BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #16

Across 
	1	The Buddha of Infinite Light. (5)
	3	Rinzai Zen monastery in Kyoto, Japan. (9)
	5	The centre of gravity of the body, located in the lower abdomen; the centre of awareness in zazen. (4)
	6	The space in a monastery in which zazen is practised; it is often set aside exclusively for this purpose. (5)
	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	Japanese religious reformer who founded (1253) the sect called after his name. (8)
	14	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)
	15	The 'goal' of Zen Buddhism; a state of consciousness beyond the plane of discrimination and differentiation. (6)
	16	Often the first koan of the beginning Zen student. (2)
	22	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)
	23	The famous Zen master who died 867. (6)
	24	School of Buddhism which passed from China to Japan in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. (3)

Down 
	2	One of the principal Bodhisattvas in the Zen Buddhist tradition; personifies boundless compassion. (15)
	4	The Pure Land School of China. (4)
	6	"Sitting Zen," the formal practice of breath counting, koan study, or shikantaza. (5)
	7	The Zen master of a monastery who takes the pupil monks in San-Zen and gives them Zen instruction. (5)
	8	A distillation of the vast Prajnaparamita literature, it is chanted daily in Zen monasteries. (English) (5,5)
	9	"Seeing into one's own nature"; first experience of realization. (6)
	11	Japanese brush-and-ink painting associated with Zen practice, characterized by rapid, spontaneous strokes. (4-1)
	13	School of Zen originating in China with Tung-shan Liang-chieh and Ts'ao-shan Pen-chi. (4)
	17	The ceremony of becoming a Buddhist. (5)
	18	An apparently paradoxical anecdote or story; used to bring Zen students to realization and to help clarify their enlightenment. (4)
	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	The Pure Land School of Japanese Buddhism. (4)
	21	A subjective state of poverty. (4)

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