BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #4

Across 
	1	(Japanese) The Obaku Sect, a reintroduction of Rinzai Zen into Japan after it had mixed with Amitabha pietism. (5)
	4	(Japanese) Upaya. (5)
	6	(Japanese) To see nature;  to see into essential nature; gnostic experience in Zen practice. (6)
	8	(Japanese) Buddha. (5)
	9	(Japanese) Work service (in the sense of sutra service); meditation in work (traditionally in and about the temple). (4)
	12	(Japanese) Te; power or virtue; strength of character arising from virtue and service. (4)
	13	(Japanese) Empty hand; one of the Japanese martial arts. (6)
	16	(Japanese) The system of Seiza; physical and mental culture through the practice of seiza. (5,5)
	18	(Japanese) Thought; one thought frame. (3)
	19	(Japanese) Breath; spirit; spiritual strength. (2)
	20	(Japanese) The way of the swordsman; Japanese fencing. (5)
	23	(Japanese) Board game played with black and white stones. (2)
	24	(Japanese) The way of harmonizing the spirit; one of the Japanese martial arts. (6)
	28	(Japanese) Head of logistical arrangements in the Rinzai zendo. (5)
	29	(Japanese) Kanzeon. (6)
	30	(Japanese) Father, the priest's title. (4)

Down 
	2	(Japanese) The shout given by Zen teachers. (5)
	3	(Chinese) Toku. (2)
	4	Shout given by the Zen masters that wipes away everything. (2)
	5	(Japanese) The outcast class, formerly confined to specific neighbourhoods or villages, and to certain occupations. (9)
	6	(Japanese) Sky, sunyata, emptiness, the void. (2)
	7	(Japanese) Quiet sitting; Japanese sitting; an alternative posture for zazen. (5)
	9	(Japanese) Rice wine. (4)
	10	(Japanese) No; does not have; Case One of the Wu Men Kuan, often the first koan of the Zen student. (2)
	11	(Japanese) Zazen meeting; a lay Zen group. (8)
	12	(Japanese) To present the shout; the roshi's Dharma talk. (6)
	14	(Japanese) Dhyana; the Zen Sect; the harmony of empty oneness and the world of particulars. (3)
	15	(Japanese) Saranam gacchami. (3)
	17	(Japanese) Meditation hall. (5)
	18	(Japanese) Japanese sitting; seiza. (7)
	21	(Japanese) Seated meditation; dhyana; Zen meditation. (5)
	22	(Japanese) Question and answer; Zen dialogue, usually between teacher and student. (5)
	25	(Japanese) Relative/absolute; an expression of harmony of empty oneness with the world of particulars; a theme of zazen to be made clear. (4)
	26	(Japanese) Spot or place of enlightenment of the Buddha under the bodhi tree; one's own place of enlightenment; the training centre. (4)
	27	(Chinese) Bodhi or enlightenment; Way; the way of, or to enlightenment. (3)

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