List: Buddhism
Words and expressions used in Buddhism, a religion widely extended in Japan.
Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- head monk in charge of the administrative section of a zendo (Zen)
Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
Buddhism noun noun (generic) noh
- announcing meals (at a Zen monastery), meal announcer
- noh mask resembling a young attendant who announces mealtimes in a Zen monastery
Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- existence (as we perceive it) is as mutable and incorporeal as is the morning dew or a flash of lightning
rare term Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- detachment from dichotomies, detachment from objectivity and subjectivity
Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- closing recital that transfers the merit of the service to a buddha, a bodhisattva, or the dead
Buddhism noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- culmination, conclusion
Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- pataka (banner)
noun noun (generic) suffix Buddhism honorific language historical term
- house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.)
- graduate school, postgraduate school
- institution (often medical), institutional building, government office
- sub-temple, minor temple building, temple, cloister
- imperial palace
- title bestowed on empresses, princesses, etc.
- former (esp. of emperors, daimyos, etc.), late
Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- ekayana (doctrine that only one teaching, usu. the Lotus Sutra, can lead to enlightenment)