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  • icchantika

    [一闡提] (;  issendai)

  • ichinen

    [一念] (; Chin i-nien)

  • ichinen-sanzen

    [一念三千] ()

  • I-ching

    [義浄] (635–713) (PY Yijing;  Gijō)

  • Ichinosawa, the lay priest

    [一谷入道] (d. 1278) ( Ichinosawa-nyūdō)

  • ignorance

    [無明] ( avidyā; Pali avijjā;  mumyō)

  • I-hsing

    [一行] (683–727) (PY Yixing;  Ichigyō)

  • Ikegami Munenaga

    [池上宗長] (d. 1283)

  • Ikegami Munenaka

    [池上宗仲] (d. 1293)

  • Ikegami Transfer Document, The

    [池上相承書] ( Ikegami-sōjō-sho)

  • Ikkō school

    [一向宗] ( Ikkō-shū)

  • illusions of thought and desire

    [見思惑] ( kenji-waku)

  • I-lung

    [遺竜] (n.d.) (PY Yilong;  Iryō)

  • Immeasurable Meanings Sutra

    [無量義経] (Chin Wu-liang-i-ching;  Muryōgi-kyō)

  • Immovable

    (1) [不動明王] ( Achala or Achalanātha;  Fudō-myō’ō); (2) [不動仏] ( Fudō-butsu); (3) [不動智仏] ( Fudōchi-butsu)

  • Immovable Wisdom

    [不動智仏] ( Fudōchi-butsu)

  • immutable karma

    [定業] ( jōgō)

  • impure land

    [穢土] ( edo)

  • Inaba-bō

    [因幡房] (n.d.)

  • inclusion of Buddhahood in the nine worlds

    [九界即仏界・九界所具の仏界] ( kukai-soku-bukkai or kukai-shogu-no-bukkai)

  • inclusion of the nine worlds in Buddhahood

    [仏界即九界・仏界所具の九界] ( bukkai-soku-kukai or bukkai-shogu-no-kukai)

  • inconspicuous benefit

    [冥益] ( myōyaku)

  • incorrigible disbelief, persons of

    [一闡提] ( issendai)

  • Increase and Growth

    [増長天] ( Virūdhaka;  Zōjō-ten or Zōchō-ten)

  • Increasing by One Āgama Sutra

    [増一阿含経] (Chin Tseng-i-a-han-ching;  Zōichi-agon-gyō)

  • independent of words or writing

    [不立文字] ( furyū-monji)

  • Indra

    [因陀羅] (;  Indara)

  • Indra’s net

    [因陀羅網・帝網] ( Indra-jāla;  Indara-mō or Tai-mō)

  • indriya

    [根] (, Pali;  kon)

  • inferior manifested body

    [劣応身] ( retsu-ōjin)

  • Infinite Life

    [無量寿仏] ( Muryōju-butsu)

  • Infinite Light

    [無量光仏] ( Muryōkō-butsu)

  • Ingen

    [隠元] (1592–1673) (; Chin Yin-yüan)

  • inherent enlightenment

    [本覚] ( hongaku)

  • initial stage of rejoicing

    [初随喜品・初随喜] ( shozuiki-hon or shozuiki)

  • insentient beings

    [非情] ( hijō)

  • integration of the three mystic principles

    [三妙合論] ( sammyō-gōron)

  • Interfusing Nembutsu school

    [融通念仏宗] ( Yūzū Nembutsu-shū)

  • internal strife

    [自界叛逆難] ( jikai-hongyaku-nan)

  • “Introduction” chapter

    [序品] ( Jo-hon)

  • Invincible

    [無勝童子] ( Mushō-dōji)

  • Ippen

    [一遍] (1239–1289)

  • Iron Encircling Mountains

    [鉄囲山・鉄輪囲山] ( Chakravāda-parvata or Chakravāda;  Tetchi-sen or Tetsurin’i-sen)

  • Īshāna

    [伊舎那天] (;  Ishana-ten)

  • Ishikawa Monastery

    [石川精舎] ( Ishikawa-shōja)

  • Ishikawa no Hyōe, the lay priest

    [石河の兵衛入道] (n.d.) ( Ishikawa no Hyōe-nyūdō)

  • Izu Exile

    [伊豆流罪] ( Izu-ruzai)

impure land [穢土] ( edo): Any land inhabited by those who are afflicted with earthly desires. The term is contrasted with “pure land,” meaning a tranquil and blissful realm where a Buddha lives. Many Buddhist scriptures describe the present world as an impure land and speak of distant pure lands inhabited by Buddhas and bodhisattvas. From this developed the idea that the present world, an impure realm of suffering and desire, is a place to be abhorred, and that one should seek rebirth in a pure land. Among others, the three sutras that form the doctrinal basis of the Pure Land school—the Buddha Infinite Life, Meditation on the Buddha Infinite Life, and Amida sutras—encourage people to aspire for rebirth in Amida Buddha’s Pure Land, the Western Paradise. In contrast, such scriptures as the Vimalakīrti Sutra teach that the purity or impurity of a land depends on the enlightenment or delusion of those who inhabit it. The “Life Span” (sixteenth) chapter of the Lotus Sutra says that the Buddha has always dwelt in the sahā world (this world, where one must endure suffering), which is, from the Buddha’s perspective, a pure land. See also pure land.


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