BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #15

Across 
	3	The ceremony of becoming a Buddhist. (5)
	6	School of Buddhism which passed from China to Japan in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. (3)
	7	One of the principal Bodhisattvas of the Zen Buddhist tradition. Personifies wisdom and is often represented riding a lion and holding the sword of wisdom, which can cut through delusion. Also known as Monju in Japanese. (9)
	10	The Buddha of Infinite Light. (5)
	11	The Zen master of a monastery who takes the pupil monks in San-Zen and gives them Zen instruction. (5)
	13	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)
	14	School of Zen originating in China with Tung-shan Liang-chieh and Ts'ao-shan Pen-chi. (4)
	15	Often the first koan of the beginning Zen student. (2)
	18	Ordination as a trainee for the priesthood. (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	"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)
	21	Japanese brush-and-ink painting associated with Zen practice, characterized by rapid, spontaneous strokes. (4-1)
	22	The Pure Land School of China. (4)

Down 
	1	A subjective state of poverty. (4)
	2	The famous Zen master who died 867. (6)
	4	The space in a monastery in which zazen is practised; it is often set aside exclusively for this purpose. (5)
	5	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)
	8	The centre of gravity of the body, located in the lower abdomen; the centre of awareness in zazen. (4)
	9	Rinzai Zen monastery in Kyoto, Japan. (9)
	12	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)
	13	"Sitting Zen," the formal practice of breath counting, koan study, or shikantaza. (5)
	15	Questions and answers; short, pithy dialogue between Zen masters and disciples. (5)
	16	An apparently paradoxical anecdote or story; used to bring Zen students to realization and to help clarify their enlightenment. (4)
	17	The 'goal' of Zen Buddhism; a state of consciousness beyond the plane of discrimination and differentiation. (6)

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