BuddhaNet Maha Crossword Puzzle #4

Across 
	1	The principle of causality in moral experience. (Pali) (5)
	4	A sage. (4)
	5	Ultimate release or liberation (of the soul from the cycle of birth and death). (6)
	8	A force maintaining the living equilibrium of the factors composing a personality. (6)
	9	Ancient Indian Scriptures. (5)
	11	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)
	12	Noble; the noble ones; the elect. (Pali) (5)
	14	The soul, conceived as one in reality with Brahman. (5)
	15	The Illumined One. The main title of the founder of Buddhism after his enlightenment. (6)
	18	One of the Buddha's chief disciples. (9)
	19	Nun. (9)
	21	One of the great Bodhisattvas. In Japanese, Fugen. (13)
	23	"Hearer"; a disciple not yet capable of independent progress. (7)
	25	A large number. (4)
	28	One seeking salvation independently of others. (8-6)
	30	The Evil One; the great tempter. (4)
	32	"The lesser vehicle"; one of the two major divisions of Buddhism. (8)
	33	The sage of the Sakyas, i.e., Buddha. (9)
	35	"The way of the elders." The form of Buddhism prevalent in Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand. (9)
	38	God of the dead; sometimes, death personified. (4)
	39	Enlightenment. (5)
	41	Verses; poem composed of them. (5)
	42	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)
	44	A story or legend about Buddha's birth or previous forms of existence. (6)
	45	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)
	47	The five factors constituting an individual person. (8)
	49	The discriminative and deliberative faculty of mind. (5)
	50	Memory recognition; the faculty of systematic cognition. (5)
	51	The deer-park near Benares (now called Sarnath), where Buddha preached his first sermon. (9)
	52	Celestial nymph. (6)

Down 
	1	The principle of causality in moral experience. (Sanskrit) (5)
	2	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)
	3	The twenty-eighth Ch'an patriarch in India and the first in China. (11)
	4	Gesture (of the hand). (5)
	6	An ascetic. (6)
	7	In Chinese, Kwan Yin. A Bodhisattva conceived as merciful to those in special need. (14)
	10	One of the schools of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, emphasizing abandonment of striving as the way to enlightenment. (3)
	13	The soul, conceived as individual or (sometimes) as universal (the soul of the universe). (7)
	15	Mendicant monk. (Pali) (7)
	16	Literally, "body of the law." In Mahayana thought, one aspect of ultimate reality. (10)
	17	Member of the warrior caste, the second highest in the Indian social scheme. (9)
	20	The state achieved by the conquest of craving; the spiritual goal of Buddhism. (Sanskrit) (7)
	22	An age, epoch of time. (5)
	24	Noble; the noble ones; the elect. (Sanskrit) (4)
	26	Demonic power, devil. (5)
	27	One of the great Hindu gods. (5)
	29	A Bodhisattva who seeks to save even those in hell. In Chinese, Ti Ts'ang. (12)
	31	One of the Theravada philosophical schools. (10)
	33	Complete concentration, absorbed contemplation. (7)
	34	A large number. (6)
	36	The perfected disciple; one who has completed the discipline required to attain liberation. (Pali) (6)
	37	The "cankers" which obstruct spiritual achievement (e.g., sensual longing, desire for continued separate existence, ignorance). (6)
	40	Conqueror. (4)
	42	Usually spelled Brahmin. A member of the highest, namely the priestly, caste. (8)
	43	One of the schools of Chinese Buddhism. (4,3)
	46	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)
	48	King; chief; ruler. (4)
	50	One of the schools of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, emphasizing abandonment of striving as the way to enlightenment. (4)
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