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• preaching down; breaking down somebody's false beliefs through confrontation (in order to convert them to the right faith) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Skanda (swift-footed guardian deity) - Buddhism term
• great runner

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• departing from this world in disdain - Buddhism term

noun:

• Kengyō; exoteric Buddhism; public Buddhist teachings - Buddhism term Antonym: 密教【みっきょう】

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪道

noun:

• Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas - Buddhism term ➜ 三尊【さんぞん】

noun:

• calm abiding and clear observation (Tendai meditation) - Buddhism term
• Tendai ➜ 天台宗

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• this world; this life - Buddhism term ➜ 彼岸

noun:

• esoteric Buddhism of the Japanese Tendai sect - Buddhism term ➜ 東密【とうみつ】

noun:

• mendicant priest's begging bowl - Buddhism term ➜ 応器
• iron helmet ［てっぱち］ - archaism ➜ 金鉢【かなばち】

noun:

• ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 如是我聞
• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - abbreviation ➜ 十如是

noun:

• Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma; Lotus Sutra - Buddhism term ➜ 法華経

noun:

• six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning) - Buddhism term

noun:

• the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm) - Buddhism term

noun:

• hymns of praise in Japanese - Buddhism term

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪趣・三悪【さんあく】

noun / ~する noun:

• earnest aspiration (to go to paradise) - Buddhism term

noun:

• icon
• simple ink drawing (of a buddha, mandala, etc.) - Buddhism term

noun:

• foreign book; foreign books
• non-Buddhist writings - Buddhism term

noun:

• (fixing) boundaries for religious practices - Buddhism term
• prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice) - Buddhism term
• fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple - Buddhism term
• short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store - archaism ➜ 帳場格子
• barrier; dimensional barrier; containment zone; containment barrier; mystical barrier - esp. in games, manga, etc. - colloquialism

noun:

• endless cycle of rebirth through the three worlds of past, present, and future existences - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise) - Buddhism term

noun:

• being deep in prayer; praying devoutly to Amida Buddha - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• abandoning artifice and just being oneself; doing nothing and taking things as they come - four character idiom
• unconditioned nature; unconditioned spontaneity - Buddhism term