BuddhaNet Crossword Puzzle #23

Across 
	5	A large number. (6)
	6	Ancient Indian Scriptures. (5)
	7	King; chief; ruler. (4)
	8	The Illumined One. The main title of the founder of Buddhism after his enlightenment. (6)
	10	"The greater vehicle"; one of the two major divisions of Buddhism. (8)
	12	Heavenly being, god. (4)
	13	Complete concentration, absorbed contemplation. (7)
	15	The place where Buddha died. (8)
	16	God of the dead; sometimes, death personified. (4)
	19	The ocean of birth and death, i.e., of successive individual existences in transmigration. (7)
	20	The Evil One; the great tempter. (4)
	22	"No soul" (doctrine) of Buddhism. (6)
	23	Verses; poem composed of them. (5)
	24	The "cankers" which obstruct spiritual achievement (e.g., sensual longing, desire for continued separate existence, ignorance). (6)
	25	The perfected disciple; one who has completed the discipline required to attain liberation. (Sanskrit) (5)
	26	Conqueror. (4)

Down 
	1	A story or legend about Buddha's birth or previous forms of existence. (6)
	2	One of the schools of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, emphasizing devotion to Amitabha. (4,4)
	3	One of the Theravada philosophical schools. (10)
	4	Member of the warrior caste, the second highest in the Indian social scheme. (9)
	8	One moved by compassionate zeal to aid his fellow men toward salvation, hence willing to postpone his own entrance into Nirvana to this end. (11)
	9	Literally, "body of the law." In Mahayana thought, one aspect of ultimate reality. (10)
	11	Celestial nymph. (6)
	14	Noble; the noble ones; the elect. (Sanskrit) (4)
	17	The perfected disciple; one who has completed the discipline required to attain liberation. (Pali) (6)
	18	The discriminative and deliberative faculty of mind. (5)
	21	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)

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