noun:

• house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.) ➜ 下院【かいん】
• graduate school; postgraduate school

suffix:

• institution (often medical); institutional building; government office ➜ 医院【いいん】・病院【びょういん】
• sub-temple; minor temple building; temple; cloister - Buddhism term

noun:

• imperial palace - honorific language
• title bestowed on empresses, princesses, etc. - honorific language - archaism ➜ 女院【にょういん】

suffix:

• former (esp. of emperors, daimyos, etc.); late

noun:

• ekayana (doctrine that only one teaching, usu. the Lotus Sutra, can lead to enlightenment) - Buddhism term

noun:

• the one absolute truth; the one reality - Buddhism term

expression:

• unlikely event; rare occurrence - idiom - four character idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 盲亀の浮木

expression:

• unlikely event; rare occurrence - idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• high monk (esp. one of correct conduct who acts as a role model for his pupils); high priest - abbr. of 阿闍梨耶, from the Sanskrit "ācārya" - honorific language - Buddhism term
• initiate (esp. as a formal rank in Tendai and Shingon) - Buddhism term ➜ 伝法灌頂
• monk who conducts religious services - Buddhism term

noun:

• spirits of heaven and earth - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to get married; to contract a marriage
• to form a connection (with Buddha) - Buddhism term ➜ 結縁【けちえん】

noun:

• inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦
• death pains; agony of death

noun:

• method of contemplation - Buddhism term

noun:

• simultaneous contemplation of the threefold truth (form of Tendai meditation) - Buddhism term ➜ 三諦

noun:

• Blue-Faced Vajra - Buddhism term

noun:

• Jambudvipa; continent of the terrestrial world - Buddhism term

noun:

• observing the precepts (of Buddhism) - Buddhism term

noun:

• monk (esp. one who maintains his purity) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Uho Doji (divine rain-making boy) - Buddhism term

noun / suffix noun:

• Sister (i.e. a nun; sometimes used as a posthumous suffix) - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 居士

noun:

• isolated place; hermitage - Buddhism term

noun / suffix noun:

• nature (of a person or thing)
• that which does not change according to external influences - Buddhism term

noun:

• Buddhist teachings; Buddhist - Buddhism term Antonym: 外道

noun:

• spiritual protection of the state - Buddhism term

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• Diamond Realm and Womb Realm - Buddhism term ➜ 金胎両部

noun:

• Diamond Realm and Womb Realm - Buddhism term

noun:

• two parts; both parts - Buddhism term
• both realms (i.e. the Diamond Realm and the Womb Realm)
• Shinto-Buddhist amalgamation - abbreviation ➜ 両部神道