BuddhaNet Zen Crossword #9

Across 
	3	(Japanese) Zazen meeting; a lay Zen group. (8)
	7	(Japanese) The way of the swordsman; Japanese fencing. (5)
	8	(Japanese) Work service (in the sense of sutra service); meditation in work (traditionally in and about the temple). (4)
	10	(Japanese) The skirt worn over a man's kimono. (6)
	12	(Japanese) Father, the priest's title. (4)
	14	(Japanese) No; does not have; Case One of the Wu Men Kuan, often the first koan of the Zen student. (2)
	15	(Chinese) Toku. (2)
	16	(Japanese) Heavy 3 x 6 foot mats used as flooring in traditional Japanese homes and temples. (6)
	18	(Japanese) Saranam gacchami. (3)
	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) Board game played with black and white stones. (2)
	22	(Japanese) Thought; one thought frame. (3)
	23	(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)
	26	Shout given by the Zen masters that wipes away everything. (2)
	27	(Japanese) Quiet sitting; Japanese sitting; an alternative posture for zazen. (5)
	28	(Japanese) The Obaku Sect, a reintroduction of Rinzai Zen into Japan after it had mixed with Amitabha pietism. (5)
	31	(Japanese) Relative/absolute; an expression of harmony of empty oneness with the world of particulars; a theme of zazen to be made clear. (4)
	32	(Japanese) The shout given by Zen teachers. (5)

Down 
	1	(Japanese) To see nature;  to see into essential nature; gnostic experience in Zen practice. (6)
	2	(Japanese) Te; power or virtue; strength of character arising from virtue and service. (4)
	3	(Japanese) Dhyana; the Zen Sect; the harmony of empty oneness and the world of particulars. (3)
	4	(Japanese) Veneration to Amitabha Buddha; the Nembutsu; mantra of Pure Land schools. (4,5,5)
	5	(Japanese) Tailor style of sitting, with both feet under the thighs. (5)
	6	(Japanese) Empty hand; one of the Japanese martial arts. (6)
	9	(Chinese) Dhyana. (4-2)
	11	(Japanese) Sky, sunyata, emptiness, the void. (2)
	13	(Japanese) Special Training Place; a Rinzai Zen temple where monks or nuns are trained. (6,4)
	17	(Sanskrit) Buddha of Infinite Light and Life; central to Pure Land schools. (8)
	19	(Japanese) Avalokitesvara; The One Who Perceives the Sounds of the World; incarnation of mercy and compassion. (7)
	20	(Japanese) Head of logistical arrangements in the Rinzai zendo. (5)
	24	(Japanese) Amitabha. (5)
	25	(Chinese) Bodhi or enlightenment; Way; the way of, or to enlightenment. (3)
	29	(Japanese) Breath; spirit; spiritual strength. (2)
	30	No; does not have; case one of the Wu-men kuan, often the first koan of the Zen student. (2)

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