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At around midnight on the seventh and final night of my practice, the boom of a bell from a distant temple reached my ears: suddenly, my body and mind dropped completely away. I rose clear of even the finest dust. Overwhelmed with joy, I hollered out at the top of my lungs, "Old Yen-t'ou is alive and well!
Japanese term meaning for buddha (an enlightened one). [2] A Buddhist sacred image or statue. [2] A deceased person or his/her soul. [2] hōtō (宝塔) – lit. treasure tower. A stone stupa constituted by a square base, a barrel-shaped body, a pyramid and a finial. [1] Not to be confused with the similarly shaped tahōtō.
Sanpai sahō (参拝作法) – The way in which the Japanese worship at shrines, bowing twice, clapping twice, then bowing one last time. Sanreizan (三霊山, lit. ' three spiritual mountains ') – Three mountains revered as sacred in Shinto: Mount Fuji, Mount Haku, and Mount Tate. They are included amongst the Nanareizan.
Ikiryō (生霊) from the 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama. Ikiryō (生霊, lit. "living ghost"), also known as shōryō (しょうりょう), seirei (せいれい), or ikisudama (いきすだま), [1] is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across ...
Yojijukugo in the broad sense refers to Japanese compound words consisting of four kanji characters, which may contain an idiomatic meaning or simply be a compound noun. [3] However, in the narrow or strict sense, the term refers only to four- kanji compounds that have a particular (idiomatic) meaning, which cannot be inferred from the meanings ...
Satori (Japanese: 悟り) is a Japanese Buddhist term for "awakening", "comprehension; understanding". [1] The word derives from the Japanese verb satoru. [2] [3]In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a deep experience of kenshō, [4] [5] "seeing into one's true nature".
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Budō is a compound of the root bu (武:ぶ; wǔ in Chinese), meaning "war" or "martial"; and dō (道:どう; dào in Chinese), incorporating the character above for head and below for foot, meaning the unification of mind and body "path" or "way" [4] (including the ancient Indic Dharmic and Buddhist conception of "path", or mārga in Sanskrit [5]).