BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #8

Across 
	3	(Japanese) Head of training and timer of zazen periods in the Rinzai zendo. (9)
	5	(Japanese) To join the palms (in reverence or respect). (6)
	9	(Japanese) Saranam gacchami. (3)
	10	(Japanese) Buddha. (6)
	11	(Japanese) Board game played with black and white stones. (2)
	15	(Japanese) Teacher. (6)
	17	(Japanese) Thought; one thought frame. (3)
	18	(Japanese) Breath; spirit; spiritual strength. (2)
	19	(Japanese) Avalokitesvara; The One Who Perceives the [Essential] Self at rest; the one who perceives the emptiness of perceptions and forms. (8)
	21	(Japanese) The cushion used for zazen. (4)
	22	(Japanese) Spot or place of enlightenment of the Buddha under the bodhi tree; one's own place of enlightenment; the training centre. (4)
	24	Last great compendium of Mahayana literature, completed in China in the eighth century, derived from the Sanskrit Avatamsaka Sutra. (3-3,5)
	26	(Japanese) The  - - - -  Sect; traced from Tung-shan Liang-chieh (Dongshan Liangjie), 840-901. (4)
	27	(Japanese) First view; the first interview between roshi and student. (6)
	28	(Japanese) The Subtly Pure People; a gnostic movement in the Pure Land Tradition. (8)
	29	(Japanese) Sky, sunyata, emptiness, the void. (2)

Down 
	1	(Chinese) Bodhi or enlightenment; Way; the way of, or to enlightenment. (3)
	2	(Japanese) Father, the priest's title. (4)
	3	(Japanese) True Sect of the Pure Land; one of the Pure Land Schools, traced from Shinran Shonin, 1174-1268. (4,7)
	4	(Japanese) Rice wine. (4)
	6	(Japanese) To see nature;  to see into essential nature; gnostic experience in Zen practice. (6)
	7	(Japanese) To touch, receive, or convey the mind; the Zen retreat, conventionally seven days. (7)
	8	(Chinese) Dhyana. (4-2)
	10	Shout given by the Zen masters that wipes away everything. (2)
	12	(Japanese) Dhyana; the Zen Sect; the harmony of empty oneness and the world of particulars. (3)
	13	(Japanese) The way of harmonizing the spirit; one of the Japanese martial arts. (6)
	14	(Japanese) Mysterious vision; a deep dream occurring in, or associated with zazen. (5)
	16	(Japanese) The system of Seiza; physical and mental culture through the practice of seiza. (5,5)
	20	No; does not have; case one of the Wu-men kuan, often the first koan of the Zen student. (2)
	23	(Japanese) Seated meditation; dhyana; Zen meditation. (5)
	24	(Japanese) Upaya. (5)
	25	(Chinese) Toku. (2)
	28	(Japanese) No; does not have; Case One of the Wu Men Kuan, often the first koan of the Zen student. (2)

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