Glossary of Japanese Zen Terms, by Stan Rosenthal
Contents
1 A
2 C
3 D
4 E
5 F
6 G
7 H
8 I
9 J
10 K
11 L
12 M
13 N
14 O
15 R
16 S
17 T
18 W
19 Y
20 Z
A
Ai-nuke (mutual escape)
Ai-uchi (mutual striking down)
Akago no kokoro (mind of an infant; child”s mind)
Amado ("rain door")
Angya (travelling on foot: a Buddhist pilgrimage)
Antan (assignment of living space)
Arayashiki (all conserving consciousness)
Baito (tea made with plum seed and sugar served as the ceremony for the
beginning of each day)
Banka (evening services)
Banka soji (evening cleaning)
Bhutakoti (limit of reality)
Bodhi (enlightenment)
Bodhidharma (also P”u-t”i Ta-mo or Ta-mo or Daruma; the twenty- eighth Buddhist
patriarch, founder of Zen)
Bosatsu (Bodhisattva or p”u-sa; a great enlightened one)
Buddha (also, Butsudo or hondo; Guatarma Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism)
Bukkwa (becoming and being; see Wu-hua)
Bushi (a knight or military scholar)
Bushido ("the way or code of the military or martial scholar")
Busshin-gyo (Buddha-mind act)
Butsuden (temple building enshrining an image or images of the Buddha)
C
Ch”a-ch”a/sassatsu (lively and self assured)
Chado (the way of tea; the ritual of the tea ceremony)
Ch”an (Zen)
Ch”ang (forever)
Ch”ang-tao ("always-so-ness")
Cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony)
Chen/tei (perseverance)
Cheng (the state of things as they are)
Ch”eng/makoto (sincerity)
Ch”eng-ch”eng/jojo (droop and drift)
Chen-jen (true man)
Chih/jaku/chi (wisdom, tranquility)
Ch”i/ki (spirit, abstract form of energy originating in the Tan Tien or Hara)
Chih-jen : see Shijin
Chih-mo : see Shih-mo (suchness)
Choka (Morning services)
Chu-chang/shujo (staff)
Ch”un ch”i (pure spirit)
Chung Yung : see Chuyo (doctrine of the Mean)
Chuyo/Chung Yung (doctrine of the Mean)
D
Daido mumon (from the preface to the Mumonkan, a Zen text by Hui- k”ai
(1183-1260), a monk of the later Sung dynasty. Discourses on the text,
comprising forty-eight cases are frequently held in Zen monasteries.
Daienkyochi (mirror wisdom)
Daigaku/Ta Hsueh (great learning)
Dai-hannya (ceremony of reading the sutra titles)
Daikon-hatsu (collecting white radishes for pickling)
Daiyu/Ta-yung or Myoyu/Miao-yung (an aesthetic quality perceivable in a work of
art or in nature itself. The sword in the hand of a swordsman, or any activity
carried out with something more than technique)
Daruma (Japanese name for Bodhidharma)
Daruma-ki (memorial day for the Bodhidharma, 5th October)
Dentoroku/Ch”uan-teng Lu ("transmission of the lamp")
Deshi (a disciple or pupil of a Shisho [spiritual master or teacher])
Doka (poetry of the Tao)
Dokusan (inpidual consultation with a Zen master; a form of sanzen)
Donai (that part of a monastery other than its administrative quarters)
Donai fugin (chanting scriptures in the meditation hall)
E
ekagrata (one-pointedness)
Enju (growing vegetables)
Enjudo (life prolonging room; the healing room of a monastery)
F
Fen/bun (mutuality)
Fudo-shin (immovable mind)
Fuga (refinement of life)
Fugin (chanting scriptures)
Funi (nonduality)
Furyu (feeling for nature)
Fushiki or Fuchi/Pu-shih (beyond knowledge)
Fusu (monk in charge of the accounts and business affairs of a monastery)
Fuzui (a monk assigned as attendant to the head monk)
G
Gaki (hungry spirits)
Gyodo (ceremony of chanting scriptures whilst moving)
H
Haiku (form of poetry having three lines; five syllables in the first line,
seven in the second, five in the third)
Hakama (a pided skirt worn as ”over-trousers”)
Haka naki (transient vain)
Handaikan (waiting on the table of the dining room)
Hange (mid-term or half term day)
Hansai (special meal)
Haori (upper or outer coat)
Happo biraki (open on all sides)
Hashin kyuji (rest, mending and preparat…
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