BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #6

Across 
	2	(Japanese) To show the bowl, the walk taken by monks or nuns through towns near the temple to accept gifts of money or rice. (9)
	4	(Japanese) Buddha. (6)
	7	(Japanese) To touch, receive, or convey the mind; the Zen retreat, conventionally seven days. (7)
	10	(Chinese) Bodhi or enlightenment; Way; the way of, or to enlightenment. (3)
	11	(Japanese) True Sect of the Pure Land; one of the Pure Land Schools, traced from Shinran Shonin, 1174-1268. (4,7)
	14	(Japanese) Rice wine. (4)
	15	(Japanese) Seated meditation; dhyana; Zen meditation. (5)
	18	(Japanese) Dhyana; the Zen Sect; the harmony of empty oneness and the world of particulars. (3)
	19	(Japanese) No; does not have; Case One of the Wu Men Kuan, often the first koan of the Zen student. (2)
	20	(Chinese) Dhyana. (4-2)
	22	(Japanese) The way of harmonizing the spirit; one of the Japanese martial arts. (6)
	24	(Japanese) The Subtly Pure People; a gnostic movement in the Pure Land Tradition. (8)
	27	(Japanese) To see nature;  to see into essential nature; gnostic experience in Zen practice. (6)
	29	(Japanese) Venerable teacher. (5)

Down 
	1	(Japanese) Te; power or virtue; strength of character arising from virtue and service. (4)
	2	(Japanese) To present the shout; the roshi's Dharma talk. (6)
	3	(Chinese) Toku. (2)
	5	(Japanese) Father, the priest's title. (4)
	6	(Japanese) Heavy 3 x 6 foot mats used as flooring in traditional Japanese homes and temples. (6)
	8	(Japanese) Quiet sitting; Japanese sitting; an alternative posture for zazen. (5)
	9	(Japanese) Japanese sitting; seiza. (7)
	12	(Japanese) The Obaku Sect, a reintroduction of Rinzai Zen into Japan after it had mixed with Amitabha pietism. (5)
	13	(Japanese) Kanzeon. (6)
	16	(Japanese) Zen master (an honorific title). (5)
	17	No; does not have; case one of the Wu-men kuan, often the first koan of the Zen student. (2)
	19	(Japanese) Mysterious vision; a deep dream occurring in, or associated with zazen. (5)
	20	Zen (4)
	21	(Japanese) Meditation hall. (5)
	23	(Japanese) Saranam gacchami. (3)
	25	(Japanese) Sky, sunyata, emptiness, the void. (2)
	26	(Japanese) Board game played with black and white stones. (2)
	27	(Japanese) Breath; spirit; spiritual strength. (2)
	28	Shout given by the Zen masters that wipes away everything. (2)

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