BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #13

Across 
	1	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)
	5	The Pure Land School of Japanese Buddhism. (4)
	7	Questions and answers; short, pithy dialogue between Zen masters and disciples. (5)
	9	The ceremony of becoming a Buddhist. (5)
	10	Often the first koan of the beginning Zen student. (2)
	12	Unrehearsed dialogue in which two Zen practitioners test and sharpen their understanding of Zen truths. (English) (6,6)
	15	An apparently paradoxical anecdote or story; used to bring Zen students to realization and to help clarify their enlightenment. (4)
	17	The famous Zen master who died 867. (6)
	19	- - - - -   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)
	20	"Sitting Zen," the formal practice of breath counting, koan study, or shikantaza. (5)

Down 
	1	The 'goal' of Zen Buddhism; a state of consciousness beyond the plane of discrimination and differentiation. (6)
	2	"Realization of Ultimate Reality" or "The Way of Everday Life," one of the key chapters of Dogen Zenji's Shobogenzo. An important Soto Zen text, it subtly explores the relationship between practice and realization. (9)
	3	School of Buddhism which passed from China to Japan in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. (3)
	4	School of Zen originating in China with Tung-shan Liang-chieh and Ts'ao-shan Pen-chi. (4)
	6	Ordination as a trainee for the priesthood. (6)
	8	Rinzai Zen monastery in Kyoto, Japan. (9)
	9	The Pure Land School of China. (4)
	11	A subjective state of poverty. (4)
	13	The centre of gravity of the body, located in the lower abdomen; the centre of awareness in zazen. (4)
	14	Fantasies, hallucinations, and seemingly real mental or physical experiences that arise during zazen; they are said to be an obstacle to practice. (5)
	15	"Seeing into one's own nature"; first experience of realization. (6)
	16	Chinese school of Buddhism founded in the seventh century, which attempted a synthesis of all the major schools, texts, and traditions of the time. The teachings of mutual interdependence and mutual causality are hallmarks of the school. (3-3)
	17	The Zen master of a monastery who takes the pupil monks in San-Zen and gives them Zen instruction. (5)
	18	Japanese brush-and-ink painting associated with Zen practice, characterized by rapid, spontaneous strokes. (4-1)

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