noun:

• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month) - Buddhism term ➜ 涅槃会

noun:

• Buddhist center for study and meditation; monastery; temple - abbreviation of 栴檀林 - Buddhism term ➜ 栴檀
• Danrin style of haikai poetry (playful and oriented to the common person); Danrin school (of haikai poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 俳諧・談林風・談林派

noun:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom ➜ 不立文字

noun:

• Buddhist term
• teaching of the Buddha; saying of the Buddha; words of the Buddha

expression:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom

noun:

• offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice - Buddhism term
• twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar
• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) ➜ 臈

noun:

• wind blowing on the day of the Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (15th day of the 2nd month) - Buddhism term

noun:

• seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees)

noun:

• subject (of a portrait or bust); a person posing for a portrait or bust - obscure term
• (historically) patron; someone who commissions a Buddhist temple or work of art

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun:

• method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• the death of Shakyamuni Buddha - Buddhism term
• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 仏涅槃忌

noun:

• road; path; street; lane; passage
• route; way
• distance; journey
• road (e.g. to victory); course
• way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles
• teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma
• field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality
• means; way; method

noun:

• clerical appearance; appearance of a priest - Buddhism term
• teachings of Buddha; condition of the universe at creation; in the pure land teachings, the name of Amitabha, or prayers to Amitabha; investiture of a Buddhist priest

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:

• volume number; reel number; scroll number
• number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.)
• a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk ［かんじゅ・かんず］

noun:

• miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.)
• cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子棚
• (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors ➜ 厨子甕

noun:

• road; path; street; route - abbreviation ➜ 道【みち】
• way; set of practices; rules for conducting oneself ➜ 道【みち】
• Buddhist teachings
• Taoism
• modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
• historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.)
• province (Tang-era administrative region of China)
• province (modern administrative region of Korea)

noun:

• four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
• four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices)
• the four assemblies - in Tendai

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to pull; to tug; to lead (e.g. a horse)
• to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest) ➜ 惹く【ひく】・注意を引く
• to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to pull in
• to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
• to draw (a line, plan, etc.) ➜ 図面を引く
• to catch (a cold) ➜ 風邪を引く
• to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument) ➜ 弾く【ひく】
• to look up (e.g. a dictionary); to consult ➜ 辞書を引く
• to haul; to pull (vehicles) - esp. 牽く
• to subtract; to deduct
• to recede; to ebb; to fade
• to be descend from; to inherit (a characteristic)
• to quote; to cite; to raise (as evidence)
• to lay on (electricity, gas, etc.); to install (e.g. a telephone); to supply (e.g. water)
• to hold (e.g. a note)
• to apply (e.g. lipstick); to oil (e.g. a pan); to wax (e.g. a floor)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to move back; to draw back; to recede ➜ 退く【ひく】
• to lessen; to subside; to ebb ➜ 退く【ひく】
• to resign; to retire; to quit ➜ 退く【ひく】

~する verb (irregular):

• to do; to carry out; to perform
• to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
• to serve as; to act as; to work as
• to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
• to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as - as 〜にする,〜とする
• to decide on; to choose - as 〜にする

~する verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) - as 〜がする
• to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
• to be worth; to cost
• to pass (of time); to elapse

~する verb (irregular) / transitive:

• to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B - as AをBにする
• to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B - as AをBにする
• to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B - as AをBにする
• to feel A about B - as AをBにする

suffix / ~する verb (irregular):

• verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")

auxiliary verb / ~する verb (irregular):

• creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go") ➜ お願いします・御
• to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to - as 〜うとする,〜ようとする ➜ とする