Glossary of
Shin Buddhist Terms
a
Accommodated teachings
All the various good acts and practices
Amida Buddha
Amida's coming at the time of death
b
Benefit
Birth
Birth-and-death
Blind passions
Body of naturalness or of nonexistence
Borderland
Buddha's benevolence
Buddhas' witness and protection
c
Calculation
Compassionate means
Conditions from the distant past
d
Decisive cause
Deep mind
Defiled world
Devadatta
Dharma-body
Dharmakara Bodhisattva
Dharma most difficult to accept
Diamondlike mind
Difficult practice, easy practice
Directing virtue
Doubt, Double-mindedness
e
Eighteenth Vow
Eleventh Vow
Enlightenment
Entrust, rely on
Entrusting, shinjin
Equal of perfect enlightenment
Equal to all the Buddhas
Equal to Tathagatas
"Essential" gate and provisional gate
Evil, karmic evil
f
Fellow-practicer
Five defilements
Five evil courses
Five grave offenses
Foolish being
Fulfilled land, true and real land
Fulfillment of the Vow
g
Grasp and never abandon
Great compassion
Great practice
Great treasure ocean (of virtues)
h
Hearing
Holding Steadfast
i
Ignorance
Implicit and explicit meanings
Insight into the nonorigination of all existence
j
Jinen, jinen honi
Joy
k
Karmic evil
Karmic power of the great Vow
l
Land of Bliss
Land of Happiness
Leaping crosswise
Light
Lotusheld world
m
Maitreya
Meditative good, nonmeditative good
Mind aspiring for enlightenment
Mindfulness
Mind that is single
n
Name
Nembutsu
Nirvana
No-birth
Nonretrogression
o
Once-calling, many-calling
One moment
Oneness
One vehicle
Other Power
Other teachings and views; different understandings and practices
p
Path of Sages
Practice
Practicer
Practices empty, transitory, and false
Practicing in accord with reality, being in correspondence (with the Name)
Primal Vow
Pure Land
Pure Land teaching
r
Right-mindedness
Right practice
Roots of good
s
Saha world
Same as Maitreya
Saying the Nembutsu
Selected Primal Vow
Self-benefit, benefiting others
Self-power
Seventeenth Vow
Shin Buddhism
Sincere mind
Single-hearted
Succession to Buddhahood after one lifetime (as a bodhisattva)
Suchness
Sudden attainment, teaching of
Sundry practices and disciplines
Supportive power
Supreme nirvana
Surpassing conceptual understanding
t
Tathagata
Tathagata of unhindered light filling the ten quarters
Ten quarters
Ten transgressions
Three characteristics of entrusting and non-entrusting
Threefold shinjin
Three minds
Three realms
True teacher
Truly settled ones
Turnabout
Twenty-second Vow
Two rivers and white path
v
Vaidehi
Virtue, merit
Virtue of Samantabhadra
Vow-mind
w
Working
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