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Abhidhamma (Pali canon)

absolute. See emptiness; suchness

adarshajnana

Aitken, Robert

alayavijnana (storehouse consciousness)

Alexander the Great

allusion, in koans

Amitabha (infinite light). See also Pure Land Buddhism

An Lushan rebellion

anatman (nonself)

An’yoin temple

arhat

Armstrong, Karen

Asanga

Ashikaga Takauji, shogun

Ashikaga Yoshinori, shogun

Ashoka

pillars

Ashta (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra)

Ashvaghosa

atman (self). See also ego

attachment

from dualistic conceptualization

transcending

See also ego

Avatamsaka Sutra

and the Huayan school

and Jinul’s awakening

Touzi’s studies

avidya (ignorance)

awakening (bodhi ). See also enlightenment

Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana

commentaries on

Dogen and

influence of

Mazu and

Ayuwang Monastery

Baekje (Korean kingdom)

Baizhang Huaihai

heirs

Baker, Zentatsu Richard

Balhae (Korean kingdom)

Bankei Yotaku

Barrows, John Henry

Bassui Tokusho

Beat Zen movement. See also Kerouac, Jack; Western Zen

being, nature of

Bei Song (northern Song)

“Bendowa” (Dogen)

Bhikkhu, Thanissaro

bhikshuni sangha. See also nuns, women

Bihar state, India

Blue Cliff Record (Daofu)

Blyth, Reginald Horace (R. H.)

bodhi. See awakening (bodhi )

bodhicitta

Bodhidharma

and Huike

in koans

practices of

school

Sengzhao and

Two Entrances and Four Practices

works

bodhisattvas

artistic depictions of

and the four bodhisattva vows

and the sixteen bodhisattva precepts

Bodiford, William M.

Book of Equanimity (Hongzhi)

koans in

“Zhaozhou’s Dog” in

“Bowing and Acquiring the Essence” (“Raihai tokuzui,” Dogen)

Brahman

Brahmins

brick-polishing story

Budai, the laughing Buddha

Buddha

depictions of

flower sermon story

Japanese view of as a deity

“objectivity” toward teachings of

as Scythian

trikaya (three bodies) of

Buddhacarita (Life of the Buddha ) (Ashvaghosa)

buddha-dharma

buddha hall (butsudan )

buddhahood. See enlightenment

Buddha-mind

buddha-nature (tathagatagarbha)

Dogen’s views on

as inherent, ever-available

Shenxiu and Huineng on

and “Zhaozhou’s Dog,”

“Buddha’s Law of Cause and Effect” (Shaku)

Buddhism

early, and the six sense organs

concept of doubt

and the middle way

talks on, at the World Parliament of Religions

translation of sacred texts into Chinese

and war

See also Zen Buddhism; specific practices and schools

Buddhist Association of China

Buddhist Crisis, Vietnam

Buddhist Missions of North America (BMNA)

Buddhist Society of America

Bushido

Buswell, Robert E. Jr.

Caiger, J. G.

Cam Thanh

Cantongqi. See “Identity of Relative and Absolute”

Caodong. See also Soto Zen

Carus, Paul

Catholic missionaries

cause and effect

celibacy, monastic

Chan (Chinese Zen)

Daoist elements

practice of in Taiwan

Watts’ concept of

See also Six Patriarchs

Chandragupta Maurya

Chang’an (city)

chariot simile

checking questions

China

Confucianism in

Great Jin Dynasty

Japanese invasion

Jurchen rulership

Mongol conquest

rulership of the Vietnamese

trade routes with the Hellenic world

Chinese Buddhism

and the Awakening of Faith

bhikshuni sangha nuns

and Bodhidharma’s arrival

dhyana masters

dominance in the Kushan Empire

during the early Song dynasty

during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

during the Northern Wu dynasty

during the Tang dynasty

eclipsing of Confucianism by

and the Huichang Persecution

influence on Japanese Buddhism

poet-monks

and the Shaolin temple

See also Chan; Six Patriarchs; specific schools and time periods

Chinese temples (joss houses)

Chongwhi

Chongwonsa monastery

Chuandeng lu (“Transmission of the lamplight records”). See also Jingde Lamp Record

Chuanxin fayao (Essentials of Mind Transmission ) (Pei)

Chushingura (“Treasury of Loyal Retainers,” film)

Cohen, Leonard

Cole, Alan

compassionate awareness

community. See sangha; Zen practice

concentration (samadhi ). See also “Precious Mirror Samadhi”

Confucianism. See also neo-Confucianism

Congru lu. See Book of Equanimity

convent, as term

Cook, Frances Dojun

cooking, practice during

“Crazy Cloud.” See Ikkyu Sojun

cultural conditioning

Dahlke, Paul

Dahong Baoen

Dahui Zonggao

Dai Bosatsu Zendo monastery

Dai Viet (“Great Viet”)

Daibutsu, Nara

Daido Loori, John

Daitoku-ji (temple)

Daizong, emperor (Chian)

danka system

Danxia Zichun

dao

Dao De Jing (Suzuki)

Daoheng

Daoism

compared to Buddhism and Confucianism

philosophical

Daokai, Furong

Daoqin, Jingshan

Daoxin, Dayi (Fourth Patriarch)

Daoxuan, Darumashu (Bodhidharma) school

Das Buddhistische Haus

Dayang

Dayu, Gaoan

degenerate age

delusion. See also attachment; duality

Denkoroku (Keizan)

dependent origination

dharma (dhamma, Pali)

and Ashoka’s rock edicts

Bodhidharma’s practice instruction

manifestation of

Dharma Bums (Kerouac)

Dharma Drum Mountain

dharma hall (hatto )

dharmadhatu (dharma realm)

Dharmaguptaka Vinaya

dharmakaya

Dharmapala, Anagarika

Dharmaraksha

dhyana

Diamond Sangha

Diamond Sutra

Did Dōgen Go to China? (Heine)

Diem, Ngo Dinh

Dogen, Eihei

and the cook from Ayuwang Monastery

rediscovery of

story about Miaoxin in Shobogenzo,

studies with Myozen

studies with Rujing

writings

Dongshan (“East Mountain”) monastery

Dongshan Liangjie

Caodong house

as dharma ancestors and heirs

Dosha Chogen

doubt. See Great Doubt

“drop body and mind” command (Rujing)

duality

and attachment, in Mahayana Buddhism

and the false dichotomy of gradual vs. sudden enlightenment

warnings about

dukkha. See suffering

Dumoulin, Heinrich

Dunhuang cave library

Dushun

Dynamics of Faith (Tillich)

East Asian Buddhism. See also specific countries

East Mountain monastics

Eastern Buddhist , The

Eastern Jin dynasty

Eastern Wei dynasty

Edo period

effort, effortlessness

ego. See also duality

eight consciousnesses (ashta-vijnana-kaya )

Eihei-ji (“temple of eternal peace”)

Eihei Koroku (Eihei extensive record) (Dogen)

Eihei shingi (“rules of purity for Eihei-ji”) (Dogen)

Eisai, Myoan

Ejo, Koun

Ekyu (nun)

Emishi people (northeastern Japan)

empathy, and enlightened practice

emptiness. See sunyata (emptiness)

encounter dialogues (gongans)

Encouragement to Practice (Kwon su chonghye kyolsa mun )

engaged Buddhism

Enlightenment (movement in Europe)

enlightenment

as always present

and bodhicitta (aspiration for)

comparison to a mirror

exclusion of women from

and the four practices

“gradual” (chien) vs. “sudden” (tun)

Hakuin’s understanding

Jinul’s multifaceted approach

on need for inner illumination

and no mind

role of scriptures

and service to others

See also awakening; Buddha

Enni Ben’en

Enryaku-ji, Mount Hiei, Japan

ordinations at

razing by Nobunaga’s forces

warrior monks (sohei) at

equanimity, defined

esoteric Buddhism

essence vs. concept, and the chariot simile

Essentials of Cultivating Mind, The (Xiu xin yao lun , Hongren)

eternalism

Europe, Europeans

arrival in Japan

encroachments from

first Buddhist temple in Europe

and Western interest in “the orient”

See also Western Zen

Everett, Eleanor

Everett, Ruth Fuller. See Fuller, Ruth

Faru

Faure, Bernard

Faxian (Chinese Yogacara) school

Fayan Wenyi, Fayan house

Fazang (Third Patriarch of the Huayan school)

FBI

Fields, Rick

Fifth Patriarch (Daman Hongren)

First Patriarch (Bodhidharma)

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, China

“five heinous crimes” (Linji)

Five Ranks (Dongshan)

flower boys. See hwarang

flower sermon story

Ford, James

47 Ronin (film)

Fotudeng

French Indochina. See also Vietnam

Fu Jian

Fujiwara clan

“Fukanzazengi” (“general advice of the principles of zazen , Zen meditation”) (Dogen)

Fuller, Ruth

Fundamental Verses (Nagarjuna). See also Mulamadhyamakakarika

Furong Daokai

Further Biographies of Eminent Monks (Xu gaoseng zhuan, Daoxuan)

Fushan Fayuan

Gandhara

art of

conquest by Bactria

discovery of Buddhist scripture fragments in

final manifestations of Buddhism in

See also India; Indian Buddhism

Gaofeng Yuanmiao

Gaozong, emperor (China)

Garfield, Jay L.

Gasan Jito, as Hakuin’s student

Gateless Barrier (Wumenguan )

“Dongshan’s Three Rounds of Blows”

encounter dialogue in

koans in

“Not the Wind, Not the Flag” koan

“old cases” in

“original” face huatou

stories about Zhaozhou in

Takuju’s system

“Zhaozhou’s Dog,”

Gateless Gate

“Gatha of the Five Positions of Ruler and Minister” (“Wuwei junchen song,” Dongshan)

Genghis Khan

“Genjokoan,” (Actualizing the Fundamental

Point, Dogen)

Genpei War

Gento Sokuchu

Gien

Gikai, Tettsu

Ginsberg, Alan

goal, as same as process

Go-Daigo, emperor (Japan)

Goddard, Dwight

Goguryeo (Korean kingdom)

goi koans

Go-Mizunoo, emperor (Japan)

gongan (Zen anecdotes)

gonsen koans

Goryo period, Korea

Gosho (Kyogo)

Go-Tsuchimikado, emperor (Japan)

gozan (“five mountain”) system

Grayson, James Huntley

Great Doubt (vicikiccha, yiqing )

Great Faith and Great Ferocity (Determination)

Great Jin dynasty

Great Master Buddha Son title

Great Vairocana. See Vairocana, Great

Greece, influence of in Asia

Guangzhou, China

Buddhist missionaries

international trade

massacres by Japanese warlords

Guanzhi Zhixian, studies with Moshan

“Guidepost [or Inscription] of Silent Illumination” (Mozhao ming ) (Hongzhi)

Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Shantideva)

Guishan Lingyou

Guiyang house

and the Huichang Persecution

nuns associated with lineage of

“rules of purity”

Guizong Zhichang

Gunabhadra

Guoqing Temple, Mount Tianai, China

Gurdjieff, G. I.

Gyeongheo, and the revival of Korean Zen

gyo or gyojong (“doctrinal school”)

Haboku-Sansui (broken ink) (Sesshu Toyo)

Hakugen, Ichikawa

Hakuin Ekaku

as ancestor of Rinzai Zen

commentary on Five Ranks

drawings and paintings

koan curriculum

stories associated with

Han dynasty, China

Han Shan

Harada, Daiun Sogaku

Hartford Street Zen Center, San Francisco

Hartman, Zenkei Blanche

hatto (dharma hall) at Kosho-ji

Hawaii

Heart Mountain internment camp

Heart Sutra

Dogen’s commentary on

elevation of in the Platform Sutra

learning in English

Vietnamese commentaries on

Heian period, Japan

Heine, Steven

Hengshan (South) Mountain, Nantai Temple

Herrigel, Eugen

Heze (Southern or Shenhui) school

Heze Shenhui

Hiei, Mount

Hideyoshi, Toyotomi

Hinduism, dominance of in India

Ho Chi Minh

Honen

Hongan-ji, Nishi Hongan-ji schools

Hongren, Daman (Fifth Patriarch)

dharma heirs

elevation of the Diamond Sutra

Hongzhi lu (Hongzhi’s extensive record)

Hongzhi Zhengjue

and the Book of Equanimity

friendship with Dahui

influence on Dogen

Hongzhou school

dominance in Korea

as “mainstream” Zen

maintenance through the Linji house

as students of Mazu

Zongmi’s criticisms of

Hoover, J. Edgar

hosshin (dharmakaya) koans

Hosso (Yogacara) school, Japan

How the Swans Came to the Lake (Fields)

How to Raise an Ox (Cook)

How Zen Became Zen (Schlutter)

Hsiang, Li Han

Huangbo Xiyun

Linji’s studies with

as Mazu’s successor

story about in the Jingde Lamp Record

huatou contemplation

adoption by Korean Buddhists

Dogen’s practice of

and doubt

Gyeongheo’s devotion to

Jinul’s adoption of

“Original Face” hautou

Wu huatou, “Zhaozhou’s Dog,”

See also koans

Huayan/Hwaeom school

destruction of

and harmonious interconnectedness

introduction of, to Silla

Linji’s studies of

Zongmi as patriarch of

See also Fazang (Third Patriarch of the Huayan school)

Huichang Persecution (Huichang fanan )

Huiguo

Huike, Dazu (Second Patriarch)

as a disciple of Bodhidharma

Huiming

Huineng, Dajian (Sixth Patriarch)

elevation as a great master

importance of the Diamond Sutra to

insight experience

patriarchal behaviors

studies with Hongren

Huiyuan. See also Pure Land Buddhism

Huizong, emperor (China)

Humphreys, Christmas

Hut of the Blind Donkey

hwadu practice. See huatou contemplation

Hwaeom (Huayan) school

hwajaeng (reconciling doctrinal controversies)

hwarang (flower boys)

Hyesim, Chin’gak

Hyobong Hangnul

Hyujeong (Seosan Daesa)

Ich’adon

“Identity of Relative and Absolute” (Shitou Xiquian)

ikko-ikki (peasant uprisings)

Ikkyu Sojun

Imperial-Way Zen (Ives)

impermanence, as constant of existence

Inagaki, Hiroshi

India

Indian Buddhism

conflicts and splits

practice of, after Ashoka’s death

Sanskrit chanting lineages

sites associated with

transmission to China

See also Ashoka; Brahmins; Buddha

insight, awakening. See enlightenment

“Instructions for the Cook” (“Tenzo Kyokun”) (Dogen)

interconnection/nonseparation

internment of Japanese Americans

Inman Ien

Jainism

Japan

anti-Western feeling in

arrival of Europeans

ascendancy of the daimyo, warlords

banning of Christianity

conflicts with Russia

Edo period

eighteenth century

Genpei War

immigration to the United States from

invasion of French Indochina

invasion of the Korean Peninsula

Kenmu Restoration

Meiji Restoration

militarism, nationalism in

Muromachi period

Onin War

rise of imperial power in

and the shogunate

sonno joi “expel the barbarian” slogan

warlord rule

Japanese Buddhism

and the Bodhidharma school

and the danka system

developments during the Heian period

and impacts of the Meiji Restoration

Nobunaga’s violence against

shogunate regulations of

Japanese Zen

and the Gateless Gate

Obaku school

and samurai mind training

Sanbo Kyodan

as “square”

support for Japanese militarism

teachers sent to the US

See also Dogen, Eihei

Jenkins, Stephen

“Jeweled Mirror Samadhi.” See “Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi” Jewel Net of Indra metaphor

Jia Dao

Jingde Lamp Record (“Transmission of the lamplight record of the Jingde era”)

koan on thoughts, thinking

“Zhaozhou’s Dog,”

“Jinshin Inga” (“Deep Faith in Cause and Effect”) (Dogen)

Jinul, Pojo

Jodo Shinshu (Shin) school

Jogye order of Soen

Joko Beck, Charlotte

Joseon dynasty

Jueguan lun (“Treatise on Extinguishing Cognition”)

jukai ceremony

Junna, emperor (Japan)

Jurchen people, rulership of China

“just sitting” (shikantaza) meditation

Kaiten, Nukariya

Kaiyuan Temple, China

Kakuan

Kakuzan Shido

Kamakura period, Japan

kami (spirits)

Kana Shobogenzo (Dogen)

kanhua chan (“Chan of investigating the topic of inquiry”)

Kanishka I (India)

Kanmu, emperor (Japan)

Kannon Bosatsu (Avalokiteshvara)

Kapleau, Philip

karma. See also samsara

Kaso Sodon

Katagiri, Dainin

Kattoshu (Entangling Vines )

Kegon (Huayan) school, Japan

keisaku/kyosaku (flat sticks)

Keizan Jokin (Second Patriarch of Soto Zen)

kendo (way of the sword)

Kenmu Restoration

Kennin-ji, Kyoto

Keno Soi

kensho (sudden awakening event). See also enlightenment

Kerouac, Jack

Khilji, Muhammad Bakhtiyar

Khmer people, Theravada Buddhism among

kikan (dynamic action) koans

killing, proscriptions against

Kim, Hee-Jin

Kim, Jinwung

Kinmei, emperor (Japan)

klistamanas (afflicted manas)

koans

Dogen’s appreciation for

and encounter dialogues

and the great masters of Tang dynasty Zen

Hongzhi’s

and koan contemplation

See also Gateless Barrier (Wumenguan )

Kojosa monastery (southern Korea)

Komei, emperor (Japan)

Komyo, empress (Japan)

Korea

conflicts and political unrest

Japanese invasion and occupation

Korean War and splitting of

Mongolian occupation

Korean Zen

Awakening of Faith as foundational for

Goryo period

impact of Japanese occupation

introduction of

Jinul’s role in synthesis of

nuns

in the United States

Kosho-ji (Kannondori Koshohorin-ji) temple

Koya, Mount (Japan)

Kublai Khan

Kukai (Eighth Patriarch, Chinese esoteric school)

Kuma Faqeng

Kumarajiva

Kuoan Shiyuan

Kushan Empire, India and China

Kwan Um school of Zen

Kyogo

kyudo (way of the bow)

Lam Te (Linji) school

language, limits of, for describing enlightened reality

Lankavatara Sutra

Later Goryo period (Korea)

Later Liang dynasty (China)

Later Zhao polity (China)

laughing Buddha

Layman Pang (Pang Yun)

Leighten, Taigen Dan

li (principle) and shi (phenomena)

light (mei ) and darkness (an) metaphors

Light of Dharma, The newsletter

lineages. See transmission lineages

Linji house and school

conflicts with Caodong family

Eisai’s adherence to

Japanese students

Manpuku-ji, Mount Obaku

Yuanwu Keqin

See also Hongzhou school; Linji Yixuan

Linji lu. See Record of Linji (Linji lu )

Linji Yixuan

dharma ancestors and heirs

Hongzhou teachings

as successor to Mazu Daoyi

Li Po

liru (principle, reason)

literati, Song

Liu Tiemo

London Buddhist Lodge

Longmen grottoes, the Great Vairocana in

Lopez, Donald

Los Angeles Zen Center

Lotus Sutra

loving-kindness

Lu Guang

Lumbini, Nepal

Luoyang, China

carved figures near

Huike’s teaching in

ordination of Zhu Jing Jian in

recall of Shenhui to

removal of population to Ye

Luoyang qielanji (The monasteries of Luoyang ) (Yang Xuanzhi)

Ly dynasty, Vietnam

Madhyamaka (middle way)

Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Nagarjuna)

Sengzhao’s analysis

See also Zen practice

Maezumi, Taizan

Magadha, India

Magao Cave complex scrolls, China. See also Dunhuang cave library

magga. See path (magga)

Mahabharata

Mahakashyapa

mahamatras (dharma officials)

Mahapajapati

Mahaprajnaparamita Hridaya Sutra. See the Heart Sutra

Mahasamghika (“those of the great assembly”)

Mahayana (“the great vehicle”) school

Mahayana Brahmajala Sutra (Brahma Net Sutra)

Mahayana Buddhism

the Ashta

basic precepts

bodhicitta

and the concept of duality

and dependent origination

and the dharmadhatu

doctrine of sunyata (emptiness)

and the introduction of Buddhism to China

suchness

tathagatagarbha (buddha-nature) teachings

translation of sacred texts into Chinese

as underlying Zen

See also bodhisattvas; enlightenment; suchness

Maitreya

“Makahannya haramitsu” (commentary of the Heart Sutra) (Dogen)

“Making Merit through Warfare and Torture,” (Jenkins)

Malananda

Mana Shobogenzo (Shinji Shobogenzo ; Dogen)

Manchurian invasions

Mangong, Song

Manpuku-ji temple (Japan)

Mao Zedong

martial arts

connection to Zen

development of, in Japan

the hwarang, “flower boys”

at Shaolin Temple

and wuxin (mushin), “no mind”

Mason, Richard (R.H.P.)

masters, teachers vs.

Matsura Shigenobu

Mauryan Empire, India

Mayu Baoche

Mazu Daoyi

brick-polishing story

and mind

relationship with Shitou

and the Zen temples in Korea

Mazu yulu (Mazu’s Recorded Sayings )

McMahan, David

McRae, John

on “encounter dialogues”

on Hongren’s teachings

on Shenxiu’s teachings

on Two Entrances and Four Practices

on work practice at Yuchu

Meaning of Happiness, The (Watts)

meditation

Hongren’s teachings on

“just sitting” meditation

shamatha

vipashyana

See also Zen practice; silent illumination

mei (light) and an (darkness)

Meiji Restoration

Meisho, empress (Japan)

Menander I

Mentorgarten Meditation Hall, Los Angeles

Meru, Mount

“metropolitan Zen”

the Metta Sutta

Miaoxin

Miaozong

“middle way.” See Madhyamaka (middle way)

Miidera (Onjo-ji) temple

Milindapanha

Minamoto clan

mind

dharma as

and dualistic concepts

“mind-to-mind” transmission

as a mirror

and “ordinary mind,”

precepts of the Oxhead school

use of poetry to express

in Yogacara

mindfulness practice

“mind is Buddha” (Mazu Daoyi)

Ming dynasty

mirrors, reflections

Mitchell, James

Mizoguchi, Kenji

monastery, as term

monastics

bhikshuni sangha nuns

celibacy rules

clothing worn by

defrocking of

earliest, as wanderers

ordinations, ordination rules

renunciates (sramanas)

revival of, in Korea

Rinzai monks

self-defense

self-sufficiency

sohei

and the Vinaya

women as a distraction

See also nuns

Mongols

Mononobe clan (Japan)

morality and awakening

Moroie, Fujiwara no

Moshan Liaoran

mozhao chan (“silent illumination chan”)

Mu. See Wu; “Zhaozhou’s Dog” Mugai Nyodai

Mugaku Sogen

Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, Nagarjuna)

Muromachi period

Museold o-ron (“Treatise on the tongueless realm”) (Muyom)

mushin. See no mind

Muslims, invasion and conquest of Bihar

Muso Soseki

Muyom

Myeongjong, king (Korea)

Myochi, Ekan

Myoshin-ji, Kyoto

Myozen, Ryonen

Nagarjuna

Nagasena

Nakagawa Soen

Nalanda monastery, India

Nampo Jomyo

Nanhua Temple, China

“Nanquan Kills the Cat” story

Nanquan Puyuan

Nanshinken Roshi

Nan Song (southern Song dynasty), China

Nantai Temple, South Mountain, Chia

nanto koans

Nanyue Huairang

Nanzen-ji temple, Kyoto

neo-Confucianism

Nguyen, Cuong Tu

Nguyen Thieu

Nhan, Diei

Nichiren

school

nihilism

Nine Mountains of Son (Soen)

Nio figures

nirmanakaya (physical body)

nirvana

Nirvana Sutra

Nishi Hongan-ji mission

Niutou Farong, Niutou school. See also Oxhead (Niutou) school

Niutou, Mount (China)

Nobunaga, Oda

no mind (wuxin, mushin). See also ordinary mind; sunyata (emptiness)

nondual awareness/nonattachment. See also attachment; duality

Nonin, Dainichibo

Northern school

Northern Wei dynasty

North Korea, Buddhism in

no thought (wunian). See also no mind (wuxin, mushin)

“Not the Wind, Not the Flag” koan

nuns

Chinese, full-ordination lineage of

discrimination against

Dogen on

in Keizan’s lineage

Tang dynasty poet-nuns

and Tokei-ji temple, Kamakura

See also monastics; women

nyonin kinsei (“no admittance to women”) phrase

Obaku school. See also Linji house and school

Obaku, Mount (Japan)

Odantapuri monastery (India)

Ogedei Khan

“old cases” (gongan)

“One Hand” koan

101 Zen Stories (Senzaki)

Onin War, Japan

oral tradition, transmission of scripture using

ordinary mind

Mazu’s teachings

and the Oxhead school

in the Record of Linji

See also enlightenment

Otogawa, Kobun Chino

Otokan lineage, Rinzai Zen

Ouyang Xiu

Oxhead (Niutou) school

ox-herding (Kuoan Shiyuan)

Pali canon

Pang Lingzhao. See also Layman Pang

paradox of the ineffable, as Zen theme

Paramartha

path (magga). See also enlightenment; Zen practice

Patriarch’s Hall Anthology (Zutang ji )

Pei Xiu

Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines (Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra)

Perry, Matthew

“person of no rank” concept

phenomenal existence

Platform Sutra (Liuzu tanjing, Tanjing)

controversies around

as resolution of the Sixth Patriarch controversy

Yamplosky translation

poetry, Tang dynasty

Pomnang (Beomnang)

Pomunsa monastery (southern Korea)

Pophui, Myori

Porter, Bill. See Red Pine

Postal, Jion Susan

practice. See Zen practice

prajnaparamita (“perfection of wisdom”) sutras. See also the Diamond Sutra

Prakrit language

pratyeka-buddha

“Precious Mirror Samadhi”

Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (ed. Buswell and Lopez)

Prinsep, James

process, as same as goal

Providence Zen Center, Cumberland, Rhode Island

Puji

Punjab

Pure Land Buddhism

Amitabha Buddha chant

as antidote to degenerate practices in Japan

faith in the transcendent buddha Amitabha

Pushyamitra Shunga

Qing dynasty

Qinzong, emperor

rakusu (miniature monastic robe)

reality

as combining both the absolute and the relative

and phenomenal existence

See also suchness; sunyata (emptiness)

rebirth

Record of Linji (Linji lu )

“Record of the Mental Sublimity of Immovable Wisdom” (“Fudochi shinmyoroku,” Takuan)

Red Pine (Bill Porter)

relative and absolute. See also “Identity of Relative and Absolute”; suchness

religion

Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan (Kaiten)

Religious Affairs Bureau, People’s Republic of China

Rikyu, Sen no

rinka (“forest”) monasteries

Rinsch, Carl

Rinzai Zen

Bankei’s teachings

contrast with Soto Zen

huatou practice

and mind training for warriors

Otokan lineage

Shaku talk on

and the sixteen bodhisattva precepts

and Tokugawa-imposed regulations

Rishu (Viinaya) school, Japan

Rochester (New York) Zen Center

rock edicts (Ashoka)

Romanticism (movement)

ronin (samurai), the forty-seven

roshi (old master)

Ruch, Barbara

Rujing

“rules of purity”. See also monastics

Russo-Japanese War

Ryokan Taigu

Ryutaku-ji temple

Saga, emperor (Japan)

Saicho

samadhi (meditative stillness, concentration)

Samadhi and Prajna Retreat Society

sambhogakaya (enlightened body)

samghati (robe of monastics)

samsara (cycle of rebirth)

samurai

Bushido

and the forty-seven ronin

during the Meiji Restoration

and Zen

Sanbo Kyodan Zen

sandai soron (“third-generation differentiation”)

Sandokai. See “Identity of Relative and Absolute” San Diego Zen Center

San Francisco

the Beat movement

first Chinese temple in

Jodo Shinshu missionaries

Zen Center

Zen teachers in

sangha

bhikshuni (order of nuns)

monastic, conflicts and rivalries

monastics

relationships within

and trust

Sanskrit (Prakrit) languages

Sanskrit chanting lineages

“Sansui Kyo” (“Mountains and Waters Sutra”) (Dogen)

Sarvastivada order

Sasaki, Joshu

Sasaki, Ruth Fuller. See Fuller, Ruth

Sasaki, Shigetsu (Sokei-an)

on bringing Zen to the West

teaching in New York

Schireson, Grace

Schlutter, Morten

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Second Patriarch. See Huike, Dazu (Second Patriarch)

Sejong, king (Korea)

Seleucus I Nicator

self

Buddha on

clinging to

Dogen on

illusion of

See also ego

self-awareness

self-immolation

self-reliance

Sengcan, Jianzhi (Third Patriarch)

Sengzhao

sensei (teacher)

sense organs

Senzaki, Nyogen

Seong, king of Baekje

service to others. See also bodhisattvas

Sesshu Toyo

Seung Sahn

Shaku, Soyen

Shakyamuni Buddha. See also Buddha

shamatha meditation

Shang Yen (Shengyan)

Shantideva

Shaolin temple, Henan Province, China

Sheng Yen

Shenhui, Heze

Shenxiao Daoist school

Shenxiu, Yuquan (Sixth Patriarch)

shidafu (scholar-officials)

Shi Hu

shikantaza (“just sitting” meditation)

Shimano, Eido

Shin Buddhism

Shingon school

Shinran Shonin

Shinto

Shitou Xiqian

as dharma ancestors and heirs

Layman Pang’s studies with

Shiwu Qinggong

Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye ) (Dogen)

Shobogenzo zuimonki (Ejo)

shogunate

Shoin-ji temple

Shoju Rojin

Shomu, emperor

Shotoku, prince

Showa (Hirohito), emperor

Shuangfeng, Mount

Shubhakarasimha

Shuho Myocho

Shundao

Siddhartha Gautama. See Buddha

silent illumination (mozhao) chan

the Silk Road

Silla (Korean kingdom). See also Unified Silla

Sino-Japanese War

Six Patriarchs

Bodhidharma (First Patriarch)

controversy surrounding, impacts

Daoxin (Fourth Patriarch)

Hongren (Fifth Patriarch)

Huike (Second Patriarch)

Sengcan (Third Patriarch)

Shenxiu and Huineng (Sixth Patriarchs)

Shakya clan

Snyder, Gary

sodo (Chinese-style monastics’ hall)

Soen (Son)

Soen, Nakagawa

Soga clan (Japan)

Soga Jasoku

Sogen, Mugaku (Wuxue Zuyuan)

Sogen Hori, Victor

sohei (warrior monks)

Soji-ji monastery

Sokatsu, Tetsuo

Sokei-an. See Sasaki, Shigetsu

Sokoji Soto Mission, San Francisco

Song dynasty

ending of

and gongans, koans

Huizong’s reign

lamp records

literacy and the literati

as source for writings of Tang masters

Zen dominance during

Song of Mind (Xin ming, Niutou)

Songgwang, Mount (Songgwangsan)

Songgwangsa monastery (South Korea)

“Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage” (Shitou)

“Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi” (Baojing sanmei )

Songtsen Gampo

Son (Soen)

Soto Zen, Soto school

and the bodhisattva precepts

contrast with Rinzai Zen

and the danka system

Dogen’s body of written work

“just sitting” meditation

and koans

and the “Precious Mirror” chant

rediscovery of Dogen’s writings

ritual use of the kyosaku

shikantaza meditation

temple library

See also Caodong house

Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan (Bodiford)

Southern school

sramanas (renunciates)

Sri Lanka

Sthavira (“the elders”) school

stillness/silence. See samadhi (meditative stillness, concentration)

storehouse consciousness (alayavijnana )

Stuart, Maurine Myo-on

suchness, the absolute

as aspect of the one mind

Dogen’s writing on

and emptiness

and the interconnection of all things

See also samsara; sunyata (emptiness)

suffering (dukkha)

Sui dynasty, China

Suiko, empress (Japan)

Sumangala, Rev.

sumi-e painting

Sumeru, Mount. See Meru, Mount

sunyata (emptiness)

attaining, as Dongshan’s fifth rank

as justification for slaughter

paradox of expressing

in the prajnaparamita sutras

and suchness

See also no mind (wuxin, mushin)

supernaturalism

Suttapitaka (Pali canon)

Suu

Suzong, emperor (China)

Suzuki, Beatrice (née Lane)

Suzuki, Daisetsu Teitaro (D. T.)

Suzuki, Shunryu

Taego Bou

Taego Pou

Taira clan

Taiwan

Taixu

Taizong, emperor (China)

Taizu of Song, emperor (China)

Takuan Soho

Takuju Kosen

Tamil people, Buddhism among

Tanahashi, Kazuaki

Tang dynasty

appeal of esoteric teachers

and commingling of Zen schools and precepts

Daoxin’s life during

Huichang Persecution

importance of poetry

influence on Japan

and the An Lushan rebellion

note-taking during

role of women

sources of information about

Tanlin

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

taste (wei )

tathagatagarbha teachings. See buddha-nature

tea ceremony, development of

teachers

abusive

adapting to needs of students

and lineages

masters vs.

and student-teacher relationships

teisho (formal dharma presentations)

temple, as term

Tendai (Tiantai) school

Ten Kingdoms, south China

Tenryu-ji temple, Kyoto

Tetsugen Doko

Thao Du’o’ng school

Theosophy

Theravada

and the Berlin Buddhist temple

criticism of the buddha-nature proposal

doctrine of sunyata (emptiness)

Humphreys’ focus on

Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Quang Duc

Thien. See Vietnamese Zen

Three Kingdoms period, Korea

Three Pillars of Zen (Kapleau)

Tianning Wanshou Monastery, Bianjing

Tiantai Buddhism

Tiantai, Mount (China)

Tibetan Buddhism

just-war theory

mahamudra meditation

Mongol patronage of

and Nalanda Buddhism

Tibetan Zen (van Schaik)

translations from the Chinese

Vajrayana

Tiep Hien (Order of Interbeing)

Tillich, Paul

Todai-ji, Nara, Japan

Tofuku-ji, Kyoto

Tokai-ji, Edo

Tokei-ji, Kamakura

Tokimune, Hojo

Tokugawa shogunate

Tokugawa Iemitsu

Tokugawa Iemochi

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi

Tokugawa Yoshimune

tongueless approach to Zen

To-ji, Kyoto

Toui

Touzi Yiqing

Toyo, Sesshu (Haboku-Sansui )

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Tran Nhan Ton

Tran Thai Ton, king (Vietnam)

Trans dynasty

Transcendentalism

transmission lineages

and passing of robe and bowl

transmission documents

Vasubandhu and the Yogacara school

in the West

“Transmission of the lamplight records” (Chuandeng lu ). See also Jingde Lamp Record

Trans-Siberian railroad

“Treatise on Extinguishing Cognition”

Truc Lam (bamboo grove)

True Dharma Eye, The (Daido Loori)

trust, as antidote to doubt

Tukchae

Two Entrances and Four Practices (Bodhidharma)

two truths doctrine

Udo (Heian-kyo, Kyoto)

Uicheon

Uisang

“Uji” (“The Time-Being”) (Dogen)

Umpo

the unborn (fusho)

Unified Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam

Unified Silla (southern Korean kingdom)

United States

barring of Japanese immigrants

Buddhists in, at the start of the twentieth century

fascination with Zen in

and the internment of Japanese Americans

and Japanese American vs. non-Japanese

sanghas

See also Beat Zen movement; Western Zen

Upanishads

USS Susquehanna

Uttar Pradesh state, India

Vairocana, Great, of Longmen

Vaishali, Bihar, India

Vajira

Vajrayana (“the diamond vehicle”)

van Schaik, Sam

Vasubandhu

Vedas

“Verse of Gratitude” (Postal)

Verses on the Faith Mind (Xinxin ming )

Victoria, Brian Daizen

Vietnam

Vietnamese Zen (Thien)

and the Buddhist Crisis

and Nhat Hanh’s peace activism

vijnana (mind, awareness, consciousness)

Vimalakirti Sutra

on gender as mere appearance

and the mistake of duality

Vinayapitaka, Vinaya (Pali canon)

Dogen’s study of

and proscription against killing

Vinaya school (Korea)

Vinitaruci

vipashyana meditation

Wanan

Wang Kon (T’aego)

Wang Shichong

Wang Yuanlu

Wanling lu (Wanling Record)

Wansong Xingxiu

war, and Japanese militarism

warlords, Japanese

Warner, Brad

warrior monks. See sohei

Watson, Burton

Watts, Alan

Way of Zen, The (Watts)

Welter, Albert

Western Zen

and Aitken as patriarch of

and the equality of women

and first temple in Europe

integrating with Asian Zen practices

and search for the true Buddhism

and sexual improprieties

transmission lineages

and the World’s Parliament of Religions

See also Beat Zen movement

Whalen, Philip

White Lotus Society (Mount Lushan)

women

barriers to

Dogen on

enlightenment of

in Goryo period Korea

ordained, in Japan

and the revival of Korean Zen

and sexual improprieties

status during the Song dynasty

See also nuns

Won Gwang

Wonhyo

wonyung (the perfect interpenetration of all phenomena)

woodblock printing

World’s Parliament of Religions

World War II

Wu (Mu)

Wu, emperor (Liang dynasty)

Wu, emperor (Xianbei dynasty)

Wu Zetian, empress

Wumen Huikai

Wumenguan (Gateless Barrier ). See Gateless Barrier (Wumenguan )

wunian (no thought)

wuxin. See also no mind

Wu Yantong

Wu Zetian, empress (China)

Wuzhun Shifan

Wuzong, emperor (China)

Xiaowen, emperor

xingru (practice). See also enlightenment; Zen practice

Xitang Zhizang

Xuan Huaichang

Xuanzong, emperor (China)

Xuedou Chongxian

“Xuedou’s verses on the old cases” (Xuedou heshang baice songgu )

Yabuki Keiki

Yagyu Munenori

Yamada, Koun

Yampolsky, Philip B.

Yang Guifei

Yang Xuanzhi

Yangqi Fanghui

Yangshan Huiji

Yaoshan Weiyan

Yasutani, Haku’un

Ye, China

Yelu Chucai

Yinyuan Longqi

Yogacara school

Korean school based on

Lankavatara Sutra

Linji’s studies of

luminous mirror wisdom

Yoko-ji monastery, rivalry with Soji-ji

Yongnin Temple, Luoyang, China

Yoritomo, Minamoto no

Yoshinobu, Tokugawa

Yoshitaka, Iriya

Yoso Soi

Young Men’s Buddhist Association

Youqisi monastery

Yuan dynasty

Yuanwu Keqin

Yuchu monastery, Mount Shuangfeng, China

Yuezhi people, and the Kushan Empire

Yungang grottoes

Yunmen Wenyan, Yunmen house

Yunyan Tansheng

Zanzan Egen

Zen and the Art of Archery (Herrigel)

Zen at War (Victoria)

Zen Buddhism

as natural/direct approach to the dharma

“dumbing down” of

as heretical

historical research challenges

misuse of to condone violence

reconciling with science and modern society

and the study of scripture

and the supernatural

See also Chan (Chinese Zen); Zen practice; specific schools and texts

zendo (meditation hall)

Zen in English Literature (Blyth)

Zen practice

awareness of thoughts as

embodying in daily life

huatou contemplation (kanhua chan)

samadhi (meditative stillness, concentration)

and service to others

shikantaza (“just sitting” meditation)

silent illumination (mozhao) chan

traditional vs. modern approaches

See also meditation; sangha

zenshi (Zen master)

Zenshuji Soto Mission, Los Angeles

Zen War Stories (Victoria)

Zen Women (Schireson)

Zhaozhou Congshen

“Zhaozhou’s Dog,”

Zhenzhou, China, temple in

Zhishen

Zhiyan

Zhiyi

Zhu Daosheng

Zhu Jing Jian

Zonghao

Zongmi, Guifeng

Zongzhi

Zutang ji. See Patriarch’s Hall Anthology