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(9th-10th cent.) A Dharma heir of Fayan. +
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(748-835) A Dharma heir of Mazu and teacher of the great Zhaozhou, Nanquan is featured in many koans; he is known for his sickle, his love of cows, and for cutting a cat. +
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(n.d.) The fifth ancestor in India, according to the lineage accepted in Zen. +
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The librarian of a monastery. See chōshu. 52n. 18 +
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The abbot's wooden armchair, separate from the monks' platform or tan, large enough to sit on cross-legged on a large cushion, but not to sleep on. It is to the right of the front door as one enters, and faces Manjushri, i.e., in front of Manjushri slightly to his left. 76n. 6 +
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Literally, "head of the tan," referring to the person who assists the godō as head of training. The tanta sits at the head of the platform opposite the seidō, by the back entrance of the south, lower side of the monks' hall.105n. 34 +
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(1045-1105) A noted poet and government official who was a lay disciple of Huitang Zuxin. +
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Literally, "hang one's belongings" (for a monk their robes and bowls) at a particular temple and practice there as a resident monk for some period. 54n. 30 +
title conferred on one who has completed a Tibetan monastic education in such Buddhist studies as logic, epistemology, philosophy, metaphysics and rules of discipline. +
the bodhisattva embodying the boundless compassion of full enlightenment. +
the interdependent nature of phenomena; their manner of appearance and functioning. +
spiritual mentor and guide +
an esoteric discource attributed to the Buddha; a way to enlightenment which makes use of mantra, visualization, and the control of subtle physical energies; the adamantine vehicle to enlightenment (vajrayāna). +
those practices of compassion and so forth leading to the attainment of the form body (rupakaya) of a buddha. +
Sanskrit syllables incorporating the name of one's spiritual mentor, recited to enhance devotion and to request inspiration. +
(sattva, rajah, tamah) asserted by the non-Buddhist Sāṃkhya school as the three basic constituents of the "primal substance" (prakrti): lightness, activity and darkness. +
solitary realizer; a Hinayāna practitioner who does not rely on a spiritual master during the final stages of the path. +
a discourse preached by the Buddha; the non-tantric way to enlightenment. +
one of the eighteen earliest schools of Buddhism; classified by the Tibetans as one of the sub-sects of the Vaibāshika school. +
the deluded mental factor that is attracted to and wishes to possess misery-producing objects, mistakenly believing them to be true sources of happiness. +
