BuddhaNet Crossword Puzzle #9

Across 
	5	The twenty-eighth Ch'an patriarch in India and the first in China. (11)
	7	The ocean of birth and death, i.e., of successive individual existences in transmigration. (7)
	8	A story or legend about Buddha's birth or previous forms of existence. (6)
	10	The sage of the Sakyas, i.e., Buddha. (9)
	12	Words or sentences possessing magic power. (7)
	14	The Buddha who is the main object of devotion in the Pure Land School of Chinese Buddhism, and the Jodo and Shin Schools in Japan. (5)
	15	The soul, conceived as one in reality with Brahman. (5)
	17	The principle of causality in moral experience. (Sanskrit) (5)
	18	A large number. (6)
	20	The principle of causality in moral experience. (5)
	22	One of the schools of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, emphasizing abandonment of striving as the way to enlightenment. (3)
	23	One of the great Hindu gods. (5)
	24	"The greater vehicle"; one of the two major divisions of Buddhism. (8)

Down 
	1	Rule of duty or of social obligation  (Hinduism). The truth; the saving doctrine or way (early Buddhism). Reality; essential quality; any reality  (Mahayana Buddhism). (Pali) (6)
	2	Literally, "body of the law." In Mahayana thought, one aspect of ultimate reality. (10)
	3	"Beyond Nirvana," the state into which one who has attained Nirvana passes at death. (11)
	4	According to Zen tradition, its first patriarch. (11)
	6	Complete concentration, absorbed contemplation. (7)
	9	A sage. (4)
	11	Nun. (9)
	12	Rule of duty or of social obligation (Hinduism). The truth; the saving doctrine or way (early Buddhism). Reality; essential quality; any reality (Mahayana Buddhism). (Sanskrit) (6)
	13	Noble; the noble ones; the elect. (Sanskrit) (4)
	16	Buddha's cousin and closest personal companion among his disciples. (6)
	19	Craving; selfish or blind demandingness. (5)
	21	The Evil One; the great tempter. (4)

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