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  • Jakunichi-bō

    [寂日房]

  • Jakunichi-bō Nikke

    (1) [寂日房日家] (n.d.); (2) [寂日房日華] (1252–1334)

  • Jakushō

    [寂照] (d. 1034)

  • Jambudvīpa

    [閻浮提・贍部洲] (; Pali Jambudīpa;  Embudai or Sembu-shū)

  • Jambūnada gold

    [閻浮檀金] (;  embudan-gon)

  • Jāmbūnada Gold Light

    [閻浮那提金光如来] ( Jāmbūnadaprabhāsa;  Embunadai-konkō-nyorai)

  • jambu tree

    [閻浮樹] (, Pali;  embu-ju)

  • Jātaka

    [本生話] (, Pali;  Honjō-wa)

  • Jayata

    [闍夜多・闍夜那] (n.d.) (;  Jayata or Jayana)

  • Jeta

    [祇陀太子] (Pali;  Gida-taishi)

  • Jetavana Monastery

    [祇園精舎] ( Jetavana-vihāra;  Gion-shōja)

  • Jetri

    [祇陀太子] (; Pali Jeta;  Gida-taishi)

  • Jeweled Dignity

    [宝威仏] ( Hōi-butsu)

  • Jeweled Necklace Sutra

    [瓔珞経] ( Yōraku-kyō)

  • Jewel Sign

    [宝相如来] ( Ratnaketu;  Hōsō-nyorai)

  • Jibu-bō

    [治部房] (1257–1318)

  • Jie

    [慈慧]

  • Jien

    [慈円] (1155–1225)

  • Jiga-ge

    [自我偈] ()

  • Jih-chao

    [日照] (PY Rizhao;  Nisshō)

  • Jikaku

    [慈覚] (794–864)

  • Jikoku-ten

    [持国天] ()

  • Jimon school

    [寺門派] ( Jimon-ha)

  • Ji school

    [時宗] ( Ji-shū)

  • Jissō-ji

    [実相寺]

  • Jitsue

    [実慧] (786–847)

  • Jīvaka

    [耆婆] (, Pali;  Giba)

  • jīvamjīvaka

    [命命鳥・共命鳥] (, Pali;  myōmyō-chō or gumyō-chō)

  • Jizō

    [地蔵] ()

  • Jnānagupta

    [闍那崛多] (523–c. 600) (;  Janakutta)

  • Jnānaprabha

    [智光] (n.d.) (;  Chikō)

  • Jōdo school

    [浄土宗] ( Jōdo-shū)

  • Jōdo Shin school

    [浄土真宗] ( Jōdo Shin-shū)

  • Jōjin

    [成尋] (1011–1081)

  • Jōjitsu school

    [成実宗] ( Jōjitsu-shū)

  • Jōkaku-bō

    [成覚房]

  • Jōkan

    [静観]

  • Jōken-bō

    [浄顕房] (n.d.)

  • Jōkōmyō-ji

    [浄光明寺]

  • Joyful to See

    [喜見城] ( Kiken-jō)

  • Jufuku-ji

    [寿福寺]

  • Junsai

    [遵西] (d. 1207)

  • Jūren

    [住蓮] (d. 1207)

Jīvaka [耆婆] (, Pali;  Giba): A skilled physician of the state of Magadha in India in Shakyamuni’s time. As a court physician, Jīvaka served Bimbisāra, the king of Magadha, and his son, Ajātashatru. He was also a devout Buddhist and patron of the Buddhist Order. As a physician he treated Shakyamuni Buddha and his disciples, in addition to ordinary patients. According to one account, his father was Bimbisāra, and his mother, Ambapālī, who lived in Vaishālī. According to The Fourfold Rules of Discipline, his father was Prince Abhaya, who was a son of Bimbisāra, and his mother was a courtesan in Rājagriha, the capital of Magadha. The courtesan gave birth to the son of Prince Abhaya and, wishing for someone to adopt him, left him on the roadside. Abhaya happened to find the baby and took him into his palace to raise him. Abhaya named him Jīvaka and cherished him dearly. When Jīvaka grew up, he decided to study the medical arts. Knowing that a skilled physician named Pingala lived in Takshashilā (present-day Taxila in Pakistan), Jīvaka went there to receive instruction from him. After several years of study, having mastered the practice of medicine, he returned to Rājagriha.
  It is said that Jīvaka cured various kinds of illnesses, some serious and chronic, thus earning renown, and that he performed a number of different surgical treatments. Ajātashatru, whom Jīvaka served as minister, then killed his father, King Bimbisāra. When Ajātashatru was about to kill his mother, Vaidehī, Jīvaka dissuaded him. Later, when King Ajātashatru broke out in malignant sores that covered his body, Jīvaka persuaded him to repent his evil conduct and seek out the Buddha’s teaching. Ajātashatru did so, overcame his illness, and became a devout follower of the Buddha.


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