BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #12

Across 
	7	The centre of gravity of the body, located in the lower abdomen; the centre of awareness in zazen. (4)
	9	He brought Zen to China from India. (11)
	10	Often the first koan of the beginning Zen student. (2)
	12	Questions and answers; short, pithy dialogue between Zen masters and disciples. (5)
	13	School of Zen originating in China with Tung-shan Liang-chieh and Ts'ao-shan Pen-chi. (4)
	16	"Seeing into one's own nature"; first experience of realization. (6)
	18	An apparently paradoxical anecdote or story; used to bring Zen students to realization and to help clarify their enlightenment. (4)
	19	Rinzai Zen monastery in Kyoto, Japan. (9)
	20	The space in a monastery in which zazen is practised; it is often set aside exclusively for this purpose. (5)
	21	The famous Zen master who died 867. (6)
	22	"Sitting Zen," the formal practice of breath counting, koan study, or shikantaza. (5)

Down 
	1	- - - - -   Zen. School of Zen brought from China to Japan in 1654 by Yin-Yuan (Jap. Ingen). Obaku was the teacher of Rinzai, the founder of the Rinzai school of Zen. (5)
	2	Formal talk given by a teacher explicating a koan. (English) (6,9)
	3	The ceremony of becoming a Buddhist. (5)
	4	A subjective state of poverty. (4)
	5	The Pure Land School of China. (4)
	6	The Buddha of Infinite Light. (5)
	8	The masterwork of Dogen Zenji, this work is made up of ninety-five fascicles on Buddhist subjects and is considered a milestone in Buddhist literature. (10)
	11	Fantasies, hallucinations, and seemingly real mental or physical experiences that arise during zazen; they are said to be an obstacle to practice. (5)
	13	The Pure Land School of Japanese Buddhism. (4)
	14	Ordination as a trainee for the priesthood. (6)
	15	The Zen master of a monastery who takes the pupil monks in San-Zen and gives them Zen instruction. (5)
	17	A special empowerment ceremony currently held only at the temples of Eiheiji and Sojiji in Japan by new priests upon reaching the priestly rank. (5)
	20	School of Buddhism which passed from China to Japan in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. (3)

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