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  • Sacred Way teachings

    [聖道門] ( Shōdō-mon)

  • Sadāprarudita

    [常啼菩薩] (;  Jōtai-bosatsu)

  • Saddharma-pundarīka-sūtra

    [法華経] (;  Hoke-kyō)

  • sādhu

    [善哉] (, Pali;  zenzai or yokikana)

  • Sado-bō

    [佐渡房]

  • Sado Exile

    [佐渡流罪] ( Sado-ruzai)

  • Sāgara

    [沙竭羅竜王] (;  Shakara-ryūō, Shakatsura-ryūō, or Shagara-ryūō)

  • Sage Ascetics-Gathering

    [仙人堕処] ( Sennin-dasho)

  • sahā world

    [娑婆世界] (;  shaba-sekai)

  • Saichō

    [最澄]

  • Saidai-ji

    [西大寺]

  • Saimyō-ji

    [最明寺]

  • Sairen-bō

    [最蓮房] (n.d.)

  • Sajiki, the lady of

    [桟敷女房] (n.d.) ( Sajiki-nyōbō)

  • sakridāgāmin

    [斯陀含・一来] (;  shidagon or ichirai)

  • sal tree

    [沙羅樹] ( shāla; Pali sāla;  shara-ju)

  • samādhi

    [三昧] (, Pali;  sammai)

  • samādhiof the origin of immeasurable meanings

    [無量義処三昧] ( ananta-nirdesha-pratishthāna-samādhi;  muryōgisho-sammai)

  • sāmanera

    [沙弥] (Pali;  shami)

  • sāmanerī

    [沙弥尼] (Pali;  shamini)

  • Samantabhadra

    [普賢菩薩] (;  Fugen-bosatsu)

  • samaya

    [三昧耶形・三摩耶形] (;  sammaya-gyō or samaya-gyō)

  • sambhoga-kāya

    [報身] (;  hōshin or hōjin)

  • Same Birth and Same Name

    [同生同名] ( Dōshō Dōmyō)

  • samgha

    [僧伽] (;  sōgya)

  • Samghabhadra

    [僧伽跋陀羅・衆賢] (n.d.) (;  Sōgyabaddara or Shugen)

  • Samghadeva

    [僧伽提婆] (n.d.) (;  Sōgyadaiba)

  • Samghanandi

    [僧伽難提] (n.d.) (;  Sōgyanandai)

  • Samghavarman

    () (1) [康僧鎧] (n.d.) ( Kōsōgai); (2) [僧伽跋摩] (n.d.) ( Sōgyabatsuma)

  • Samghayashas

    [僧伽耶舎] (n.d.) (;  Sōgyayasha)

  • Sammi-bō

    [三位房] (n.d.)

  • Sammon school

    [山門派] ( Sammon-ha)

  • samsāra

    [輪廻] (, Pali;  rinne)

  • Samyutta-nikāya

    [相応部] (Pali;  Sō’ō-bu)

  • San-chieh, the Meditation Master

    [三階禅師] (PY Sanjie;  Sangai-zenji)

  • San-chieh-chiao

    [三階教] (PY Sanjiejiao;  Sangai-kyō)

  • sanctuary of the essential teaching

    [本門の戒壇] ( hommon-no-kaidan)

  • sandalwood tree

    [栴檀] (, Pali chandana;  sendan)

  • sands of the Ganges

    [恒河沙] ( Gangā-nadī-vālukā or Gangā-nadī-vālikā;  gōga-sha)

  • sangha

    [僧伽] (, Pali;  sōgya)

  • Sanjaya Belatthiputta

    [刪闍耶毘羅胝子] (Pali;  Sanjaya-birateishi)

  • San-lun school

    [三論宗] (PY Sanlunzong;  Sanron-shū)

  • Sannō

    [山王] ()

  • Sanron school

    [三論宗] ( Sanron-shū)

  • Sāramati

    [堅慧] (n.d.) (;  Kenne or Ken’e)

  • Sāriputta

    [舎利弗] (Pali;  Sharihotsu)

  • Sarvāstivāda school

    [説一切有部] (;  Setsu-issaiu-bu)

  • Sasshō

    [薩生] (n.d.)

  • sattva

    [薩埵] (; Pali satta;  satta)

  • Sattva

    [薩埵王子] (;  Satta-ōji)

  • Satyasiddhi school

    [成実宗] (;  Jōjitsu-shū)

  • Satyasiddhi-shāstra

    [成実論] (;  Jōjitsu-ron)

  • Sautrāntika school

    [経量部] (;  Kyōryō-bu)

  • Sāvatthī

    [舎衛城] (Pali;  Shae-jō)

  • scorched seeds

    [焦種] ( shōshu)

  • scroll of the fifth volume of the Lotus Sutra

    [法華経第五の巻] ( Hoke-kyō daigo-no-maki)

  • seal of the Dharma

    [法印] ( hōin)

  • sea of the sufferings of birth and death

    [生死の苦海] ( shōji-no-kukai)

  • seated meditation

    [坐禅] ( zazen)

  • Secret Solemnity

    [密厳] ( Mitsugon)

  • Secret Solemnity Sutra

    [密厳経] (Chin Mi-yen-ching;  Mitsugon-gyō)

  • seed of Buddhahood

    [仏種] ( busshu)

  • Seichō-ji

    [清澄寺]

  • Seiryō-ji

    [清凉寺]

  • Seishi

    [勢至] ()

  • Selection of the Time, The

    [撰時抄] ( Senji-shō)

  • self-awakened one

    [独覚] ( dokkaku)

  • self-nature

    [自性] ( svabhāva;  jishō)

  • Seng-chao

    [僧肇] (384–414) (PY Sengzhao;  Sōjō)

  • Seng-ch’üan

    [僧詮] (n.d.) (PY Sengquan;  Sōsen)

  • Seng-jou

    [僧柔] (431–494) (PY Sengrou;  Sōnyū)

  • Seng-jui

    [僧叡] (n.d.) (PY Sengrui;  Sōei)

  • Seng-lang

    [僧朗] (n.d.) (PY Senglang;  Sōrō)

  • Seng-min

    [僧旻] (467–527) (PY Sengmin;  Sōbin or Sōmin)

  • Seng-ts’an

    [僧璨] (d. 606) (PY Sengcan;  Sōsan)

  • Seng-yu

    [僧祐] (445–518) (PY Sengyou;  Sōyū)

  • Senkan

    [千観] (918–983)

  • Sennichi, the lay nun

    [千日尼] (n.d.) ( Sennichi-ama)

  • sentient beings

    [有情] ( sattva;  ujō)

  • Sen’yo

    [仙予] ()

  • separate transmission outside the sutras

    [教外別伝] ( kyōge-betsuden)

  • separation of the three truths

    [隔歴の三諦] ( kyakuryaku-no-santai)

  • service for deceased ancestors

    [盂蘭盆] ( ullambana;  urabon)

  • Service for the Deceased Sutra

    [盂蘭盆経] (Chin Yü-lan-p’en-ching;  Urabon-kyō)

  • seven aids to enlightenment

    [七覚支・七菩提分] ( shichi-kakushi or shichi-bodaibun)

  • seven arrogances

    [七慢] ( shichi-man)

  • seven beneficent deities

    [七福神] ( shichi-fukujin)

  • seven Buddhas of the past

    [過去七仏] ( kako-shichi-butsu)

  • seven cardinal sins

    [七逆] ( shichi-gyaku)

  • seven deities of good fortune

    [七福神] ( shichi-fukujin)

  • seven disasters

    [七難] ( shichi-nan)

  • seven expedient means

    [七方便・七方便位] ( shichi-hōben or shichi-hōben-i) (1) (2)

  • seven gods of luck

    [七福神] ( shichi-fukujin)

  • seven guardian spirits

    [七鬼神] ( shichi-kijin)

  • seven-halled temple

    [七堂伽藍] ( shichidō-garan)

  • seven kinds of believers

    [七衆] ( shichi-shu)

  • seven kinds of treasures

    (1) [七宝] ( shichi-hō or shippō); (2) [七財・七聖財] ( shichi-zai or shichi-shōzai)

  • seven major temples of Nara

    [南都七大寺] ( nanto-shichidai-ji)

  • seven parables

    [七譬] ( shichi-hi)

  • seven schools

    [七宗] ( shichi-shū)

  • seven stages of worthiness

    [七賢] ( shichi-ken)

  • seven treasures

    [七宝] ( shichi-hō or shippō)

  • seven types of arrogance

    [七慢] ( shichi-man)

  • seven worthies

    [七賢] ( shichi-ken)

  • Shāketa

    [娑祇多] (;  Shagita)

  • Shakra

    [帝釈] (;  Taishaku)

  • Shakra Devānām Indra

    [釈提桓因・帝釈] (;  Shakudai-kan’in or Taishaku)

  • shakubuku

    [折伏] ()

  • Shākya

    [釈迦族] (;  Shaka-zoku)

  • Shakyamuni

    [釈尊・釈迦牟尼] (;  Shakuson or Shakamuni)

  • shāla tree

    [沙羅樹] (;  shara-ju)

  • Shānavāsa

    [商那和修] (;  Shōnawashu)

  • Shan-chia school

    [山家派] (PY Shanjiapai;  Sange-ha)

  • Shan-tao

    [善導] (613–681) (PY Shandao;  Zendō)

  • Shan-wai school

    [山外派] (PY Shanwaipai;  Sangai-ha)

  • Shan-wu-wei

    [善無畏] (637–735) (PY Shanwuwei;  Shubhakara-simha;  Zemmui)

  • Shāriputra

    [舎利弗] (; Pali Sāriputta;  Sharihotsu)

  • shāsana

    [教] (; Pali sāsana;  kyō)

  • She-lun school

    [摂論宗] (PY Shelunzong;  Shōron-shū)

  • Shen-hsiu

    [神秀] (d. 706) (PY Shenxiu;  Jinshū)

  • Shen-t’ai

    [神泰] (n.d.) (PY Shentai;  Jintai)

  • Shiba Tatsuto

    [司馬達等] (n.d.) (; Chin Ssu-ma Ta-teng)

  • Shibi

    [尸毘王] (;  Shibi-ō)

  • Shien

    [思円]

  • Shiiji Shirō

    [椎地四郎] (n.d.)

  • Shijō Kingo

    [四条金吾] (c. 1230–1300)

  • Shijūku-in

    [四十九院]

  • shikshamānā

    [式叉摩那・正学女・学法女] (;  shikishamana, shōgakunyo, or gakuhōnyo)

  • Shikshānanda

    [実叉難陀] (652–710) (;  Jisshananda)

  • shīla

    [戒] (;  kai)

  • Shīlabhadra

    [戒賢] (529–645) (;  Kaigen)

  • Shīlāditya

    [戒日王] (r. 606–647) (;  Kainichi-ō)

  • Shinga

    [真雅] (801–879)

  • Shingon–Ritsu school

    [真言律宗] ( Shingon Risshū)

  • Shingon school

    [真言宗] ( Shingon-shū)

  • Shinjō

    [審祥] (n.d.) (; Kor Simsang)

  • Shinran

    [親鸞] (1173–1262)

  • Shinsen-en garden

    [神泉苑] ( Shinsen-en)

  • Shinzei

    [真済] (800–860)

  • Shiren

    [師錬]

  • Shītavana

    [尸陀林・寒林] (;  Shidarin or Kanrin)

  • Shitennō-ji

    [四天王寺]

  • shloka

    [首盧迦] (;  shuroka)

  • Shōbō

    [聖宝] (832–909)

  • Shō-bō

    [少輔房] (1) (2) (3)

  • Shōichi

    [聖一]

  • Shōjari

    [尚闍梨] ()

  • shōju

    [摂受] ()

  • Shōkaku-bō

    [正覚房]

  • Shōkō

    [聖光]

  • Shōkū

    [証空] (1177–1247)

  • Shōmu, Emperor

    [聖武天皇] (701–756) ( Shōmu-tennō)

  • Shore of Suffering

    [苦岸比丘] ( Kugan-biku)

  • Shōron school

    [摂論宗] ( Shōron-shū)

  • Shōtoku, Prince

    [聖徳太子] (574–622) ( Shōtoku-taishi)

  • shramana

    [沙門] (; Pali samana;  shamon)

  • shrāmanera

    [沙弥] (; Pali sāmanera;  shami)

  • shrāmanerī

    [沙弥尼] (; Pali sāmanerī;  shami-ni)

  • shrāvaka

    [声聞] (;  shōmon)

  • Shrāvastī

    [舎衛城] (; Pali Sāvatthī;  Shae-jō)

  • Shrīmālā

    [勝鬘夫人] (;  Shōman-bunin)

  • Shrīmālā Sutra

    [勝鬘経] ( Shrīmālādevī-simhanāda-sūtra; Chin Sheng-man-ching;  Shōman-gyō)

  • Shrutasoma

    [須陀須摩王・普明王] (;  Shudasuma-ō or Fumyō-ō)

  • Shubhakarasimha

    [善無畏] (;  Zemmui)

  • Shubin

    [守敏] (n.d.)

  • Shuddhodana

    [浄飯王] (; Pali Suddhodana;  Jōbonnō)

  • Shūei

    [宗叡] (809–884)

  • Shuen

    [修円] (771–835)

  • Shugendō school

    [修験道] ( Shugen-dō)

  • Shuklodana

    [白飯王] (; Pali Sukkodana;  Byakubonnō)

  • Shun-hsiao

    [順暁] (n.d.) (PY Shunxiao;  Jungyō)

  • Shunjō

    [俊芿] (1166–1227)

  • shūnya

    [空] (;  kū)

  • shūnyatā

    [空] (;  kū)

  • shūramgama meditation

    [首楞厳三昧] (;  shuryōgon-zammai)

  • Shūramgama Sutra

    [首楞厳経] (Chin Shou-leng-yen-ching;  Shuryōgon-kyō)

  • Shūryasoma

    [須利耶蘇摩] (n.d.) (;  Suriyasoma or Shuriyasoma)

  • Shuzen-ji

    [修禅寺]

  • Siddhārtha

    [悉達多] (; Pali Siddhattha;  Shiddatta)

  • sīla

    [戒] (Pali;  kai)

  • Silk Road

    [シルクロード] ( Shiruku-rōdo)

  • Silver-Colored Woman Sutra

    [銀色女経] (Chin Yin-se-nü-ching;  Gonjikinyo-kyō)

  • Simhahanu

    [師子頰王] (; Pali Sīhahanu;  Shishikyō-ō)

  • “Simile and Parable” chapter

    [譬喩品] ( Hiyu-hon)

  • simultaneity of cause and effect

    [因果倶時] ( inga-guji)

  • Single-minded Practice school

    [一向宗] ( Ikkō-shū)

  • single vehicle

    [一乗] ( ichijō)

  • six auspicious happenings

    [六瑞] ( roku-zui)

  • six consciousnesses

    [六識] ( roku-shiki)

  • six days of purification

    [六斎日] ( roku-sainichi)

  • six desires

    [六欲] ( roku-yoku)

  • six difficult and nine easy acts

    [六難九易] ( rokunan-kui)

  • six elder disciples of Nikkō

    [本六] ( hon-roku)

  • six elements

    [六大] ( roku-dai)

  • six forms

    [六相] ( roku-sō)

  • six heavens of the world of desire

    [六欲天] ( rokuyoku-ten)

  • six kinds of contemplation

    [六念] ( roku-nen)

  • six major offenses

    [六重罪] ( roku-jūzai)

  • six metaphors of the theoretical and essential teachings

    [本迹の六譬] ( honjaku-no-roppi)

  • six ministers

    [六大臣・六臣] ( roku-daijin or roku-shin)

  • six monks, group of

    [六群比丘] ( rokugun-biku)

  • six new disciples of Nikkō

    [新六] ( shin-roku)

  • six non-Buddhist teachers

    [六師外道] ( rokushi-gedō)

  • six objects

    [六境] ( rokkyō)

  • six omens

    [六瑞] ( roku-zui)

  • six pāramitās

    [六波羅蜜] ( roku-haramitsu or ropparamitsu)

  • Six Pāramitās Sutra

    [六波羅蜜経] (Chin Liu-po-lo-mi-ching;  Rokuharamitsu-kyō or Ropparamitsu-kyō)

  • six paths

    [六道] ( shad-gati;  roku-dō)

  • six portents

    [六瑞] ( roku-zui)

  • six precepts

    (1) [六法戒・六法] ( roppō-kai or roppō); (2) [六重戒・六重の法] ( rokujū-kai or rokujū-no-hō)

  • six royal ministers

    [六大臣・六臣] ( roku-daijin or roku-shin)

  • six schools of Nara

    [南都六宗] ( nanto-rokushū)

  • six senior priests

    [六老僧] ( roku-rōsō)

  • six sense objects

    [六境] ( rokkyō)

  • six sense organs

    [六根] ( shad-indriya;  rokkon)

  • six stages of practice

    [六即] ( roku-soku)

  • six supernatural powers

    [六神通・六通] ( roku-jinzū or roku-tsū)

  • six teachers of the non-Buddhist doctrines

    [六師外道] ( rokushi-gedō)

  • sixteen arhats

    [十六羅漢] ( jūroku-rakan)

  • sixteen great states

    [十六大国] ( jūroku-daikoku)

  • sixteen princes

    [十六王子] ( jūroku-ōji)

  • sixteen types of meditation

    [十六観] ( jūroku-kan)

  • sixth heaven

    [第六天] ( dairoku-ten)

  • six transcendental powers

    [六神通・六通] ( roku-jinzū or roku-tsū)

  • six types of harmony and reverence

    [六和敬] ( roku-wakyō or roku-wagyō)

  • Six-Volume Writings, The

    [六巻抄] ( Rokkan-shō)

  • slander

    [謗法] ( hōbō)

  • Smaller Wisdom Sutra

    [小品般若経] ( Ashtasāhasrikā-prajnāpāramitā; Chin Hsiao-p’in-pan-jo-ching;  Shōbon-hannya-kyō)

  • small kalpa

    [小劫] ( shō-kō)

  • Snow Mountains

    [雪山] ( Himālaya or Himavat;  Sessen)

  • Snow Mountains, the boy

    [雪山童子] ( Sessen-dōji)

  • Soka Gakkai

    [創価学会]

  • soma

    [蘇摩] (, Pali;  soma)

  • sons of the Buddha

    [仏子] ( busshi)

  • Sō’ō

    [相応] (831–918)

  • sorrowless tree

    [無憂樹] ( muu-ju)

  • sotoba

    [率塔婆] ()

  • Sōtō school

    [曹洞宗] ( Sōtō-shū)

  • Southern Buddhism

    [南方仏教・南伝仏教] ( Nampō-bukkyō or Nanden-bukkyō)

  • Southern school of Zen

    [南宗禅] ( Nanshū Zen)

  • Sovereign Kings of the Golden Light Sutra

    [金光明最勝王経] ( Suvarnaprabhāsa-sūtra or Suvarnaprabhāsottama-sūtra; Chin Chin-kuang-ming-tsui-sheng-wang-ching;  Konkōmyō-saishō’ō-kyō)

  • Sovereign Kings Sutra

    [最勝王経] ( Saishō-ō-kyō)

  • sovereign, teacher, and parent

    [主師親] ( shu-shi-shin)

  • sowing, maturing, and harvesting

    [種熟脱] ( shu-juku-datsu)

  • Soya, the lay priest

    [曾谷入道] ( Soya-nyūdō)

  • Soya Dōsō

    [曾谷道宗] (n.d.)

  • Soya Kyōshin

    [曾谷教信] (1224–1291)

  • Space Treasury

    [虚空蔵菩薩] ( Ākāshagarbha;  Kokūzō-bosatsu)

  • specific teaching

    [別教] ( bekkyō)

  • specific transfer

    [別付嘱] ( betsu-fuzoku)

  • specks of dirt on a fingernail

    [爪上の土] ( sōjō-no-do)

  • spirits

    [鬼神] ( kijin)

  • spoiled seeds

    [敗種] ( haishu)

  • Spotted Feet

    [斑足王] ( Kalmāshapāda; Pali Kammāsapāda;  Hansoku-ō or Hanzoku-ō)

  • srota-āpanna

    [須陀洹・預流] (;  shudaon or yoru)

  • stage of being a Buddha in theory

    [理即] ( ri-soku)

  • stage of hearing the name and words of the truth

    [名字即] ( myōji-soku)

  • stage of non-regression

    [不退位] ( avaivartika, avivartika, or avinivartanīya;  futai-i)

  • stage of perception and action

    [観行即] ( kangyō-soku)

  • stage of progressive awakening

    [分真即] ( bunshin-soku)

  • stage of resemblance to enlightenment

    [相似即] ( sōji-soku)

  • stage of the foremost worldly good root

    [世第一法・世第一法位] ( sedaiippō or sedaiippō-i)

  • stage of the four good roots

    [四善根・四善根位] ( shi-zengon or shi-zengon-i)

  • stage of ultimate enlightenment

    [究竟即] ( kukyō-soku)

  • Stepping on Seven Treasure Flowers

    [蹈七宝華如来] ( Saptaratnapadma-vikrāntagāmin;  Tōshippōke-nyorai)

  • Sthaviravāda school

    [上座部] (;  Jōza-bu)

  • Sthiramati

    [安慧] (n.d.) (;  An’ne)

  • stinginess and greed

    [慳貪] ( kendon)

  • stone footprints of the Buddha

    [仏足石] ( bussoku-seki)

  • storehouse consciousness

    [蔵識] ( zō-shiki)

  • stream-winner

    [須陀洹・預流] ( srota-āpanna; Pali sota-āpanna;  shudaon or yoru)

  • stupa

    [塔] ( stūpa;  tō)

  • Subhadra

    [須跋陀羅] (; Pali Subhadda;  Shubaddara)

  • Subhūti

    [須菩提] (, Pali;  Shubodai)

  • substituting faith for wisdom

    [以信代慧] ( ishin-daie)

  • Sudāna

    [須大拏太子] (, Pali;  Shudaina-taishi)

  • Sudatta

    [須達] (, Pali;  Shudatsu)

  • sudden teaching

    [頓教] ( ton-gyō or ton-kyō)

  • Suddhodana

    [浄飯王] (Pali;  Jōbonnō)

  • suffering