BuddhaNet Maha Crossword Puzzle #3

Across 
	1	Buddha's cousin and closest personal companion among his disciples. (6)
	7	Nun. (9)
	9	"No soul" (doctrine) of Buddhism. (6)
	11	Demonic power, devil. (5)
	12	Discriminative knowledge. (11)
	15	A name for Indra. (5)
	18	Noble; the noble ones; the elect. (Pali) (5)
	19	One of the great Bodhisattvas. In Japanese, Fugen. (13)
	22	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)
	23	A sage. (4)
	24	"Beyond Nirvana," the state into which one who has attained Nirvana passes at death. (11)
	26	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)
	28	The principle of causality in moral experience. (Sanskrit) (5)
	29	Philosophical dialogues or treatises of ancient India. (10)
	30	Gesture (of the hand). (5)
	31	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)
	35	One of the Theravada philosophical schools. (11)
	36	Noble; the noble ones; the elect. (Sanskrit) (4)
	38	Transcendental wisdom or insight. (6)
	39	The perfected disciple; one who has completed the discipline required to attain liberation. (Sanskrit) (5)
	43	Enlightenment. (5)
	44	The perfected disciple; one who has completed the discipline required to attain liberation. (Pali) (6)
	46	Celestial nymph. (6)
	47	The five factors constituting an individual person. (8)
	49	Literally, "body of the law." In Mahayana thought, one aspect of ultimate reality. (10)
	50	King; chief; ruler. (4)
	51	The soul, as a separate individual. (8)
	52	A large number. (4)

Down 
	1	In Chinese, Kwan Yin. A Bodhisattva conceived as merciful to those in special need. (14)
	2	The "cankers" which obstruct spiritual achievement (e.g., sensual longing, desire for continued separate existence, ignorance). (6)
	3	Words or sentences possessing magic power. (7)
	4	The state achieved by the conquest of craving; the spiritual goal of Buddhism. (Pali) (7)
	5	The void; emptiness; the realm of transitory and relative existence. (5)
	6	Memory recognition; the faculty of systematic cognition. (5)
	7	The twenty-eighth Ch'an patriarch in India and the first in China. (11)
	8	The place where Buddha died. (8)
	10	The ocean of birth and death, i.e., of successive individual existences in transmigration. (7)
	13	Mendicant monk. (Pali) (7)
	14	One of the schools of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, emphasizing abandonment of striving as the way to enlightenment. (4)
	15	An ascetic. (6)
	16	A disciple of Buddha, the earliest convert to his preaching. (8)
	17	One seeking salvation independently of others. (8-6)
	20	One of the schools of Chinese Buddhism. (4,3)
	21	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)
	23	The Evil One; the great tempter. (4)
	24	Perfection, ideal virtue. (8)
	25	The state achieved by the conquest of craving; the spiritual goal of Buddhism. (Sanskrit) (7)
	27	One of the great Hindu gods. (5)
	32	One of Buddha's chief disciples. (9)
	33	Craving; selfish or blind demandingness. (5)
	34	One of the Theravada philosophical schools. (10)
	37	God of the dead; sometimes, death personified. (4)
	40	Ultimate release or liberation (of the soul from the cycle of birth and death). (6)
	41	"Meditation." It is the Sanskrit word of which Ch'an and Zen are Chinese and Japanese transliterations. (6)
	42	Complete concentration, absorbed contemplation. (7)
	45	A sage (usually a hermit). (5)
	46	The soul, conceived as one in reality with Brahman. (5)
	48	Heavenly being, god. (4)
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