BuddhaNet Maha Crossword Puzzle #1

Across 
	1	King; chief; ruler. (4)
	3	The soul, conceived as individual or (sometimes) as universal (the soul of the universe). (7)
	5	The discriminative and deliberative faculty of mind. (5)
	7	One of the Buddha's chief disciples. (9)
	8	One of Buddha's disciples. (7)
	10	A sage (usually a hermit). (5)
	11	One of the schools of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, emphasizing abandonment of striving as the way to enlightenment. (3)
	12	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. (8)
	16	The five factors constituting an individual person. (8)
	20	A Bodhisattva who seeks to save even those in hell. In Chinese, Ti Ts'ang. (12)
	21	Suffering, pain, misery, sorrow, unhappiness. (6)
	22	The perfected disciple; one who has completed the discipline required to attain liberation. (Pali) (6)
	24	Mendicant monk. (Sanskrit) (7)
	25	A large number. (6)
	27	Buddha's cousin and closest personal companion among his disciples. (6)
	28	"No soul" (doctrine) of Buddhism. (6)
	32	In Chinese, Kwan Yin. A Bodhisattva conceived as merciful to those in special need. (14)
	34	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)
	36	One of the great Bodhisattvas. In Japanese, Fugen. (13)
	37	The "Three Baskets," canonical Buddhist scriptures. (9)
	39	A name for Indra. (5)
	42	An ascetic. (6)
	43	Member of the warrior caste, the second highest in the Indian social scheme. (9)
	44	Gesture (of the hand). (5)
	49	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)
	50	Literally, "body of the law." In Mahayana thought, one aspect of ultimate reality. (10)
	51	A story or legend about Buddha's birth or previous forms of existence. (6)
	52	Memory recognition; the faculty of systematic cognition. (5)
	53	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)

Down 
	2	- -   - - -  in Chinese. "He who has fully arrived," i.e., the Perfect One. A title of the Buddha. (2,3)
	4	The town near which Gautama attained enlightenment. (7)
	6	Celestial nymph. (6)
	8	A large number. (4)
	9	One seeking salvation independently of others. (8-6)
	13	According to Zen tradition, its first patriarch. (11)
	14	Usually spelled Brahmin. A member of the highest, namely the priestly, caste. (8)
	15	A lay patron of early Buddhism, giver of the famous Jeta grove and monastery. (13)
	16	The order of Buddhist monks. (6)
	17	The state achieved by the conquest of craving; the spiritual goal of Buddhism. (Pali) (7)
	18	"Hearer"; a disciple not yet capable of independent progress. (7)
	19	The Illumined One. The main title of the founder of Buddhism after his enlightenment. (6)
	23	One of the schools of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, emphasizing devotion to Amitabha. (4,4)
	26	Complete concentration, absorbed contemplation. (7)
	27	The "cankers" which obstruct spiritual achievement (e.g., sensual longing, desire for continued separate existence, ignorance). (6)
	29	One of the schools of Chinese Buddhism. (4,3)
	30	One of the great Hindu gods. (5)
	31	One of Buddha's chief disciples. (9)
	33	The perfected disciple; one who has completed the discipline required to attain liberation. (Sanskrit) (5)
	35	Noble; the noble ones; the elect. (Sanskrit) (4)
	37	"The way of the elders." The form of Buddhism prevalent in Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand. (9)
	38	A disciple of Buddha, the earliest convert to his preaching. (8)
	40	The place where Buddha died. (8)
	41	Ultimate release or liberation (of the soul from the cycle of birth and death). (6)
	42	The ocean of birth and death, i.e., of successive individual existences in transmigration. (7)
	45	Heavenly being, god. (4)
	46	"Meditation." It is the Sanskrit word of which Ch'an and Zen are Chinese and Japanese transliterations. (6)
	47	Enlightenment. (5)
	48	The soul, conceived as one in reality with Brahman. (5)

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