BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #3

Across 
	3	(Chinese) Toku. (2)
	6	(Japanese) Amitabha. (5)
	8	(Japanese) The way of harmonizing the spirit; one of the Japanese martial arts. (6)
	9	(Japanese) Thought; one thought frame. (3)
	11	(Japanese) Board game played with black and white stones. (2)
	13	(Japanese) The Obaku Sect, a reintroduction of Rinzai Zen into Japan after it had mixed with Amitabha pietism. (5)
	14	(Japanese) Rice wine. (4)
	15	(Japanese) Question and answer; Zen dialogue, usually between teacher and student. (5)
	17	(Japanese) Meditation hall. (5)
	19	(Japanese) Japanese sitting; seiza. (7)
	20	(Japanese) Head of logistical arrangements in the Rinzai zendo. (5)
	21	Shout given by the Zen masters that wipes away everything. (2)
	23	(Japanese) Kanzeon. (6)
	25	(Japanese) No; does not have; Case One of the Wu Men Kuan,often the first koan of the Zen student. (2)
	26	(Japanese) The skirt worn over a man's kimono. (6)
	27	(Japanese) The way of the swordsman; Japanese fencing. (5)
	28	(Japanese) Work service (in the sense of sutra service); meditation in work (traditionally in and about the temple). (4)
	29	No; does not have; case one of the Wu-men kuan, often the first koan of the Zen student. (2)

Down 
	1	(Japanese) Relative/absolute; an expression of harmony of empty oneness with the world of particulars; a theme of zazen to be made clear. (4)
	2	Zen (4)
	3	(Chinese) Bodhi or enlightenment; Way; the way of, or to enlightenment. (3)
	4	(Japanese) Avalokitesvara; The One Who Perceives the Sounds of the World; incarnation of mercy and compassion. (7)
	5	(Japanese) Breath; spirit; spiritual strength. (2)
	7	(Japanese) The Subtly Pure People; a gnostic movement in the Pure Land Tradition. (8)
	10	(Japanese) Buddha. (5)
	12	(Japanese) True Sect of the Pure Land; one of the Pure Land Schools, traced from Shinran Shonin, 1174-1268. (4,7)
	13	(Japanese) Father, the priest's title. (4)
	16	(Japanese) The  - - - - - - - -  Sect, traced from Nichiren Shonin, 1222-1282. (8)
	17	(Japanese) Zazen meeting; a lay Zen group. (8)
	18	(Japanese) Spot or place of enlightenment of the Buddha under the bodhi tree; one's own place of enlightenment; the training centre. (4)
	22	(Japanese) The  - - - -  Sect; traced from Tung-shan Liang-chieh (Dongshan Liangjie), 840-901. (4)
	23	(Japanese) Sky, sunyata, emptiness, the void. (2)
	24	(Japanese) Te; power or virtue; strength of character arising from virtue and service. (4)

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