Terms and Names in Japanese

Romanized Japanese terms and names are arranged in alphabetical order and followed by Chinese characters or Japanese syllabary in parentheses. Following next are the corresponding dictionary entries. For example, the Japanese name Aiku-ō is followed by the Chinese characters for the name, and then by Ashoka, which is the corresponding entry. But in cases where there are no corresponding entries, the equivalents of the Japanese terms or names are given and the entries under which you can find their definitions are shown in parentheses. For example, the Japanese term bosatsu-jō is followed by its English equivalent bodhisattva vehicle and (See three vehicles). In this case, you would look for the entry three vehicles where you would find bodhisattva vehicle in the body of the definition.

Ababa-jigoku （阿婆婆地獄）: Ababa hell (See eight cold hells)

abadana （阿波陀那）: avadāna

abibatchi （阿毘跋致）: avaivartika; stage of non-regression

Abi-daijō （阿鼻大城）: great citadel of the Avīchi hell

abidatsuma （阿毘達磨）: abhidharma

Abidatsuma-daibibasha-ron （阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論）: Great Commentary on the Abhidharma, The

Abidatsuma-hotchi-ron （阿毘達磨発智論）: Treatise on the Source of Wisdom, The

Abidatsuma-junshōri-ron （阿毘達磨順正理論）: Treatise on Accordance with the Correct Doctrine, The

Abidatsuma-kusha-ron （阿毘達磨倶舎論）: Dharma Analysis Treasury, The

Abidon-shin-ron （阿毘曇心論）: Heart of the Abhidharma, The

Abi-jigoku （阿鼻地獄）: Avīchi hell

Abutsu-bō （阿仏房）

adaimokutaka （阿提目多伽）: atimuktaka

adana-shiki （阿陀那識）: ādāna-consciousness

Agidatta （阿耆達多）: Agnidatta

Agita （阿耆多）: Agnidatta

Agita-shishakimbara （阿耆多翅舎欽婆羅）: Ajita Kesakambala

Agitatsu （阿耆達）: Agnidatta

Agon （阿含）: Āgama

Agon-gyō （阿含経）: Āgama sutras

Agon-ji （阿含時）: Āgama period

Ahaha-jigoku （阿波波地獄）: Hahava hell (See eight cold hells)

Ahandai-koku （阿槃提国）: Avanti

ahinsā （アヒンサー）: ahimsā

Ahiradai （阿比羅提）: Abhirati

aibetsuri-ku （愛別離苦）: suffering of having to part from those whom one loves (See eight sufferings)

Aiku-ō （阿育王）: Ashoka

Aikuō-den （阿育王伝）: The Story of King Ashoka (See Virtue Victorious)

Aitta （阿逸多）: Ajita

Aizen-myō’ō （愛染明王）: Craving-Filled

ajari （阿闍梨）: āchārya

Ajase-ō （阿闍世王）: Ajātashatru

Ājībika-ha （アージービカ派）: Ājīvika school

Ajitabattei-ga （阿恃多伐底河）: Ajitavatī

akada （阿伽陀）: agada

Akada-sen （阿竭多仙）: Agastya

Akanita-ten （阿迦尼吒天）: Akanishtha Heaven

Akimoto Tarō Hyōe-no-jō （秋元太郎兵衛尉）

akki （悪鬼）: demon

aku-chishiki （悪知識）: evil friend

akudō （悪道）: evil path

akugō （悪業）: evil deed (See three evil paths)

akunin-jōbutsu （悪人成仏）: attainment of Buddhahood by evil persons

akushu （悪趣）: evil path

ama （尼・尼御前）: lay nun

amara-shiki （阿摩羅識）: amala-consciousness

Amaterasu Ōmikami （天照大神）: Sun Goddess

Ambara-nyo （菴婆羅女）: Ambapālī

Ambuda-jigoku （頞部陀地獄）: Arbuda hell (See eight cold hells)

Amida （阿弥陀）

Amida-kyō （阿弥陀経）: Amida Sutra

Ammora-on （菴没羅園）: Ambapālī Garden

Ammyō （安明）: Calm and Bright

anagon （阿那含）: non-returner

anagon-ka （阿那含果）: stage of the non-returner (See four stages of Hinayana enlightenment)

Anan （阿難）: Ānanda

Anaritsu （阿那律）: Aniruddha

andae （安陀会）: antarvāsa (See three robes)

Angen （安玄）: An Hsüan (See Parthia)

ango （安居）: three-month retreat

An-hōkin （安法欽）: An Fa-ch’in

An’ne （安慧）

An’ne （安慧）: Sthiramati

Annen （安然）

Anokuchi （阿耨池）: Anavatapta Lake

Anokudatsu-ryūō （阿耨達竜王）: Anavatapta

anokutara （阿耨多羅）: anuttara

anokutara-sammyaku-sambodai （阿耨多羅三藐三菩提）: anuttara-samyak-sambodhi

Anraku （安楽）

Anraku-gyō-hon （安楽行品）: “Peaceful Practices” chapter

Anraku-sekai （安楽世界）: Peace and Delight

Anraku-shū （安楽集）: Collected Essays on the World of Peace and Delight, The

Anra-on （菴羅園）: Ambapālī Garden

Anryūgyō-bosatsu （安立行菩薩）: Firmly Established Practices

An-seikō （安世高）: An Shih-kao

Ansoku-koku （安息国）: Parthia

Anya-kyōjinnyo （阿若憍陳如）: Ājnāta Kaundinya

An’yō-koku （安養国）: Peace and Sustenance

arakan （阿羅漢）: arhat

arakan-ka （阿羅漢果）: stage of arhat (See four stages of Hinayana enlightenment)

arannya （阿蘭若）: aranya

Arara-jigoku （阿羅羅地獄）: Alalā hell (See eight cold hells)

Arara-karan （阿羅邏迦藍）: Ālāra Kālāma

araya-shiki （阿頼耶識）: ālaya-consciousness

arennya （阿練若）: aranya

Arida （阿利吒）

ari-ju （阿梨樹）: arjaka

Asetsuji （阿説示）: Ashvajit

Asetta-jigoku （頞唽吒地獄）: Atata hell (See eight cold hells)

ashama （阿娑摩）: Unequalled One

ashamashama （阿娑摩娑摩）: Equal with the Unequalled One (See Unequalled One)

Ashida （阿私陀）: Asita (2)

Ashippa-koku （阿湿波国）: Ashvaka (See sixteen great states)

Ashi-sennin （阿私仙人）: Asita (1)

ashuka-ju （阿輸迦樹）: ashoka tree

Ashuku-bukkoku-kyō （阿閦仏国経）: Land of Akshobhya Buddha Sutra (See Akshobhya)

Ashuku-butsu （阿閦仏）: Akshobhya

ashura （阿修羅）: asura

asōgi （阿僧祇）: asamkhya

Asuka-dera （飛鳥寺）

Atata-jigoku （阿吒吒地獄）: Atata hell (See eight cold hells)

Atīsha （アティーシャ）: Atīsha (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Atsuhara-no-hōnan （熱原の法難）: Atsuhara Persecution

Atsuhara-no-sanresshi （熱原の三烈士）: three martyrs of Atsuhara

Awa-no-kuni （安房国）: Awa Province

Ayuja （阿踰闍）: Ayodhyā

Bachiashura-ō （婆稚阿修羅王）: Balin

Baddabara （跋陀婆羅）: Bhadrapāla

Baggi （跋祇）: Vriji

baitara （貝多羅）: pattra

baiyō-kyō （貝葉経）: palm-leaf scripture (See pattra)

Bakkō-kutsu （莫高窟）: Mo-kao Caves

bakku-yoraku （抜苦与楽）: removing suffering and giving joy

Bakushu-ga （縛趨河）: Vakshu River (See four rivers)

banjaku-gō （磐石劫）: rock kalpa

Banramitai （般刺蜜帝）: Pan-la-mi-ti (See Shūramgama Sutra)

baramon （婆羅門）: Brahman

Basa-koku （婆蹉国）: Matsya (See sixteen great states)

Bashaha （婆沙波）: Vāshpa (See five ascetics)

Bassa （跋蹉）: Vatsa

Basubanzu-hosshi-den （婆藪槃豆法師伝）: The Biography of the Dharma Teacher Vasubandhu (See Asanga)

Batsudai （跋提）: Bhadrika

Batsudaimata （筏提摩多）: Fa-t’i-mo-to (See Commentary on the Mahayana Treatise, The)

Batsudairika （跋提梨迦）: Bhadrika

Batsunanda （跋難陀）: See Universal Practice

Batsunanda-ryūō （跋難陀竜王）: Upananda (See eight great dragon kings)

bekkyō （別教）: specific teaching

bekkyō-ichijō （別教一乗）: one vehicle of the distinct doctrine (See five teachings and ten doctrines)

Benchō （弁長）

Ben-kemmitsu-nikyō-ron （弁顕密二教論）: Comparison of Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism, A

Bennen （弁円）

bentai （弁体）: “Clarification of the Essence” section (See five major principles)

Benzai-ten （弁才天）: Eloquence

bessō-nenjo （別相念処）: specific meditation (See four meditations)

betsu-fuzoku （別付嘱）: specific transfer

bibasha （毘婆沙）: vibhāshā

Bibashi-butsu （毘婆尸仏）: Vipashyin (See seven Buddhas of the past)

bidara （毘陀羅）: vetāda

Bidon-shū （毘曇宗）: Abhidharma school

biku （比丘）: bhikshu

bikuni （比丘尼）: bhikshunī

Bikuramashirā-ji （ヴィクラマシラー寺）: Vikramashilā Monastery

Bimbashara-ō （頻婆娑羅王）: Bimbisāra

Bingara （賓伽羅）: Pingala

binnin-keiju-no-tatoe （貧人繋珠の譬）: parable of the jewel sewn in the poor man’s robe (See parable of the jewel in the robe)

Binzuru （賓頭盧）: Pindolabhāradvāja

Bira-sonja （毘羅尊者）: Kapimala

biriya （毘梨耶）: vīrya

biriya-haramitsu （毘梨耶波羅密）: pāramitā of assiduousness (See six pāramitās)

Birushana-butsu （毘盧遮那仏）: Vairochana

Bishabu-butsu （毘舎浮仏）: Vishvabhū (See seven Buddhas of the past)

bishaja （毘舎闍）: pishācha

Bishamon-ten （毘沙門天）: Vaishravana

Bishari （毘舎離）: Vaishālī

Bishukatsuma-ten （毘首羯磨天）: Vishvakarman

bodai （菩提）: bodhi

Bodaidaruma （菩提達磨）: Bodhidharma

bodai-ju （菩提樹）: bodhi tree

Bodairushi （菩提流支）: Bodhiruchi (1)

Bodairushi （菩提流志）: Bodhiruchi (2)

bodai-shin （菩提心）: aspiration for enlightenment

Bodaishin-ron （菩提心論）: Treatise on the Mind Aspiring for Enlightenment, The

Bodai-shiryō-ron （菩提資糧論）: Treatise on the Discipline for Attaining Enlightenment, The

bōhi-shiaku （防非止悪）: preventing error and putting an end to evil

Bommō-kyō （梵網経）: Brahmā Net Sutra

bompu （凡夫）: ordinary person

bompu-i （凡夫位）: stage of ordinary people (See four good roots)

bompu-soku-goku （凡夫即極）: attaining Buddhahood as a common mortal (See attainment of Buddhahood)

bongyō （梵行）: brahma practice

Bonho-ten （梵輔天）: Heaven of Brahmā’s Aide (See Brahma Heaven)

bonnō （煩悩）: earthly desires

bonnō-joku （煩悩濁）: impurity of desire (See five impurities)

bonnō-ma （煩悩魔）: devil of earthly desires; hindrance of earthly desires (See four devils; three obstacles and four devils)

bonnō-muhen-seigandan （煩悩無辺誓願断）: vow to eradicate countless earthly desires (See four universal vows)

bonnonjō （梵音声）: pure and far-reaching voice

bonnō-shō （煩悩障）: obstacle of earthly desires (See three obstacles and four devils)

bonnō-soku-bodai （煩悩即菩提）: earthly desires are enlightenment

bonshō-dōgo-do （凡聖同居土）: Land of Sages and Common Mortals

Bonshu-ten （梵衆天）: Heaven of Brahmā’s Retinue (See Brahma Heaven)

Bonsō-butsu （梵相仏）: Brahmā Appearance (See sixteen princes)

Bonten （梵天）: Brahmā

Bon-ten （梵天）: Brahma Heaven

bosatsu （菩薩）: bodhisattva

bosatsu-dō （菩薩道）: bodhisattva way (See sowing, maturing, and harvesting)

bosatsu-gyō （菩薩行）: bodhisattva practice (See Mahayana Buddhism)

Bosatsu-honjō-manron （菩薩本生鬘論）: The Garland of Birth Stories (See Shibi)

bosatsu-jō （菩薩乗）: bodhisattva vehicle (See three vehicles)

bosatsu-jōshō （菩薩定性）: those predestined to be bodhisattvas (See five natures)

bosatsu-kai （菩薩戒）: bodhisattva precepts (See Bodhisattva Practice Jeweled Necklace Sutra)

bosatsu-kai （菩薩界）: world of bodhisattvas

Bosatsu-kai-kyō （菩薩戒経）: Bodhisattva Precepts Sutra (See Brahmā Net Sutra)

bosatsu-makasatsu （菩薩摩訶薩）: bodhisattva-mahāsattva

Bosatsu-yōraku-hongō-kyō （菩薩瓔珞本業経）: Bodhisattva Practice Jeweled Necklace Sutra

bosatsu-yu （菩薩喩）: simile of bodhisattvas (See ten similes)

Buddabaddara （仏陀跋陀羅）: Buddhabhadra

Buddagaya （仏陀伽耶）: Buddhagayā

Buddajū （仏陀什）: Buddhajīva

Buddamitta （仏陀密多）: Buddhamitra

Buddanandai （仏陀難提）: Buddhananda

Buddasenta （仏陀扇多）: Buddhashānta

Buddayasha （仏陀耶舎）: Buddhayashas

bukkai （仏界）: Buddhahood; world of Buddhahood

bukkai-shogu-no-kukai （仏界所具の九界）: inclusion of the nine worlds in Buddhahood

bukkai-soku-kukai （仏界即九界）: inclusion of the nine worlds in Buddhahood

bukkoku-do （仏国土）: Buddha land

Bukkoku-ki （仏国記）: Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms, The

bundan-shōji （分段生死）: transmigration with differences and limitations

bunshin-soku （分真即）: stage of progressive awakening

buppōsō （仏法僧）: the Buddha, the Law, and the Buddhist Order (See three treasures)

busshari （仏舎利）: Buddha’s relics

busshi （仏子）: children of the Buddha

busshō （仏性）: Buddha nature

Busshogyō-san （仏所行讃）: Praising the Buddha’s Deeds

Busshō-ron （仏性論）: Treatise on the Buddha Nature, The

busshu （仏種）: seed of Buddhahood

bussoku-seki （仏足石）: stone footprints of the Buddha

Busso-tōki （仏祖統紀）: Record of the Lineage of the Buddha and the Patriarchs, The

butchi （仏智）: Buddha wisdom

butsu （仏）: Buddha

butsudō-mujō-seiganjō （仏道無上誓願成）: vow to attain supreme enlightenment (See four universal vows)

butsu-gen （仏眼）: Buddha eye

Butsugen （仏眼）: Buddha Eye

Butsugen-butsumo （仏眼仏母）: Buddha Eye Buddha Mother (See Buddha Eye)

Butsugen-hō （仏眼法）: ceremony of Buddha Eye (See Buddha Eye)

Butsugen-son （仏眼尊）: Honored One Buddha Eye (See Buddha Eye)

Butsugo （仏護）: Buddhapālita

Butsugū-ji （仏宮寺）: Fo-kung-ssu temple (See pagoda)

Butsu-hongyō-jikkyō （仏本行集経）: Sutra of the Collected Stories of the Buddha’s Deeds in Past Lives

butsujō （仏乗）: Buddha vehicle

Butsumo （仏母）: Buddha Mother

butsumyō-e （仏名会）: ceremony of reciting the Buddhas’ names

Butsumyō-kyō （仏名経）: Buddhas’ Names Sutra

butsu-riki （仏力）: power of the Buddha (See four powers [1] )

Butsurō-ji （仏隴寺）: Fo-lung-ssu

Butsuryū-shū （仏立宗）: Buddha-Founded school (See Nichiren school)

butsu-yu （仏喩）: simile of the Buddha (See ten similes)

Butsu-yuikyō-gyō （仏遺教経）: Buddha’s Legacy Teachings Sutra

Butsuzō-kyō （仏蔵経）: Buddha Treasury Sutra

Buttochō （仏図澄）: Fo-t’u-teng

Button （仏音）: Buddhaghosa

buttō-sūhai （仏塔崇拝）: stupa worship (See stupa)

Byakubonnō （白飯王）: Shuklodana

byakue （白衣）: white-robed laymen

byakugō-sō （白毫相）: tuft of white hair

byakuhō （白法）: pure Law

byakuhō-ommotsu （白法隠没）: The pure Law will become obscured and lost. (See five five-hundred-year periods)

byakurenge （白蓮華）: white lotus flower (See renge)

Byakuren-sha （白蓮社）: Pai-lien-she

byakushibutsu （辟支仏）: pratyekabuddha

byōdō-daie （平等大慧）: great wisdom of equality

Byōdō-ō （平等王）: King Impartial Judge (See ten kings)

byōdō-shō-chi （平等性智）: non-discriminating wisdom (See five kinds of wisdom)

Charaka （チャラカ）: Charaka (See Kanishka)

chi （癡）: foolishness; moha

Chibetto-bukkyō （チベット仏教）: Tibetan Buddhism

Chido （智度）: Chih-tu

chie-daiichi （智慧第一）: foremost in wisdom (See Shāriputra)

chie-haramitsu （智慧波羅蜜）: pāramitā of the obtaining of wisdom (See six pāramitās)

Chien （智円）: Chih-yüan (See Outside-the-Mountain School)

Chigi （智顗）: Chih-i

Chigon （智厳）: Chih-yen (1)

Chigon （智儼）: Chih-yen (2)

chi-haramitsu （智波羅蜜）: pāramitā of knowledge (See ten pāramitās)

Chihō （智鳳）

Chii （智威）: Chih-wei

Chijaku （智寂）: Chih-chi (See One Hundred Records of the Great Teacher T’ien-t’ai, The)

chiken-in （智拳印）: wisdom mudra

Chikō （智光）: Jnānaprabha

Chikugo-bō （筑後房）: See Nichirō

Chikujō-gedō （竹杖外道）: Bamboo Staff school

Chikurin-shōja （竹林精舎）: Bamboo Grove Monastery

chikushō-kai （畜生界）: world of animals

chimpō-se （珍宝施）: offerings of rare treasures (See three kinds of offerings)

chi-myō （智妙）: mystic principle of wisdom (See ten mystic principles)

Chinshin （陳鍼）: Ch’en Chen

Chirei （知礼）: Chih-li

Chisha （智者）: Chih-che

Chisha-daishi （智者大師）: Great Teacher Chih-che (See T’ien-t’ai)

Chishaku （智積）: Wisdom Accumulated

chishiki （知識）: mitra

Chishō （智証）

Chishō （智昇）: Chih-sheng (See K’ai-yüan Era Catalog of the Buddhist Canon, The)

Chishū （智周）: Chih-chou

Chisoku-ten （知足天）: Heaven of Satisfaction (See Tushita Heaven)

chisui （智水）: water of wisdom

Chitatsu （智達）

Chitsū （智通）

Chizō （智蔵）

Chizō （智蔵）: Chih-tsang

Chō-bu （長部）: Dīgha-nikāya

Chōgen （重源）

chō-hō （頂法）: peak stage

chōja-gūji-no-tatoe （長者窮子の譬）: parable of the wealthy man and his poor son

chōju-ten （長寿天）: heaven of long life (See eight difficulties)

Chōka （張果）: Chang-kuo (See Ch’en Chen)

Chōkan （澄観）: Ch’eng-kuan

Chōken （張騫）: Chang Ch’ien (See Yüeh-chih)

Chō-kishin （趙帰真）: Chao Kuei-chen (See Hui-ch’ang Persecution)

Chōnen （奝然）

Chōsai （長西）

Chōshō-ō （頂生王）: Born from the Crown of the Head

chū （中）: madhya (2)

Chū-agon-gyō （中阿含経）: Medium-Length Āgama Sutra

Chū-bu （中部）: Majjhima-nikāya

chūdai-hachiyō-in （中台八葉院）: central court of the eight-petaled lotus (See Womb Realm mandala)

chūdō （中道）: Middle Way

Chūgan-ha （中観派）: Mādhyamika school

Chūgan-ron-sho （中観論疏）: Annotations on “The Treatise on the Middle Way,” The

Chūgan-shin-ron （中観心論）: The Heart of the Middle Way (See Bhāvaviveka)

Chūgoku-jūsan-shū （中国十三宗）: thirteen schools of China

Chūju （中頌）: Verses on the Middle Way

chū-kō （中劫）: medium kalpa

chū-kon （中根）: intermediate capacity (See three groups of voice-hearers)

Chū-ron （中論）: Treatise on the Middle Way, The

Chūron-ju （中論頌）: Verses on the Middle Way

chūsen-sekai （中千世界）: intermediate world system (See major world system)

chū-tai （中諦）: truth of the Middle Way (See three truths)

Chūzan （仲算）

Daian-ji （大安寺）

Daiba （提婆）: Āryadeva

Daiba-bosatsu-den （提婆菩薩伝）: The Biography of Bodhisattva Āryadeva (See Āryadeva)

Daibadatta （提婆達多）: Devadatta

Daibadatta-hon （提婆達多品）: “Devadatta” chapter

Daibibasha-ron （大毘婆沙論）: Great Commentary on the Abhidharma, The

Dai-bō （大坊）: Grand Lodging (See Nikkō)

Daibodai-ji （大菩提寺）: Mahābodhi temple (See Buddhagayā)

Daibon-hannya-kyō （大品般若経）: Larger Wisdom Sutra

Daibonnō-yu （大梵王喩）: simile of the great heavenly king Brahmā (See ten similes)

Daibon-ten （大梵天）: Heaven of Great Brahmā

Daibon-ten （大梵天）: Mahābrahmā

Daibontennō-mombutsu-ketsugi-kyō （大梵天王問仏決疑経）: Sutra of the Buddha Answering the Great Heavenly King Brahmā’s Questions

Daibutchō-shuryōgon-kyō （大仏頂首楞厳経）: Great Crown of the Buddha’s Head Shūramgama Meditation Sutra (See Shūramgama Sutra [2] )

daibyaku-gosha （大白牛車）: great white ox cart

daibyakuhō （大白法）: great pure Law

Daichido-ron （大智度論）: Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom, The

daichi-mijin （大地微塵）: dust particles of the land

daie （大衣）: great robe (See three robes)

daienkyō-chi （大円鏡智）: great round mirror wisdom (See five kinds of wisdom)

dai-fukuden （大福田）: great field of good fortune (See field of good fortune)

Daigaku Saburō （大学三郎）

Dai-gesshi （大月氏）: Great Yüeh-chih

daigo-mi （醍醐味）: ghee

Daiguren-jigoku （大紅蓮地獄）: hell of the great crimson lotus (See hell of the crimson lotus )

Daigyōsetsu-bosatsu （大楽説菩薩）: Great Joy of Preaching (See “Emergence of the Treasure Tower” chapter)

Daihannya-haramitta-kyō （大般若波羅蜜多経）: Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra (3)

Daihannya-kyō （大般若経）: Great Wisdom Sutra

Daihatsu-naion-gyō （大般泥洹経）: Mahāparinirvāna Sutra (2)

Daihatsu-nehan-gyō （大般涅槃経）: Mahāparinirvāna Sutra (1) (3)

Daihatsu-nehangyō-gobun （大般涅槃経後分）: Epilogue to the Mahāparinirvāna Sutra, The (See Nirvana Sutra)

Daihi-kyō （大悲経）: Great Compassion Sutra

Daihō-bō （大宝坊）: Great Treasure Chamber

Daihōkō-butsu-kegon-gyō （大方広仏華厳経）: Great and Vast Buddha Flower Garland Sutra (See Flower Garland Sutra)

Daihōshaku-kyō （大宝積経）: Accumulated Great Treasures Sutra

daiichigi-shitsudan （第一義悉檀）: to reveal the ultimate truth directly (See four ways of preaching)

Daiitoku-myō’ō （大威徳明王）: Great Awesome Virtue

Daiji （大事）: Mahāvastu

Daiji-ha （大寺脈）: Mahāvihāra school (See Southern Buddhism)

daijikidō （大直道）: great direct way (See countless kalpas of practice)

Daijikkyō （大集経）: Great Collection Sutra

Daijion-ji （大慈恩寺）: Ta-tz’u-en-ssu

Daijionji-sanzō-hosshi-den （大慈恩寺三蔵法師伝）: Biography of the Tripitaka Master of Ta-tz’u-en-ssu Temple, The

Daijizai-ten （大自在天）: God of Great Freedom (See Maheshvara)

daijō （大乗）: great vehicle

daijō-bosatsu-kai （大乗菩薩戒）: Mahayana bodhisattva precepts; precepts for Mahayana bodhisattvas (See Brahmā Net Sutra)

Daijō-bukkyō （大乗仏教）: Mahayana Buddhism

daijō-endon-kai （大乗円頓戒）: Mahayana precepts of perfect and immediate enlightenment (See Clarification of the Precepts, A)

daijō-hōdō-kyō （大乗方等経）: correct and equal sutras of the great vehicle (See correct and equal sutras)

Daijō-hō’on-girin-jō （大乗法苑義林章）: Forest of Meanings in the Mahayana Garden of the Law, The

daijō-kai （大乗戒）: Mahayana precepts (See Brahmā Net Sutra)

daijō-kaidan （大乗戒壇）: Mahayana ordination platform

Daijō-kishin-ron （大乗起信論）: Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, The

Daijō-shikan-hōmon （大乗止観法門）: Mahayana Method of Concentration and Insight, The

daijō-shikyō （大乗始教）: elementary Mahayana teaching (See five teachings and ten doctrines)

Daijō-shiron-gengi （大乗四論玄義）: Profound Meaning of the Four Mahayana Treatises, The

Daijō-shōgonkyō-ron （大乗荘厳経論）: Ornament of Mahayana Sutras, The

daijō-shūkyō （大乗終教）: final Mahayana teaching (See five teachings and ten doctrines)

dai-jūhachi-gan （第十八願）: eighteenth vow

Daikaku-seson （大覚世尊）: World-Honored One of Great Enlightenment

dai-kō （大劫）: major kalpa

Daikoku （大黒）

Daikōzen-ji （大興善寺）: Ta-hsing-shan-ssu

Daikyōkan-jigoku （大叫喚地獄）: hell of great wailing (See eight hot hells)

Daiman-baramon （大慢婆羅門）: Great Arrogant Brahman

Daimokkenren （大目犍連）: Mahāmaudgalyāyana

daimoku （題目）

Daimoku-nyorai （大目如来）: Large Eyes (See Akshobhya)

Dainembutsu-ji （大念仏寺）: See Interfusing Nembutsu school

Dainichi-kyō （大日経）: Mahāvairochana Sutra

Dainichikyō-gishaku （大日経義釈）: Commentary on the Meaning of the Mahāvairochana Sutra, The

Dainichikyō-sho （大日経疏）: Annotations on the Mahāvairochana Sutra, The

Dainichi Nōnin （大日能忍）

Dainichi-nyorai （大日如来）: Mahāvairochana

dai-no-sansai （大の三災）: three greater calamities (See three calamities)

Dai-ōtōshi （大王統史）: Mahāvamsa

Dairin-shōja （大林精舎）: Great Forest Monastery

dairoku-ten （第六天）: sixth heaven

dairokuten-no-maō （第六天の魔王）: devil king of the sixth heaven

daisan-no-hōmon （第三の法門）: third doctrine

dai-sensekai （大千世界）: major world system

Daise-taishi （大施太子）: Great Donor (See Earnest Donor)

daishi （大師）: great teacher

daishi （大士）: mahāsattva

Daishi （大史）: Mahāvamsa

Daishin-ajari （大進阿闍梨）: Daishin

Daishin-bō （大進房）

Daishōgon-bosatsu （大荘厳菩薩）: Great Adornment (2)

Daishōgon-butsu （大荘厳仏）: Great Adornment (1)

Daishōgon-rongyō （大荘厳論経）: Great Ornament of Tales, The

Daishōnetsu-jigoku （大焦熱地獄）: hell of great burning heat (See eight hot hells)

Daishonin （大聖人）

Daishu-bu （大衆部）: Mahāsamghika school

daisōjō （大僧正）: general administrator of priests (See Fa-yün)

Daiso-kaigo （大蘇開悟）: enlightenment on Mount Ta-su (See T’ien-t’ai)

Daiso-zan （大蘇山）: Mount Ta-su (See Nan-yüeh)

daisōzu （大僧都）: general supervisor of priests (See Dōshō)

Daitaka （提多迦）: Dhritaka

Daiten （大天）: Mahādeva

Daiten-no-goji （大天の五事）: five teachings of Mahādeva

Daitō-daijionji-sanzō-hosshi-den （大唐大慈恩寺三蔵法師伝）: The Biography of the Tripitaka Master of Ta-tz’u-en-ssu Temple of the Great T’ang Dynasty (See Biography of the Tripitaka Master of Ta-tz’u-en-ssu Temple, The)

Daitō-naiten-roku （大唐内典録）: Great T’ang Dynasty Catalog of Buddhist Scriptures, The

Daitō-saiiki-guhō-kōsō-den （大唐西域求法高僧伝）: Biographies of Eminent Priests of the Great T’ang Dynasty Who Sought the Law in the Western Regions, The

Daitō-saiiki-ki （大唐西域記）: Record of the Western Regions of the Great T’ang Dynasty, The

Daitsūchishō-butsu （大通智勝仏）: Great Universal Wisdom Excellence

Daitsū-fukkō （大通覆講）: restatement of Great Universal Wisdom Excellence Buddha’s teaching

Daitsū-kechien-no-daisanrui （大通結縁の第三類）: third group of the listeners of Great Universal Wisdom Excellence Buddha’s teaching

Daizoku-ō （大族王）: Mihirakula

Dammira-ō （檀弥羅王）: Dammira

Dammiri-ō （檀弥利王）: Dammiri

Dandoku-sen （檀特山）: Dandaka, Mount

dan-haramitsu （檀波羅密）: pāramitā of almsgiving (See six pāramitās)

danka （檀家）: donating family (See dāna-pati)

Dan-kyō （壇経）: Platform Sutra, The

danna （檀那）: dāna-pati

Danna （檀那）

Danna-ryū （檀那流）: Danna school

dan’otsu （檀越）: dāna-pati

Dan-senchaku （弾選択）: Refutation of “The Nembutsu Chosen above All,” A

Darai Rama （ダライ・ラマ）: Dalai Lama (See Tibetan Buddhism)

darani （陀羅尼）: dhāranī

Darani-hon （陀羅尼品）: “Dhāranī” chapter

Daruma （達磨）: Bodhidharma

Darumagyūta （達摩笈多）: Dharmagupta (1)

Darumakikuta （達摩掬多）: Dharmagupta (2)

Darumarājika-tō （ダルマラージカ塔）: Dharmarājika stupa (See Takshashilā)

datchaku-buppō （脱益仏法）: Buddhism of the harvest

datsueba （奪衣婆）: garment-snatching demoness

datsumyō-sha （奪命者）: robber of life (See devil)

dembō-kanjō （伝法灌頂）: anointment ceremony to invest a person with the rank of āchārya (See ceremony of anointment)

Dengyō （伝教）

Dentō-roku （伝灯録）: Transmission of the Lamp, The

dō （道）: path; way

Dōan （道安）: Tao-an

Dōgen （道元）

Dōgen （道原）: Tao-yüan (See Transmission of the Lamp, The)

dōgo-do （同居土）: land of co-dwelling (See Land of Sages and Common Mortals)

dōgo-edo （同居穢土）: impure land of co-dwelling (See Land of Sages and Common Mortals)

dōgo-jōdo （同居浄土）: pure land of co-dwelling (See Land of Sages and Common Mortals)

Do-issai-seken-kunō-butsu （度一切世間苦悩仏）: Saving All from Worldly Suffering (See sixteen princes)

Dōji （道慈）

dōjō （道場）: place of practice

dokkaku （独覚）: self-awakened one

dokko-sho （独鈷杆）: single-armed diamond-pounder (See diamond-pounder)

dokku-no-en （毒鼓の縁）: poison-drum relationship

dokuichi-hommon （独一本門）: unique essential teaching (See essential teaching)

dokuju-hon （読誦品）: stage of reading and reciting the Lotus Sutra (See five stages of practice)

dokuju-tamon-kengo （読誦多聞堅固）: age of reading, reciting, and listening (See five five-hundred-year periods)

Dōkyō （道鏡）

dōkyō-ichijō （同教一乗）: one vehicle of the identical doctrine (See five teachings and ten doctrines)

Dommakara （曇摩迦羅）: Dharmakāla

Dommamitta （曇摩蜜多）: Dharmamitra

Dommanandai （曇摩難提）: Dharmanandi (See Chu Fo-nien)

Dommarushi （曇摩流支）: Dharmaruchi

Dommayasha （曇摩耶舎）: Dharmayashas

Dommukatsu-bosatsu （曇無竭菩薩）: Dharmodgata

Dommumitta （曇無蜜多）: Dharmamitra

Dommushin （曇無讖）: Dharmaraksha (2)

Dommutoku-bu （曇無徳部）: Dharmagupta school

dōmon-zōjōman （道門増上慢）: arrogance and presumption of members of the Buddhist clergy (See three powerful enemies)

Dōmyō-ten （同名天）: Same Name (See Same Birth and Same Name)

Dongaku （曇学）: T’an-hsüeh (See Sutra on the Wise and the Foolish)

Donkakara （曇柯迦羅）: Dharmakāla

Donran （曇鸞）: T’an-luan

Donrin （曇林）: T’an-lin (See Treatise on the Lotus Sutra, The)

Don’yō （曇曜）: T’an-yao

dōrin-ō （銅輪王）: copper-wheel-turning king (See four wheel-turning kings)

Dōryū （道隆）

Dōsen （道蠲）

Dōsen （道暹）: Tao-hsien

Dōsen （道宣）: Tao-hsüan (1)

Dōshaku （道綽）: Tao-ch’o

dōshin （道心）: aspiration for the way (See aspiration for enlightenment)

Dōshin （道信）: Tao-hsin

Dōshō （道昭）

Dōshō （道生）: Tao-sheng

Dōshō Dōmyō （同生同名）: Same Birth and Same Name

Dōshō-ten （同生天）: Same Birth (See Same Birth and Same Name)

dōshu-chi （道種智）: wisdom to understand the various paths to enlightenment (See three kinds of wisdom)

Dōsui （道邃）: Tao-sui

dō-tai （道諦）: truth of the path to the cessation of suffering (See four noble truths)

dōtai-ishin （同体異心）: one in body but different in mind (See many in body, one in mind)

Dōzen-bō （道善房）

Dōzui （道邃）: Tao-sui

Eben （恵便）

Ebisu （恵比須）: See seven beneficent deities

Echi （依智）

edo （穢土）: impure land

e-gen （慧眼）: wisdom eye (See five types of vision)

Egi-hammon-shō （依義判文抄）: “The Interpreting the Text Based upon Its Essential Meaning” (See Six-Volume Writings, The)

Egon （慧厳）: Hui-yen

ehō-fuenin （依法不依人）: to rely on the Law and not upon persons (See four standards)

Ehyō-tendai-shū （依憑天台集）: Clarification of the Schools Based on T’ien-t’ai’s Doctrine, A

Ei-gensū （衛元嵩）: Wei Yüan-sung

Eihei-ji （永平寺）: See Sōtō school

Eikan （永観）

Eisai （栄西）

E-issai-seken-fui-butsu （壊一切世間怖畏仏）: Destroying All Worldly Fears (See sixteen princes)

Eizon （叡尊）

Eji （慧次）: Hui-tz’u

Ejō （懐譲）: Huai-jang (See Zen school)

Eka （慧可）: Hui-k’o

Ekaku （慧覚）: Hui-chüeh (See Sutra on the Wise and the Foolish)

Ekan （慧灌）

Ekan （懐感）: Huai-kan

Ekan （慧観）: Hui-kuan

Ekin （慧均）: Hui-chün (See Profound Meaning of the Four Mahayana Treatises, The)

ekō （廻向）: transference of benefit

e-kō （壊劫）: kalpa of decline

Ekō （慧皎）: Hui-chiao (See Liang Dynasty Biographies of Eminent Priests, The)

Ekō （慧光）: Hui-kuang

ekō-hotsugan-shin （廻向発願心）: mind of resolve to be reborn in the Pure Land (See three kinds of mind)

Ema Mitsutoki （江間光時）

Embudai （閻浮提）: Jambudvīpa

embudan-gon （閻浮檀金）: Jambūnada gold

embu-ju （閻浮樹）: jambu tree

Embunadai-konkō-nyorai （閻浮那提金光如来）: Jāmbūnada Gold Light

Emma （閻魔）: Yama

Emon （慧文）: Hui-wen

Enan （慧南）: Hui-nan (See Lin-chi school)

Enchin （円珍）

Enchō （円澄）

endon-kai （円頓戒）: precepts of perfect and immediate enlightenment

Endō Saemon-no-jō （遠藤左衛門尉）

engaku （縁覚）: cause-awakened one

engaku （円覚）: perfect enlightenment

Engaku-ji （円覚寺）

engaku-jō （縁覚乗）: cause-awakened one vehicle (See three vehicles)

engaku-jōshō （縁覚定性）: those predestined to be cause-awakened ones (See five natures)

engaku-kai （縁覚界）: world of cause-awakened ones

Engaku-kyō （円覚経）: Perfect Enlightenment Sutra

engi （縁起）: dependent origination

en-gyō （円教）: perfect teaching

enichi （慧日）: sun of wisdom

en-kai （円戒）: perfect precepts

Enni （円爾）

Ennin （円仁）

En no Ozunu （役小角）

En no Ubasoku （役の優婆塞）: See En no Ozunu

Enō （慧能）: Hui-neng

Enryaku-ji （延暦寺）

Ensai （円載）

Enshō （円照）: Yüan-chao (See Chen-yüan Era Catalog of the Buddhist Canon, The)

en’yū-no-santai （円融の三諦）: unification of the three truths

Eon （慧遠）: Hui-yüan (1) (2)

Eon （慧苑）: Hui-yüan (3)

eriju-no-tatoe （衣裏珠の譬）: parable of the jewel in the robe

Erin （慧琳）: Hui-lin (See Pronunciation and Meaning in the Buddhist Scriptures [2] )

Eryō （慧亮）

Eryū （慧立）: Hui-li (See Biography of the Tripitaka Master of Ta-tz’u-en-ssu Temple, The)

Eshi （慧思）: Hui-ssu

Eshin （恵心）

Eshin-ryū （恵心流）: Eshin school

eshō-funi （依正不二）: oneness of life and its environment

Eun （懐惲）: Huai-yün (See Treatise Resolving Numerous Doubts about the Pure Land Teachings, The)

e-za-shitsu （衣座室）: robe, seat, and room

fuchūtō-kai （不偸盗戒）: not to steal (See five precepts)

Fu-daishi （傅大士）: Fu Ta-shih

Fudaraku-sen （補陀落山）: Potalaka, Mount

Fudō-butsu （不動仏）: Immovable (2)

Fudōchi-butsu （不動智仏）: Immovable Wisdom

Fudō-myō’ō （不動明王）: Immovable (1)

fugen （不還）: non-returner

Fugen-bon （普賢品）: “Universal Worthy” chapter

Fugen-bosatsu （普賢菩薩）: Universal Worthy

Fugen-bosatsu-hon （普賢菩薩品）: “Bodhisattva Universal Worthy” chapter

Fugen-bosatsu-kambotsu-hon （普賢菩薩勧発品）: “Encouragements of the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy” chapter

Fugen-kyō （普賢経）: Universal Worthy Sutra

fuhen-shinnyo-no-ri （不変真如の理）: eternal and unchanging truth (See Nam-myoho-renge-kyo)

Fuhōzō-innen-den （付法蔵因縁伝）: History of the Buddha’s Successors, A

Fuhōzō-kyō （付法蔵経）: Buddha’s Successors Sutra

fuhōzō-no-nijūsan-nin （付法蔵の二十三人）: twenty-three successors

fuhōzō-no-nijūyo-nin （付法蔵の二十四人）: twenty-four successors

fujain-kai （不邪婬戒）: not to engage in sexual misconduct (See five precepts)

Fuji-biku （普事比丘）: Universal Practice

Fuji-isseki-monto-zonchi-no-koto （富士一跡門徒存知の事）: Guidelines for Believers of the Fuji School, The

Fuji-monryū （富士門流）: Fuji school

Fuji-shūgaku-yōshū （富士宗学要集）: Essential Works of the Fuji School, The

Fuji-shūgaku-zenshū （富士宗学全集）: Complete Works of the Fuji School, The

fujō-gō （不定業）: unfixed karma

fujō-kan （不浄観）: meditation on the vileness of the body

fujō-kyō （不定教）: indeterminate teaching (See four teachings of method)

fujō-seppō （不浄説法）: to preach from an impure motive (See Buddha Treasury Sutra)

fujō-shō （不定性）: indeterminate group (See five natures)

fuju-fuse （不受不施）: non-acceptance of alms and non-giving of alms (See Nichikō)

Fuju Fuse-ha （不受不施派）: No Alms Accepting or Giving school

Fuju Fuse Kōmon-ha （不受不施講門派）: No Alms Accepting or Giving Nichikō school

fukashigi-kyō （不可思議境）: region of the unfathomable (See observation of the mind)

Fuken （符堅）: Fu Chien (See Kumarajīva)

Fukō （普光）: P’u-kuang

Fukū （不空）: Pu-k’ung

fukuden （福田）: field of good fortune

Fukūjōju-nyorai （不空成就如来）: Infallible Realization (See five Buddhas)

Fukurokuju （福禄寿）: See seven beneficent deities

Fukushō-ten （福生天）: Merit Increasing Heaven (See eighteen heavens)

fukutoku （福徳）: punya

Fukyō-bon （不軽品）: “Never Disparaging” chapter

Fukyō-bosatsu （不軽菩薩）: Never Disparaging

Fumbetsu-kudoku-hon （分別功徳品）: “Distinctions in Benefits” chapter

fumen-zetsu （覆面舌）: face-covering tongue

fumōgo-kai （不妄語戒）: not to lie (See five precepts)

Fumon-bon （普門品）: “Universal Gateway” chapter

Fumyō-nyorai （普明如来）: Universal Brightness (2)

Fumyō-ō （普明王）: Universal Brightness (1)

Funamori Yasaburō （船守弥三郎）

Funasha （富那奢）: Punyayashas

Fundari-jigoku （芬陀利地獄）: Pundarīka hell (See eight cold hells)

funjin （分身）: emanations of the Buddha

funzōe （糞掃衣）: clothes of patched rags

fuonju-kai （不飲酒戒）: not to consume intoxicants (See five precepts)

Furanna-kashō （富蘭那迦葉）: Pūrana Kassapa

fūrin （風輪）: windy circle

Furuna （富楼那）: Pūrna

furyū-monji （不立文字）: independent of words or writing

fusatsu （布薩）: uposhadha

fuse （布施）: almsgiving

fuse-haramitsu （布施波羅蜜）: pāramitā of almsgiving (See six pāramitās)

fusesshō-kai （不殺生戒）: not to kill (See five precepts)

fushō （不生）: person of no rebirth (See arhat)

fushō-fumetsu （不生不滅）: non-birth and non-extinction (See realization of the non-birth and non-extinction of all phenomena)

Fusō-ryakki （扶桑略記）: Brief History of Japan, A

fusshaku-kō （払石劫）: rock-rubbing kalpa (See rock kapla)

futai-i （不退位）: stage of non-regression

futanna （富単那）: pūtana

Futsunyatara （弗若多羅）: Punyatāra

Fuyō-kyō （普曜経）: Multitudinous Graceful Actions Sutra

Gakan-ji （瓦官寺）: Wa-kuan-ssu

gaki （餓鬼）: hungry spirits; preta

gaki-kai （餓鬼界）: world of hungry spirits

Gakkō-bosatsu （月光菩薩）: Moonlight

Gakkō-daijin （月光大臣）: Chandraprabha

gakuhō-kanjō （学法灌頂）: anointment ceremony to confer the status of practitioner of Esoteric Buddhism (See ceremony of anointment)

Gakushō-shiki （学生式）: Regulations for Students, The (See Regulations for Students of the Mountain School, The)

gampon-no-hosshō （元品の法性）: fundamental nature of enlightenment

gampon-no-mumyō （元品の無明）: fundamental darkness

Gandāra （ガンダーラ）: Gandhara

Gangō-ji （元興寺）

gan-haramitsu （願波羅蜜）: pāramitā of the vow (See ten pāramitās)

Ganjin （鑑真）

Ganjisu-gawa （ガンジス河）: Ganges River

Gankō （含光）: Han-kuang

Gasshō-daijin （月称大臣）: Chandrakīrti (2)

gatsuai-zammai （月愛三昧）: moon-loving meditation

Gatsuzō-bosatsu （月蔵菩薩）: Moon Storehouse (See age of quarrels and disputes)

Gatten （月天）: moon, god of the

Gaya-jō （伽耶城）: Gayā

Gaya-kashō （伽耶迦葉）: Gayā Kāshyapa

Gaya-sen （伽耶山）: Gayāshīrsha, Mount

ge （偈）: verse

gebon （外凡）: outer rank of ordinary people; the lower rank of ordinary practitioners (See four good roots)

gedatsu （解脱）: emancipation; vimoksha

Gedatsugatsu-bosatsu （解脱月菩薩）: Moon of Deliverance

gedatsu-kengo （解脱堅固）: age of attaining liberation (See five five-hundred-year periods)

Gejimmitsu-kyō （解深密経）: Revelation of the Profound Secrets Sutra

ge-kon （下根）: inferior capacity (See three groups of voice-hearers)

gekū-daiichi （解空第一）: foremost in understanding the doctrine of non-substantiality (See Subhūti)

Gembō （玄昉）

gemmetsu-mon （還滅門）: way of emancipation (See twelve-linked chain of causation)

Gengu-kyō （賢愚経）: Sutra on the Wise and the Foolish

Genjō （玄奘）: Hsüan-tsang

Genju （賢首）: Hsien-shou

Genju-bosatsu （賢首菩薩）: Chief Wise

gen-kō （減劫）: kalpa of decrease

Genkō-shakusho （元亨釈書）: Genkō Era Biographies of Eminent Priests, The

Genkū （源空）

Gennichi-ō （幻日王）: Bālāditya

Gennin （源仁）

Gen’ō （玄応）: Hsüan-ying (See Pronunciation and Meaning in the Buddhist Scriptures [1] )

Genrō （玄朗）: Hsüan-lang

gen-se （現世）: present existence (See three existences)

Genshin （源信）

gen-shō （現証）: actual proof (See three proofs)

Gensō （彦悰）: Yen-ts’ung (See Biography of the Tripitaka Master of Ta-tz’u-en-ssu Temple, The)

genzai-se （現在世）: present existence (See three existences)

Gerugu-ha （ゲルグ派）: Gelug school (See Tibetan Buddhism)

geshu （下種）: planting the seeds of Buddhahood

geshu-buppō （下種仏法）: Buddhism of sowing

Gesshi （月氏）: Yüeh-chih

Gesshi-bosatsu （月氏菩薩）: Bodhisattva of Yüeh-chih (See Dharmaraksha)

Gesshō （月称）: Chandrakīrti (1)

geyū （外用）: outward behavior (See Superior Practices)

Giba （耆婆）: Jīvaka

Gida-taishi （祇陀太子）: Jetri

Gien （義淵）

Gien-no-shichi-jōsoku （義淵の七上足）: seven superior disciples of Gien (See Gien)

Gigen （義玄）: I-hsüan (See Lin-chi school)

Gijaku （義寂）: I-chi (See T’ien-t’ai school)

Gijō （義浄）: I-ching

Gijō-bō （義浄房）

Gikkodoku （給孤独）: Anāthapindada

ginrin-ō （銀輪王）: silver-wheel-turning king (See four wheel-turning kings)

Gion-shōja （祇園精舎）: Jetavana Monastery

Girika （耆利柯）: Girika

Gishakussen （耆闍崛山）: Gridhrakūta

Gishin （義真）

Gitsū （義通）: I-t’ung (See T’ien-t’ai school)

giya （祇夜）: geya (See verse)

gō （業）: karma

go-biku （五比丘）: five ascetics

go-bu （五部）: five Āgamas

gōbuku （降伏）: subjugation of evil (See Susiddhikara Sutra)

gobun-hosshin （五分法身）: fivefold bodies of the Law

Gobun-ritsu （五分律）: Fivefold Rules of Discipline, The

gobu-ritsu （五部律）: vinayas of the five schools

go-butsu （五仏）: five Buddhas

go-butsu （五仏）: five categories of Buddhas

gobutsu-dōdō （五仏道同）: the five categories of Buddhas all employ a similar process (See five categories of Buddhas)

go-chi （五智）: five kinds of wisdom

gochi-nyorai （五智如来）: five wisdom Buddhas

go-dai （五大）: five elements

godai-bu （五大部）: five major writings

godai-myō’ō （五大明王）: five great wisdom kings

godairiki-bosatsu （五大力菩薩）: five mighty bodhisattvas

Godai-san （五台山）: Wu-t’ai, Mount

godaison （五大尊）: five honored ones

godan-hō （五壇法）: ceremony of the five altars (See five great wisdom kings)

go-dō （五道）: five paths

go-donshi （五鈍使）: five delusive inclinations

Godō-tenrin-ō （五道転輪王）: King Wheel-Turner of the Five Paths (See ten kings)

Gōga （恒河）: Ganges River

go-gai （五蓋）: five obscurations

gōga-sha （恒河沙）: sands of the Ganges

go-gen （五眼）: five types of vision

go-gohyakusai （後五百歳）: fifth five-hundred-year period

go-gyakuzai （五逆罪）: five cardinal sins

go-haramitsu （五波羅蜜）: five pāramitās

gohō （五法）: five ascetic practices

Gohō （護法）: Dharmapāla

go-hon （五品）: five stages of practice

Gohonzon （御本尊）

Gohonzon-shichika-no-sōjō （御本尊七箇の相承）: Transmission of Seven Teachings on the Gohonzon, The (See Myōjō Pond)

Gohyaku-deshi-hon （五百弟子品）: “Five Hundred Disciples” chapter

Gohyaku-deshi-juki-hon （五百弟子受記品）: “Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples” chapter

gohyaku-jintengō （五百塵点劫）: numberless major world system dust particle kalpas

gohyaku-kai （五百戒）: five hundred precepts

Gohyaku-mon-ron （五百問論）: Treatise of Five Hundred Questions, The

go-ja （五邪）: five improper ways of livelihood

go-ji （五時）: five periods

goji-hakkyō （五時八教）: five periods and eight teachings

go-jinzū （五神通）: five transcendental powers

goji-shichiji （五字七字）: five or seven characters

go-jō （五乗）: five vehicles

go-jōgo-ten （五浄居天）: five heavens of purity

go-joku （五濁）: five impurities

gojō’on-ku （五盛陰苦）: suffering arising from the five components of life (See eight sufferings)

gojōshin-kan （五停心観）: five meditations

gojū-gen （五重玄）: five major principles

gojūni-i （五十二位）: fifty-two stages of bodhisattva practice

gojū-no-sōtai （五重の相対）: fivefold comparison

gojū-no-tō （五重の塔）: five-storied pagoda (See pagoda)

gojū-sandan （五重三段）: fivefold view of revelation

gojū-tenden （五十展転）: continual propagation to the fiftieth person

go-kai （五戒）: five precepts

Gokan-ō （五官王）: King Controller of the Five Sense Organs (See ten kings)

goka-no-gohyakusai （五箇の五百歳）: five five-hundred-year periods

goka-no-hōshō （五箇の鳳詔）: five proclamations of the Buddha

go-ke （五家）: five schools of Zen

goke-shichishū （五家七宗）: five schools and seven schools (See Zen school)

Goke-shū （牛貨洲）: Aparagodānīya

go-kō （五綱）: five guides for propagation

gokoku-sambukyō （護国三部経）: three sutras for the protection of the nation (See Golden Light Sutra)

go-kon （五根）: five roots

go-kon （五根）: five sense organs

gokō-shiyui （五劫思惟）: pondering for five kalpas (See Amida)

goko-sho （五鈷杵）: five-pronged diamond-pounder (See diamond-pounder)

Gokukōjō-ten （極光浄天）: Utmost Light and Purity Heaven

Gokuraku （極楽）: Perfect Bliss

Gokuraku-ji （極楽寺）

Gokuraku-jōdo （極楽浄土）: Pure Land of Perfect Bliss

gokyō-jisshū （五教十宗）: five teachings and ten doctrines

gōma （降魔）: conquering devils (See eight phases of a Buddha’s existence)

go-mi （五味）: five flavors

Gomyō （護命）

gon-daijō-kyō （権大乗教）: provisional Mahayana teachings

gonge （権化）: provisional manifestation

gongyō （勤行）

Gonin-shoha-shō （五人所破抄）: On Refuting the Five Priests

Gonjikinyo-kyō （銀色女経）: Silver-Colored Woman Sutra

gonjitsu-funimon （権実不二門）: oneness of the provisional and true teachings (See ten onenesses)

gon-kyō （権経）: provisional sutras

gon-kyō （権教）: provisional teachings

Gonsō （勤操）

Gon’yo （厳誉）

go-on （五陰）: five components

go’on-kewagō （五陰仮和合）: temporary union of the five components (See five false views)

go’on-seken （五陰世間）: realm of the five components (See three realms of existence)

go-riki （五力）: five powers

gorin-kan （五輪観）: meditation on the five elements

go-rishi （五利使）: five false views

go-rōsō （五老僧）: five senior priests

Gōsanze-myō’ō （降三世明王）: Conqueror of the Threefold World

gosen-kiko （五千起去）: the rising from the seats and withdrawal of the five thousand persons (See five thousand arrogant persons)

gosen-no-jōman （五千の上慢）: five thousand arrogant persons

gosen-shichisen-no-kyōgyō （五千七千の経教）: five thousand or seven thousand volumes of Buddhist scriptures (See five thousand and forty-eight volumes)

gosen-shijūhachi-kan （五千四十八巻）: five thousand and forty-eight volumes

go-shin （五辛）: five strong-flavored foods

go-shō （五性）: five natures

go-shō （五障）: five obstacles

gō-shō （業障）: obstacle of karma (See three obstacles and four devils)

Gosho （御書）

go-shōgyō （五正行）: five correct practices

goshō-sanjū （五障三従）: five obstacles and three obediences

go-shu （五趣）: five paths

goshu-jamyō （五種邪命）: five improper ways of livelihood

goshu-no-shōgyō （五種の正行）: five correct practices

goshu-no-shugyō （五種の修行）: five practices

goshu-no-zōgyō （五種の雑行）: five sundry practices

gosō-jōshin-kan （五相成身観）: fivefold meditation

go-sui （五衰）: five signs of decay

go-tenjiku （五天竺）: five regions of India

go-tsū （五通）: five transcendental powers

go-un （五蘊）: five components

go-yoku （五欲）: five desires

Gozan （五山）: Five Temples

gozu （牛頭）: ox-headed demons

gozu-sendan （牛頭栴檀）: oxhead sandalwood

guchi （愚癡）: foolishness; moha

gufutokku （求不得苦）: suffering of being unable to obtain what one desires (See eight sufferings)

Guhō-kōsō-den （求法高僧伝）: Biographies of Eminent Priests Who Sought the Law, The

gukyō-no-sanki （弘経の三軌）: three rules of preaching

gummō-hyōzō-no-tatoe （群盲評象の譬）: parable of the blind men and the elephant

Gumyō-bosatsu （求名菩薩）: Seeker of Fame (See “Introduction” chapter)

gumyō-chō （共命鳥）: jīvamjīvaka

Gumyō-shū （弘明集）: Anthology of the Propagation of Light, The

Gunabaddara （求那跋陀羅）: Gunabhadra

Gunabatsuma （求那跋摩）: Gunavarman

Gundari-myō’ō （軍荼利明王）: Kundalī

Gungi-ron （群疑論）: The Treatise Resolving Numerous Doubts (See Treatise Resolving Numerous Doubts about the Pure Land Teachings, The)

Guren-jigoku （紅蓮地獄）: hell of the crimson lotus

gusoku-kai （具足戒）: complete precepts

Gusoku-semmankōsō-nyorai （具足千万光相如来）: Endowed with a Thousand Ten Thousand Glowing Marks

Gutoku-shō （愚禿鈔）: Work of the Ignorant Shavepate, The

guzai-furi （求財不利）: to seek wealth in vain (See eight kinds of sufferings)

gyaku-en （逆縁）: reverse relationship

Gyakurokayada （逆路伽耶陀）: Anti-Lokāyata school

Gyōbō-bonji （楽法梵志）: Aspiration for the Law

Gyōchi （行智）

gyō-futai （行不退）: non-regression from action (See three kinds of non-regression)

Gyōhyō （行表）

gyō-jū-za-ga （行住坐臥）: walking, standing, sitting, and lying down (See four activities of daily life)

Gyōki （行基）

Gyokusen-ji （玉泉寺）: Yü-ch’üan-ssu

Gyōman （行満）: Hsing-man

gyō-myō （行妙）: mystic principle of practice (See ten mystic principles)

Gyōnen （凝然）

gyō-riki （行力）: power of practice (See four powers [1] )

Gyōshi （行思）: Hsing-ssu (See Zen school)

hachi （鉢）: alms bowl

hachibu-shu （八部衆）: eight kinds of nonhuman beings

hachidai-jigoku （八大地獄）: eight great hells

hachidai-myō’ō （八大明王）: eight great wisdom kings (See wisdom kings)

hachidai-ryūō （八大竜王）: eight great dragon kings

hachi-gedatsu （八解脱）: eight emancipations

hachi-harai （八波羅夷）: eight pārājika offenses

hachi-ja （八邪）: eight errors

hachijisshugō （八十種好）: eighty characteristics

hachijū （八重）: eight major offenses

hachikyōkai （八敬戒）: eight precepts of reverence

hachi-man （八慢）: eight types of arrogance

Hachiman （八幡）

hachiman-hōzō （八万法蔵）: eighty thousand teachings

hachiman-shisen （八万四千）: eighty-four thousand

hachiman-shisen-hōzō （八万四千法蔵）: eighty-four thousand teachings

hachi-nan （八難）: eight difficulties

hachinetsu-jigoku （八熱地獄）: eight hot hells

hachi-ryūō （八竜王）: eight dragon kings

hachi-tendō （八顚倒）: eight inverted views (See four inverted views)

hachiyō-kuson （八葉九尊）: nine honored ones on the eight-petaled lotus

Hadoma-jigoku （鉢特摩地獄）: Padma hell (See eight cold hells)

haishu （敗種）: rotten seeds

hajun （波旬）: pāpīyas

Hakiri Sanenaga （波木井実長）

hakkan-jigoku （八寒地獄）: eight cold hells

Hakkendo-ron （八犍度論）: Eight-part Treatise (See Treatise on the Source of Wisdom, The)

hakku （八苦）: eight sufferings

hakkyō （八教）: eight teachings

Hakuba-ji （白馬寺）: Pai-ma-ssu

hakuba-no-kyō （白馬の教）: teaching brought by white horses (See Chu Fa-lan)

Haku-hōso （帛法祖）: Po Fa-tsu

Hakuon （帛遠）: Po-yüan

hangyō （判教）: “Evaluation of the Teaching” section (See five major principles)

hangyō-hanza-zammai （半行半坐三昧）: half-active and half-sitting meditation (See four forms of meditation)

Hanjara-koku （般闍羅国）: Panchāla (See sixteen great states)

hanju-zammai （般舟三昧）: meditation to behold the Buddhas

Hanju-zammai-kyō （般舟三昧経）: Sutra of the Meditation to Behold the Buddhas

hannya （般若）: prajnā

Hannya （般若）: Prajnā

hannya-haramitsu （般若波羅蜜）: prajnā-pāramitā

Hannya-haramitsu-kyō （般若波羅蜜経）: Perfection of Wisdom sutras

Hannya-ji （般若時）: Wisdom period

Hannya-kyō （般若経）: Wisdom sutras

Hannyarushi （般若流支）: Prajnāruchi

Hannya-shingyō （般若心経）: Heart Sutra

Hannya-tōron （般若灯論）: Treatise on the Lamp of Wisdom, The

Hanramittei （般刺蜜帝）: Pan-la-mi-ti (See Shūramgama Sutra)

Hansoku-ō （斑足王）: Spotted Feet

Happon-ha （八品派）: Eight Chapters school (See Nichiren school)

happu （八不）: eight negations

happū （八風）: eight winds

happu-chūdō （八不中道）: middle path of the eight negations

harai （波羅夷）: pārājika

haramitsu （波羅蜜）: pāramitā

Harana-koku （波羅奈国）: Varanasi

Haruri-ō （波瑠璃王）: Virūdhaka (1)

Harusha-charita （ハルシャ・チャリタ）: Harsha-charita (See Shīlāditya)

Hashinoku-ō （波斯匿王）: Prasenajit

hassaikai （八斎戒）: eight precepts

Hassen （法全）: Fa-ch’üan

hasshiki （八識）: eight consciousnesses

hasshō-dō （八正道）: eightfold path

hasshū （八宗）: eight schools

Hasshū-kōyō （八宗綱要）: Essentials of the Eight Schools, The

hasshu-no-dainan （八種の大難）: eight kinds of sufferings

hasshū-no-so （八宗の祖）: founder of the eight schools (See Nāgārjuna)

hassō-sabutsu （八相作仏）: eight phases of a Buddha’s existence

Hatsu-naion-gyō （般泥洹経）: Parinirvāna Sutra

hatsu-nehan （般涅槃）: parinirvāna

ha-wagōsō （破和合僧）: causing disunity in the Buddhist Order (See five cardinal sins)

Hazuma-jigoku （波頭摩地獄）: Padma hell (See eight cold hells)

Hei no Saemon （平左衛門）

heireita （薜茘多）: preta

hendoku-iyaku （変毒為薬）: changing poison into medicine

henge-shin （変化身）: transformation body

Henjō-hokki-shōryō-shū （遍照発揮性霊集）: The Collected Works of the Universally Illuminating Soul-Inspiring One (See Shinzei)

Henjō-kongō （遍照金剛）: Universal Illumination and Diamond (See Kōbō)

Henjō-ō （変成王）: King Transformation (See ten kings)

Henjō-ten （遍浄天）: All Pure Heaven (See eighteen heavens)

hen’yaku-shōji （変易生死）: transmigration with change and advance

hi （悲）: compassion

Hiei-zan （比叡山）: Hiei, Mount

higan （彼岸）: other shore

Higashi Hongan-ji （東本願寺）: See Hongan-ji

higyō-hiza-zammai （非行非坐三昧）: meditation in an unspecified posture for an unspecified period (See four forms of meditation)

hiji-fūu-nan （非時風雨難）: calamity of unseasonable storms (See seven disasters)

hijō （非情）: insentient beings

hijō-no-jōbutsu （非情の成仏）: enlightenment of insentient beings (See enlightenment of plants)

Hike-kyō （悲華経）: Compassionate White Lotus Flower Sutra

Hiki Yoshimoto （比企能本）

himitsu-fujō-kyō （秘密不定教）: secret indeterminate teaching (See four teachings of methods)

himitsu-kyō （秘密教）: secret teaching (See four teachings of methods)

himitsu-shu （秘密主）: Master of Secrets (See Vajrasattva)

himyō-hōben （秘妙方便）: secret and wonderful expedient means (See three expedient means)

hinnyo-no-ittō （貧女の一灯）: “The Poor Woman’s Lamp” (See dīpa)

hippara-ju （畢鉢羅樹）: pippala tree

Hippara-kutsu （畢鉢羅窟）: Pippalī Cave

Hirosawa-ryū （広沢流）: Hirosawa branch (See Yakushin)

Hisō-hihisō-sho （非想非非想処）: Realm of Neither Thought Nor No Thought

Hisō-hihisō-sho-jō （非想非非想処定）: meditation on the Realm of Neither Thought Nor No Thought (See Realm of Neither Thought Nor No Thought)

Hisō-hihisō-ten （非想非非想天）: Heaven of Neither Thought Nor No Thought

Hitsuryōgabasha （畢陵伽婆蹉）: Pilindavatsa

Hiyu-hon （譬喩品）: “Simile and Parable” chapter

hiyu-renge （譬喩蓮華）: figurative lotus

Hizō-hōyaku （秘蔵宝鑰）: Precious Key to the Secret Treasury, The

hō （法）: dharma; Law

hō （宝）: ratna

hōben （方便）: expedient means

Hōben-bon （方便品）: “Expedient Means” chapter

hōben-do （方便土）: Land of Transition

hōben-haramitsu （方便波羅蜜）: pāramitā of expedient means (See ten pāramitās)

Hōben-shō （方便章）: “Preparatory Practices” chapter (See Great Concentration and Insight)

hōbō （謗法）: slander

Hōbō （法宝）: Fa-pao

hōdō （方等）: vaipulya

Hōdō （法道）: Fa-tao

Hōdō-ji （方等時）: Correct and Equal period

hōdō-kyō （方等経）: correct and equal sutras

Hōdō-kyō （方等経）: Correct and Equal sutras

Hōdō-nyorai （宝幢如来）: Jeweled Banner (See five Buddhas)

Hōe （方会）: Fang-hui (See Lin-chi school)

Hōe-bosatsu （法慧菩薩）: Dharma Wisdom

hōgen （法眼）: Dharma eye

Hōgen-shū （法眼宗）: Fa-yen school (See Zen school)

hō-honzon （法本尊）: object of devotion in terms of the Law (See Gohonzon)

Hōi-butsu （宝威仏）: Jeweled Dignity

hōin （法印）: Dharma seal

Hōitokujō’ō-butsu （宝威徳上王仏）: King Above Jeweled Dignity and Virtue

hōjin （報身）: reward body

hōjin-butsu （報身仏）: Buddha of the reward body (See three bodies)

Hōjō-bosatsu （法上菩薩）: Dharma Arisen (See Dharmodgata)

Hōjō-bu （法上部）: Dharmottara school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

hōjō-e （放生会）: life-liberating practice

Hōjō Yagenta （北条弥源太）

Hōjū-ki （法住記）: The Record of Ensuring the Abiding of the Law (See sixteen arhats)

Hōjun （法順）: Fa-shun

hōkai-taishō-chi （法界体性智）: wisdom of the essence of the phenomenal world (See five kinds of wisdom)

Hoke-kyō （法華経）: Lotus Sutra

Hokekyō-anrakugyō-gi （法華経安楽行義）: On the Peaceful Practices of the Lotus Sutra

Hokekyō-daigo-no-maki （法華経第五の巻）: fifth scroll of the Lotus Sutra

Hokekyō-giki （法華経義記）: Meaning of the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokekyō-no-gyōja （法華経の行者）: votary of the Lotus Sutra

Hokekyō-ron （法華経論）: Treatise on the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokekyō-shogisan （法華経疏義纉）: Supplement to the Meanings of the Commentaries on the Lotus Sutra, The

Hōken （法賢）: Fa-hsien (2)

Hōki-bō （伯耆房）

Hokke-denki （法華伝記）: Lotus Sutra and Its Traditions, The

Hokke-gengi （法華玄義）: Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokke-gengi-shakusen （法華玄義釈籤）: Annotations on “The Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra,” The

Hokke-genron （法華玄論）: Treatise on the Profundity of the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokke-genzan （法華玄賛）: Praising the Profundity of the Lotus Sutra

Hokke-giki （法華義記）: Meaning of the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokke-gisho （法華義疏）: Annotations on the Meaning of the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokke-hongyō-kōki （法華翻経後記）: Afterword to the Lotus Sutra Translation, The

Hokke-jisshō （法華十勝）: ten superior characteristics of the Lotus Sutra (See Outstanding Principles of the Lotus Sutra, The)

Hokke-metuzai-no-tera （法華滅罪之寺）: temples for the eradication of past offenses by the power of the Lotus Sutra (See provincial temples)

Hokke-mongu （法華文句）: Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokke-mongu-fushō-ki （法華文句輔正記）: Supplement to “The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra,” The

Hokke-mongu-ki （法華文句記）: Annotations on “The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra,” The

Hokken （法顕）: Fa-hsien (1)

Hokken-den （法顕伝）: Travels of Fa-hsien, The

Hokke-nehan-ji （法華涅槃時）: Lotus and Nirvana period

Hokke-no-en （法華の円）: perfect teaching of the Lotus Sutra (See four teachings of doctrine)

Hokke-ron （法華論）: Treatise on the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokke-sambu-kyō （法華三部経）: threefold Lotus Sutra

Hokke-sammai （法華三昧）: Lotus meditation

Hokke-sandai-bu （法華三大部）: three major works on the Lotus Sutra

Hokke-sandaibu-fuchū （法華三大部補註）: Supplement to the Three Major Works on the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokke-shū （法華宗）: Lotus school

Hokke-shūku （法華秀句）: Outstanding Principles of the Lotus Sutra, The

Hokke-shū Shimmon-ryū （法華宗真門流）: Nisshin branch of the Lotus school (See Nichiren school)

Hokke-shuyō-shō （法華取要抄）: On Taking the Essence of the Lotus Sutra

Hokke-zammai （法華三昧）: Lotus meditation

Hokku-kyō （法句経）: Dhammapada; Words of Truth Sutra

hokkyō （法橋）: Dharma bridge (See Dharma seal)

Hokkyō-ritsu （北京律）: Precepts school of the Northern Capital (See Precepts school)

Hōkō-daishōgon-kyō （方広大荘厳経）: Correct and Vast Great Adornment Sutra (See Multitudinous Graceful Actions Sutra)

Hokuden-bukkyō （北伝仏教）: Northern Buddhism

Hokudō-ha （北道派）: Northern Way school (See Treatise on the Ten Stages school)

hokuji-den （北寺伝）: transmission of the Northern Temple (See Dharma Characteristics school)

Hokusanjū-bu （北山住部）: Uttarashaila school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

Hokushū Zen （北宗禅）: Northern school of Zen

hō-kuyō （法供養）: offering of the Law (See offering)

hombutsu （本仏）: true Buddha

Hōmetsujin-kyō （法滅尽経）: Decline of the Law Sutra

Homma Rokurō Saemon （本間六郎左衛門）

hommon （本門）: essential teaching

Hommon Hokke-shū （本門法華宗）: Essential Teaching Lotus school (See Nichiren school)

hommon-no-daimoku （本門の題目）: daimoku of the essential teaching

hommon-no-honzon （本門の本尊）: object of devotion of the essential teaching

hommon-no-jūmyō （本門の十妙）: ten mystic principles of the essential teaching (See ten mystic principles)

hommon-no-kaidan （本門の戒壇）: sanctuary of the essential teaching

hommon-no-sampi （本門の三譬）: three metaphors of the essential teaching

Hommon-shū （本門宗）: Essential Teaching school (See Nichiren Shōshū)

hōmon-mujin-seiganchi （法門無尽誓願知）: vow to master immeasurable Buddhist teachings (See four universal vows)

Hōmyō-nyorai （法明如来）: Law Bright

honchi （本地）: true identity (See true Buddha)

hon-dō （本堂）: main hall (See seven-halled temple)

Hōnen （法然）

hongaku （本覚）: inherent enlightenment; original enlightenment (1)

honga-myō （本果妙）: true effect

honga-myō-no-kyōshu （本果妙の教主）: teacher of the true effect

hongan （本願）: original vows

Hongan-ji （本願寺）

honge-no-bosatsu （本化の菩薩）: bodhisattvas of the essential teaching

honjaku-no-roppi （本迹の六譬）: six metaphors of the theoretical and essential teachings

honjintsū-myō （本神通妙）: mystic principle of true transcendental power (See ten mystic principles)

Honjō-wa （本生話）: Jātaka

honjumyō-myō （本寿命妙）: mystic principle of true life span (See ten mystic principles)

honkannō-myō （本感応妙）: mystic principle of true responsive communion (See ten mystic principles)

honkenzoku-myō （本眷属妙）: mystic principle of true relationship (See ten mystic principles)

honkokudo-myō （本国土妙）: true land

honnehan-myō （本涅槃妙）: mystic principle of true nirvana (See ten mystic principles)

honnin-honga-no-shu （本因本果の主）: teacher of the true cause and the true effect (See true effect)

honnin-myō （本因妙）: true cause

honnin-myō-no-kyōshu （本因妙の教主）: teacher of the true cause

honriyaku-myō （本利益妙）: mystic principle of true benefit (See ten mystic principles)

hon-roku （本六）: six elder disciples of Nikkō

honseppō-myō （本説法妙）: mystic principle of true preaching (See ten mystic principles)

Hon’yaku-myōgi-shū （翻訳名義集）: Dictionary of the Pronunciation and Meaning of Buddhist Terms, A

Honzon-mondō-shō （本尊問答抄）: Questions and Answers on the Object of Devotion

hō’ō （法王）: Dharma King

Hō’on-jurin （法苑珠林）: Forest of Gems in the Garden of the Law, The

Hō’on-kyō （報恩経）: Repaying Debts of Gratitude Sutra

Hō’on-shō （報恩抄）: On Repaying Debts of Gratitude

Hoppō-bukkyō （北方仏教）: Northern Buddhism

Hōren （法蓮）

hō-riki （法力）: power of the Law (See four powers [1] )

hōrin （法輪）: wheel of the Law

Hōrō （法朗）: Fa-lang

Hōryū-ji （法隆寺）

hō-se （法施）: offering of the Law (See almsgiving)

Hōshaku-kyō （宝積経）: Accumulated Treasures Sutra

hōshin （報身）: reward body

Hoshina Gorō Tarō （星名五郎太郎）

hōshin-butsu （報身仏）: Buddha of the reward body

hō-shō （報障）: obstacle of retribution (See three obstacles and four devils)

Hōshō （法照）: Fa-chao

Hōshō （宝唱）: Pao-ch’ang (See Divergent Concepts in the Sutras and Vinaya Texts)

Hōshō-nyorai （宝生如来）: Jewel Born (See five Buddhas)

Hōshō-nyorai （宝勝如来）: Treasure Excellence (See Water Holder)

Hōso （法祖）: Fa-tsu

Hosokusa-danrin （細草檀林）: Hosokusa Seminary (See Nichikan)

Hōsō-nyorai （宝相如来）: Jewel Sign

hosshaku-kempon （発迹顕本）: casting off the transient and revealing the true

Hosshamittara-ō （弗沙弥多羅王）: Pushyamitra

hosshi （法師）: Dharma teacher

Hosshi-hon （法師品）: “Teacher of the Law” chapter

Hosshi-kudoku-hon （法師功徳品）: “Benefits of the Teacher of the Law” chapter

hosshin （法身）: Dharma body

hosshin-butsu （法身仏）: Buddha of the Dharma body

hosshin-geshu （発心下種）: sowing the seeds by leading one to arouse faith in the teaching (See planting the seeds of Buddhahood)

hosshin-no-shari （法身の舎利）: relics of the Dharma body (See Buddha’s relics)

hosshō （法性）: essential nature of phenomena

Hosshō （法勝）: Dharmashrī (See Heart of the Abhidharma, The)

Hosshō （法照）: Fa-chao

Hossō-shū （法相宗）: Dharma Characteristics school

hossū （法数）: doctrines with numerical themes; numerical doctrines (See four Āgama sutras)

Hōtan （和田）: Khotan

Hotchi-ron （発智論）: Treatise on the Source of Wisdom, The

Hotei （布袋）: See seven beneficent deities

hōtō （法灯）: lamp of Dharma (See dīpa)

hōtō （宝塔）: treasure tower

Hōtō-hon （宝塔品）: “Treasure Tower” chapter

hotoke （仏）: Buddha

Hotsubadai （弗婆提）: Pūrvavideha

Hōun （法雲）: Fa-yün

hōun-ji （法雲地）: stage of the Dharma cloud (See ten stages of development)

Hōyu-bosatsu （法涌菩薩）: Dharma Emerged (See Dharmodgata)

hōyū-hōben （法用方便）: adaptations of the Law expedient means (See three expedient means)

Hōzō （法蔵）: Fa-tsang

Hōzō-biku （法蔵比丘）: Dharma Treasury

Hōzō-bu （法蔵部）: Dharmagupta school

hōzu （法頭）: Dharma magistrate (See discipline master)

hyakkai-sennyo （百界千如）: hundred worlds and thousand factors

hyaku-fuku （百福）: hundred blessings

Hyaku-ron （百論）: One-Hundred-Verse Treatise, The

hyakushibutsu （辟支仏）: pratyekabuddha

Hyōe no Saemon （兵衛の左衛門）: See Sajiki, the lady of

i-anraku-gyō （意安楽行）: peaceful practice of the mind (See four peaceful practices)

Ibushūrin-ron （異部宗輪論）: Doctrines of the Different Schools, The

ichi-butsujō （一仏乗）: one Buddha vehicle

ichidaiji （一大事）: one great reason

ichigen-no-kame （一眼の亀）: one-eyed turtle

Ichigyō （一行）: I-hsing

ichi-hijiri （市聖）: Sage of the Streets (See Kūya)

ichijō （一乗）: one vehicle

ichijō-hō （一乗法）: one vehicle teaching

Ichijō-yōketsu （一乗要決）: Essentials of the One Vehicle Teaching, The

ichinen （一念）

ichinen-gi （一念義）: doctrine of one-time recitation

ichinen-sanzen （一念三千）: three thousand realms in a single moment of life

ichinen-shinge （一念信解）: to believe in and understand the Lotus Sutra even for a moment (See four stages of faith)

Ichinosawa-nyūdō （一谷入道）: Ichinosawa, the lay priest

ichirai （一来）: once-returner

Idaike （韋提希）: Vaidehī

i-futai （位不退）: non-regression from stage (See three kinds of non-regression)

Igyō-bon （易行品）: “Easy Practice” chapter

igyō-dō （易行道）: easy-to-practice way

Igyō-shū （潙仰宗）: Kuei-yang school (See Zen school)

Ikaruga-dera （斑鳩寺）: See Hōryū-ji

Ikegami Munenaga （池上宗長）

Ikegami Munenaka （池上宗仲）

Ikegami-sōjō-sho （池上相承書）: Ikegami Transfer Document, The

Ikegami Yasumitsu （池上康光）: See Ikegami Munenaga; Ikegami Munenaka

Iken （維蠲）: Wei-chüan

Ikkō-shū （一向宗）: Single-minded Practice school

i-kon-tō （已今当）: three categories of preaching

i-mitsu （意密）: mystery of the mind (See three mysteries)

i-myō （位妙）: mystic principle of stages (See ten mystic principles)

Inaba-bō （因幡房）

Indara （因陀羅）: Indra

Indara-mō （因陀羅網）: Indra’s net

Indo-bodaiju （インドボダイジュ）: pipal tree

inga （因果）: cause and effect

inga-funimon （因果不二門）: oneness of cause and effect (See ten onenesses)

inga-guji （因果倶時）: simultaneity of cause and effect

inga-iji （因果異時）: non-simultaneity of cause and effect (See simultaneity of cause and effect)

Inga-kyō （因果経）: Causality Sutra (See Causality of Past and Present Sutra)

ingei （印契）: mudra

Ingen （隠元）

i’nin-shitsudan （為人悉檀）: to teach according to people’s respective capacities (See four ways of preaching)

innen （因縁）: dependent origination

innen-kan （因縁観）: meditation on dependent origination (See five meditations)

Ionnō-butsu （威音王仏）: Awesome Sound King

Ippen （一遍）

ippōin （一法印）: one Dharma seal (See Dharma seal)

ippon-nihan （一品二半）: one chapter and two halves

iran （伊蘭）: eranda

Iryō （遺竜）: I-lung

Ishana-ten （伊舎那天）: Ishāna

Ishikawa no Hyōe-nyūdō （石河の兵衛入道）: Ishikawa no Hyōe, the lay priest

Ishikawa-shōja （石川精舎）: Ishikawa Monastery

ishin-daie （以信代慧）: substituting faith for wisdom

ishin-denshin （以心伝心）: transmission from mind to mind

ishin-tokunyū （以信得入）: gaining entrance through faith alone (See “Simile and Parable” chapter)

issai-chi （一切智）: wisdom to understand the universal aspect of phenomena (See three kinds of wisdom)

issai-kaiku （一切皆苦）: All existence is suffering. (See Dharma seal)

issaikyō （一切経）: entire body of Buddhist scriptures (See five thousand and forty-eight volumes)

Issaikyō-ongi （一切経音義）: Pronunciation and Meaning in the Buddhist Scriptures

issai-shu-chi （一切種智）: wisdom to understand both the universal aspect and individual aspects of phenomena (See three kinds of wisdom)

Issai-shujō-kiken-bosatsu （一切衆生喜見菩薩）: Gladly Seen by All Living Beings (2)

Issai-shujō-kiken-nyorai （一切衆生喜見如来）: Gladly Seen by All Living Beings (1)

issai-shujō-shitsu’u-busshō （一切衆生悉有仏性）: All living beings alike possess the Buddha nature. (See Buddha nature)

Issan Ichinei （一山一寧）: I-shan I-ning (See Kokan Shiren)

issendai （一闡提）: icchantika

Issetsu-bu （一説部）: Ekavyāvahārika school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

Isshin-kaimon （一心戒文）: The Record of the Precepts of the One Mind (See Kōjō)

isshin-sanchi （一心三智）: three kinds of wisdom in a single mind (See three kinds of wisdom)

isshin-sangan （一心三観）: threefold contemplation in a single mind

isshin-soku-sanjin （一身即三身）: A single Buddha possesses all three bodies. (See three bodies)

isshō-jōbutsu （一生成仏）: attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime

itai-dōshin （異体同心）: many in body, one in mind

itton-kyō （一音教）: one voice teaching (See three schools of the south and seven schools of the north)

Izu-ruzai （伊豆流罪）: Izu Exile

jakkō-do （寂光土）: Land of Tranquil Light

Jakunichi-bō （寂日房）

Jakunichi-bō Nikke （寂日房日家） (1)

Jakunichi-bō Nikke （寂日房日華） (2)

Jakushō （寂照）

Jamyō-gedō （邪命外道）: Ājīvika school

Janakutta （闍那崛多）: Jnānagupta

Jayana （闍夜那）: Jayata

Jayata （闍夜多）: Jayata

ji （慈）: maitrī

Jibakara （地婆訶羅）: Divākara

Jibu-bō （治部房）

Jie （慈慧）

Jien （慈円）

Jiga-ge （自我偈）: verse section of the “Life Span” chapter

jigoku （地獄）: hell

jigoku-kai （地獄界）: world of hell

jigyō-keta （自行化他）: benefiting oneself and benefiting others; practice for oneself and others

jihi （慈悲）: compassion

jihi-kan （慈悲観）: meditation on compassion (See five meditations)

jijuyūshin （自受用身）: Buddha of limitless joy; Buddha of self-enjoyment

jikai-haramitsu （持戒波羅蜜）: pāramitā of keeping the precepts (See six pāramitās)

jikai-hongyaku-nan （自界叛逆難）: calamity of revolt within one’s own domain

Jikaku （慈覚）

jiki-dō （食堂）: dining hall (See seven-halled temple)

jikihō-gaki （食法餓鬼）: Law-devouring hungry spirit

jikishi-ninshin （直指人心）: direct pointing to the human mind

jikkai （十戒）: ten precepts

jikkai （十界）: Ten Worlds

jikkai-gogu （十界互具）: mutual possession of the Ten Worlds

jikkyō （十境）: ten objects

jikkyō （実経）: true sutra (See provisional sutras)

jikkyō （実教）: true teaching

Jikoku-ten （持国天）: Upholder of the Nation

Jiku-butsunen （竺仏念）: Chu Fo-nien

Jiku-dōshō （竺道生）: Chu Tao-sheng

Jiku-hōgo （竺法護）: Dharmaraksha (1)

Jiku-hōran （竺法蘭）: Chu Fa-lan

Jimmitsu-kyō （深密経）: Profound Secrets Sutra

Jimon-ha （寺門派）: Temple school

jinja-waku （塵沙惑）: illusions innumerable as particles of dust and sand (See three categories of illusion)

jinkyō-tsū （神境通）: power to be anywhere at will (See six transcendental powers)

Jinna （陳那）: Dignāga

ji-no-ichinen-sanzen （事の一念三千）: actual three thousand realms in a single moment of life (See three thousand realms in a single moment of life)

Jinriki-hon （神力品）: “Supernatural Powers” chapter

jinshin-kanjō （深信観成）: to realize with deep faith the truth expounded by the Buddha (See four stages of faith)

Jinshirō （神四郎）: See three martyrs of Atsuhara

Jinshū （神秀）: Shen-hsiu

jinsoku-tsū （神足通）: power to be anywhere at will (See six transcendental powers)

Jintai （神泰）: Shen-t’ai

jintsū-daiichi （神通第一）: foremost in transcendental powers (See Maudgalyāyana)

Jintsū-ji （神通寺）: Shen-t’ung-ssu temple (See pagoda)

jintsū-myō （神通妙）: mystic principle of transcendental power (See ten mystic principles)

jintsū-riki （神通力）: supernatural power; transcendental power (See six transcendental powers)

Jion （慈恩）: Tz’u-en

Jion-ji （慈恩寺）: Tz’u-en-ssu

jipparamitsu （十波羅蜜）: ten pāramitās

jippō （十方）: ten directions

jippō-bunshin-no-shobutsu （十方分身の諸仏）: emanation Buddhas of the ten directions (See emanations of the Buddha)

jippō-do （実報土）: Land of Actual Reward

jippō-no-shobutsu （十方の諸仏）: Buddhas of the ten directions (See ten directions)

jippunimon （十不二門）: ten onenesses

Jippunimon （十不二門）: Ten Onenesses, The

jiri （自利）: benefiting oneself (See benefiting oneself and benefiting others)

jiriki （自力）: power of self

jiri-kumitsu （事理倶密）: esoteric teachings in both theory and practice

jiri-rita （自利利他）: benefiting oneself and benefiting others

jiritsu-daiichi （持律第一）: foremost in observing the precepts (See Upāli)

Jiritsuronshō-ha （自立論証派）: Svātantrika school

Jiron-shū （地論宗）: Treatise on the Ten Stages Sutra school

jishi （自恣）: pravārana

Jishi （慈氏）: Compassionate One

jishō （自性）: self-nature

jishō-shin （自性身）: self-nature body (See Buddha of self-enjoyment)

Ji-shū （時宗）: Time school

Jison （慈尊）: Compassionate Honored One

Jisshananda （実叉難陀）: Shikshānanda

jisshin （十信）: ten stages of faith

jisshū （十宗）: ten doctrines

jisshū （十宗）: ten schools

jisshu-kuyō （十種供養）: ten kinds of offerings

jissō （実相）: true aspect (See true aspect of all phenomena)

jissō-in （実相印）: Dharma seal of the ultimate reality (See Dharma seal)

Jissō-ji （実相寺）

Jisui （持水）: Water Holder

jita-funi-mon （自他不二門）: oneness of self and others (See ten onenesses)

jitsu-daijō-kyo （実大乗教）: true Mahayana teaching

Jitsue （実慧）

jittai （集諦）: truth of the origin of suffering (See four noble truths)

Jittoku （実得）: Truly Attaining (See six ministers)

jiyu-no-bosatsu （地涌の菩薩）: Bodhisattvas of the Earth

Jizō-bosatsu （地蔵菩薩）: Earth Repository

Jizō-shinkō （地蔵信仰）: belief in Bodhisattva Earth Repository (See Earth Repository)

jō （乗）: yāna

Jō-agon-gyō （長阿含経）: Long Āgama Sutra

Jōbonnō （浄飯王）: Shuddhodana

jo-bun （序分）: preparation section

jōbutsu （成仏）: attainment of Buddhahood

Jōchi-ji （浄智寺）: See Five Temples

jōdo （浄土）: pure land

jōdō （成道）: attaining the way (See way)

Jōdo-goso （浄土五祖）: five patriarchs of the Chinese Pure Land school

Jōdo-kyō （浄土教）: Pure Land school (1)

Jōdo-ron （浄土論）: Treatise on the Pure Land, The

Jōdoron-chū （浄土論註）: Commentary on “The Treatise on the Pure Land,” The

Jōdo-sambu-kyō （浄土三部経）: three Pure Land sutras

Jōdo Shin-shū （浄土真宗）: True Pure Land school

Jōdo-shū （浄土宗）: Pure Land school

jōe （上衣）: outer robe (See three robes)

Jōfukyō-bosatsu （常不軽菩薩）: Never Disparaging

Jōfukyō-bosatsu-hon （常不軽菩薩品）: “Bodhisattva Never Disparaging” chapter

Jōgen （浄眼）: Pure Eye

Jōgen-roku （貞元録）: Chen-yüan era catalog (See Chen-yüan Era Catalog of the Buddhist Canon, The)

Jōgen-shakkyō-roku （貞元釈教録）: Chen-yüan Era Catalog of the Buddhist Canon, The

jōgō （定業）: fixed karma

jōgo-jōbu （調御丈夫）: Trainer of People (See ten honorable titles)

jōgo-ten （浄居天）: heavens of purity

Jōgū-taishi （上宮太子）: Prince Jōgū (See Shōtoku, Prince)

jo-gyō （助行）: supporting practice (See Six-Volume Writings, The)

Jōgyō-bosatsu （浄行菩薩）: Pure Practices

Jōgyō-bosatsu （上行菩薩）: Superior Practices

Jōgyō-bosatsu-no-saitan （上行菩薩の再誕）: reincarnation of Bodhisattva Superior Practices (See Superior Practices)

jōgyō-zammai （常行三昧）: constant active meditation (See four forms of meditation)

Jo-hon （序品）: “Introduction” chapter

jōjakkō-do （常寂光土）: Land of Eternally Tranquil Light

Jōjin （成尋）

Jōjitsu-ron （成実論）: Treatise on the Establishment of Truth, The

Jōjitsu-shū （成実宗）: Establishment of Truth school

jō-jū-e-kū （成住壊空）: formation, continuance, decline, and disintegration (See four kalpas)

jōjū-kyō （常住教）: teaching of the eternity of the Buddha nature (See three schools of the south and seven schools of the north)

Jōkaku-bō （成覚房）

Jōkan （静観）

Jōken-bō （浄顕房）

Jōkeshukuōchi-butsu （浄華宿王智仏）: Pure Flower Constellation King Wisdom (See “Bodhisattva Wonderful Sound” chapter)

jō-kō （成劫）: kalpa of formation

Jōkō-butsu （錠光仏）: Fixed Light

Jōkōmyō-ji （浄光明寺）

jō-kon （上根）: superior capacity (See three groups of voice-hearers )

Jōkōshōgon-koku （浄光荘厳国）: Adorned with Pure Light (See “Bodhisattva Wonderful Sound” chapter)

Jōmetsu-butsu （常滅仏）: Ever Extinguished (See sixteen princes)

Jōmyō-ji （浄妙寺）: See Five Temples

Jōmyōku-ron （浄明句論）: Prasannapadā (See Chandrakīrti [1] )

Jōmyō-kyō （浄名経）: Vimalakīrti Sutra

jō-raku-ga-jō （常楽我浄）: eternity, happiness, true self, and purity (See four virtues)

Jō-ron （肇論）: Treatises of Seng-chao, The

Jōruri-sekai （浄瑠璃世界）: Pure Emerald World

Jōse-bosatsu （常施菩薩）: Constant Donations (See Sutra on Resolving Doubts about the Middle Day of the Law)

Jōshō （定照）: See Refutation of “The Nembutsu Chosen above All,” A

jōshō-bosatsu （定性菩薩）: those predestined to be bodhisattvas (See five natures)

jōshō-engaku （定性縁覚）: those predestined to be cause-awakened ones (See five natures)

Jōshōjin-bosatsu （常精進菩薩）: Constant Exertion (See “Benefits of the Teacher of the Law” chapter)

jo-shō-rutsū （序正流通）: preparation, revelation, and transmission (See Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra, The)

jōshosa-chi （成所作智）: wisdom of perfect practice (See five kinds of wisdom)

jōshō-shōmon （定性声聞）: those predestined to be voice-hearers (See five natures)

Jōtai-bosatsu （常啼菩薩）: Ever Wailing

Jōtoku-bunin （浄徳夫人）: Pure Virtue

Jō-yuishiki-ron （成唯識論）: Treatise on the Establishment of the Consciousness-Only Doctrine, The

Jōza-bu （上座部）: Theravāda school

jōza-zammai （常坐三昧）: constant sitting meditation (See four forms of meditation)

Jōzō （浄蔵）: Pure Storehouse

jū-aku （十悪）: ten evil acts

jū-chōyō （十長養）: ten steps in the nourishment of perfection (See Brahmā Net Sutra)

jūdai-bu （十大部）: ten major writings

jūdai-deshi （十大弟子）: ten major disciples

Judō （儒童）: Learned Youth

jū-ekō （十廻向）: ten stages of devotion

Jufuku-ji （寿福寺）

Jugaku-mugaku-ninki-hon （授学無学人記品）: “Prophecies Conferred on Learners and Adepts” chapter

jū-gemmon （十玄門）: ten mysteries

Jūgi （従義）: Ts’ung-i

jū-gō （十号）: ten honorable titles

jū-gyō （十行）: ten stages of practice

jūhachi-bu （十八部）: eighteen Hinayana schools

jūhachi-fugūhō （十八不共法）: eighteen unshared properties

jūhachi-hen （十八変）: eighteen miraculous powers

jūhachi-kai （十八界）: eighteen elements

jūhachi-ten （十八天）: eighteen heavens

jū-haramitsu （十波羅蜜）: ten pāramitās

jū-hosshu （十発趣）: ten initial stages (See Brahmā Net Sutra)

Jūichimen-kannon （十一面観音）: Eleven-faced Perceiver of the World’s Sounds

Jūichimen-kannon-jinju-kyō （十一面観音神呪経）: Mysterious Spells of the Eleven-faced Perceiver of the World’s Sounds Sutra (See Eleven-faced Perceiver of the World’s Sounds)

jūin-shika （従因至果）: cause to effect (See cause and effect)

jūittsū-gosho （十一通御書）: eleven letters of remonstrance (See Toki Jōnin)

jū-ji （十地）: ten stages of development

Jūji-kyō （十地経）: Ten Stages Sutra

Jūjikyō-ron （十地経論）: Treatise on the Ten Stages Sutra, The

jūji-no-hihō （十事の非法）: ten unlawful revisions

jū-jinriki （十神力）: ten supernatural powers

juji-soku-kanjin （受持即観心）: Embracing the Gohonzon is in itself observing one’s own mind. (See observation of the mind)

Jūji-yujuppon （従地涌出品）: “Emerging from the Earth” chapter

jūjō-kampō （十乗観法）: ten meditations

jūju （重頌）: geya

jū-jū （十住）: ten stages of security

Jūjū-bibasha-ron （十住毘婆沙論）: Commentary on the Ten Stages Sutra, The

jū-jūkinkai （十重禁戒）: ten major precepts

Jūju-ritsu （十誦律）: Ten Divisions of Monastic Rules, The

jū-jūshin （十住心）: ten stages of the mind

Jūjū-shin-ron （十住心論）: Treatise on the Ten Stages of the Mind, The

jūka-kōin （従果向因）: effect to cause (See cause and effect)

Juketsu-shū （授決集）: Collection of Orally Transmitted Teachings, A

juki （授記）: prophecy of future enlightenment

Juki-hon （授記品）: “Bestowal of Prophecy” chapter

jū-kō （住劫）: kalpa of continuance

jūkō-daiku-no-gen （住劫第九の減）: ninth period of decrease in the kalpa of continuance

jū-kongō （十金剛）: ten diamond steps of firmness (See Brahmā Net Sutra)

Jūkudoku-bon （十功徳品）: “Ten Benefits” chapter (See Immeasurable Meanings Sutra)

jumon （呪文）: magic spells (See Shugendō school)

jū-mujō （十無上）: ten peerlessnesses

jū-myō （十妙）: ten mystic principles

Junda （純陀）: Chunda

jun’en （純円）: pure and perfect teaching (See combining, excluding, corresponding, and including)

jun’en （順縁）: relationship of acceptance (See reverse relationship)

jungen-gō （順現業）: karma whose effects are destined to appear in the same lifetime (See fixed karma)

jungo-gō （順後業）: karma whose effects are destined to appear in a third or even later lifetime (See fixed karma)

Jungyō （順暁）: Shun-hsiao

jūnibu-kyō （十二部経）: twelve divisions of the scriptures

jūnibun-kyō （十二分教）: twelve divisions of the teachings

jūni-daigan （十二大願）: twelve great vows

jūni-gan （十二願）: twelve vows

jūni-innen （十二因縁）: twelve-linked chain of causation

Jūni-mon-ron （十二門論）: Treatise on the Twelve Gates, The

junin-funi-mon （受潤不二門）: oneness of benefits (See ten onenesses)

jūni-nyū （十二入）: twelve sense fields

jūni-sho （十二処）: twelve sense fields

jūni-ten （十二天）: twelve gods

jūni-zuda-gyō （十二頭陀行）: twelvefold dhūta practice

Junsai （遵西）

Junse-gedō （順世外道）: Lokāyata

Junshiki （遵式）: Tsun-shih

junshō-gō （順生業）: karma whose effects are destined to appear in the next lifetime (See fixed karma)

Junshōri-ron （順正理論）: Treatise on Accordance with the Correct Doctrine, The

jū-nyoze （十如是）: ten factors of life

jū-ō （十王）: ten kings

jū-rasetsu-nyo （十羅刹女）: ten demon daughters

Jūren （住蓮）

jū-riki （十力）: ten powers

Jūriki-kashō （十力迦葉）: Dashabala Kāshyapa

Jurōjin （寿老人）: See seven beneficent deities

jūroku-daikoku （十六大国）: sixteen great states

jūroku-kan （十六観）: sixteen types of meditation

jūroku-ōji （十六王子）: sixteen princes

jūroku-rakan （十六羅漢）: sixteen arhats

Juryō-hon （寿量品）: “Life Span” chapter

jūshi-hibō （十四誹謗）: fourteen slanders

Jūshin-bon （住心品）: “Stage of the Mind” chapter (See ten stages of the mind)

jū-yu （十喩）: ten similes

jū-zen （十善）: ten good acts

jū-zen-kai （十善戒）: ten good precepts

juzu （数珠）: prayer beads

Kabimara （迦毘摩羅）: Kapimala

Kabira （迦毘羅）: Kapila

Kabirae-koku （迦毘羅衛国）: Kapilavastu

Kadamu-ha （カダム派）: Kadam school (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Kagyū-ha （カギュー派）: Kagyu school (See Tibetan Buddhism)

kai （界）: dhātu

kai （戒）: precepts

kai-butchiken （開仏知見）: to open the door of Buddha wisdom to all living beings (See “Expedient Means” chapter)

kaidan （戒壇）: ordination platform

Kaifukeō-nyorai （開敷華王如来）: Florescence King (See five Buddhas)

kaifumbetsu-kan （界分別観）: meditation on the correct discernment of the phenomenal world (See five meditations)

Kaigen （戒賢）: Shīlabhadra

Kaigen-ji （開元寺）: K’ai-yüan-ssu

kaigen-kuyō （開眼供養）: eye-opening ceremony

Kaigen-shakkyō-roku （開元釈教録）: K’ai-yüan Era Catalog of the Buddhist Canon, The

kaigon-kenjitsu （開権顕実）: opening the provisional and revealing the true

kaigon-kennon （開近顕遠）: opening the near and revealing the distant

kaihō-gyō （回峰行）: making a round on the mountain (See Sō’ō)

kaiin-zammai （海印三昧）: ocean-imprint meditation

kai-ji-go-nyū （開示悟入）: to open the door of Buddha wisdom to all living beings, to show the Buddha wisdom to living beings, to cause living beings to awaken to the Buddha wisdom, and induce living beings to enter the path of Buddha wisdom (See “Expedient Means” chapter)

kai-jō-e （戒定慧）: precepts, meditation, and wisdom

Kai-kō （甲斐公）: See Nichiji

Kaimoku-shō （開目抄）: Opening of the Eyes, The

Kainichi-ō （戒日王）: Shīlāditya

Kairyūō-kyō （海竜王経）: Dragon King of the Sea Sutra

kaisan-ken’ichi （開三顕一）: replacement of the three vehicles with the one vehicle

Kaishō-no-haibutsu （会昌の廃仏）: Hui-ch’ang Persecution

kaiten-no-jōbutsu （改転の成仏）: attaining Buddhahood through transformation (See attainment of Buddhahood)

kaji-fuu-nan （過時不雨難）: calamity of drought (See seven disasters)

Kajō （嘉祥）: Chia-hsiang

Kakaba-jigoku （臛臛婆地獄）: Hahava hell (See eight cold hells)

kakō （火坑）: fiery pit

Kako-genzai-inga-kyō （過去現在因果経）: Causality of Past and Present Sutra

kakō-sammai （火坑三昧）: fire-pit meditation

kako-se （過去世）: past existence (See three existences)

kako-shichi-butsu （過去七仏）: seven Buddhas of the past

Kakuban （覚鑁）

kakugi （格義）: matching the meaning (See way)

Kakumyō （覚明）

Kakunyo （覚如）: See Hongan-ji

kakurin （鶴林）: crane grove (See sal tree)

Kakurokuyana （鶴勒夜那）: Haklenayashas

kakusha （覚者）: Enlightened One

Kakushin-ni （覚信尼）: See Hongan-ji

Kakutoku-biku （覚徳比丘）: Realization of Virtue

Kakuun （覚運）

kakyō （火坑）: fiery pit

kakyō-zammai （火坑三昧）: fire-pit meditation

Kamakura-gozan （鎌倉五山）: Five Temples of Kamakura (See Five Temples)

Kamarashīra （カマラシーラ）: Kamalashīla (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Kambosha-koku （甘菩遮国）: Kamboja (See sixteen great states)

Kambotsu-hon （勧発品）: “Encouragements” chapter

kambutsu-sammai （観仏三昧）: meditation to behold the Buddhas (See Sutra of the Meditation to Behold the Buddhas)

Kambutsu-sammai-kai-kyō （観仏三昧海経）: Ocean of Meditation on the Buddha Sutra

Kambutsu-sammai-kyō （観仏三昧経）: Meditation on the Buddha Sutra

Kammuryōju-kyō （観無量寿経）: Meditation on the Buddha Infinite Life Sutra

Kammuryōjukyō-sho （観無量寿経疏）: Commentary on the Meditation on the Buddha Infinite Life Sutra, The

Kanāda （カナーダ）: Kanāda

Kanadaiba （迦那提婆）: Kānadeva

Kanahara-hokkō （金原法橋）: See Kimbara

Kanchi-zenji （鑑智禅師）: Meditation Master Chien-chih (See Seng-ts’an)

Kanchō （寛朝）: See Yakushin

Kan-fugen-bosatsu-gyōhō-kyō （観普賢菩薩行法経）: Sutra on How to Practice Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy

kan-fukashigi-kyō （観不可思議境）: meditation on the region of the unfathomable (See ten meditations)

kan-fushigi-kyō （観不思議境）: meditation on the region of the unfathomable (See ten meditations)

kangi-ji （歓喜地）: stage of joy (See ten stages of development)

Kangi-koku （歓喜国）: Land of Joy

Kan-gyō （観経）: Meditation Sutra

kangyō-soku （観行即）: stage of perception and action

Kanishika-ō （迦弐色迦王）: Kanishka

Kanji-hon （勧持品）: “Encouraging Devotion” chapter

Kanjihon-no-nijūgyō-no-ge （観持品の二十行の偈）: twenty-line verse of the “Encouraging Devotion” chapter (See “Encouraging Devotion” chapter)

kanjin （観心）: observation of the mind

Kanjin-no-honzon-shō （観心本尊抄）: Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind, The

Kanjin-ron （観心論）: Treatise on the Observation of the Mind, The

Kanjizai-bosatsu （観自在菩薩）: Freely Perceiving

kanjō （灌頂）: ceremony of anointment

Kanjō （灌頂）: Kuan-ting

Kanki-zōyaku-nyorai （歓喜増益如来）: Joy Increasing (See Possessor of Virtue)

kanku-chō （寒苦鳥）: cold-suffering bird

kannin-sekai （堪忍世界）: world of endurance

kannō-myō （感応妙）: mystic principle of responsive communion (See ten mystic principles)

Kannon-bon （観音品）: “Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” chapter

Kannon-bosatsu （観音菩薩）: Perceiver of Sounds

Kannon-gengi （観音玄義）: Profound Meaning of the “Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” Chapter, The

Kannon-gyō （観音経）: Perceiver of the World’s Sounds Sutra

Kanrin （寒林）: Shītavana

kanro （甘露）: amrita

Kanrobonnō （甘露飯王）: Amritodana

Kanroku （観勒）

kan’yaku-butten （漢訳仏典）: Chinese versions of Buddhist scriptures (See five thousand and forty-eight volumes)

Kan-yakuō-yakujō-nibosatsu-kyō （観薬王薬上二菩薩経）: Meditation on the Two Bodhisattvas Medicine King and Medicine Superior Sutra (See Medicine King)

Kanzeon-bosatsu （観世音菩薩）: Perceiver of the World’s Sounds

Kanzeon-bosatsu-bon （観世音菩薩品）: “Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” chapter

Kanzeon-bosatsu-fumon-bon （観世音菩薩普門品）: “Universal Gateway of the Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” chapter

Kanzeon-ji （観世音寺）

Karada-sen （伽羅陀山）: Kharadīya, Mount

karagura （迦羅求羅）: kālakula

Karakuda-kasennen （迦羅鳩駄迦旃延）: Pakudha Kacchāyana

karakura （迦羅求羅）: kālakula

Karanda （迦蘭陀）: Kalandaka

Karibatsuma （訶梨跋摩）: Harivarman

Kari-ō （迦利王）: Kāli

Karudai （迦留陀夷）: Kālodāyin

karura （迦楼羅）: garuda

karyōbinga （迦陵頻伽）: kalavinka

Kasai （迦才）: Chia-ts’ai (See Treatise on the Pure Land, The [2] )

Kasei-kairō （河西回廊）: Kansu Corridor (See Tun-huang)

Kasennen （迦旃延）: Kātyāyana

Kashi-koku （迦尸国）: Kāshī

Kashō-bosatsu （迦葉菩薩）: Kāshyapa (1)

Kashō-butsu （迦葉仏）: Kāshyapa (2)

Kashōi-bu （迦葉遺部）: Kāshyapīya school

Kashō-matō （迦葉摩騰）: Kāshyapa Mātanga

kashō-zammai （火生三昧）: flame-emitting meditation

Kashumira-koku （迦湿弥羅国）: Kashmir

Kataennishi （迦多衍尼子）: Kātyāyanīputra

kataku （火宅）: burning house

kataku-no-tatoe （火宅の譬）: parable of the burning house

Kataumi （片海）

katsuma-mandara （羯磨曼荼羅）: karma mandala

Katsuron-ha （勝論派）: Vaisheshika school (See Ulūka)

Katsuryōga-koku （羯陵伽国）: Kalinga (See Ashoka)

Kawanobe-no-nyūdō （河野辺の入道）: Kawanobe, the lay priest of

kazu （火途）: path of fire (See three paths [2] )

kechien-kanjō （結縁灌頂）: anointment ceremony to establish a relationship between the individual and the Buddha (See ceremony of anointment)

kechimyaku （血脈）: heritage of the Law

Kedo-ji （化度寺）: Hua-tu-ssu temple (See Three Stages school)

kegi-no-shikyō （化儀の四教）: four teachings of method

Kegi-shō （化儀抄）: On the Formalities

Kegon-gyō （華厳経）: Flower Garland Sutra

Kegongyō-sho （華厳経疏）: Annotations on the Flower Garland Sutra, The

Kegongyō-tangen-ki （華厳経探玄記）: Delving into the Profundity of the Flower Garland Sutra

Kegon-ji （華厳時）: Flower Garland period

Kegon-shū （華厳宗）: Flower Garland school

kehō-no-shikyō （化法の四教）: four teachings of doctrine

keichū-myōju-no-tatoe （髻中明珠の譬）: parable of the bright jewel in the topknot

Keihin-koku （罽賓国）: Kashmir

Keihō-zenji （圭峰禅師）: Meditation Master Kuei-feng (See Tsung-mi)

Keiin-bu （鶏胤部）: Kaukkutika school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

Keika （恵果）: Hui-kuo

Keikei （荊渓）: Ching-hsi

Keishō （慶昭）: Ch’ing-chao (See Outside-the-Mountain school)

Keisoku-sen （鶏足山）: Kukkutapāda, Mount

Keitoku-dentō-roku （景徳伝灯録）: Ching-te Era Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, The

Keizuma-ji （鶏頭摩寺）: Kukkutārāma Monastery

Keji-bu （化地部）: Mahīshāsaka school

kejō （化城）: phantom city

kejō-hōsho-no-tatoe （化城宝処の譬）: parable of the phantom city and the treasure land

kejō-yu （化城喩）: parable of the phantom city

Kejōyu-hon （化城喩品）: “Parable of the Phantom City” chapter

Kekō-nyorai （華光如来）: Flower Glow

Kempon Hokke-shū （顕本法華宗）: Truth-Revealed Lotus school

Ken’ai-ronji （賢愛論師）: Bhadraruchi

Kenchō-ji （建長寺）

Kenchoku （犍陟）: Kanthaka (See Chandaka)

Kenchū-bu （賢冑部）: Bhadrayānīya school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

kenda （乾陀）: gandha

Kendara-koku （健駄羅国）: Gandhara

kendatsuba （乾闥婆）: gandharva

ken-dō （見道）: way of insight

kendon （慳貪）: greed and stinginess

Ken’e （堅慧）: Sāramati

Ken-gō （賢劫）: Wise Kalpa

Kengu-kyō （賢愚経）: Sutra on the Wise and the Foolish

kengyō-rokudo-hon （兼行六度品）: stage of embracing the Lotus Sutra and practicing the six pāramitās (See five stages of practice)

Ken-hōtō-hon （見宝塔品）: “Emergence of the Treasure Tower” chapter

kenji-waku （見思惑）: illusions of thought and desire

ken-joku （見濁）: impurity of thought (See five impurities)

Kenkai-ron （顕戒論）: Clarification of the Precepts, A

kenkyō （顕教）: exoteric teachings

Kenne （堅慧）: Sāramati

kenneō （懸衣翁）: garment-suspending demon

Kennin-ji （建仁寺）

kenro-fujō-kyō （顕露不定教）: explicit indeterminate teaching (See four teachings of method)

Ken-senchaku （顕選択）: Clarification of “The Nembutsu Chosen above All,” A (See Ryūkan)

Kenshin （顕真）

Kensho-ji （建初寺）: Chien-ch’u-ssu temple (See K’ang-seng-hui)

kenshō-jōbutsu （見性成仏）: perceiving one’s true nature and attaining Buddhahood (See Zen school)

Kenshū-ron （顕宗論）: Clarification of Doctrine, A

kentai （顕体）: “Clarification of the Essence” section (See five major principles)

ken-tan-tai-tai （兼但対帯）: combining, excluding, corresponding, and including

ken-waku （見惑）: illusions of thought (See illusions of thought and desire)

ken’yaku （顕益）: conspicuous benefit

kenzoku-myō （眷属妙）: mystic principle of relationship (See ten mystic principles)

Keraku-ten （化楽天）: Heaven of Enjoying the Conjured

Keshi-jō （華氏城）: Pātaliputra

keshi-kō （芥子劫）: mustard-seed kalpa

keshin （化身）: transformation body

keshin-metchi （灰身滅智）: reducing the body to ashes and annihilating consciousness

ke-shō （化生）: birth by transformation (See four forms of birth)

ke-tai （仮諦）: truth of temporary existence (See three truths)

ketchō-fuzoku （結要付嘱）: transfer of the essence of the Lotus Sutra

Ketoku-bosatsu （華徳菩薩）: Flower Virtue (See “Bodhisattva Wonderful Sound” chapter)

ketsujō-shō （決定性）: determinate groups

ketsujū （結集）: Buddhist Councils

ketsumyaku （血脈）: heritage of the Law

ketsuzu （血途）: path of blood (See three paths [2] )

Kezō-sekai （華蔵世界）: Lotus Treasury World

ki （鬼）: demon

Kiben-baramon （鬼弁婆羅門）: Demon Eloquence

kibetsu （記別）: prophecy of future enlightenment

Kibyūronshō-ha （帰謬論証派）: Prāsangika school

kichijō-sō （吉祥草）: kusha grass

Kichijō-ten （吉祥天）: Auspicious

Kichizō （吉蔵）: Chi-tsang

Kiji （亀茲）: Kucha

kijin （鬼神）: spirits

Kijiru-sekkutsu （キジル石窟）: Kizil caves

Kiken-bosatsu （喜見菩薩）: Gladly Seen

Kiken-jō （喜見城）: Joyful to See

Kiki （窺基）: K’uei-chi

Kikkaya （吉迦夜）: Kinkara

Kikon-biku （喜根比丘）: Root of Joy

Kimbara-hokkyō （金原法橋）: Kimbara

kimon （鬼門）: demon gate (See Enryaku-ji)

kimyō （帰命）: devotion; dedicating one’s life (See Nam-myoho-renge-kyo)

Kinkaku-ji （金閣寺）: Chin-ko-ssu temple (See Han-kuang)

kinnara （緊那羅）: kimnara

Kiren-ga （熈連河）: Hiranyavatī

Kiriki-ō （訖哩枳王）: Kriki

Kirita-ō （訖利多王）: Krita

kishi-ki （起屍鬼）: corpse-raising demon (See vetāda)

Kishimojin （鬼子母神）: Mother of Demon Children

Kishimo-kyō （鬼子母経）: Mother of Demon Children Sutra (See Mother of Demon Children)

Kishin-ron （起信論）: Awakening of Faith

Kissa-yōjō-ki （喫茶養生記）: Drinking Tea to Improve Health and Prolong Life (See Eisai)

Kittoku （吉徳）: Auspicious Virtue (See six ministers)

Kiyomizu-dera （清水寺）

kō （香）: gandha

kō （劫）: kalpa

Kō-ama （国府尼）: Kō, the lay nun of

kōan （公案）

Kōben （高弁）

Kōbō （弘法）

Kōchi （広智）

kōchō-zetsu （広長舌）: long broad tongue

Kōdai-nyo （皐諦女）: Kuntī

kōdō （講堂）: lecture hall

Kōen （皇円）: See Brief History of Japan, A

Kōfuku-ji （興福寺）

Kogi-ha （古義派・古義真言宗）: Old Doctrine school (See True Word school)

Kō-gumyō-shū （広弘明集）: Further Anthology of the Propagation of Light, The

kōi-tasetsu （広為他説）: to expound the teaching of the Lotus Sutra widely for others (See four stages of faith)

koji （居士）: householder

kōjin （香神）: god of fragrance

Kōjō （光定）

Kō-jō （香城）: City of Fragrances

kō-joku （劫濁）: impurity of the age (See five impurities)

kōkaigon-kennon （広開近顕遠）: opening the near and revealing the distant in expanded form (See opening the near and revealing the distant)

kōkaisan-ken’ichi （広開三顕一）: expanded replacement of the three vehicles with the one vehicle

Kokan Shiren （虎関師錬）

Kōka-ten （広果天）: Large Fruitage Heaven (See eighteen heavens)

kokki （穀貴）: high grain prices

Kōkō （興皇）: Hsing-huang

Kokoba-jigoku （虎虎婆地獄）: Huhuva hell (See eight cold hells)

kokū （虚空）: ākāsha

Kokubonnō （斛飯王）: Dronodana

kokubun-ji （国分寺）: provincial temples

kokubun-niji （国分尼寺）: provincial temples for nuns

kokudo （国土）: kshetra

kokudo-seken （国土世間）: realm of the environment (See three realms of existence)

kokū-e （虚空会）: Ceremony in the Air

kokū-fudō-e （虚空不動慧）: spacelike immovable wisdom (See Three Great Secret Laws)

kokū-fudō-jō （虚空不動定）: spacelike immovable meditation (See Three Great Secret Laws)

kokū-fudō-kai （虚空不動戒）: spacelike immovable precept (See Three Great Secret Laws)

Kokujō-jigoku （黒縄地獄）: hell of black cords

Kokūjū-butsu （虚空住仏）: Void-Dwelling (See sixteen princes)

Kokusei-hyakuroku （国清百録）: One Hundred Records of the Great Teacher T’ien-t’ai, The

Kokusei-ji （国清寺）: Kuo-ch’ing-ssu

kokushi （国師）: teacher of the nation

Kokūzō-bosatsu （虚空蔵菩薩）: Space Treasury

Komatsubara-no-hōnan （小松原の法難）: Komatsubara Persecution

Kōmoku-ten （広目天）: Wide-Eyed

kompon-bonnō （根本煩悩）: fundamental earthly desires (See earthly desires)

kompon-hōrin （根本法輪）: root teaching

Kōmyō-nyorai （光明如来）: Light Bright

kon （根）: indriya

kon-dō （金堂）: golden hall (See seven-halled temple)

Kongōbei （金剛剛）: Diamond Scalpel, The

Kongōbu-ji （金剛峯寺）

Kongōchi （金剛智）: Chin-kang-chih

Kongōchō-kyō （金剛頂経）: Diamond Crown Sutra

Kongōdō-bosatsu （金剛幢菩薩）: Diamond Banner

Kongō-hannya-haramitsu-kyō （金剛般若波羅蜜経）: Diamond-like Perfection of Wisdom Sutra

Kongō-hannya-kyō （金剛般若経）: Diamond Wisdom Sutra

Kongōharamitta-bosatsu （金剛波羅蜜多菩薩）: Diamond Pāramitā (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

Kongōhō-bosatsu （金剛宝菩薩）: Diamond Treasure (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

kongō-hōki-kai （金剛宝器戒）: precept of the diamond chalice

Kongō-jō （金剛乗）: Vajrayāna

kongō-kai （金剛界）: Diamond Realm

Kongōkai-dainichi （金剛界大日）: Mahāvairochana of the Diamond Realm (See Mahāvairochana)

kongōkai-mandara （金剛界曼荼羅）: Diamond Realm mandala

Kongōku-bosatsu （金剛吼菩薩）: Diamond Roar (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

Kongō-kyō （金剛経）: Diamond Sutra

Kongōri-bosatsu （金剛利菩薩）: Diamond Benefit (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

Kongōsatta （金剛薩埵）: Vajrasattva

kongō-sho （金剛杵）: diamond-pounder

Kongōshu-bosatsu （金剛手菩薩）: Diamond Hand (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

Kongōyasha-bosatsu （金剛薬叉菩薩）: Diamond Yaksha (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

Kongōyasha-myō’ō （金剛夜叉明王）: Diamond Yaksha (See five great wisdom kings)

Kongōzō-bosatsu （金剛蔵菩薩）: Diamond Storehouse

Kōnichi-ama （光日尼）: Kōnichi, the lay nun

Kōnichi-bō （光日房）

Kōnin （弘忍）: Hung-jen

konji-chō （金翅鳥）: golden-winged bird

Konjiki-ō （金色王）: Golden Color

Konjikiō-kyō （金色王経）: King Golden Color Sutra (See Golden Color)

Konkōmyō-kyō （金光明経）: Golden Light Sutra

Konkōmyō-saishō’ō-kyō （金光明最勝王経）: Sovereign Kings of the Golden Light Sutra

Konkōmyō-shitennō-gokoku-no-tera （金光明四天王護国之寺）: temples for the protection of the nation by the power of the Golden Light Sutra and the four heavenly kings (See provincial temples)

Kō-no-ama （国府尼）: Kō, the lay nun of

konrin （金輪）: gold circle

konrin-hō （金輪宝）: gold-wheel treasure

konrin-ō （金輪王）: gold-wheel-turning king

Konron-sammyaku （崑崙山脈）: Kunlun Mountains (See Silk Road)

Kō-nyūdō （国府入道）: Kō, the lay priest of

Kō’on-ten （光音天）: Light Sound Heaven

Kōsai （幸西）

Kō-sen （香山）: Fragrant, Mount

kōsen-rufu （広宣流布）

kō-shitsu （香室）: hall of fragrance (See gandha)

Kōshō-baramon （香姓婆羅門）: Drona

Kōshō-koku （高昌国）: Kao-ch’ang

Kōshū （広脩）: Kuang-hsiu

Kōsō-den （高僧伝）: Biographies of Eminent Priests, The

Kōsōe （康僧会）: K’ang-seng-hui

Kōsōgai （康僧鎧）: Samghavarman (1)

Kōsui-sen （香酔山）: Fragrant, Mount

Kōtaku-ji （光宅寺）: Kuang-che-ssu

kotsugen-no-baramon （乞眼の婆羅門）: eye-begging Brahman

kotsujiki-gyō （乞食行）: practice of alms-begging (See bhikshu)

Kōya-san （高野山）: Kōya, Mount

Kōzen-gokoku-ron （興禅護国論）: Propagation of Zen for the Protection of the Country, The

ku （苦）: suffering

kū （空）: ākāsha

kū （空）: non-substantiality

ku-anraku-gyō （口安楽行）: peaceful practice of the mouth (See four peaceful practices)

Kubo-no-ama （窪尼）: Kubo, the lay nun of

kubun-kyō （九分経）: nine divisions of the scriptures

kubun-kyō （九分教）: nine divisions of the teachings

kudoku （功徳）: benefit; punya

kudoku-ju （功徳聚）: cluster of blessings (See mandala)

Kudokurin-bosatsu （功徳林菩薩）: Forest of Merits

kudoku-riyaku-myō （功徳利益妙）: mystic principle of merit and benefit (See ten mystic principles)

Kudon （瞿曇）: Gautama

Kudō Yoshitaka （工藤吉隆）

Kugan-biku （苦岸比丘）: Shore of Suffering

kū-gedatsumon （空解脱門）: meditation on non-substantiality (See three meditations for emancipation)

kūgen （空閑）: deserted and quiet place (See aranya)

Kugyari （瞿伽利）: Kokālika

kugyō （苦行）: ascetic practice; austere practice (See five ascetics)

kuhanda （鳩槃荼）: kumbhānda

Kui （瞿夷）: Gopikā

Kujaku-myō’ō （孔雀明王）: Peacock King (See En no Ozunu)

kujūgoshu-no-gedō （九十五種の外道）: ninety-five non-Buddhist schools

kukai （苦海）: sea of suffering (See sea of the sufferings of birth and death)

ku-kai （九界）: nine worlds

Kūkai （空海）

kukai-shogu-no-bukkai （九界所具の仏界）: inclusion of Buddhahood in the nine worlds

kukai-soku-bukkai （九界即仏界）: inclusion of Buddhahood in the nine worlds

Kukari （瞿伽利）: Kokālika

kū-kō （空劫）: kalpa of disintegration

Kukyō-ichijō-hōshō-ron （究竟一乗宝性論）: Treatise on the Treasure Vehicle of Buddhahood, The

kukyō-soku （究竟即）: stage of ultimate enlightenment

ku-man （九慢）: nine types of arrogance

Kumarada （鳩摩羅駄）: Kumārata

Kumaraen （鳩摩羅炎）: Kumārayāna

Kumarajū （鳩摩羅什）: Kumārajīva

ku-mitsu （口密）: mystery of the mouth (See three mysteries)

Kumotsuzu-jigoku （拘物頭地獄）: Kumuda hell (See eight cold hells)

Kūmuhen-jo （空無辺処）: Realm of Boundless Empty Space

Kūmuhenjo-jō （空無辺処定）: meditation on the Realm of Boundless Empty Space (See Realm of Boundless Empty Space)

Kūmuhenjo-ten （空無辺処天）: Heaven of Boundless Empty Space

Kumutora-sekkutsu （クムトラ石窟）: Kumtura caves (See Kucha)

Kunagon-butsu （倶那含仏）: Kanakamuni

kunjū-kyō （捃拾教）: teaching of gleaning

kuon-ganjo （久遠元初）

kuonganjo-no-jijuyūshin （久遠元初の自受用身）: Buddha of beginningless time

Kuon-ji （久遠寺）

kuon-jitsujō （久遠実成）: attainment of Buddhahood in the remote past

kuō-no-dainan （九横の大難）: nine great ordeals

Kuratsukuri no Tori （鞍作止利）: See Shiba Tatsuto

Kurō-koku （拘楼国）: Kuru (See sixteen great states)

kurosha （倶盧舎）: krosha

Kuru-shū （倶盧洲）: Uttarakuru

Kuruson-butsu （拘留孫仏）: Krakucchanda

kusen-hakkai （九山八海）: nine mountains and eight seas

Kushāna-chō （クシャーナ朝）: Kushan

Kusha-ron （倶舎論）: Dharma Analysis Treasury, The

Kusharon-sho （倶舎論疏）: The Annotations on “The Dharma Analysis Treasury” (See Fa-pao)

Kusha-shū （倶舎宗）: Dharma Analysis Treasury school

ku-shiki （九識）: nine consciousnesses

Kushinagara （拘尸那掲羅）: Kushinagara

Kushira （瞿師羅）: Ghoshila

Kushira-on （瞿師羅園）: Ghoshila Grove (See Ghoshila)

Kushira-shōja （瞿師羅精舎）: Ghoshila Monastery (See Ghoshila)

ku-shū （九宗）: nine schools

kusuri （薬）: bhaishajya

ku-tai （苦諦）: truth of suffering (See four noble truths)

kū-tai （空諦）: truth of non-substantiality (See three truths)

kutei （倶胝）: koti

Kutoku （苦得）: Painfully Acquired

Kuwagayatsu-mondō （桑が谷問答）: Kuwagayatsu Debate (See Ryūzō-bō)

Kūya （空也）

kuyaku （旧訳）: old translations

Kuyani （瞿耶尼）: Aparagodānīya

kuyō （供養）: offering

kuyō-kugyō-se （供養恭敬施）: offerings of praise and reverence (See three kinds of offerings)

kyakuryaku-no-santai （隔歴の三諦）: separation of the three truths

Kyō-biku （脇比丘）: Pārshva

kyōchi-myōgō （境智冥合）: fusion of reality and wisdom

Kyōdommi （憍曇弥）: Gautamī

kyōge-betsuden （教外別伝）: separate transmission outside the sutras

Kyō-gyō-shin-shō （教行信証）: Teaching, Practice, Faith, and Proof, The

kyō-gyō-shō （教行証）: teaching, practice, and proof

kyōhan （教判）: comparative classification

Kyōjinnyo （憍陳如）: Kaundinya

kyōkan （経巻）: sutra scroll (See dīpa)

Kyōkan-jigoku （叫喚地獄）: hell of wailing (See eight hot hells)

kyō-myō （境妙）: mystic principle of reality (See ten mystic principles)

Kyōnin-bō （鏡忍房）

Kyō’ō （経王）

Kyō’ō Gokoku-ji （教王護国寺）

Kyōritsu-isō （経律異相）: Divergent Concepts in the Sutras and Vinaya Texts

kyō-ritsu-ron （経律論）: sutras, texts of the rules of monastic discipline, and doctrinal treatises (See Jōjin)

kyōroku （経録）: catalog of the Buddhist canon (See Seng-yu)

Kyōryō-bu （経量部）: Sautrāntika school

Kyōryōyasha （畺良耶舎）: Kālayashas

Kyōsara-koku （憍薩羅国）: Kosala

Kyōshika （憍尸迦）: Kaushika

kyōshō （経証）: scriptural reference (See On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land)

Kyōshōmi-koku （憍賞弥国）: Kaushāmbī

kyōshu （教主）: lord of teachings

Kyōshū （経集）: Suttanipāta

kyōsō-hanjaku （教相判釈）: comparative classification

Kyō-sonja （脇尊者）: Pārshva

Kyoto-gozan （京都五山）: Five Temples of Kyoto (See Five Temples)

kyōzō （経蔵）: sutra repository

kyū-kai （九界）: nine worlds

kyūkai-soku-bukkai （九界即仏界）: inclusion of Buddhahood in the nine worlds

ma （魔）: devil

mada （末陀）: madhya (1)

Madendai （末田提）: Madhyāntika

magoraga （摩睺羅伽）: mahoraga

Mahābihāra （マハービハーラ）: Mahāvihāra (See Southern Buddhism)

Mahinda （摩呬陀）: Mahendra

maka （摩訶）: mahā

Makadaiba （摩訶提婆）: Mahādeva

Makada-koku （摩掲陀国）: Magadha

Makaen （摩訶衍）: Mo-ho-yen (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Makahadoma-jigoku （摩訶鉢特摩地獄）: Mahāpadma hell (See eight cold hells)

Makahajahadai （摩訶波闍波提）: Mahāprajāpatī

Makahandoku （摩訶槃特）: Mahāpanthaka

Makahannya-haramitsu-kyō （摩訶般若波羅蜜経）: Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra (1) (2)

Makakara-ten （摩訶迦羅天）: Mahākāla

Makakasennen （摩訶迦旃延）: Mahākātyāyana

Makakashō （摩訶迦葉）: Mahākāshyapa

Makamaya （摩訶摩耶）: Mahāmāyā

Makamokkenren （摩訶目姒連）: Mahāmaudgalyāyana

Makanan （摩訶男）: Mahānāma

makasatsu （摩訶薩）: mahāsattva

Makasatta （摩訶薩埵）: Mahāsattva

Maka-shikan （摩訶止観）: Great Concentration and Insight

Maka-sōgi-ritsu （摩訶僧祇律）: Great Canon of Monastic Rules, The

makatsu （摩竭）: makara

Makeishura-ten （摩醯首羅天）: Maheshvara

Makiguchi Tsunesaburō （牧口常三郎）: See Soka Gakkai

Makkari-kushari （末伽梨拘舎梨）: Makkhali Gosāla

Mampuku-ji （万福寺）: See Ōbaku school

man （慢）: arrogance

mana-shiki （末那識）: mano-consciousness

Manashi-ryūō （摩那斯竜王）: Manasvin (See eight great dragon kings)

mandara （曼荼羅）: mandala

mandara-ke （曼陀羅華）: māndāra flower

Mandata-ō （曼陀多王）: Born from the Crown of the Head

mandō （慢幢）: banner of arrogance (See arrogance)

mani （摩尼）: mani

Manju-ji （万寿寺）: See Five Temples

manjusha-ge （曼殊沙華）: manjūshaka flower

Manura （摩奴羅）: Manorhita

Manurata （摩羅他）: Manoratha

maō （魔王）: devil king

mappō （末法）: Latter Day of the Law

Mappō-sō’ō-shō （末法相応抄）: “The Teaching for the Latter Day” (See Six-Volume Writings, The)

Mappō-tōmyō-ki （末法燈明記）: Treatise on the Lamp for the Latter Day of the Law, The

Māra （マーラ）: Māra (See devil)

Marei-sen （摩黎山）: Malaya, Mount

Mari （末利）: Mallikā

Mari-sen （摩黎山）: Malaya, Mount

Marishi-ten （摩利支天）: Marīchi

Marupa （マルパ）: Marpa (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Ma-ten （魔天）: Heaven of Māra

Matōba （摩沓婆）: Mādhava (See Gunamati)

Matōga （摩騰迦）: Mātanga

Matora-koku （摩突羅国）: Mathura

Matsubagayatsu （松葉ケ谷）

Matsubagayatsu-no-hōnan （松葉ケ谷の法難）: Matsubagayatsu Persecution

Matsuno Rokurō Saemon （松野六郎左衛門）

Matsura （末羅）: Malla

Maya （摩耶）: Māyā

Maya-kyō （摩耶経）: Māyā Sutra

meigo-funi （迷悟不二）: oneness of delusion and enlightenment

Mei-tei （明帝）: Emperor Ming (See Pai-ma-ssu)

Memyō （馬鳴）: Ashvaghosha

mettai （滅諦）: truth of the cessation of suffering (See four noble truths)

mezu （馬頭）: horse-headed demons

Mii-dera （三井寺）

miken-byakugō-sō （眉間白毫相）: tuft of white hair between the eyebrows

mikkyō （密教）: Esoteric Buddhism

Mikuni no Taifu （三国太夫）

Minobu-san （身延山）: Minobu, Mount

Minobu-san-fuzoku-sho （身延山付嘱書）: Document for Entrusting Minobu-san, The

Minobu-sōjō-sho （身延相承書）: Minobu Transfer Document, The

mirai-se （未来世）: future existence (See three existences)

Mirakutsu （弥羅掘）

Mīrān （ミーラーン）: Miran

Miranda-ō （弥蘭陀王）: Milinda

Mirarēpa （ミラレーパ）: Milarepa (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Mirindaō-monkyō （ミリンダ王問経）: Milindapanha

Miroku （弥勒）: Maitreya (2)

Miroku-bosatsu （弥勒菩薩）: Maitreya (1)

Miroku-geshō-kyō （弥勒下生経）: Advent of Maitreya Sutra (See Earth Repository)

Miroku-shinkō （弥勒信仰）: belief in Maitreya (See Maitreya [1] )

Misawa Kojirō （三沢小次郎）

Mishaka （弥遮迦）: Mikkaka

Mishasoku-bu （弥沙塞部）: Mahīshāsaka school

Mishō’on （未生怨）: Enemy before Birth

Mitsugon （密厳）: Secret Solemnity

Mitsugon-gyō （密厳経）: Secret Solemnity Sutra

Mitsugon-jōdo （密厳浄土）: Pure Land of Secret Solemnity

mitsugyō-daiichi （密行第一）: foremost in inconspicuous practice (See Rāhula)

Mitsurinsen-bu （密林山部）: Shannāgarika school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

mōki-no-tatoe （盲亀の譬）: parable of the blind turtle (See one-eyed turtle)

Mokkenren （目犍連）: Maudgalyāyana

Mokkenrenshi-teishu （目犍連子帝須）: Moggaliputta Tissa (See Buddhist Councils)

Mokuren （目連）: Maudgalyāyana

mompō-geshu （聞法下種）: sowing the seeds by letting one hear the teaching (See planting the seeds of Buddhahood)

Mongaku （文覚）

Monjushiri-bosatsu （文殊師利菩薩）: Manjushrī

mon-shō （文証）: documentary proof (See three proofs)

Montei-hichin-shō （文底秘沈抄）: “The Meanings Hidden in the Depths” (See Six-Volume Writings, The)

Mubon-ten （無煩天）: Heaven of No Vexations (See eighteen heavens)

mubotsu-shiki （無没識）: never-perishing consciousness (See ālaya-consciousness)

mugaku （無学）: one who has nothing more to learn (See arhat)

mugaku-dō （無学道）: way of the arhat (See three ways)

Mugaku Sogen （無学祖元）

mugan-gedatsumon （無願解脱門）: meditation on non-desire (See three meditations for emancipation)

muge-chi （無礙智）: unhindered wisdom

muhen （無辺）: ananta

Muhengyō-bosatsu （無辺行菩薩）: Boundless Practices

mui （無畏）: fearlessness

mui （無為）: nonaction (See way)

mui （無為）: unconditioned, the

Muijūrikiku-bosatsu （無畏十力吼菩薩）: Roar of Fearlessness and Ten Powers (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

mui-se （無畏施）: offering of fearlessness (See almsgiving)

Muisen-ji （無畏山寺）: Abhayagiri monastery (See Southern Buddhism)

Muisenji-ha （無畏山寺派）: Abhayagiri school (See Southern Buddhism)

Mujaku （無著）: Asanga

mujin-engi （無尽縁起）: interrelation of all phenomena; mutual inclusiveness of all phenomena (See Indra’s net)

Mujinni-bosatsu （無尽意菩薩）: Inexhaustible Intent (See “Universal Gateway of the Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” chapter)

Mujin-zō （無尽蔵）: Inexhaustible Treasury (See Three Stages school)

mu-jishō （無自性）: nonexistence of self-nature (See non-substantiality)

mujō （無上）: anuttara

mujō-bodai （無上菩提）: unsurpassed enlightenment

mujō-dō （無上道）: unsurpassed way

mujō-hōju （無上宝聚）: cluster of unsurpassed jewels (See four great voice-hearers)

mujōshi （無上士）: Unexcelled Worthy

mujō-shōtō-shōgaku （無上正等正覚）: anuttara-samyak-sambodhi

mukenchō-sō （無見頂相）: unseen crown of the head

Muken-daijō （無間大城）: great citadel of the hell of incessant suffering

Muken-jigoku （無間地獄）: hell of incessant suffering

muki （無記）: unlabeled, the

Muku-ronji （無垢論師）: Vimalamitra

Muku-sekai （無垢世界）: Spotless World (See dragon king’s daughter)

muku-shiki （無垢識）: free-of-defilement consciousness (See amala-consciousness)

Mukuyū （無垢友）: Vimalamitra

mumyō （無明）: ignorance; moha

mumyō-waku （無明惑）: illusions about the true nature of existence (See three categories of illusion)

Munetchi （無熱池）: Heat-Free Lake

Munetsu-ten （無熱天）: Heaven of No Heat (See eighteen heavens)

muni （牟尼）: muni

muro （無漏）: freedom from outflows (See outflows)

muro-chi （無漏智）: wisdom without outflows (See four good roots)

muro-jō （無漏定）: meditation without outflows (See outflows)

muro-shin （無漏身）: body without outflows (See outflows)

muryō （無量）: ananta

Muryōgi-kyō （無量義経）: Immeasurable Meanings Sutra

muryōgisho-sammai （無量義処三昧）: samādhi of the origin of immeasurable meanings

Muryōi （無量意）: Immeasurable Intention (See ananta)

Muryōjō-ten （無量浄天）: Boundless Purity Heaven (See twenty-eight heavens)

Muryōju-butsu （無量寿仏）: Amitāyus; Infinite Life

Muryōju-kyō （無量寿経）: Buddha Infinite Life Sutra

Muryōkō-butsu （無量光仏）: Amitābha; Infinite Light

Muryōkō-ten （無量光天）: Infinite Light Heaven (See eighteen heavens)

Muryōrikiku-bosatsu （無量力吼菩薩）: Infinitely Powerful Roar (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

musa-no-sanjin （無作の三身）: Buddha eternally endowed with the three bodies (See true Buddha)

mushi-chi （無師智）: teacherless wisdom

mushiki-kai （無色界）: world of formlessness

mushō-bōnin （無生法忍）: realization of the non-birth and non-extinction of all phenomena

Mushō-dōji （無勝童子）: Invincible

Mushoi （無所畏）: Fearlessness (See six ministers)

mushō-ujō （無性有情）: those without the nature of enlightenment (See five natures)

Mushou-sho （無所有処）: Realm of Nothingness

Mushousho-jō （無所有処定）: meditation on the Realm of Nothingness (See Realm of Nothingness)

Mushousho-ten （無所有処天）: Heaven of Nothingness

mu-shushō （無種性）: those without the nature of enlightenment (See five natures)

musō-gedatsumon （無相解脱門）: meditation on non-discrimination (See three meditations for emancipation)

Musō-ten （無想天）: Heaven of No Thought (See eighteen heavens)

muu-ju （無憂樹）: ashoka tree

Muun-ten （無雲天）: Cloudless Heaven (See eighteen heavens)

muyo-nehan （無余涅槃）: nirvana of no remainder

myō （妙）

Myōe （明恵）

myōgaku （妙覚）: perfect enlightenment

myōgyōsoku （明行足）: Perfect Clarity and Conduct (See ten honorable titles)

myōhō （妙法）: Mystic Law

Myōhō-ama （妙法尼）: Myōhō, the lay nun

Myoho-renge-kyo （妙法蓮華経）

Myoho-renge-kyo （妙法蓮華経）: Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law

Myōhō-renge-kyō-upadaisha （妙法蓮華経憂波提舎）: Treatise on the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law, The

Myōichi-ama （妙一尼）: Myōichi, the lay nun

Myōichi-nyo （妙一女）

myōji-soku （名字即）: stage of hearing the name and words of the truth

Myōjō-ga-ike （明星が池）: Myōjō Pond

myō-joku （命濁）: impurity of life span (See five impurities)

myōjō-ten （明星天）: god of the stars (See three heavenly sons of light)

myō-kansatsu-chi （妙観察智）: wisdom of insight into the particulars (See five kinds of wisdom)

Myōki-koku （妙喜国）: Land of Wonderful Joy

Myōkō-bosatsu （妙光菩薩）: Wonderfully Bright

Myōkō-sen （妙光山）: Wonderful Bright, Mount

Myōkō-sen （妙高山）: Wonderful High, Mount

Myōmitsu （妙密）

myōmyō-chō （命命鳥）: jīvamjīvaka

myō’ō （明王）: wisdom kings

Myō’on-bon （妙音品）: “Wonderful Sound” chapter

Myō’on-bosatsu （妙音菩薩）: Wonderful Sound

Myō’on-bosatsu-hon （妙音菩薩品）: “Bodhisattva Wonderful Sound” chapter

Myōraku （妙楽）: Miao-lo

Myōren （妙蓮）

Myōshin-ama （妙心尼）: Myōshin, the lay nun

Myōshō （明勝）: Ming-sheng

Myōshōgonnō （妙荘厳王）: Wonderful Adornment

Myōshōgonnō-hon （妙荘厳王品）: “King Wonderful Adornment” chapter

Myōshōgonnō-honji-hon （妙荘厳王本事品）: “Former Affairs of King Wonderful Adornment” chapter

myōshū （明宗）: “Elucidation of Quality” section (See five major principles)

Myōsō-nyorai （名相如来）: Rare Form

myō-tai-shū-yū-kyō （名体宗用教）: name, essence, quality, function, and teaching (See five major principles)

Myōun （明雲）

myōyaku （冥益）: inconspicuous benefit

Nadai-kashō （那提迦葉）: Nadī Kāshyapa

Nagoe-no-ama （名越の尼）: Nagoe, the lay nun of

naibon （内凡）: inner rank of ordinary people; the higher rank of ordinary practitioners (See four good roots)

naie （内衣）: inner robe (See three robes)

naige-funi-mon （内外不二門）: oneness of the internal and the external (See ten onenesses)

naishō （内証）: inner enlightenment (See Superior Practices)

Naiten-roku （内典録）: Catalog of Buddhist Scriptures, The

Nakaoki-nyūdō （中興入道）: Nakaoki, the lay priest of

Nambu Rokurō Sanenaga （南部六郎実長）

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo （南無妙法蓮華経）

nampō （剛法）: heat stage

Nampō-bukkyō （南方仏教）: Southern Buddhism

namu （南無）

Namu Amida Butsu （南無阿弥陀仏）

Nanda （難陀）: Nanda

nandaimon （南大門）: great south gate

Nanda-ryūō （難陀竜王）: Nanda (See eight great dragon kings)

Nanden-bukkyō （南伝仏教）: Southern Buddhism

Nandō-ha （南道派）: Southern Way school (See Treatise on the Ten Stages school)

Nan-embudai （南閻浮提）: southern continent (See Jambudvīpa)

Nangaku （南岳）: Nan-yüeh

nangyō-dō （難行道）: difficult-to-practice way

nan-i （剛位）: heat stage

nanji-den （南寺伝）: transmission of the Southern Temple (See Dharma Characteristics school)

Nanjō Hyōe Shichirō （南条兵衛七郎）

Nanjō Shichirō Gorō （南条七郎五郎）

Nanjō Tokimitsu （南条時光）

Nankai-kiki-naihō-den （南海寄帰内法伝）: Record of Southern Countries, The

Nankyō-ritsu （南京律）: Precepts school of the Southern Capital (See Precepts school)

nansan-hokushichi （南三北七）: three schools of the south and seven schools of the north

Nanshū Zen （南宗禅）: Southern school of Zen

nanto-rokushū （南都六宗）: six schools of Nara

nanto-shichidaiji （南都七大寺）: seven major temples of Nara

Nanzan Risshū （南山律宗）: Nan-shan branch of the Precepts school (See Tao-hsüan)

Nanzen-ji （南禅寺）: See Five Temples

Naraen （那羅延）: Nārāyana

naraku （奈落）: naraka

Naranda-ji （那爛陀寺）: Nālandā Monastery

Narendaiyasha （那連提耶舎）: Narendrayashas

Nasen-biku （那先比丘）: Nāgasena

nayuta （那由多）: nayuta

nehan （涅槃）: nirvana

Nehan-gyō （涅槃経）: Nirvana Sutra

nehan-jakujō （涅槃寂静）: Nirvana is tranquil and quiet. (See Dharma seal)

Nehan-shū （涅槃宗）: Nirvana school

Nembutsu （念仏）

Nembutsu-shū （念仏宗）: Nembutsu school

Nen’a （然阿）

nen-futai （念不退）: non-regression from thought (See three kinds of non-regression)

Nentō-butsu （燃燈仏）: Burning Torch

Nichiben （日弁）

Nichidai （日代）

nichigatsu-hakushoku-nan （日月薄蝕難）: calamity of solar and lunar eclipses (See seven disasters)

Nichigatsu-jōmyōtoku-butsu （日月浄明徳仏）: Sun Moon Pure Bright Virtue

Nichigatsu-tōmyō-butsu （日月燈明仏）: Sun Moon Bright

Nichigen-nyo （日眼女）

Nichigō （日郷）

Nichiji （日持）

Nichijū （日什）

Nichijun （日順）

Nichikan （日寛）

Nichikō （日講）

Nichimoku （日目）

Nichimyō （日妙）

Nichinyo （日女）

Nichiō （日奥）

Nichiren （日蓮）

Nichiren-ichigo-guhō-fuzoku-sho （日蓮一期弘法付嘱書）: Document for Entrusting the Law that Nichiren Propagated throughout His Life, The

Nichiren Shōshū （日蓮正宗）

Nichiren-shū （日蓮宗）: Nichiren school

Nichirō （日朗）

Nichiu （日有）

Nichizen （日禅）

Nichizō （日像）: See Nichiren school

Nichizō-biku （日蔵比丘）: Sun Repository (See Medicine King)

Nichizon （日尊）

Nihon Daruma-shū （日本達磨宗）: Japanese Bodhidharma school (See Nōnin)

nihyaku-gojikkai （二百五十戒）: two hundred and fifty precepts

Niiama （新尼）

Niida Shirō Nobutsuna （新田四郎信綱）

Niike Saemon-no-jō （新池左衛門尉）

nijō （二乗）: two vehicles

nijō-sabutsu （二乗作仏）: attainment of Buddhahood by persons of the two vehicles

nijū-bu （二十部）: twenty Hinayana schools

nijūgo-hōben （二十五方便）: twenty-five preparatory exercises

nijūgo-u （二十五有）: twenty-five realms of existence

nijūgyō-no-ge （二十行の偈）: twenty-line verse

nijūhasso （二十八祖）: twenty-eight Indian patriarchs

nijūhatten （二十八天）: twenty-eight heavens

nijūsan-so （二十三祖）: twenty-three successors

nijūyo-moji-no-hokekyō （二十四文字の法華経）: twenty-four-character Lotus Sutra

nikai-hachiban （二界八番）: beings of the two worlds and the eight groups

nika-no-kangyō （二箇の諌暁）: two admonitions

nika-sōjō-sho （二箇相承書）: two transfer documents

nikāya （ニカーヤ）: nikāya (See Āgama sutras)

Nikenda-nyakudaishi （尼乾陀若提子）: Nigantha Nātaputta

Nikke （日華）

nikkei-sō （肉髻相）: knot of flesh on the head

Nikkō （日興）

Nikkō-ato-jōjō-no-koto （日興跡条条の事）: Matters to Be Observed after Nikkō’s Death (See Nikkō)

Nikkō-bosatsu （日光菩薩）: Sunlight

Nikkō-butsu （日光仏）: Sunlight (See Constellation Kalpa)

nikkō-yu （日光喩）: simile of the sun (See ten similes)

Nikkō-yuikai-okibumi （日興遺誡置文）: Twenty-six Admonitions of Nikkō, The

Nikō （日向）

Nikō-ki （日向記）: Nikō’s Records

niku-gen （肉眼）: eye of ordinary people (See five types of vision)

Nikurida （尼倶律陀）: Nyagrodha

nikurui-ju （尼倶類樹）: nyagrodha tree

Nikyō-ron （二教論）: Comparison of Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism, A

Nikyō-ron （二教論）: Treatise on the Two Teachings, The (See Tao-an [2] )

Nimindara-sen （尼民達羅山）: Nimimdhara (See four seas)

Nimma-ha （ニンマ派）: Nyingma school (See Tibetan Buddhism)

nimpō-ikka （人法一箇）: oneness of the Person and the Law

nin （忍）: forbearance

nindo （忍土）: world of endurance

Ningai （仁海）: See Shōbō

nin-honzon （人本尊）: object of devotion in terms of the Person (See Gohonzon)

nin-i （忍位）: perception stage

nini-funi （而二不二）: two but not two (See oneness of body and mind)

nin-jō （人乗）: vehicle of ordinary people (See five vehicles)

nin-kai （忍界）: world of endurance

nin-kai （人界）: world of human beings

Ninki-hon （人記品）: “Prophecies” chapter

ninniku （忍辱）: forbearance

ninniku-haramitsu （忍辱波羅蜜）: pāramitā of forbearance (See six pāramitās)

ninniku-no-koromo （忍辱の衣）: robe of forbearance

ninniku-no-yoroi （忍辱の鎧）: armor of perseverance

Ninniku-sennin （忍辱仙人）: Forbearance

Ninnō-kyō （仁王経）: Benevolent Kings Sutra

nin-pō （忍法）: perception stage

Ninshō （忍性）

ninshu-shitsueki-nan （人衆疾疫難）: calamity of pestilence (See seven disasters)

Nirabuda-jigoku （尼剌部陀地獄）: Nirarbuda hell (See eight cold hells)

Nirenzen-ga （尼連禅河）: Nairanjanā River

Nishi Hongan-ji （西本願寺）: See Hongan-ji

Nishiyama-nyūdō （西山入道）: Nishiyama, the lay priest of

nisho-san’e （二処三会）: two places and three assemblies

nishu-kuyō （二種供養）: two kinds of offerings (See offering)

nisoku-son （二足尊）: most honored of two-legged beings

Nissen （日仙）

Nisshō （日昭）

Nisshō （日照）: Jih-chao

Nisshū （日秀）

Nitchō （日頂）

Nitchō （日澄）

Nitten （日天）: sun, god of the

Nittō-guhō-junrei-kōki （入唐求法巡礼行記）: Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law, The

nizen-kyō （爾前教）: pre-Lotus Sutra teachings

nizen-no-en （爾前の円）: perfect teaching expounded in the pre-Lotus Sutra teachings (See perfect teaching)

nizō （二蔵）: two storehouses

nōe （納衣）: clothes of patched rags

nōnin （能忍）: One Who Can Endure

Nōnin （能忍）

Nōse-taishi （能施太子）: Earnest Donor

nōtsū-hōben （能通方便）: expedient means that can lead one in (See three expedient means)

Nyohō （如宝）

Nyoi （如意）: Manoratha

nyoi-hōju （如意宝珠）: wish-granting jewel

Nyojaku Nichiman （如寂日満）: See Abutsu-bō

nyonin-jōbutsu （女人成仏）: attainment of Buddhahood by women

nyorai （如来）: Thus Come One

Nyorai-jinriki-hon （如来神力品）: “Supernatural Powers of the Thus Come One” chapter

Nyorai-juryō-hon （如来寿量品）: “Life Span of the Thus Come One” chapter

nyorai-no-ji （如来の事）: Thus Come One’s work (See envoy of the Thus Come One)

nyorai-no-koromo （如来の衣）: Thus Come One’s robe (See robe, seat, and room)

nyorai-no-shitsu （如来の室）: Thus Come One’s room (See robe, seat, and room)

nyorai-no-tsukai （如来の使）: envoy of the Thus Come One

nyorai-no-za （如来の座）: Thus Come One’s seat (See robe, seat, and room)

nyorai-zen （如来禅）: Thus Come One Zen

nyorai-zō （如来蔵）: matrix of the Thus Come One

Nyoraizō-kyō （如来蔵経）: Matrix of the Thus Come One Sutra

nyōyaku-ujō-kai （饒益有情戒）: precept for benefiting sentient beings

nyoze-gamon （如是我聞）: “This is what I heard”

nyūdō （入道）: lay priest

nyūwa-ninniku-no-koromo （柔和忍辱の衣）: robe of gentleness and patience (See robe of forbearance)

Ōama （大尼）

oashisu-toshi-kokka （オアシス都市国家）: oasis city-states (See Silk Road)

Ōbaku-shū （黄檗宗）: Ōbaku school

odori-nembutsu （踊念仏）: dancing Nembutsu (See Ippen)

Ō Fu （王浮）: Wang Fu (See Sutra on the Conversion of Barbarians by Lao Tzu)

Ōga-koku （鴦伽国）: Anga

ōgu （応供）: Worthy of Offerings

Ōhara-mondō （大原問答）: Ōhara Discourse

ōjin （応身）: manifested body

ōjin-butsu （応身仏）: Buddha of the manifested body

Ōjō-raisan （往生礼讃）: Praising Rebirth in the Pure Land

Ōjō-raisan-ge （往生礼讃偈）: Verses Praising Rebirth in the Pure Land, The

Ōjō-ron （往生論）: Treatise on Rebirth in the Pure Land, The

Ōjōron-chū （往生論註）: Commentary on “The Treatise on Rebirth in the Pure Land,” The

Ōjō-yōshū （往生要集）: Essentials of Rebirth in the Pure Land, The

Okō-kikigaki （御講聞書）: Recorded Lectures, The

Ōkutsumara （央掘摩羅）: Angulimāla

Omosu-dansho （重須談所）: Omosu Seminary

on （唵）: om

Ongi-kuden （御義口伝）: Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, The

Ōnichi-nyo （王日女）

onjiki-se （飲食施）: offerings of food and drink (See three kinds of offerings)

Onjō-ji （園城寺）

Onkō-bu （飲光部）: Kāshyapīya school

on-ma （陰魔）: devil of the five components; hindrance of the five components (See four devils; three obstacles and four devils)

Ono-ryū （小野流）: Ono branch (See Shōbō)

onrin （園林）: vana

onzōe-ku （怨憎会苦）: suffering of having to meet with those whom one hates (See eight sufferings)

Oryō （烏竜）: Wu-lung

Ōryū-ha （黄竜派）: Huang-lung school (See Zen school)

Ōsha-jō （王舎城）: Rājagriha

Ōta Jōmyō （大田乗明）

Oto-gozen （乙御前）: Oto

Ōwa-no-shūron （応和の宗論）: Ōwa Debate

Padomasambaba （パドマサンババ）: Padmasambhava (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Pakupa （パクパ）: Phagpa (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Ragora （羅睺羅）: Rāhula; Rāhulabhadra

Ragorabaddara （羅睺羅跋陀羅）: Rāhulabhadra

Raidenku-bosatsu （雷電吼菩薩）: Thunderbolt Roar (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

Raikōmyō （雷光明）: Lightning Glow (See Medicine King)

Raitawara （頼吒和羅）: Rāshtrapāla (See Ashvaghosha)

Raiyu （頼瑜）

Rakuhenge-ten （楽変化天）: Heaven of Enjoying the Conjured

Rakuson （楽僔）: Le-tsun (See Mo-kao Caves)

Rambini （藍毘尼）: Lumbinī

Rambini-en （藍毘尼園）: Lumbinī Gardens (See Lumbinī)

Rankei Dōryū （蘭渓道隆）

ran-shō （卵生）: birth from eggs (See four forms of birth)

rasetsu （羅刹）: rākshasa

rasetsu-nyo （羅刹女）: rākshasī

Reiyū （霊祐）: Ling-yu (See Zen school)

Reiyūkai （霊友会）

renge （蓮華）

Rengeshiki-bikuni （蓮華色比丘尼）: Utpalavarnā

Rengezō-sekai （蓮華蔵世界）: Lotus Treasury World

retsu-ōjin （劣応身）: inferior manifested body

Ribata （離婆多）: Revata

Rida （利吒）

ridō-jishō （理同事勝）: equal in principle but superior in practice

ri-himitsu （理秘密）: esoteric teachings in theory

riki-haramitsu （力波羅蜜）: pāramitā of power (See ten pāramitās)

rimbō （輪宝）: chakra

rin （林）: vana

Rinda-ō （輪陀王）: Rinda

rin’en-gusoku （輪円具足）: perfectly endowed (See mandala)

rinne （輪廻）: samsāra

rinne-shōji （輪廻生死）: repeated cycle of birth and death (See samsāra)

rinnō-yu （輪王喩）: simile of a wheel-turning king (See ten similes)

rin-ō （輪王）: wheel-turning king

ri-no-ichinen-sanzen （理の一念三千）: theoretical three thousand realms in a single moment of life (See three thousand realms in a single moment of life)

Rinzai Gigen （臨済義玄）: Lin-chi I-hsüan (See Zen school)

Rinzai-shū （臨済宗）: Lin-chi school; Rinzai school

Risha （離車）: Licchavi

ri-shō （理証）: theoretical proof (See three proofs)

Rishu-kyō （理趣経）: Principle of Wisdom Sutra

ri-soku （理即）: stage of being a Buddha in theory

risshi （律師）: discipline master

Risshō-ankoku-ron （立正安国論）: On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land

Risshō Kōseikai （立正佼成会）

Risshū （律宗）: Precepts school

rita （利他）: benefiting others (See benefiting oneself and benefiting others)

rita-gyō （利他行）: altruistic practice (See Mahayana Buddhism)

ritsu （律）: vinaya

ro （漏）: outflows

Rōben （良弁）

rōi-byōshi-no-tatoe （良医病子の譬）: parable of the skilled physician and his sick children

rojin-tsū （漏尽通）: power to eradicate illusions and earthly desires (See six transcendental powers)

Rokkan-naion-kyō （六巻泥洹経）: six-volume Nirvana Sutra (See Mahāparinirvāna Sutra [2] )

Rokkan-shō （六巻抄）: Six-Volume Writings, The

rokkon （六根）: six sense organs

rokkon-shōjō （六根清浄）: purification of the six sense organs

rokkyō （六境）: six objects

roku-dai （六大）: six elements

roku-daijin （六大臣）: six ministers

roku-dō （六道）: six paths

rokudō-rinne （六道輪廻）: transmigration in the six paths

rokudō-shishō （六道四生）: six paths and the four forms of birth (See four forms of birth)

rokugun-biku （六群比丘）: six monks, group of

roku-haramitsu （六波羅蜜）: six pāramitās

Rokuharamitsu-kyō （六波羅蜜経）: Six Pāramitās Sutra

roku-jinzū （六神通）: six transcendental powers

rokuji-raisan （六時礼讃）: reciting verses of praise six times a day (See Praising Rebirth in the Pure Land)

rokujū-kai （六重戒）: six precepts (2)

roku-jūzai （六重罪）: six major offenses

rokuman-gōgasha （六万恒河沙）: sands of sixty thousand Ganges Rivers (See “Emerging from the Earth” chapter)

Rokunamadai （勒那摩提）: Ratnamati

rokunan-kui （六難九易）: six difficult and nine easy acts

roku-nen （六念）: six kinds of contemplation

Rokuon-ji （鹿苑時）: Deer Park period

roku-rōsō （六老僧）: six senior priests

roku-sainichi （六斎日）: six days of purification

rokushi-gedō （六師外道）: six non-Buddhist teachers

roku-shiki （六識）: six consciousnesses

roku-shin （六臣）: six ministers

roku-sō （六相）: six forms

Rokuso-dan-kyō （六祖壇経）: Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, The

roku-soku （六即）: six stages of practice

Rokusoku-ō （鹿足王）: Deer Feet

roku-tsū （六通）: six transcendental powers

roku-wakyō （六和敬）: six types of harmony and reverence

Rokuya-on （鹿野苑）: Deer Park

roku-yoku （六欲）: six desires

rokuyoku-ten （六欲天）: six heavens of the world of desire

roku-zui （六瑞）: six auspicious happenings

rongi-daiichi （論議第一）: foremost in debate (See Kātyāyana)

ron’yū （論用）: “Discussion of Function” section (See five major principles)

ropparamitsu （六波羅蜜）: six pāramitās

Ropparamitsu-kyō （六波羅蜜経）: Six Pāramitās Sutra

roppō-kai （六法戒）: six precepts (1)

Ropunōru （ロプ・ノール）: Lop Nor (See Lou-lan)

Rōran （楼蘭）: Lou-lan

Rōshi-keko-kyō （老子化胡経）: Sutra on the Conversion of Barbarians by Lao Tzu

Ro-zan （廬山）: Mount Lu (See Hui-yüan)

Rurikōshō-nyorai （瑠璃光照如来）: Lapis Lazuli Brightness (See Medicine King)

Rusui （流水）: Water Carrier

ruten-mon （流転門）: way of transmigration (See twelve-linked chain of causation)

rutsū-bun （流通分）: transmission section

ryakkaisan-ken’ichi （略開三顕一）: concise replacement of the three vehicles with the one vehicle

ryakkō-shugyō （歴劫修行）: countless kalpas of practice

ryakuge-gonshu （略解言趣）: to generally understand the import of the words of the Lotus Sutra (See four stages of faith)

ryaku-kaigon-kennon （略開近顕遠）: opening the near and revealing the distant in concise form (See opening the near and revealing the distant)

Ryōchū （良忠）

Ryōga-kyō （楞伽経）: Lankāvatāra Sutra

Ryōgen （良源）

Ryōhi （良賁）: Liang-pi

Ryōjo （良諝）: Liang-hsü

Ryōju-sen （霊鷲山）: Eagle Peak

Ryōkai （良价）: Liang-chieh (See Zen school)

Ryōkan （良観）

Ryokō （呂光）: Lü Kuang (See Kumārajīva)

Ryō-kōsō-den （梁高僧伝）: Liang Dynasty Biographies of Eminent Priests, The

Ryōnin （良忍）

Ryō-no-sandai-hosshi （梁の三大法師）: three great Dharma teachers of the Liang dynasty (See Fa-yün)

ryōsoku-son （両足尊）: most honored of two-legged beings

Ryōzen-e （霊山会）: assembly on Eagle Peak (See two places and three assemblies)

Ryōzen-jōdo （霊山浄土）: pure land of Eagle Peak (See Eagle Peak)

Ryūchi （竜智）: Nāgabodhi

ryūgū （竜宮）: dragon palace (See Sāgara)

ryūjin （竜神）: dragon deity

Ryūju （竜樹）: Nāgārjuna

Ryūju-bosatsu-den （竜樹菩薩伝）: The Biography of Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna (See Nāgārjuna)

Ryūkan （隆寛）

Ryūmon-sekkutsu （竜門石窟）: Lung-men caves

ryūnyo （竜女）: dragon king’s daughter

ryūō （竜王）: dragon kings

Ryūōku-bosatsu （竜王吼菩薩）: Dragon King’s Roar (See five mighty bodhisattvas)

Ryūsen-ji （滝泉寺）

Ryūshin （隆真）

Ryūzō-bō （竜象房）

Sado-bō （佐渡房）

Sado-ruzai （佐渡流罪）: Sado Exile

Saichō （最澄）

Saidai-ji （西大寺）

Sai-goke-shū （西牛貨洲）: Aparagodānīya

Saihō-jōdo （西方浄土）: Western Pure Land

saihō-jūman-okudo （西方十万億土）: a hundred thousand million Buddha lands to the west (See Western Pure Land)

Saiiki-ki （西域記）: Record of the Western Regions, The

Saiin （蔡愔）: Ts’ai Yin

Sai-jarin （摧邪輪）: Refutation of Erroneous Doctrines, A

Saimyō-ji （西明寺）: Hsi-ming-ssu

Saimyō-ji （最明寺）

Saimyō-ji-nyūdō （最明寺入道）: lay priest of Saimyō-ji (See Saimyō-ji)

Sairen-bō （最蓮房）

Saishō’ō-kyō （最勝王経）: Sovereign Kings Sutra

Saiten-nijūhasso （西天二十八祖）: twenty-eight Indian patriarchs

Sajiki-nyōbō （桟敷女房）: Sajiki, the lady of

Sakya-ha （サキャ派）: Sakya school (See Tibetan Buddhism)

sambō （三宝）: three treasures

sambōin （三法印）: three Dharma seals

Sambu-issō-no-hōnan （三武一宗の法難）: four imperial persecutions of Buddhism in China

sambunka-kyō （三分科経）: three divisions of a sutra

sammai （三昧）: samādhi

sammaya-gyō （三昧耶形）: samaya

Sammi-bō （三位房）

Sammon-ha （山門派）: Mountain school (1)

sammui （三無為）: three categories of the unconditioned (See unconditioned, the)

sammyō-gōron （三妙合論）: integration of the three mystic principles

sammyō-rokutsū （三明六通）: three insights and six transcendental powers

sampen-doden （三変土田）: three-time purification of the lands

Samuiē-ji （サムイェー寺）: Samye monastery (See Tibetan Buddhism)

san-akudō （三悪道）: three evil paths

san-akushu （三悪趣）: three evil paths

san-byōdō （三平等）: three equalities

san-chi （三智）: three kinds of wisdom

sandai-hihō （三大秘法）: Three Great Secret Laws

san-dō （三道）: three paths (1)

san-dō （三道）: three ways

san-doku （三毒）: three poisons

sando-no-kōmyō （三度の高名）: three-time gaining of distinction

san-futai （三不退）: three kinds of non-regression

san-fuzengon （三不善根）: three bad roots (See good roots)

san-gai （三界）: threefold world

Sangai-ha （山外派）: Outside-the-Mountain school

Sangai-kyō （三階教）: Three Stages school

Sangai-zenji （三階禅師）: San-chieh, the Meditation Master

san-gaku （三学）: three types of learning

sangaku-shinkō （山岳信仰）: mountain worship (See Shugendō school)

sange （懺悔）: repentance

san-gedatsu-mon （三解脱門）: three meditations for emancipation

Sange-gakushō-shiki （山家学生式）: Regulations for Students of the Mountain School, The

Sange-ha （山家派）: Mountain school (2)

san-gen （三賢）: three stages of worthiness

sangi-hyakudai-kō （三祇百大劫）: three asamkhya kalpas and a hundred major kalpas

san-gō （三業）: three categories of action

sangō-funi-mon （三業不二門）: oneness of thought, word, and deed (See ten onenesses)

Sangoku-buppō-dentsū-engi （三国仏法伝通縁起）: A History of the Transmission and Propagation of Buddhism in Three Countries (See Gyōnen)

sangoku-shishi （三国四師）: four teachers of the three countries

san-gyakuzai （三逆罪）: three cardinal sins

san-hōben （三方便）: three expedient means

sanhō-myō （三法妙）: mystic principle of the three elements (See ten mystic principles)

san’in-busshō （三因仏性）: three inherent potentials of the Buddha nature

Sanjaya-birateishi （刪闍耶毘羅胝子）: Sanjaya Belatthiputta

san-ji （三時）: three periods (1)

sanji-kyō （三時教）: three periods, teachings of the

san-jin （三身）: three bodies

san-jin （三心）: three kinds of mind

sanjin-soku-isshin （三身即一身）: All three bodies are found within a single Buddha. (See three bodies)

sanjō （三乗）: three vehicles

san-jō （三定）: three types of meditation

sanjō-hō （三乗法）: three vehicle teachings

san-jōryo （三静慮）: three types of meditation

sanjū （三従）: three obediences (See five obstacles)

sanjū-hiden （三重秘伝）: threefold secret teaching

Sanjū-hiden-shō （三重秘伝抄）: “The Threefold Secret Teaching” (See Six-Volume Writings, The)

sanju-jō-kai （三聚浄戒）: three comprehensive precepts

sanjūni-sō （三十二相）: thirty-two features

sanjūni-sō-hachijisshugō （三十二相八十種好）: thirty-two features and eighty characteristics

sanjūsan-shin （三十三身）: thirty-three forms

sanjūsan-ten （三十三天）: Heaven of the Thirty-three Gods

sanjūsan-ten （三十三天）: thirty-three gods

sanjūshichi-dōhon （三十七道品）: thirty-seven aids to the way

sanjūshi-shin （三十四身）: thirty-four forms

san-kaidan （三戒壇）: three ordination platforms

sankai-shishō （三誡四請）: three exhortations and four entreaties

sanka-no-chokusen （三箇の勅宣）: three pronouncements

sanka-no-hōshō （三箇の鳳詔）: three pronouncements

san-kashō （三迦葉）: three Kāshyapa brothers

san-ki （三帰）: threefold refuge

san-ki （三軌）: three rules of preaching

san-kie （三帰依）: threefold refuge

sanki-gokai （三帰五戒）: threefold refuge and observance of the five precepts

Sānkiya-gakuha （サーンキヤ学派）: Sāmkhya school (See Kapila)

san-kō （三劫）: three kalpas

sanko-sho （三鈷杵）: three-pronged diamond-pounder

sankō-tenshi （三光天子）: three heavenly sons of light

san-ku （三苦）: three sufferings

san-mitsu （三密）: three mysteries

san-myō （三明）: three insights

san-myō （三妙）: three mystic principles

sanne （三衣）: three robes

Sannei （賛寧）: Tsan-ning (See Sung Dynasty Biographies of Eminent Priests, The)

sanne-ippatsu （三衣一鉢）: three robes and one begging bowl

san-nenjū （三念住）: three kinds of tranquillity

Sannō （山王）: Mountain King

san-rin （三輪）: three circles

Sanron-gengi （三論玄義）: Profound Meaning of the Three Treatises, The

Sanron-shū （三論宗）: Three Treatises school

sanrui-no-gōteki （三類の強敵）: three powerful enemies

sanrui-no-tekijin （三類の敵人）: three types of enemies

san-sai （三災）: three calamities

sansai-shichinan （三災七難）: three calamities and seven disasters

san-se （三施）: three kinds of offerings

san-seken （三世間）: three realms of existence

san-sen （三仙）: three ascetics

san-setsu （三説）: three categories of preaching

sansha-kataku-no-tatoe （三車火宅の譬）: parable of the three carts and the burning house

sanshi-shichishō （三師七証）: three leaders and seven witnesses

san-shō （三証）: three proofs

san-shō （三性）: three types of character

sanshō-shima （三障四魔）: three obstacles and four devils

sanshu-no-kyōsō （三種の教相）: three standards of comparison

sanshū-no-seppō （三周の説法）: three cycles of preaching

sanshū-no-shōmon （三周の声聞）: three groups of voice-hearers

sansō-nimoku-no-tatoe （三草二木の譬）: parable of the three kinds of medicinal herbs and two kinds of trees

san-tai （三諦）: three truths

san-tembōrin （三転法輪）: thrice turned wheel of the Law

San-tendai-godaisan-ki （参天台五台山記）: The Record of the Pilgrimage to Mount T’ien-t’ai and MountWu-t’ai (See Jōjin)

san-tōji （三等至）: three types of meditation

san-toku （三徳）: three virtues

san-waku （三惑）: three categories of illusion

san-yaku （三益）: three benefits

san-yu （山喩）: simile of mountains (See ten similes)

san-ze （三世）: three existences

sanze-jippō-no-shobutsu （三世十方の諸仏）: Buddhas of the ten directions and three existences (See ten directions)

sanzen-daisen-sekai （三千大千世界）: major world system

san-zendō （三善道）: three good paths

san-zengon （三善根）: three good roots (See good root)

sanzen-igi （三千威儀）: three thousand rules of conduct

sanzen-jintengō （三千塵点劫）: major world system dust particle kalpas

san-zenkon （三善根）: three good roots (See good root)

sanze-no-shobutsu （三世の諸仏）: Buddhas of the three existences (See three existences)

san-zō （三蔵）: three divisions of the canon

san-zō （三蔵）: Tripitaka master

san-zu （三途）: three paths (2)

sanzu-no-kawa （三途の河）: river of three crossings

sarai-niko （作礼而去）: “bowed in obeisance and departed”

Sasshō （薩生）

satori （悟）: enlightenment

satta （薩埵）: sattva

Satta-ōji （薩埵王子）: Mahāsattva

Saundara-nanda （サウンダラ・ナンダ）: Saundarananda (See Ashvaghosha)

Sawata （薩和多）: See Universal Practice

sazen-sago （佐前佐後）: before and after Sado

sedaiippō （世第一法）: foremost worldly stage

Seichō-ji （清澄寺）

seigan （誓願）: vow

seigan-anrakugyō （誓願安楽行）: peaceful practice of vows (See four peaceful practices)

Seiryō-ji （清凉寺）

Seiryū-ji （青竜寺）: Ch’ing-lung-ssu

Seishi-bosatsu （勢至菩薩）: Great Power

seishuku-henge-nan （星宿変怪難）: calamity of extraordinary changes in the heavens (See seven disasters)

Seishukukō-chōja （星宿光長者）: Constellation Light (See Medicine King)

Seitasan-bu （制多山部）: Chaityavādin school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

Seizanjū-bu （西山住部）: Aparashaila school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

Sejizaiō-butsu （世自在王仏）: World Freedom King

sekenge （世間解）: Understanding the World (See ten honorable titles)

seken-shitsudan （世間悉檀）: to teach Buddhism in secular terms (See four ways of preaching)

Sembu-shū （贍部洲）: Jambudvīpa

Sembutsu-dō （千仏洞）: Cave of the Thousand Buddhas

Sempa （瞻波）: Champā

sempuku-ju （瞻蔔樹）: champaka tree

sempukurin-sō （千輻輪相）: thousand-spoked wheel

semui-sha （施無畏者）: Bestower of Fearlessness

Senchaku-shū （選択集）: Nembutsu Chosen above All, The

sendai-haramitsu （羼提波羅蜜）: pāramitā of forbearance (See six pāramitās)

sendan （栴檀）: sandalwood tree

sendan-no-ukigi （栴檀の浮木）: floating sandalwood log (See one-eyed turtle)

sendara （旃陀羅）: chandāla

Sengaie-jizaitsūō-nyorai （山海慧自在通王如来）: Mountain Sea Wisdom Unrestricted Power King

Senji-shō （撰時抄）: Selection of the Time, The

senjō-funimon （染浄不二門）: oneness of the impure and the pure (See ten onenesses)

Senju-kannon （千手観音）: Thousand-armed Perceiver of the World’s Sounds

senju-nembutsu （専修念仏）: exclusive practice of the Nembutsu

Senkan （千観）

Sennichi-ama （千日尼）: Sennichi, the lay nun

Sennin-dasho （仙人堕処）: Rishipatana; Sage Ascetics-Gathering

Sennyū-ji （泉涌寺）: See Shunjō

Sensha-nyo （旃遮女）: Chinchā

senshō-zōjōman （僭聖増上慢）: arrogance and presumption of those who pretend to be sages (See three powerful enemies)

Sen’yo-kokuō （仙予国王）: Sen’yo

seō （世雄）: world hero

seppō-daiichi （説法第一）: foremost in preaching the Law (See Pūrna)

seppō-hon （説法品）: stage of expounding the Lotus Sutra to others (See five stages of practice)

Seppō-hon （説法品）: “Preaching the Law” chapter (See Immeasurable Meanings Sutra)

seppō-myō （説法妙）: mystic principle of preaching (See ten mystic principles)

Seshin （世親）: Vasubandhu

seson （世尊）: bhagavat; World-Honored One

Sessen （雪山）: Snow Mountains

Sessen-bu （雪山部）: Haimavata school (See Theravāda school)

Sessen-dōji （雪山童子）: Snow Mountains, the boy

Sessenge-ō （雪山下王）: Himatala

setsudo （刹土）: kshetra

Setsu-issaiu-bu （説一切有部）: Sarvāstivāda school

Setsuke-bu （説仮部）: Prajnāptivādin school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

setsuna （刹那）: kshana (See ichinen)

Setsushusse-bu （説出世部）: Lokottaravāda school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

setsuteiri （刹帝利）: Kshatriya

setsu-zoku （殺賊）: destroyer of bandits (See arhat)

Seu （世友）: Vasumitra

sha （捨）: impartiality; upekshā (See four infinite virtues)

shaba-sekai （娑婆世界）: sahā world

shaba-soku-jakkō （娑婆即寂光）: The sahā world is in itself the Land of Eternally Tranquil Light. (See sahā world)

Shae-jō （舎衛城）: Shrāvastī

shae-no-san’oku （舎衛の三億）: three hundred thousand families of Shrāvastī (See Shrāvastī)

Shagita （娑祇多）: Shāketa

sha-hei-kaku-hō （捨閉閣抛）: “discard, close, ignore, and abandon”

Shakamuni （釈迦牟尼）: Shakyamuni

Shakara-ryūō （沙竭羅竜王）: Sāgara

Shaka-zoku （釈迦族）: Shākya

shakke-no-bosatsu （迹化の菩薩）: bodhisattvas of the theoretical teaching

shaku （迹）: provisional identity; transient identity (See casting off the transient and revealing the true)

shakubuku （折伏）

shakubutsu （迹仏）: provisional Buddha

Shakudai-kan’in （釈提桓因）: Shakra Devānām Indra

Shaku-jōdo-gungi-ron （釈浄土群疑論）: Treatise Resolving Numerous Doubts about the Pure Land Teachings, The

Shaku-makaen-ron （釈摩訶衍論）: Commentary on the Mahayana Treatise, The

shakumon （迹門）: theoretical teaching

shakumon-no-jūmyō （迹門の十妙）: ten mystic principles of the theoretical teaching (See ten mystic principles)

shakumon-no-sampi （迹門の三譬）: three metaphors of the theoretical teaching

shakumyō （釈名）: “Interpretation of the Name” section (See five major principles)

shakushi （折指）: Broken Finger (See Ajātashatru)

Shakuson （釈尊）: Shakyamuni

shami （沙弥）: shrāmanera

shamini （沙弥尼）: shrāmanerī

shamon （沙門）: shramana

Shamon-fukyō-ōja-ron （沙門不敬王者論）: A Priest Does Not Bow before a King (See Hui-yüan [1] )

shana-gō （遮那業）: Vairochana discipline (See Regulations for Students of the Mountain School, The)

Shanoku （車匿）: Chandaka

Shāntarakushita （シャーンタラクシタ）: Shāntarakshita (See Tibetan Buddhism)

shara-ju （沙羅樹）: sal tree

Sharajuō-butsu （沙羅樹王仏）: Sal Tree King (See Wonderful Adornment)

shara-no-shiken （沙羅の四見）: four views of the sal grove

shara-rin （沙羅林）: sal grove (See four views of the sal grove)

Sha-reiun （謝霊運）: Hsieh Ling-yün (See Mahāparinirvāna Sutra)

Sharihotsu （舎利弗）: Shāriputra

shi-agon-gyō （四阿含経）: four Āgama sutras

shi-akudō （四悪道）: four evil paths

shi-akushu （四悪趣）: four evil paths

shi-anraku-gyō （四安楽行）: four peaceful practices

Shi-anraku-gyō （四安楽行）: Four Peaceful Practices, The

Shiba （シヴァ）: Shiva (See Maheshvara)

Shiban （志磐）: Chih-p’an (See Record of the Lineage of the Buddha and the Patriarchs, The)

Shiba Tatsuto （司馬達等）

Shibi-ō （尸毘王）: Shibi

shi-bosatsu （四菩薩）: four bodhisattvas

Shibun-ritsu （四分律）: Fourfold Rules of Discipline, The

Shibun-ritsu-gyōji-shō （四分律行事鈔）: Essentials of “The Fourfold Rules of Discipline,” The

shichi-bodaibun （七菩提分）: seven aids to enlightenment

shichidō-garan （七堂伽藍）: seven-halled temple

shichi-fukujin （七福神）: seven beneficent deities

shichi-gyaku （七逆）: seven cardinal sins

shichi-hi （七譬）: seven parables

shichi-hō （七宝）: seven kinds of treasures (1)

shichi-hō （七宝）: seven treasures

shichi-hōben （七方便）: seven expedient means

shichihyaku-ketsujū （七百結集）: Gathering of Seven Hundred Monks (See Buddhist Councils)

shichi-kakushi （七覚支）: seven aids to enlightenment

shichi-ken （七賢）: seven stages of worthiness; seven worthies

shichi-kijin （七鬼神）: seven guardian spirits

shichi-man （七慢）: seven types of arrogance

shichi-nan （七難）: seven disasters

shichisho-hachie （七処八会）: eight successive assemblies in seven different locations (See Dharma Wisdom)

shichi-shōzai （七聖財）: seven kinds of treasures (2)

shichi-shu （七衆）: seven kinds of believers

shichi-shū （七宗）: seven schools

Shichiyō-kutsu （七葉窟）: Cave of the Seven Leaves

shichi-zai （七財）: seven kinds of treasures (2)

Shida-ga （私陀河）: Shītā River (See four rivers)

shidagon （斯陀含）: once-returner

shidagon-ka （斯陀含果）: stage of the once-returner (See four stages of Hinayana enlightenment)

shi-dai （四大）: four elements

shidai-deshi （四大弟子）: four major disciples

shidai-ga （四大河）: four great rivers

shidai-kai （四大海）: four great seas

Shidai-koku （支提国）: Chedi (See sixteen great states)

shidai-shōmon （四大声聞）: four great voice-hearers

shidai-shū （四大洲）: four great continents

shidai-tennō （四大天王）: four great heavenly kings

Shidarin （尸陀林）: Shītavana

Shiddatta （悉達多）: Siddhārtha

shi-do （四土）: four kinds of lands

shido-no-rokuzui （此土の六瑞）: six auspicious happenings in this world (See six auspicious happenings)

shie （四依）: four ranks of sages

shie （四依）: four standards

Shien （思円）

shie-no-bosatsu （四依の菩薩）: four ranks of bodhisattvas

shi-fujōjiki （四不浄食）: four improper ways of livelihood

shi-ga （四河）: four rivers

shigan （此岸）: this shore (See other shore)

shigu-seigan （四弘誓願）: four universal vows

shi-haraizai （四波羅夷罪）: four pārājika offenses

shi-hōin （四法印）: four Dharma seals

shi-i （四違）: four dislikes (See eight winds)

shi-igi （四威儀）: four activities of daily life

Shiiji Shirō （椎地四郎）

Shiin （志因）: Chih-yin (See T’ien-t’ai school)

shi-jamyōjiki （四邪命食）: four improper ways of livelihood

shiji-kuyō （四事供養）: four kinds of offerings

shi-jinsoku （四神足）: four steps to transcendental powers

Shijō Kingo （四条金吾）

shijō-shōkaku-no-hotoke （始成正覚の仏）: the Buddha who attained enlightenment for the first time in his present lifetime (See attainment of Buddhahood in the remote past)

shijū （四重）: four grave prohibitions

shijūhachi-gan （四十八願）: forty-eight vows

shijūhachi-kyōkai （四十八軽戒）: forty-eight minor precepts

shijūkin （四重禁）: four grave prohibitions

Shijūku-in （四十九院）

shi-jun （四順）: four favorites (See eight winds)

shijūnihon-no-mumyō （四十二品の無明）: forty-two levels of ignorance

Shijūni-shō-kyō （四十二章経）: Sutra of Forty-two Sections

shijū-no-kōhai （四重の興廃）: fourfold rise and fall

shi-jūzai （四重罪）: four major offenses

shi-ka （四果）: four stages of Hinayana enlightenment

shika-byakushi-butsu-yu （四果辟支仏喩）: simile of voice-hearers at the four stages of enlightenment and cause-awakened ones (See ten similes)

shi-kai （四海）: four seas

shikaku （始覚）: acquired enlightenment

shikan （止観）: concentration and insight

Shikan-bugyōden-guketsu （止観輔行伝弘決）: Annotations on “Great Concentration and Insight,” The

shika-no-kakugen （四箇の格言）: four dictums

shi-ke （四華）: four kinds of flowers

Shiken （支謙）: Chih-ch’ien

Shiki-butsu （尸棄仏）: Shikhin (See seven Buddhas of the past)

shiki-ju-sō-gyō-shiki （色受想行識）: form, perception, conception, volition, and consciousness (See five components)

shiki-kai （色界）: world of form

Shikikukyō-ten （色究竟天）: Akanishtha Heaven

Shikimuhen-jo （識無辺処）: Realm of Boundless Consciousness

Shikimuhenjo-jō （識無辺処定）: meditation on the Realm of Boundless Consciousness (See Realm of Boundless Consciousness)

Shikimuhenjo-ten （識無辺処天）: Heaven of Boundless Consciousness

shikishamana （式叉摩那）: shikshamānā

shikishin-funi （色心不二）: oneness of body and mind

shi-kō （四劫）: four kalpas

shi-ku （四苦）: four sufferings

shiku-ge （四句偈）: four-line verse

shi-kū-jō （四空定）: four meditations on formlessness

shiku-no-yōbō （四句の要法）: four-phrase essence of the Lotus Sutra

shi-kū-sho （四空処）: four realms of the world of formlessness

Shikyō-gi （四教義）: Meaning of the Four Teachings, The

shi-ma （死魔）: devil of death; hindrance of death (See four devils; three obstacles and four devils)

shi-ma （四魔）: four devils

shimatsu-hōrin （枝末法輪）: branch teaching

shimatsu-kyō （枝末教）: branch teaching

Shimei Chirei （四明知礼）: Ssu-ming Chih-li (See Chih-li)

shimi （四味）: first four flavors

shimi-sankyō （四味三教）: four flavors and three teachings

shimmyō-se （身命施）: offerings of one’s life (See three kinds of offerings)

shimon-yūkan （四門遊観）: four meetings

Shimoyama-goshōsoku （下山御消息）: Letter to Shimoyama

shi-muge-ben （四無礙弁）: four unlimited kinds of eloquence (See four unlimited kinds of knowledge)

shi-muge-chi （四無礙智）: four unlimited kinds of knowledge

shi-mui （四無畏）: four fearlessnesses

shi-muryōshin （四無量心）: four infinite virtues

shi-mushiki-jō （四無色定）: four meditations on formlessness

shi-mushiki-kai （四無色界）: four realms of the world of formlessness

shi-mushoi （四無所畏）: four fearlessnesses

shin （瞋）: anger

shin （信）: faith

shin-anraku-gyō （身安楽行）: peaceful practice of the body (See four peaceful practices)

Shindai （真諦）: Paramārtha

Shindo-ga （信度河）: Sindhu River (See four rivers)

shi-nenjū （四念住）: four meditations

Shinga （真雅）

shinge （信解）: belief and understanding (See faith)

Shinge-hon （信解品）: “Belief and Understanding” chapter

Shingi-ha （新義派・新義真言宗）: New Doctrine school (See True Word school)

shingon （真言）: mantra

Shingon Risshū （真言律宗）: True Word Precepts school

Shingon-sambu-kyō （真言三部経）: three True Word sutras

Shingon-shū （真言宗）: True Word school

Shingyō （信行）: Hsin-hsing

shin-gyō-gaku （信行学）: faith, practice, and study

Shinjikan-gyō （心地観経）: Contemplation on the Mind-Ground Sutra

Shinjō （審祥）

Shinkō-ō （秦広王）: King Ch’in-kuang (See ten kings)

Shinkyō （真教）: See Time school

shin-mitsu （身密）: mystery of the body (See three mysteries)

shinni （瞋恚）: anger

shinnyo （真如）: tathatā

Shinran （親鸞）

shin-riki （信力）: power of faith (See four powers [1]; five powers)

shin-roku （新六）: six new disciples of Nikkō

Shinsen-en （神泉苑）: Shinsen-en garden

shintai （真諦）: supreme truth (See Establishment of Truth school)

shin’yaku （新訳）: new translations

shi-nyoisoku （四如意足）: four steps to transcendental powers

Shinzei （真済）

shi-on （四恩）: four debts of gratitude

Shi’on （志遠）: Chih-yüan

Shiō-ten （四王天）: Heaven of the Four Heavenly Kings

shippō （七宝）: seven kinds of treasures (1)

shippō （七宝）: seven treasures

shira-haramitsu （尸羅波羅蜜）: pāramitā of keeping the precepts (See six pāramitās)

Shiren （師錬）

shi-riki （四力）: four powers

shi-rinnō （四輪王）: four wheel-turning kings

shi-ron （四論）: four treatises

Shiron-shū （四論宗）: Four Treatises school

Shirukasen （支婁迦讖）: Lokakshema

Shiruku-rōdo （シルクロード）: Silk Road

shi-sei （四聖）: four noble worlds

shi-shaku （四釈）: four guidelines

Shishikaku （師子覚）: Buddhasimha

shishi-ku （師子吼）: lion’s roar

Shishikyō-ō （師子頰王）: Simhahanu

shi-shin （四身）: four bodies (See Buddha of self-enjoyment)

shi-shin （四信）: four objects of faith

shi-shin （四信）: four stages of faith

shishin-gohon （四信五品）: four stages of faith and five stages of practice

Shishin-gohon-shō （四信五品抄）: On the Four Stages of Faith and the Five Stages of Practice

Shishion-butsu （師子音仏）: Lion Voice (See sixteen princes)

Shishionnō-butsu （師子音王仏）: Lion Sound King

shishi-shinchū-no-mushi （師子身中の虫）: worms within the lion’s body

Shishisō-butsu （師子相仏）: Lion Appearance (See sixteen princes)

shishi-sōjō （師資相承）: transmission of the Law from teacher to disciple (See heritage of the Law)

Shishi-sonja （師子尊者）: Āryasimha

shi-shitsudan （四悉檀）: four ways of preaching

shishi-za （師子座）: lion seat

shi-shō （四生）: four forms of birth

shi-shō （四聖）: four noble worlds

shi-shōbō （四摂法）: four methods of winning people

shi-shōdan （四正断）: four right efforts

shi-shōgon （四正勤）: four right efforts

shi-shōtai （四聖諦）: four noble truths

shi-shu （四衆）: four kinds of believers

shi-shū （四洲）: four continents

shishu-mandara （四種曼荼羅）: four types of mandalas

shishu-sammai （四種三昧）: four forms of meditation

shishu-shaku （四種釈）: four guidelines

shisshō （湿生）: birth from dampness (See four forms of birth)

shi-tai （四諦）: four noble truths

Shitchigi （悉知義）: Complete Understanding of Meanings (See six ministers)

shi-tendō （四顚倒）: four inverted views

shi-tenge （四天下）: four-continent world

shi-tennō （四天王）: four heavenly kings

Shitennō-ji （四天王寺）

shi-toku （四徳）: four virtues

Shittan （悉曇）: Siddham (See Annen)

shi-waku （思惑）: illusions of desire (See illusions of thought and desire)

Shiyaku-bonten （思益梵天）: Brahmā Excellent Thought (See Questions of Brahmā Excellent Thought Sutra)

Shiyaku-bonten-shomon-gyō （思益梵天所問経）: Questions of Brahmā Excellent Thought Sutra

Shiyaku-kyō （思益経）: Brahmā Excellent Thought Sutra

shi-zengon （四善根）: four good roots

shi-zenjō （四禅定）: four stages of meditation

shizenten （四禅天）: four meditation heavens

Shōan （章安）: Chang-an

Shōben （清弁）: Bhāvaviveka

shōbō （正法）: Former Day of the Law

Shōbō （聖宝）

Shō-bō （少輔房）

Shōbō-genzō （正法眼蔵）: Treasury of Knowledge of the True Law, The

Shōbōnenjo-kyō （正法念処経）: Meditation on the Correct Teaching Sutra

Shōbon-hannya-kyō （小品般若経）: Smaller Wisdom Sutra

Shō-bu （小部）: Khuddaka-nikāya

shōbutsu-funi （生仏不二）: oneness of living beings and Buddhas

Shōdaiba （聖提婆）: Āryadeva

Shō-daijō-ron （摂大乗論）: Summary of the Mahayana, The

Shōdō-mon （聖道門）: Sacred Way teachings

shōgakunyo （正学女）: shikshamānā

shōgo （正語）: right speech (See eightfold path)

shōgō （正業）: right action (See eightfold path)

Shōgon-kō （荘厳劫）: Glorious Kalpa

shō-gyō （正行）: correct practices (See sundry practices)

shō-gyō （正行）: primary practice (See Six-Volume Writings, The)

shogyō-mujō （諸行無常）: All things are impermanent. (See Dharma seal)

shōgyō-rokudo-hon （正行六度品）: stage of perfecting one’s practice of the six pāramitās (See five stages of practice)

shōhenchi （正遍知）: Right and Universal Knowledge (See ten honorable titles)

shohō-jissō （諸法実相）: true aspect of all phenomena

Shō-hoke-kyō （正法華経）: Lotus Sutra of the Correct Law

Shōhokke-daimoku-shō （唱法華題目抄）: On Chanting the Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra

shohō-muga （諸法無我）: Nothing has an independent existence of its own. (See Dharma seal)

Shō-Hondō （正本堂）: Grand Main Temple (See Soka Gakkai)

shō-i （聖位）: stage of sages (See four good roots)

Shōi-biku （勝意比丘）: Superior Intent

Shōichi （聖一）

shōja （精舎）: vihāra

Shōjari-sennin （尚闍梨仙人）: Shōjari

shoji （初地）: first stage of development

shōjin （精進）: vīrya

shōjin-haramitsu （精進波羅蜜）: pāramitā of assiduousness (See six pāramitās)

shōji-no-kukai （生死の苦海）: sea of the sufferings of birth and death

shōji-soku-nehan （生死即涅槃）: sufferings of birth and death are nirvana

shōjō （小乗）: lesser vehicle

shōjō （正定）: right meditation (See eightfold path)

Shōjō-bukkyō （小乗仏教）: Hinayana Buddhism

shōjō-jūhachi-bu （小乗十八部）: eighteen Hinayana schools

shōjō-kai （小乗戒）: Hinayana precepts (See Brahmā Net Sutra)

shōjō-kyō （小乗教）: Hinayana teaching (See five teachings and ten doctrines)

shōjō-nijū-bu （小乗二十部）: twenty Hinayana schools

shōjō-shiki （清浄識）: pure consciousness (See amala-consciousness)

Shōjō-ten （少浄天）: Minor Purity Heaven (See eighteen heavens)

shojū （初住）: first stage of security

shōju （摂受）

Shōkaku-bō （正覚房）

shōken （正見）: right views (See eightfold path)

shō-kō （小劫）: small kalpa

Shōko （将去）: See Universal Practice

Shōkō （聖光）

Shōkoku-ji （相国寺）: See Five Temples

Shokō-ō （初江王）: King First Creek of the River (See ten kings)

Shōkō-ten （少光天）: Minor Light Heaven (See eighteen heavens)

Shōkū （証空）

Shōman-bunin （勝鬘夫人）: Shrīmālā

Shōman-gyō （勝鬘経）: Shrīmālā Sutra

Shōman-shishiku-kyō （勝鬘師子吼経）: Lion’s Roar of Queen Shrīmālā Sutra

shōmatsu-kihon-hōrin （摂末帰本法輪）: teaching that unites the branch teaching with the root teaching

Shōmoku （青目）: Pingala

shōmon （声聞）: voice-hearer

shōmon-jō （声聞乗）: voice-hearer vehicle (See three vehicles)

shōmon-jōshō （声聞定性）: those predestined to be voice-hearers (See five natures)

shōmon-kai （声聞界）: world of voice-hearers

Shōmu-tennō （聖武天皇）: Shōmu, Emperor

shōmyō （声明）: musical recitation of sutras (See Ryōnin)

shōmyō （正命）: right way of life (See eightfold path)

Shōnawashu （商那和修）: Shānavāsa

shōnen （正念）: right mindfulness (See eightfold path)

Shōnetsu-jigoku （焦熱地獄）: hell of burning heat

shōnin （聖人）: muni

shō-no-sansai （小の三災）: three lesser calamities (See three calamities)

shō-ōjin （勝応身）: superior manifested body

Shō-ōtōshi （小王統史）: Chūlavamsa (See Mahāvamsa)

Shōrin-ji （少林寺）: Shao-lin-ssu temple (See Bodhidharma)

shō-ritsugi-kai （摂律儀戒）: precept that encompasses all the rules and standards (See three comprehensive precepts)

shōrō （鐘楼）: bell tower (See seven-halled temple)

shō-rō-byō-shi （生老病死）: birth, aging, sickness, and death (See four sufferings)

Shōron-shū （摂論宗）: Summary of the Mahayana school

Shōryō-bu （正量部）: Sammatīya school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

shōryō-chi （清涼池）: clear cool pond

Shōryō-kokushi （清涼国師）: Teacher of the Nation Ch’ing-liang (See Ch’eng-kuan)

Shōryō-zan （清涼山）: Ch’ing-liang, Mount

Shōryō-zan （清涼山）: Clear and Cool, Mount

shō-sensekai （小千世界）: minor world system (See major world system)

shōshi （正思）: right thinking (See eightfold path)

Shōshi （小史）: Chūlavamsa (See Mahāvamsa)

shōshin-ji （清信士）: man of pure faith

shōshin-no-shari （生身の舎利）: relics of the physical body (See Buddha’s relics)

shōshin-nyo （清信女）: woman of pure faith

Shōshin-shū （勝身洲）: Pūrvavideha

Shōshō （清竦）: Ch’ing-sung (See T’ien-t’ai school)

shōshōjin （正精進）: right endeavor (See eightfold path)

shōshu （焦種）: scorched seeds

shōshū-bun （正宗分）: revelation section

shō-shujō-kai （摂衆生戒）: precept that encompasses all living beings

Shōshuku-kō （星宿劫）: Constellation Kalpa

Shōshū-shō （正修章）: “Correct Practice” chapter (See Great Concentration and Insight)

sho-tembōrin （初転法輪）: first turning of the wheel of the Law (See turning of the wheel of the Law)

shoten-zenjin （諸天善神）: heavenly gods and benevolent deities

Shōtoku-taishi （聖徳太子）: Shōtoku, Prince

Shōu-kyō （請雨経）: Prayer for Rain Sutra

shōyoku-chisoku （少欲知足）: little desire and contentment with a little gain

shō-zembō-kai （摂善法戒）: precept that encompasses all good deeds (See three comprehensive precepts)

shozuiki-hon （初随喜品）: initial stage of rejoicing

shu （趣）: path

shū （洲）: dvīpa

Shubaddara （須跋陀羅）: Subhadra

Shubin （守敏）

Shubodai （須菩提）: Subhūti

Shudaina-taishi （須大拏太子）: Sudāna

shudaon （須陀洹）: stream-winner

shudaon-ka （須陀洹果）: stage of the stream-winner (See four stages of Hinayana enlightenment)

Shudara （首陀羅）: Shūdra (See Brahman)

Shudasuma-ō （須陀須摩王）: Shrutasoma

Shudatsu （須達）: Sudatta

shu-dō （修道）: way of practice (See three ways)

Shūei （宗叡）

Shuen （修円）

Shugen （衆賢）: Samghabhadra

Shugendō （修験道）: Shugendō school

Shugō-jigoku （衆合地獄）: hell of crushing (See eight hot hells)

Shugo-kokkai-kyō （守護国界経）: Protection of the Sovereign of the Nation Sutra

Shugo-kokkai-shō （守護国界章）: Essay on the Protection of the Nation, An

Shugo-kyō （守護経）: Protection Sutra

Shujata （須闍多）: Sujātā

shūji （種子）: karmic seeds (See ālaya-consciousness)

shūji-shiki （執持識）: maintaining-consciousness

shujō-joku （衆生濁）: impurity of living beings (See five impurities)

shujō-muhen-seigando （衆生無辺誓願度）: vow to save innumerable living beings (See four universal vows)

shujō-seken （衆生世間）: realm of living beings (See three realms of existence)

shu-juku-datsu （種熟脱）: sowing, maturing, and harvesting

shū-ki （臭鬼）: stinking spirits; stinking demons (See pūtana)

Shukō-jō （衆香城）: City of Fragrances

shū-kongō-shin （執金剛神）: vajra-bearing god

shukumyō-tsū （宿命通）: power to know past lives (See six transcendental powers)

Shukuōke （宿王華）: Constellation King Flower

shumana （須摩那）: sumanā

Shumichō-butsu （須弥頂仏）: Sumeru Peak (See sixteen princes)

Shumi-sen （須弥山）: Sumeru, Mount

Shumisen-sekai （須弥山世界）: Sumeru world

Shumisō-butsu （須弥相仏）: Sumeru Appearance (See Constellation Kalpa)

Shūmitsu （宗密）: Tsung-mi

Shunjō （俊芿）

shura-kai （修羅界）: world of asuras

Shurihandoku （周利槃特）: Chūdapanthaka

Shuriyasoma （須利耶蘇摩）: Shūryasoma

shuroka （首盧迦）: shloka

Shuryōgon-kyō （首楞厳経）: Shūramgama Sutra

shuryōgon-zammai （首楞厳三昧）: shūramgama meditation

shu-shi-shin （主師親）: sovereign, teacher, and parent

shu-shi-shin-no-santoku （主師親の三徳）: three virtues of sovereign, teacher, and parent (See Opening of the Eyes, The)

Shushō-den （殊勝殿）: Superior Palace (See Correct Views)

shushō-funimon （修性不二門）: oneness of the result of practice and the true nature of life (See ten onenesses)

Shūsho-iki （周書異記）: Record of Wonders in the Book of Chou, The

shushō-yu （衆星喩）: simile of the heavenly bodies (See ten similes)

shusse-no-honkai （出世の本懐）: purpose of one’s advent

Shutsu-sanzō-kishū （出三蔵記集）: Collection of Records concerning the Tripitaka, A

shutsu-songyō-butsu （出尊形仏）: Buddha who has forsaken august appearances (See Gohonzon)

Shutsuyō-kyō （出曜経）: Sutra of Verses

Shuzen-ji （修禅寺）

Shuzen-ji （修禅寺）: Hsiu-ch’an-ssu

sōbetsu-no-nigi （総別の二義）: general and specific viewpoints

Sōbin （僧旻）: Seng-min

sō-bō （僧房）: dormitory for priests (See seven-halled temple)

sōdai-myō （相待妙）: comparative myō; relative myō

Sōdō （僧導）: Seng-tao (See Establishment of Truth school)

Sōei （僧叡）: Seng-jui

sō-fuzoku （総付嘱）: general transfer

Soga no Umako （蘇我馬子）: See Eben

Sōgi-ritsu-kaihon （僧祇律戒本）: The Basic Rules of Discipline (See Dharmakāla)

sōgya （僧伽）: samgha

Sōgyabaddara （僧伽跋陀羅）: Samghabhadra

Sōgyabatsuma （僧伽跋摩）: Samghavarman (2)

Sōgyadaiba （僧伽提婆）: Samghadeva

Sōgyamitta （僧伽蜜多）: Samghamitrā (See Ashoka)

Sōgyanandai （僧伽難提）: Samghanandi

sōgyari （僧伽梨）: samghātī (See three robes)

Sōgyayasha （僧伽耶舎）: Samghayashas

sōhei （僧兵）: warrior-monks (See Myōun)

Sōji-ji （総持寺）: See Sōtō school

sōji-soku （相似即）: stage of resemblance to enlightenment

sōjō （僧正）: administrator of priests

Sōjō （僧肇）: Seng-chao

sōjō-no-do （爪上の土）: specks of dirt on a fingernail

Soka Gakkai （創価学会）

Soka Kyōiku Gakkai （創価教育学会）: See Soka Gakkai

Sōkan-gyō （双巻経）: Two-Volumed Sutra

Sō-kōsō-den （宋高僧伝）: Sung Dynasty Biographies of Eminent Priests, The

sokushin-jōbutsu （即身成仏）: attaining Buddhahood in one’s present form

soma （蘇摩）: soma

somana （蘇摩那）: sumanā

Sōmin （僧旻）: Seng-min

sōmoku-jōbutsu （草木成仏）: enlightenment of plants

Sondara-nanda （孫陀羅難陀）: Sundarananda

Sondari （孫陀利）: Sundarī

Sonsoku-sen （尊足山）: Gurupādaka, Mount

Sontsengampo （ソンツェンガンポ）: Songtsen Gampo (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Sōnyū （僧柔）: Seng-jou

Sō’ō （相応）

Sō’ō-bu （相応部）: Samyutta-nikāya

Soraba-koku （蘇羅婆国）: Shūrasena (See sixteen great states)

Sōrishukyō-mokuroku （綜理衆経目録）: The Comprehensive Catalog of Sutras (See Tao-an)

Sōrō （僧朗）: Seng-lang

Soroku-koku （疏勒国）: Kashgar

Sōsan （僧璨）: Seng-ts’an

Sōsen （僧詮）: Seng-ch’üan

Soshitsuji-kyō （蘇悉地経）: Susiddhikara Sutra

soshi-zen （祖師禅）: patriarchal Zen

Sōshō （僧祥）: Seng-hsiang (See Lotus Sutra and Its Traditions, The)

sōsō-nenjo （総相念処）: general meditation (See four meditations)

Sōtei-ō （宋帝王）: King Sung-ti (See ten kings)

sotoba （率塔婆）

Sōtō-shū （曹洞宗）: Sōtō school

Sōtō-shū （曹洞宗）: Ts’ao-tung school (See Zen school)

Soya Dōsō （曾谷道宗）

Soya-nyūdō （曾谷入道）: Soya, the lay priest

Soya Kyōshin （曾谷教信）

Sōyū （僧祐）: Seng-yu

sōzu （僧都）: supervisor of priests

Sūgaku-ji （嵩岳寺）: Sung-yüeh-ssu (See pagoda)

suijaku （垂迹）: provisional identity; transient identity (See true Buddha)

suirin （水輪）: watery circle

sui-yu （水喩）: simile of water (See ten similes)

Sukābatībyūha （スカーヴァティーヴューハ）: Sukhāvatīvyūha

Suriyasoma （須利耶蘇摩）: Shūryasoma

susoku-kan （数息観）: breath-counting meditation

Suzudannō （須頭檀王）: Suzudan

tado-no-rokuzui （他土の六瑞）: six auspicious happenings in other worlds (See six auspicious happenings)

Tahō-nyorai （多宝如来）: Many Treasures

Taigen-hō （太元帥法）: ceremony of Great Commander (See Great Commander)

Taigen-myō’ō （太元帥明王）: Great Commander

taiji-shitsudan （対治悉檀）: to help people abandon their illusions and free themselves from the three poisons (See four ways of preaching)

Taimitsu （台密）: Tendai Esotericism

Tai-mō （帝網）: Indra’s net

Taiseki-ji （大石寺）

Taishaku （帝釈）: Shakra

Taishaku-yu （帝釈喩）: simile of the god Shakra (See ten similes)

tai-shō （胎生）: birth from the womb (See four forms of birth)

Taisō-butsu （帝相仏）: Emperor Appearance (See sixteen princes)

Taizan-ō （太山王）: King T’ai-shan (See ten kings)

taizō-kai （胎蔵界）: Womb Realm

Taizōkai-dainichi （胎蔵界大日）: Mahāvairochana of the Womb Realm (See Mahāvairochana)

taizōkai-mandara （胎蔵界曼荼羅）: Womb Realm mandala

tajuyūshin （他受用身）: Buddha of beneficence

Takahashi Rokurō Hyōe-nyūdō （高橋六郎兵衛入道）: Takahashi Rokurō Hyōe, the lay priest

takara （宝）: ratna

Takejizai-ten （他化自在天）: Freely Enjoying Things Conjured by Others

Takejizai-ten （他化自在天）: Heaven of Freely Enjoying Things Conjured by Others

takoku-shimpitsu-nan （他国侵逼難）: calamity of invasion from foreign lands

Takushira （タクシラ）: Taxila

Tamarabatsu-sendankō-jintsū-butsu （多摩羅跋栴檀香神通仏）: Tamāla Leaf Sandalwood Fragrance Transcendental Power (See sixteen princes)

Tamarabatsu-sendankō-nyorai （多摩羅跋栴檀香如来）: Tamāla Leaf Sandalwood Fragrance

Tamon-bu （多聞部）: Bahushrutīya school (See eighteen Hinayana schools)

tamon-daiichi （多聞第一）: foremost in hearing the Buddha’s teachings (See Ānanda)

Tamon-ten （多聞天）: Hearer of Many Teachings

tandai （探題）: discussion supervisor (See Ryūshin)

tanen-gi （多念義）: doctrine of many-times recitation

Tannen （湛然）: Chan-jan

Tan’ni-shō （歎異抄）: Lamenting Heresy

Tantora-bukkyō （タントラ仏教）: Tantric Buddhism

tara-ju （多羅樹）: tāla tree

tariki （他力）: power of another

Tarimu-bonchi （タリム盆地）: Tarim Basin

tashin-tsū （他心通）: power to know the thoughts of all other minds (See six transcendental powers)

Tatsunokuchi-no-hōnan （竜の口の法難）: Tatsunokuchi Persecution

tazō-tōji-kengo （多造塔寺堅固）: age of building temples and stupas (See five five-hundred-year periods)

Tembon-hoke-kyō （添品法華経）: Supplemented Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law

tembō-rin （転法輪）: turning of the wheel of the Law

temma （天魔）: heavenly devil

ten （天）: deva

ten （天）: heaven

tenchū-ten （天中天）: heavenly being among heavenly beings

Tendai （天台）: T’ien-t’ai

Tendai Hokke-shū （天台法華宗）: Tendai Lotus school

Tendai-hokkeshū-gakushō-shiki-mondō （天台法華宗学生式問答）: Questions and Answers on Regulations for Students of the Tendai Lotus School (See Three Great Secret Laws)

Tendai-san （天台山）: T’ien-t’ai, Mount

Tendai-sandai-bu （天台三大部）: T’ien-t’ai’s three major works

Tendai-sandaibu-fuchū （天台三大部補註）: Supplement to T’ien-t’ai’s Three Major Works, The

Tendai-shamon （天台沙門）: priests of the Tendai school (See five senior priests)

Tendai-shū （天台宗）: Tendai school

Tendai-shū （天台宗）: T’ien-t’ai school

ten-gen （天眼）: heavenly eye (See five types of vision)

tengen-daiichi （天眼第一）: foremost in divine insight (See Aniruddha)

tengen-tsū （天眼通）: power to see anything anywhere (See six transcendental powers)

Tenjiku-nijūhasso （天竺二十八祖）: twenty-eight Indian patriarchs

Tenjin （天親）: Vasubandhu

ten-jō （天乗）: vehicle of heavenly beings (See five vehicles)

tenjū-kyōju （転重軽受）: lessening one’s karmic retribution

ten-kai （天界）: world of heavenly beings

Tenkuraion-nyorai （天鼓雷音如来）: Heavenly Drum Thunder (See five Buddhas)

tennin-shi （天人師）: Teacher of Heavenly and Human Beings

tennin-son （天人尊）: most honored of heavenly and human beings (See heavenly being among heavenly beings)

tenni-tsū （天耳通）: power to hear any sound anywhere (See six transcendental powers)

Tennō-nyorai （天王如来）: Heavenly King

tenrin-jō’ō （転輪聖王）: chakravartin; wheel-turning king

Tenryū-ji （天竜寺）: See Five Temples

tenshi-ma （天子魔）: heavenly devil; hindrance of the devil king (See four devils; three obstacles and four devils)

Tenshō Daijin （天照大神）: Sun Goddess

Tensokusai （天息災）: T’ien-hsi-tsai (See Words of Truth Sutra)

Tenzan-sammyaku （天山山脈）: Tien Shan range (See Silk Road)

Tetchi-sen （鉄囲山）: Iron Encircling Mountains

tetsurin-ō （鉄輪王）: iron-wheel-turning king (See four wheel-turning kings)

Tisondetsen （ティソンデツェン）: Thisong Detsen (See Tibetan Buddhism)

Titsukudetsen （ティツクデツェン）: Thitsug Detsen (See Tibetan Buddhism)

tō （塔）: pagoda; stupa

tōba （塔婆）

Tōdai-ji （東大寺）

Tō-daiwajō-tōsei-den （唐大和上東征伝）: The Life of the Great Priest of T’ang China Who Journeyed to the East (See Ganjin)

Toda Jōsei （戸田城聖）: See Soka Gakkai

Tōfuku-ji （東福寺）

tōgaku （等覚）: near-perfect enlightenment

tō-higan （到彼岸）: reaching the other shore (See sea of the sufferings of birth and death)

Tō-ji （東寺）

Tōjō Kagenobu （東条景信）

tōjō-kengo （闘諍堅固）: age of quarrels and disputes

Tojun （杜順）: Tu-shun

Tōkatsu-jigoku （等活地獄）: hell of repeated rebirth for torture

Tōke-sanne-shō （当家三衣抄）: “The Three Robes of This School” (See Six-Volume Writings, The)

Toki Jōnin （富木常忍）

Tō-kōsō-den （唐高僧伝）: T’ang Dynasty Biographies of Eminent Priests, The

Tokudaisei-bosatsu （得大勢菩薩）: Gainer of Great Authority

Tokue （徳慧）: Gunamati

Tokugyō-bon （徳行品）: “Virtuous Practices” chapter (See Immeasurable Meanings Sutra)

Tokuitsu （徳一）

Tokukō （徳光）: Gunaprabha

Tōkurō Moritsuna （藤九郎守綱）: See Abutsu-bō

Tokushaka-ryūō （徳叉迦竜王）: Takshaka (See eight great dragon kings)

Tokushashira （徳叉尸羅）: Takshashilā

Tokushi-bu （犢子部）: Vātsīputrīya school

Tokushō-dōji （徳勝童子）: Virtue Victorious

tōmyō （灯明）: dīpa

ton （貪）: greed

ton-go （頓悟）: sudden enlightenment (See Northern school of Zen)

ton-jin-chi （貪瞋癡）: greed, anger, and foolishness (See three poisons)

Tonkō （敦煌）: Tun-huang

Tonkō-bosatsu （敦煌菩薩）: Bodhisattva of Tun-huang (See Dharmaraksha)

ton-kyō （頓教）: sudden teaching

ton’yoku （貪欲）: greed

Tōrin-ji （東林寺）: Tung-lin-ssu temple (See Pai-lien-she)

Tōri-ten （忉利天）: Trāyastrimsha Heaven

Torufan （トルファン）: Turfan

Tōryū-gyōji-shō （当流行事抄）: “The Practices of This School” (See Six-Volume Writings, The)

Tōshi （島史）: Dīpavamsa

Toshi-ō （都市王）: King Imperial City (See ten kings)

Tōshippōke-nyorai （蹈七宝華如来）: Stepping on Seven Treasure Flowers

Tōshōdai-ji （唐招提寺）

Tōshun （東春）: Tung-ch’un

Tosotsu-ten （兜率天）: Tushita Heaven

tōtai-renge （当体蓮華）: lotus of the entity

tōzu （刀途）: path of swords (See three paths [2] )

tsū-gyō （通教）: connecting teaching

Tsukahara-mondō （塚原問答）: Tsukahara Debate

Tsukimaro （月満）

Tsuonkapa （ツォンカパ）: Tsongkapa (See Tibetan Buddhism)

ubadaisha （優婆提舎）: upadesha

ubai （優婆夷）: upāsikā

Ubakikuta （優婆毱多）: Upagupta

Ubari （優婆離）: Upāli

ubasoku （優婆塞）: upāsaka

Ubuyu-sōjō-no-koto （産湯相承事）: The Transmission on the First Cleaning Bath (See Umegiku-nyo)

Uchō-ten （有頂天）: Summit of Being Heaven

Udararamashi （優陀羅羅摩子）: Uddaka Rāmaputta

Udayabadda （優陀耶跋陀）: Udāyibhadra (See Pātaliputra)

Uden-ō （優塡王）: Udayana

Uden’ō-kyō （優塡王経）: King Udayana Sutra (See Udayana)

udonge （優曇華）: udumbara

Ueno-ama （上野尼）: Ueno, the lay nun

Ueno-kenjin （上野賢人）: Ueno the Worthy (See Nanjō Tokimitsu)

Ugyō-daijin （雨行大臣）: Varshakāra

Uhara-jigoku （優鉢羅地獄）: Utpala hell (See eight cold hells)

Uhara-ryūō （優鉢羅竜王）: Utpalaka (See eight great dragon kings)

ui （有為）: the conditioned (See unconditioned, the)

Ujaenna-koku （烏闍衍那国）: Ujjayinī

ujō （有情）: sentient beings

Ujōna-koku （烏仗那国）: Udyāna

Umegiku-nyo （梅菊女）

Ummon-shū （雲門宗）: Yün-men school (See Zen school)

Unjizai-butsu （雲自在仏）: Cloud Freedom (See sixteen princes)

Unjizaiō-butsu （雲自在王仏）: Cloud Freedom King (See sixteen princes)

Unkō-sekkutsu （雲岡石窟）: Yün-kang caves

Unraionnō-butsu （雲雷音王仏）: Cloud Thunder Sound King

Unraion-shukuōkechi-butsu （雲雷音宿王華智仏）: Cloud Thunder Sound Constellation King Flower Wisdom

urabon （盂蘭盆）: service for deceased ancestors

Urabon-kyō （盂蘭盆経）: Service for the Deceased Sutra

uro （有漏）: presence of outflows (See outflows)

uro-chi （有漏智）: wisdom that retains outflows (See outflows)

uro-jō （有漏定）: meditation accompanied by outflows (See outflows)

uro-shin （有漏身）: body with outflows (See outflows)

Urubinra （優楼頻螺）: Uruvilvā

Urubinra-kashō （優楼頻螺迦葉）: Uruvilvā Kāshyapa

Uruka （優楼迦）: Ulūka

Urumanda-sen （優留曼荼山）: Urumanda, Mount

Ushi-kegi-shō （有師化儀抄）: Reverend Nichiu’s Teachings on the Formalities

usō-kyō （有相教）: teaching of the reality of things (See three schools of the south and seven schools of the north)

Uten （于闐）: Khotan

Utoku-ō （有徳王）: Possessor of Virtue

Utsubusa-no-ama （内房の尼）: Utsubusa, the lay nun of

Utsubusa-nyōbō （内房女房）: Utsubusa, the lady of

Uttan’otsu （鬱単越）: Uttarakuru

uttarasō （鬱多羅僧）: uttarāsanga (See three robes)

uyo-nehan （有余涅槃）: nirvana of remainder

Uzuranhotsu （鬱頭藍弗）: Uddaka Rāmaputta

Washukitsu-ryūō （和修吉竜王）: Vāsuki (See eight great dragon kings)

Yadoya Mitsunori （宿屋光則）

Yagorō （弥五郎）: See three martyrs of Atsuhara

yaku （薬）: bhaishajya

Yakujō-bosatsu （薬上菩薩）: Medicine Superior

Yakuō-bosatsu （薬王菩薩）: Medicine King

Yakuō-bosatsu-honji-hon （薬王菩薩本事品）: “Former Affairs of the Bodhisattva Medicine King” chapter

Yakuō-hon （薬王品）: “Medicine King” chapter

Yakushi-ji （薬師寺）

Yakushi-kyō （薬師経）: Medicine Master Sutra

Yakushin （益信）

Yakushi-nyorai （薬師如来）: Medicine Master

yakusō-yu （薬草喩）: parable of the medicinal herbs

Yakusōyu-hon （薬草喩品）: “Parable of the Medicinal Herbs” chapter

Yamashina-dera （山階寺）

Yama-ten （夜摩天）: Yāma Heaven

Yarokurō （弥六郎）: See three martyrs of Atsuhara

yasha （夜叉）: yaksha

Yasha （耶舎）: Yasa

Yasha （耶舎）: Yashas

Yashudara （耶輸陀羅）: Yashodharā

Yōgi-ha （楊岐派）: Yang-ch’i school (See Zen school)

Yōkan （永観）

Yokei （余慶）

yokkai （欲界）: world of desire

Yōkō （姚興）: Yao Hsing (See Kumārajīva)

Yōraku-kyō （瓔珞経）: Jeweled Necklace Sutra

yoru （預流）: stream-winner

yuga （瑜伽）: yoga

Yugagyō-chūgan-ha （瑜伽行中観派）: Yogāchāra-Mādhyamika school (See Mādhyamika school)

Yugagyō-ha （瑜伽行派）: Yogāchāra school

Yugashiji-ron （瑜伽師地論）: Treatise on the Stages of Yoga Practice, The

Yugyō-kyō （遊行経）: Sutra of Preaching Travels (See Long Āgama Sutra)

Yugyō Shōnin （遊行上人）: Wandering Sage (See Ippen)

Yuien （唯円）: See Lamenting Heresy

Yuiken （維蠲）: Wei-chüan

Yuikyō-gyō （遺教経）: Legacy Teachings Sutra

Yuimakitsu （維摩詰）: Vimalakīrti

Yuima-kyō （維摩経）: Vimalakīrti Sutra

Yuishiki-ha （唯識派）: Consciousness-Only school

yuishiki-jūdai-ronji （唯識十大論師）: ten great scholars of the Consciousness-Only school

Yuishiki-nijū-ron （唯識二十論）: Twenty-Stanza Treatise on the Consciousness-Only Doctrine, The

Yuishiki-sanjū-ron-ju （唯識三十論頌）: Thirty-Stanza Treatise on the Consciousness-Only Doctrine, The

yujun （由旬）: yojana

Yujuppon （涌出品）: “Emerging from the Earth” chapter

Yūshō-ō （友称王）: Mitrayashas (See Shrīmālā)

Yuze-bosatsu （勇施菩薩）: Brave Donor (See “Dhāranī” chapter)

Yūzū Nembutsu-shū （融通念仏宗）: Interfusing Nembutsu school

zai-se （財施）: offering of goods (See almsgiving)

zazen （坐禅）: seated meditation

Zembō-dō （善法堂）: Hall of the Good Law

Zemmui （善無畏）: Shan-wu-wei

zen （禅）: meditation

zen’aku-funi （善悪不二）: oneness of good and evil

zen-chishiki （善知識）: good friend

Zendō （善導）: Shan-tao

Zen’e-sen’nin （善慧仙人）: Good Wisdom (See Causality of Past and Present Sutra)

Zengen-ten （善現天）: Reward Appearing Heaven (See eighteen heavens)

Zengi （善議）

zen-go （漸悟）: gradual enlightenment (See Northern school of Zen)

zengon （善根）: good root

zenji （禅師）: meditation master

zenjin （善神）: benevolent gods

zenjō （禅定）: meditation

zen-haramitsu （禅波羅蜜）: pāramitā of meditation (See six pāramitās)

zenjō-kengo （禅定堅固）: age of meditation (See five five-hundred-year periods)

Zenkaku （善覚）: Suprabuddha

Zenken-jō （善見城）: Correct Views

Zenken-ten （善見天）: Heaven of Clear Perception (See eighteen heavens)

zenki （善鬼）: good spirits (See spirits)

Zen-kō （善劫）: Good Kalpa

Zenkō-ji （善光寺）

zenkon （善根）: good root

zen-kyō （漸教）: gradual teaching

zen-nanshi （善男子）: good man

zen-nyonin （善女人）: good woman

zen-shimi （前四味）: first four flavors

Zenshin （善信）: See bhikshunī

Zenshō-biku （善星比丘）: Sunakshatra

Zen-shū （禅宗）: Zen school

zenzai （善哉）: sādhu

Zenzai-dōji （善財童子）: Good Treasures

zenzei （善逝）: Well Attained

Zenzen （鄯善）: Shan-shan kingdom (See Lou-lan)

Zeshō-bō （是聖房）: See Nichiren

zetsudai-myō （絶待妙）: absolute myō

Zō-agon-gyō （雑阿含経）: Miscellaneous Āgama Sutra

zōbō （像法）: Middle Day of the Law

Zōbō-ketsugi-kyō （像法決疑経）: Sutra on Resolving Doubts about the Middle Day of the Law

Zōchō-ten （増長天）: Increase and Growth

Zōga （増賀）

zō-gyō （雑行）: sundry practices

Zōichi-agon-gyō （増一阿含経）: Increasing by One Āgama Sutra

Zōjō-ten （増長天）: Increase and Growth

zō-kō （増劫）: kalpa of increase

Zoku-kōsō-den （続高僧伝）: Continued Biographies of Eminent Priests, The

Zokurui-hon （嘱累品）: “Entrustment” chapter

zokushū-zōjōman （俗衆増上慢）: arrogance and presumption of lay people (See three powerful enemies)

zokutai （俗諦）: worldly truth (See Establishment of Truth school)

zō-kyō （蔵教）: Tripitaka teaching

Zōmyō （増命）

Zōshi-bu （増支部）: Anguttara-nikāya

zō-shiki （蔵識）: storehouse consciousness

Zōtoku （蔵徳）: Virtue Contained (See six ministers)

Zōzu-sen （象頭山）: Gayāshīrsha, Mount

zuda （頭陀）: dhūta practice

zuda-daiichi （頭陀第一）: foremost in the ascetic practices (See Mahākāshyapa)

zuda-gyō （頭陀行）: dhūta practice

zuhasa-shichibun （頭破作七分）: Their heads will split into seven pieces. (See ten demon daughters)

zui-bonnō （随煩悩）: derivative earthly desires (See earthly desires)

zuien-shinnyo-no-chi （随縁真如の智）: wisdom that functions in accordance with changing circumstances (See Nam-myoho-renge-kyo)

zuihō-bini （随方毘尼）: precept of adapting to local customs

zuijii （随自意）: preaching in accordance with one’s own mind

zuiki-hon （随喜品）: stage of rejoicing on hearing the Lotus Sutra (See five stages of practice)

Zuiki-hon （随喜品）: “Responding with Joy” chapter

Zuiki-kudoku-hon （随喜功徳品）: “Benefits of Responding with Joy” chapter

zuitai （随他意）: preaching in accordance with the minds of others

Zui-tendai-chisha-daishi-betsuden （隋天台智者大師別伝）: The Biography of the Great Teacher T’ien-t’ai Chih-che of the Sui Dynasty (See Chang-an)