct from the universal ri/li)
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Jihatsu (the bowl used by a monk for meals and begging)
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Jikijitsu (the elder monk who supervises the others during meditatin, worship,
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etc.)
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jisei ('parting-with-life verse')
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jiyu/tzu-yu (self-reliance)
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jizai/tzu-tsai (self being)
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jodo/ch'ang-tao ("always-so-ness")
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Joju (the administrative quarters of a monastery; such as offices, kitchen,
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etc.)
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Joju fugin (chanting scriptures in the administrative quarters)
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Josaku (a day or period of relaxation from monastery routine)
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juan ho ho ti (softness)
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K
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Kaichin ("Release from the samadhi meditation"; retiring at night)
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Kaihan ("opening the han"; the thrice-daily announcement of time)
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Kaijo ("opening the samadhi meditation"; arising in the morning)
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Kaiko (an opening discourse by the master)
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Kaisan-ki (memorial day for the founder of the monastery)
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Kaisei (end of training term)
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Kaiyoku ("opening the bath"; bathing)
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kake mono (scroll) kami nagara no michi (to leave things to the will of the
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gods; non interference with natural affairs)
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kan-mi (the 'taste' of sabi)
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Kansho (a summon from the master)
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kara (a small kesa)
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karma (
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karuna/hi/pei (love for sentient beings)
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Kashaku ("hanging up the priest's staff")
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Katan (participation in a large general Zen meeting)
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kaya (bodily existence)
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Kayu (soft cooked rice)
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Keisaku (the staff or stick used to administer discipline during meditation)
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kendo (the art of swordsmanship)
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Kensho ("seeing one's nature"; another term for satori)
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Kentan ("inspecting the platform"; the master's visit to the meditation hall)
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kesa/kasaya (a garment worn by a Zen monk around the neck, covering the chest)
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ki (see ch'i)
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Kiin (returning to the monastery)
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ki-in/ch'i-yun (spiritual rhythm)
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Kikan (the master's address of encouragement)
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Kiku (rules for daily routine)
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Kinhin ("sutra-going"; the practice of meditation while walking in the
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meditation hall)
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Kitan ryshaku (end of term examination)
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klesa/bonno (affect)
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ko/heng (success)
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koan (
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Koe (seasonal change of robes)
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Koju-sai (reception day for lay followers)
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kokoro/hsin (the mind or heart)
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kokoro tomeru
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kokoro tomuna (not to have the mind 'stopped')
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kokoro wo tomeru (drifting or shifting from one thing to another; the attention
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being taken by an object, transferred to it and staying there)
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Kokuho (informal encouragement)
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kono-mama (suchness)
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Konsho (striking the evening bell)
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Kotai (exchange or rotation of duties)
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ksanti (meakness of spirit)
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ku/k'ung (emptiness)
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kufu (a device, or means, usually used for aiding satori)
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kufu/kung-fu (escape from dilemma)
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kyo/hsu (the emptiness in which infinite possibilities exist)
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kyogai/ching-chieh/ching-ai (the field of conscious thought)
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Kyoo (a treat or special meal)
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Kyusoku (day of rest)
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Li/rei (propriety)
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Li/ri (furthering)
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Li/ri (reason)
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Liao-hsi/ryotari (blown adrift
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Manjusri [name] (Monju Bosatsu)
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meijin (genius)
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misai no ichinen (subtle trace of thought)
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Miso (bean paste)
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Mogusa (the plant 'yomogi' used in moxabustion)
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mondo/wen-ta (questions and answers; discussion)
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Monju Bosatsu [name] (Manjusri)
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moshin (delusive mind)
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mu/wu (nothing, negation)
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muga (no ego)
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mujushin-ken (sword of no abiding mind)
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Mumonkan (a collection of forty-eight koan compiled in China in the thirteenth
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century)
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Mumyo (abiding state of ignorance)
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mushin (no-mind-ness)
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mushin no shin (no mind's mind)
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Musho-bonin (recognising the reality which is not subject to birth and death;
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supreme enlightenment)
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muso (no thought)
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myo/miao (wonder)
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myoyu/miao-yung (something mysterious arising from the inner being, without
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intellect)
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naniyara yukashi (moved, without knowing why, by something aesthetic)
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Nikki (diary or journal)
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Nisshitsu (entering the master's room)
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Nitten soji (daily cleaning)
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Niwa-zume ("occupying the courtyard")
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Niya sannichi (two nights and three days)
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nyunan-shin (soft heartedness)
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Obon (a mid-August festival celebrating the return of ancestral spirits)
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omou (to think of or long for)
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omowanu (to keep the mind empty)
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O-shikunichi (twice monthly day of rest; the fourteenth day and the last day
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of the month)
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osho (master)
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Rohatsu ("the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month" a week of training
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beginning on the 1st December and finishing on the 8th December,
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commemorating the Buddha's enlightenment day on the latter of these
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dates) Roshi (Old scholar or old teacher; a Zen master)
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Saba (left over rice)
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Sabi (loneliness)
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Saiza (lunch)
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Samu (working in the garden)
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Sando (proceeding to the hall)
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Sanno (attendant; attending to the master)
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Sanzen (going to a Zen master to receive instruction, usually by the use of a
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koan)
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Sarei (daily tea ceremony)
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Satori/Wu (enlightenment)
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Segaki (feeding the hungry spirits [gaki])
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Sembutsu-jo (the 'Buddha-selecting place', another name for the Zendo or
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meditation hall)
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Sesshin (a twice yearly week of intensive meditation and special lectures)
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'gathering one's thoughts?'
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Shijo (meditation in complete quietness) 'gathering one's thoughts?'
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Shika (the head monk or chief administrator of a Zen monastery)
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Shikaryo (the quarters of the head monk or administrator)
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Shikunichi (days in the month containing the digits four or nine)
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Shisho (a teacher or master of scholarship, religion or art; the spiritual
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father of a student or disciple)
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Shitaku (preparation)
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Shogatsu shitaku (preparations for the new year)
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Shokei (a brief rest whilst out begging)
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Shoken ("mutual seeing"; the first interview between a novice and master)
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shugendo (an eclectic religion consisting of Buddhism, Shinto, Taoism and
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shamanism, its priests known as yamabushi [priests who lie down in the
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mountains])
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Shujo : see Chu-chang (staff)
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Shukushin (going to service at the Buddha hall of the head temple on the first
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and fifteenth day of each month)
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Shukuza (breakfast)
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Shumai ("gathering rice")
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Shussai (serving special Zen dishes to lay followers)
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Shutto (to put in an appearance [usually at a ceremony])
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Shuya (fire watching)
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Sodo ("priest or monk hall"; a Zen monastery)
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Soji (house cleaning)
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Sosan (general consultation with a Zen master; a form of sanzen)
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Sozarei ("general tea ceremony")
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Ta Hsueh : see Daigaku (great learning)
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Takuhatsu ("carrying the bowl"; the practice of begging carried out by monks)
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Tan ("platform"; seat)
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Tana-gyo (honouring family ancestors)
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Tanga (staying overnight as a guest)
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Tanga-ryo (a room set aside for overnight lodging, used by pilgrims or novices
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who desire to enter the monastery)
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Tanga-zume ("occupying the overnight room")
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Teihatsu (shaving the head)
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Teisho (discourse or commentary by a Zen master)
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Tenjin (visiting a lay follower's home)
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Tenzo (kitchen)
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Toya (a party on the night of the winter solstice)
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Tsukemono (pickled Japanese vegetables)
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Wabi (solitariness; transcendentiality)
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wu (see mu) (nothing, negation)
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wu chi (limitless)
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Wu-hua (becoming, being)
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Wu-ming (abiding state of ignorance)
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yamabushi (priests who lie down in the mountains) (see shugendo)
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Yawaragai (gentleness of spirit)
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Yaza (individual seated meditation by night)
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Zanka (returning to one's home temple, monastery or school)
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Zazen (seated meditation)
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Zendo ("meditation hall"; building in which monks live and practice zazen; zen
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monastery or school)
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Zen-shu (a Buddhist Zen sect)
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Zuii-za ("sitting as one pleases"; release from daily routine)
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