BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #14

Across 
	5	An apparently paradoxical anecdote or story; used to bring Zen students to realization and to help clarify their enlightenment. (4)
	6	The ceremony of becoming a Buddhist. (5)
	8	Questions and answers; short, pithy dialogue between Zen masters and disciples. (5)
	9	- - - - -   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)
	10	The Pure Land School of Japanese Buddhism. (4)
	11	Ordination as a trainee for the priesthood. (6)
	13	Traditionally, the room or building in a Zen Buddhist monastery in which services are held. (English) (6,4)
	14	School of Zen originating in China with Tung-shan Liang-chieh and Ts'ao-shan Pen-chi. (4)
	15	The famous Zen master who died 867. (6)
	17	"Sitting Zen," the formal practice of breath counting, koan study, or shikantaza. (5)
	18	Japanese brush-and-ink painting associated with Zen practice, characterized by rapid, spontaneous strokes. (4-1)
	20	Rinzai Zen monastery in Kyoto, Japan. (9)
	21	School of Buddhism which passed from China to Japan in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. (3)

Down 
	1	A distillation of the vast Prajnaparamita literature, it is chanted daily in Zen monasteries. (English) (5,5)
	2	The Pure Land School of China. (4)
	3	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)
	4	The 'goal' of Zen Buddhism; a state of consciousness beyond the plane of discrimination and differentiation. (6)
	7	Fantasies, hallucinations, and seemingly real mental or physical experiences that arise during zazen; they are said to be an obstacle to practice. (5)
	8	The dharma heir and most prominent disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha. The First Ancestor in the Zen tradition, he was responsible for convening the first Buddhist council after the death of the Buddha. (12)
	10	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)
	12	A subjective state of poverty. (4)
	15	The Zen master of a monastery who takes the pupil monks in San-Zen and gives them Zen instruction. (5)
	16	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)
	19	Often the first koan of the beginning Zen student. (2)

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