Abbreviated Collection of Flower-in-the Sky’s Everyday Practice
abhidharma
Abhidharma-kośa
Abhidharma Storehouse Treatise
abhūtavikalpa (thought of the unreal)
Āgamas
ālambana (objective support)
ālaya-vijñāna (storehouse consciousness)
all-at-once awakening and step-by-step practice.
Analects
Ānandan.
anatman (non-self)
Anxin famen. See Dharma Gate of Quieting Mind
arhat(s)
Aryadevan.
Asangan.
Ashikaga
asvabhāva (no self nature)
Asvaghosan.
atman (self)
avidyā (ignorance)
Awakening of Faith
ba feng (eight winds)
baihua (vernacular-based literary language)
Bai Juyi
Bai[lun]
bang (branch offshoots)
banzhou sanmei (engendered concentration)
Baolinzhuan
Baotang (lineage/house)
Baotang Monastery.
Baotang Wuzhu (Li Liaofa)
Baoyue Chan Master
Baozanglun
Beizong (Northern lineage): equivalent to Yogācāra practice program; five rubrics of; just gradual practice without sudden awakening; lowest evaluation in Chan Letter; part of first Chan axiom in Chan Prolegomenon; self-designation “East Mountain Dharma Gate,”. See also Shenxiu
benjue (original awakening)
benti kongji (basic substance void and calm)
ben wushi er wang qing (from the outset nothing to do and forget feelings)
Benye
benzhi (basic purport)
benzi juzu (spontaneous perfection)
Bhavaviveka (Bhavya)
bianji suozhi (completely imagined)
biaoquan (expressive explanation)
biaozong zhang (Designating-the-Axiom Section of Mind Mirror)
Bieji (Separate Record)
bieye (individual karma)
biguan (wall viewing)
biliang (inference, one of the three sources of knowledge)
bi zong houxue (Hongzhou’s junior trainees)
bodhi (enlightenment)
Bodhidharma, the first
Bodhidharma Anthology
Book of Rites (Zhou Rites)
Brahma
buddha-in-embryo (tathagatagarbha)
Buddha-in-Embryo Sutra (Tathagatagarbha Sutra)
buddha nature.
Buddha Top-knot Sutra (=Śūraṃgamasamādhi or Heroic Progress Samadhi)
Buddhist canon, three teachings of
bu de li (not have effective power)
bujue (non-awakening)
buliaoyi (neyārtha/incomplete meaning)
bu liao zixin (not understanding own mind)
bu xi (not rehearsed)
bu ying yu wenzi er ze ye (should not place blame on the written words)
bu zhu yiqie (apratiṣṭhita/not fixed in anything)
buzuoyi (no mental activity)
Caoqi (Huineng)
Caotang chanshi jianyao. See Essentials of Chan Master Caotang’s Letters
Caotang Monasteryn.
cehui (privy waste)
cekong (privy hole)
Chan basket.
Chan Canon; enormous size of; how connected to Mahayana sutras and treatises; intended two audiences of; possible fragmentary survival in Mind Mirror; relationship to Chan Prolegomenon; tentative reconstruction of; tripartite structure of
Changes (Zhou Changes)
chang zhu xukong (fixed in mere absence/empty space)
Chan Letter; Chan Notes and; Chinul’s Excerpts and; dates of; editions used for translation; Essentials of the Dharma of Mind Transmission and; focus on four Chan houses in; genealogical chart of Bodhidharma Chan in; Hongzhou on; original title of; Outline of the Zen Axiom and; Pei Xiu and; simile of the wishing jewel in; translation of; Xixia in
Chan Master Gaofeng Yuanmiao’s Essentials of Chan
channa (dhyana)
Chan Notes; Chan Letter and; dates of; edition used for translation; seven houses of Chan in; slogan for each Chan house in; translation of; two aspects to each Chan house in
Chan Prolegomenon; Chan of incomplete and complete meaning in; chart of sentient-being mind in; dates of; editions used for translation; Five Mountains Zen and; Gozan edition; inclusive vision of Chan in; Khubilai khan and; Korean commentaries; Korean editions; Korean Fourfold Collection (Sajip) and; master metaphor in; modern Japanese scholarship and; Pei Xiu’s Preface; Song dynasty colophon; summa of Chan and the teachings in; tallies of teachings and Chan in terms of sudden/gradual in; tally of original awakening and non-awakening in; tally of sudden awakening and gradual practice in; tally of three types of teachings and three Chan axioms in; Tangut (Xixia) translation of; three Chan axioms in; three Chan praxis programs in; three teachings in; translation of; two types of all-at-once teaching in; Ui Hakuju and; Yanshou’s Mind Mirror as conduit for; Zongjinglu quotations and paraphrases
Chanyuan xia (Tangut Chan Prolegomenon)
Chanyuan zhuquanji. See Chan Canon
Chanyuan zhuquanji duxu. See Chan Prolegomenon
chanzang. See Chan basket
chanzong li jiao (Chan axioms are modeled on the teachings)
Chaosu
characteristics axiom
Chart of the Genealogy of the Patriarchal Masters from Generation to Generation
Chart of the Master-Disciple Succession of the Chan Gate That Transmits the Mind Ground in China
Chen Chuzhang
Chengguan. See also Qingliang Chengguan
Cheng of Zhangjing Monastery north of western capital mountains
Cheng weishi lun
Chen Qige
Chinggis khan
Chinul
Chi of Jiangning
Chogye school
chŏmsu (gradual practice)
Chonggyŏng nok
Chongmil (Zongmi)
Chuanxin fayao. See Essentials of the Dharma of Mind Transmission
Chuji of Zizhou.
Chūka denshinji zenmon shiji shōshū zu. See Chart of the Master-Disciple Succession of the Chan Gate That Transmits the Mind Ground in China
chulei shi dao (everything is the Dao)
chulei shi dao er renxin (everything is the Dao and give free rein to mind)
Ch’ungch’ŏng-do
ci ge shi (this matter)
ci lingjuexing (this spiritual awakening nature)
cisui chan/jusui chan (chan in conformity with words/phrases)
citta-mātra (mind only)
ciwai chan/juwai chan (chan beyond words/phrases)
ci xin (this mind)
ci xin ji fo (this mind is buddha)
Cizhou Zhiru
Classic of Poetry
Collected Essentials of the Discourses on the Chan Source
Collection of Expressions of the Chan Source
Collection of Zongmi’s Responses to Questions from Monks and Laypeople
Commentary on the Ten Stages
complete meaning
Confucianism
cong kongji ti shang qi zhi (from that void and calm substance arises Knowing)
Council of Tibetn.
cryptic teaching (teaching of cryptic meaning)
cuolue (scoop up an abridgement)
Da Baigaoguo (Great State of White and High)
dade (Great Worthy)
dadu (public land)
Da fangguang yuanjue xiuduoluo liaoyi jing lueshu zhu
Da foding rulai miyin xiuzheng liaoyi zhupusa wanxing shoulengyan jing
da gubaoyin (Great Ancient Treasure Seal)
Dahui Pujue chanshi shu. See Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue
Dahui yulu. See Sayings Record of Dahui
Dahui Zonggaon.
Dai-honzan Myōken-ji
Dainichi Nōnin
Daji (Hongzhou Ma)
Damo yi zong (Bodhidharma’s one axiom)
dan dao zhi ru (single sword that goes right in)
dan de wunian zhi xin (merely getting the mind of no mindfulness)
dangti (the very thing-in-itself)
Dangxiang (= Tangut)
dan renxin (just giving free rein to mind)
dan yi zhizi (just the one character “Knowing”)
Daoqinn.
Daosu chouda wenji. See Collection of Zongmi’s Responses to Questions from Monks and Laypeople
Daowun.
[Dao]wu of Jiangling
Daoxinn.
Daoyi (Hongzhou Ma)
Daoyun.
Daoyuann.
Dapin
Dasheng qixin lun
dayuan jingzhi (mirror knowledge)
Dayuan of the western capital
Dayun Monasteryn.
Da zhidu lun (often abbreviated)
Dechun Monasteryn.
Deer Park
de yi er wang yan (get idea and forget words)
de zhi (get it)
Dezong (emperor)
Dharani Nunn.
dharma and principles
Dharma Gate of Quieting Mind
Dharma Gate of the Mind Essence in Answer to Emperor Shunzong
Dharmagupta-vinaya
Dharmapala.
dharmatā (dharma nature)
Dhrtaka.
Donglin Monastery
Dongshan (East Mountain)
Dongshan famen (East Mountain Dharma Gate)
Dongshan jingmen (East Mountain Purity Gate)
dōshin (mind of the Way)
duanhuo mieku jiao (teaching of cutting off depravities and extinguishing suffering)
Dunhuang Chan manuscripts
dunjiao (alll-at-once/sudden teaching)
dunmen (all-at-once/sudden gate)
dunwu (all-at-once/sudden awakening)
dunwu zhi zong (all-at-once awakening to the axiom of Knowing)
duomu (multiple eyes)
duxu (“prolegomenon”)
East Mountain Dharma Gaten
Encouraging the Production of the Thought of Awakening
Enni Ben’en
ergen (ear sense organ in Heroic Progress Samadhi Sutra)
Essentials of Chan Master Caotang’s Letters
Essentials of the Dharma of Mind Transmission
Essentials of the Transmission of Dharma Within the Palace of the National Teacher of Tang (Tangut text)
Excerpts from the Separately Circulated Record of the Dharma Collection with Inserted Personal Notes (Korean text abbreviated as Excerpts)
Explanation of the Chan Prolegomenon (Tangut text)
Extensive Record of Yunmen
Extracts from the Great Commentary on the Perfect Awakening Sutra; dates of
Fachin.
Fahai of the Platform Sutra
Fahai of the western capital
Fajing
fangbian tong jing (teaching devices pervade the sutras)
Fa of Yezhou
Faru of Luzhou
Faru of Mt. Taihang
fashu (methods of teaching dharma)
faxiang zong (dharma-characteristics axiom)
[Fa]xian of Jingzhou
faxing (generating practice)
faxing zong (dharma-nature axiom)
fayan (dharma eye)
Fayan (lineage/house)
fayi (dharma idea)
Fayi of Xiangzhou
Fazang (Huayan master)
Fazang of Shuzhou
fei suiyuan (not follow conditions)
fei zong bu yan (not say anything at all)
Fengguo Monasteryn
Fengxiangn
Five Mountains Zen; Chan Prolegomenon and; Mind Mirror and
Foding jing
[fo]jing (Buddha sutras)
Formula for Cultivating Mind
Fourfold Collection
fo[xin] (Buddha mind)
foyanliang (buddha word, one of the three sources of knowledge)
foyi (the Buddha’s intention)
Fo yijiao jing
fu (tally); Chan Prolegomenon and
fuchen kanjing fangbian tong jing (sweep away dust; gaze at purity; teaching devices pervade the sutras)
fu Digang (a Zongmi saying)
fuji (sweep away traces)
Fujiang (Fu River)
Funi dōjin
Funi ikō
furyū monji kyōge betsuden
fu xin (subdue mind)
fu xin mie wang (subdue mind to extinguish the unreal)
Fuzhou (Fujian)
gakumon (learning)
ganlituoye (real mind/true mind)
ganlu (sweet dew)
Gan of Tongde Monastery of the eastern capital
ganshijue (cylinder of dried shit)
ganxin (sweet heart)
Gao
Gaofeng Yuanmiao chanshi chanyao. See Chan Master Gaofeng Yuanmiao’s Essentials of Chan
Gaozong (emperor)
gazing-at-the-topic
gejue (songs and secret formulas)
generating practice
geng li nianfo famen (further erect a buddha-recitation method)
geteng chan (kudzu Chan)
Gidō Shūshin
gong’an (Chan case)
gongcheng (imperial palace)
gongguo zhuang (books of merits and faults)
gongneng (latent power)
gongye (common karma)
goshu zenton (step-by-step and all-at-once in awakening and practice)
goudang (Public Affairs Officer)
Gozanban (Gozan editions)
Gozan Zen. See Five Mountains Zen
Grasping the Power of the Chan Prolegomenon (Korean commentary)
Great Ancient Treasure Seal
Great Dictionary of Zen Studies (Zengaku daijiten)
Great Expanded Dharma Sphere
Great Master Fu
Great Master of Fengguo Monastery (Shenzhao)
Great State on the Highlands in the West. See Xixia
Gregory, Peter
guancha (reflect)
Guang bai[lun]
Guangyao of Baozhen Yuan
Guangyao of Taiyuan
guan hu renqing yi (discipline human feelings)
guansi wen’an (lawsuit document)
guanxin (view mind)
gu baihua (old baihua)
Guifeng Answers Minister Pei’s Letter on the Purports of the Chan Lineages
Guifeng chanshi beiming bing xu
Guifeng da Pei Xiangguo zongqu zhuang. See Guifeng Answers Minister Pei’s Letter on the Purports of the Chan Lineages
Guifeng houji. See Posthumous Collection of Guifeng
Guifeng Zongmi; biography of
Guishan Answers Pei Xiu’s Letter of Inquiry
Guishan da Pei Xiu wenshu. See Guishan Answers Pei Xiu’s Letter of Inquiry
Gunabhadra
Guochang Monastery
Guozhou
Hai Kyū shūi mon. See Imperial Redactor Pei Xiu’s Inquiry
Hakuin Ekaku
Hanshan Deqing
Hanshan laoren mengyouji
hao (labels)
haojia (powerful family)
Headings of the Chan Prolegomenon with Inserted Personal Notes (Korean commentary)
headrope (of a net)
hehui (bring together)
helituoye (hṛdaya/lump-of-flesh mind or heart) Hengguan of the eastern capital
Heroic Progress Samadhi Sutra
hetu pratyaya (causes and conditions)
he yao xiuli (why would you have to fix it?)
Heze (lineage/house): central/orthodox line of descent from Bodhidharma; first sudden awakening and afterwards gradual practice in; “Knowing” in Tangut Chan and possibly Tibetan Chan; “Knowing” is no mindfulness in; the non-practice practice of no mindfulness in; parity with Hongzhou in Chan Prolegomenon; superiority to Hongzhou in Chan Letter; Zongmi’s “Knowing” and Shenhui’s Platform Talks
Heze Monastery
Heze Shenhui
hiketsu (secret judgments)
Hiranoya Sabē
Hoeam Chŏnghye
hŏji (empty Knowing)
Hongji of Luzhou
Hongren
Hongzhi 6 (1493 Korean edition of Chan Prolegomenon)
Hongzhou (lineage/house): parity with Heze; Pei Xiu and; slogan of; Song iconoclastic image of; subsumed by Guifeng Chan in Xixia; Zongmi’s critique of
Hongzhou cishi (Hongzhou Prefect)
Hongzhou zongqu zhujie minghu ji (Tangut Chan text)
Hongzhou zongshi jiaoyi (Tangut Chan text)
Hongzhou zongshi qu zhu kaiming yaoji (Tangut Chan text)
houji (colophon)
houses of Chan: eight in Chan Prolegomenon; four in Chan Letter; seven in Chan Notes. See also specific houses or lineages
[Huai]hai of Baizhang
Huaihui
[Huai]kong of Heyang
Huairang
huamen zhi shuo (verbal teachings)
Huangbo Xiyun
Huangmei
Huangting jing
huatou (topic of Chan case)
Huaxian Layman
Huayan Commentary Master
Huayan lunguan
Huayan Sutra
Huayan yifen (one part of Huayan Sutra)
huayi dun (all-at-once of rite of transforming beings)
Huichang Suppression
Huichou
Huifang, the third
[Hui]jian of the western capital
Huijue of Jingzhou
Huike
Huineng
Huishan Monastery
Huisi
Huiwen
hui xiang gui xing (take characteristics back to the nature)
Huiyong [Huirong]
hui zhi ji jie shi (brought together, they are all right)
Huizhong
Hyujŏng
idea, houses and
Ikkyū Sōjun
Imperial Redactor Pei Xiu’s Inquiry
Indra’s net
inkyo osim (rely on teachings to awaken to mind)
Ishii Shudō
Issuing-the-Torch Record of the Chan Prolegomenon (Tangut text)
Japan: Chan Letter in Shōjō’s Kegon treatise; Chinese literary temperament of Five Mountains Zen; Gidō Shūshin and Zekkai Chūshin’s Guifeng Zen; Japanese editions of the Chan Prolegomenon; Japanese translations of Zongmi’s Chan works from 1939 to present; Kiyō Hōshū and Zongmi; Yanshou’s Mind Mirror; Zen scholarship’s usual portrayal of Zongmi and Yanshou
Jia Dao, vii
jianci xiuxi (gradual practice)
jiangshi pojing jiao (teaching that takes consciousness to eradicate sense objects)
Jiangxi (Hongzhou house)
jianjiao (step-by-step teaching)
jianmen (Chan step-by-step gate)
jianxiu (gradual practice)
Jianyuan
jianzhao (mirror illumination)
jiao (teachings)
jiaomen (gate of the teachings)
jiaowai biechuan (separate transmission outside the teachings)
jiaowai biexing (separate practice outside the teaching)
jiaoxing bu ju er mie shi (not caught up in the teachings/practices and extinguish consciousness)
Jia Ruzhou
Ji chanyuan zhulun guanyao
ji chuanxiang er zun fo (rely on the transmission of the incense and maintain “buddha”)
Jietuo of Fengxiang
jiewu (understanding awakening)
Jiexian
jie ze shi she se mi ze se she shi (when understanding, consciousness absorbs forms …)
jie zhe (understanding)
ji jiao wu zong (by means of the teachings awaken to the axiom)
jijing ti (calm substance)
jin (present/now)
Jing (Tangut Chan text)
Jingang banruo jing shulun zuanyao
Jingang sanmei jing
Jingde chuandeng lu. See Jingde Era Record of the Transmission of the Lamp
Jingde Era Record of the Transmission of the Lamp
jing kong xin you (sense objects void mind existent)
jinglü (quiet thoughts)
Jingzhong (lineage/house)
Jingzhong Shenhui
Jingzong of Xiazhou
jinli wenzi fei zhongdao/chang zhu xukong shi xiaosheng (Bai Juyi couplet)
jinri geteng (today’s kudzu)
Ji of Tongquan county
Ji of Weizhou
Ji of Zhuzhou
jiongjue wuji (distantly cut off and not leaning on anything)
ji ru foxing (is your buddha nature)
jiujing dao (ultimate path)
Jiujing yisheng yuanming xin yi (Tangut text)
jiujiu chunshu (become practiced over a long period of time)
Jiu Tangshu. See Old Tang History
ji wei yi zu (say that they already have had enough)
Jiyun of Xiangzhou
jizhi zhi ti wunian wei zong (Knowing of calm points to the substance and …)
Jnanaprabha
Jōtōshōgakuron
Jueguanlun. See On Cutting Off Examining
Juehui
Jue of Yangzhou
juji (poetic sayings)
jun Zen no dentō (tradition of pure Zen)
Jushe
ju yiqie shi bu qi wangnian (at no time produce false thoughts)
ju yixin wei zong (raise the one mind as the axiom)
Kaifeng
kaishi benxing (show the original nature)
Kaiyuan Ming shi
Kamakura Japan
Kamakura-Muromachi Japan
Kamata Shigeo
kan ge huatou (gaze at the topic of Chan case)
kanhui (check and verify)
kanhwa (gaze at topic of Chan case)
kanjing (gazing at purity)
Kāśyapa
Kegon
Keizan tō Hai Kyū monsho
kenmitsu Bukkyō (exoteric-esoteric Buddhism)
kenshō jōbutsu (see the nature and become a buddha)
keti (the very thing-in-itself)
Khara-khoto
Khitans
Kihwa
Kim (Korean Jingzhong master;= Jin = Korean Musang = Wuxiang)
Kiyō Hōshū
knowledge, sources of
Kōben
kong (void)
kongji zhi (void and calm Knowing)
kongxun wenju (vainly search through the canonical texts)
kong you xiangdui (opposition of voidness and existence)
kongzhong (in voidness)
kongzong (voidness axiom)
Kōrai-bon
Korea: Chan Letter in Chinul’s Excerpts; commentaries on Chan Prolegomenon; influence of Yanshou’s Mind Mirror; Kihwa and Hyujŏng’s Guifeng orientation; large number of editions of Chan Prolegomenon in; Zongmi’s Chan works in the Chogye school’s Sajip
Koryŏ Canon
kotsuzen utoku (suddenly get it)
Kōzen gokoku ron
Kozlov, Peter Kuzmitsch
kuden (secret oral transmission)
Kūge nichiyō kufū ryakushū
Kumida-dera
Kuroda Ryō
Kuroda Toshio
Kwanŭm Monastery of Sokri Mountain
kyōge betsuden (separate transmission outside the teachings)
kyōzen dōi (sameness and difference between the teachings and Zen)
kyōzen itchi (union of the teachings and Zen)
lai ji cong ta lai (if coming, then follow other in coming)
lakṣaṇa (characteristics)
Lang of Fuzhou
Lang of Huangmei
Lanka Descent Sutra
Lao’an
lao su (Old Monk)
Leidai zushi xuemai tu. See Chart of the Genealogy of the Patriarchal Masters from Generation to Generation
Lengjia renfa zhi
Lengjia shizi ji. See Record of the Lanka Masters and Disciples Lengyan jing tongyi
Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue
Liao state/court
liaoyi (nītārtha/complete meaning)
Lidai fabao ji. See Record of the Dharma Treasure Through the Generations
Li Liaofa of Baotang (Baotang Wuzhu)
lineage. See houses
ling (collar)
lingjue (spiritual awakening)
lingjue zhi xing (nature of spiritual awakening)
lingzhi (spiritual Knowing)
lingzhi bumei (spiritual Knowing that never darkens)
Linjianlu (Record of Pure Talk in the Forest)
Linjilu. See Record of Linji
liru (entrance by principle)
liuxing bu jue (circulation uninterrupted)
li xian yu xinyuan (principle appears at mind source)
Li Xun
li yue jian xue (ritual and music learned gradually)
li ze dunwu chengwu bingxiao (in principle sudden awakening …)
li zushi ta (bow at patriarchal-master stupa)
Madhyamaka
mae ni deru (charge directly forward)
Man-of-the-Path Non-Duality
Ma of Mt. Changsong
Masu
Mazu Daoyi
Mencius
merits and faults
Mi (= Mi-nia = Xixia)
Mianzhou cishi (Mianzhou Prefect)
miaoer men (gate of the wonderful ear)
Miaole (Zhanran)
miaoyuan zhenxin (wonderful, perfect true mind)
milŭi sangchŏn ch’ŏ (Chan transmissions with a hidden meaning)
mind: Bodhidharma lineage and; four types of; nature and
“Mind Behind the Words of the Buddhas, The”
mind calmness
mind ground
Mind Mirror; attitude toward buddha-recitation in; Bodhidharma saying in; Chan Canon and; Chan Prolegomenon and; Five Mountains Zen in; Kamakura Zen in; Korea in; Yanshou’s explanation of his title; Yanshou’s rebuttal of “single sword that goes right in”; Zongmi saying
mind nature
Ming Dynasty: Hanshan Deqing’s sudden awakening and gradual practice in; Yinyuan Longqi and “pure Zen” in
mingfu (mysterious tally)
mingming bumei liaoliao changzhi (bright and never darkening, a clear and constant Knowing)
Ming of Kaiyuan
Mi-nia
minjue wuji (cut off and not leaning on anything)
minjue wuji zong (axiom of cutting off and not leaning on anything)
Mirror, The (Tangut Chan text)
mi shi ren zhu fa jie shi fa zhu ren (when deluded, the person pursues dharmas …)
Miyao (= Mi-nia)
miyi (saṃdhāya/cryptic meaning)
miyi poxiang xianxing jiao (teaching of cryptic meaning that eradicates characteristics to reveal dharma nature)
miyi yixing shuoxiang jiao (teaching of cryptic meaning that relies on dharma nature to speak of characteristics)
miyu (secret oral transmission)
mo chuan xinyin (silent transmission of the mind seal)
Moguja (Chinul)
Moheyan
mohua (black script)
moni zhu (thought gem)
moran wuyan (silent and wordless)
mowang (do not allow the unreal)
mowang (do not forget)
Mt. Baizhang
Mt. Jing
Mt. Lu
Mt. Mingyue
Mt. Shuangfeng
Mt. Song
Mt. Zhongnan
mugyō mushu (neither practice nor cultivation)
muji (character “no”)
Myōan Yōsai
Myōe (Kōben)
Nagarjuna
Nālandā Monastery
Nanshan nianfomen chanzong. See South Mountain Buddha-Recitation Gate Chan Lineage
Nan-Shen (Zhishen of the South). See also Jingzhong; Zhishen
Nanyin. See also Weizhong
Nanyue
Nanyue Weijing
National Teacher Chikaku Fumyō’s Sayings Record
nature axiom
nature origination
negativistic explanations
nei gongfeng (monk’s title)
neiwai hu (internal and external protectors)
nenbutsu Zen (fusion of Chan and nenbutsu)
neyārtha (incomplete meaning)
nian qi ji jue jue zhi ji shi (if a thought arises, be aware of it; once you are aware of it, it will disappear)
nian qi ji jue jue zhi ji wu (if a thought arises, be aware of it; once you are aware of it, it will be lost)
Nie Hongyin
ningran (frozen)
ningxin ruding (freeze mind and enter concentration)
nītārtha (complete meaning)
Niutou (lineage/house): equivalent to Madhyamaka practice program; “having nothing to do” in; not awakened to the non-void; outside the Northern-Southern dichotomy; part of second Chan axiom in Chan Prolegomenon; practice of “forgetting feelings” in
nixin ji cha (deliberate and you are already in error)
niyi (shilly-shallying)
non-awakening/unreal
Non-Duality’s Bequeathed Draft Copy
Northern lineage. See Beizong
Old An
Old Man Hanshan’s Dream Roving Collection. See Hanshan laoren mengyouji
Old Tang History
On Cutting Off Examining
oni ni kanabō (metal cudgel on a demon)
Ōnin War
original awakening/real
Outline of the Chan Prolegomenon (Tangut text)
Outline of the Zen Axiom
ou ye (by chance called on)
Oxhead. See Niutou (lineage/house)
paichi sanzang jiao (discard the teachings of the tripitaka)
Patriarchal Hall Collection
Patriarch Lineage Transmission Record
Pei Xiu; calligraphic talent; Chan Letter and; Chengguan and; Encouraging the Production of the Thought of Awakening; Essentials of the Dharma of Mind Transmission and Wanling Record; hand-copy of the Chan Prolegomenon; Heze Chan and; Hongzhou Chan and; Huangbo Xiyun and; preface to the Chan Prolegomenon; Tangut text of his Chan encounters; Zongmi’s funerary inscription
Pei Xiu chanshi suiyuan ji (Tangut Chan text)
Pei Xiu shiyi wen. See Imperial Redactor Pei Xiu’s Inquiry
Perfect Awakening Sutra; Chan Letter’s jewel simile and; Chan Notes and; Chan Prolegomenon’s third teaching and; Chinul and; Dahui’s Letters and; four items in; Gidō Shūshin and; Hanshan Deqing and; Heroic Progress Samadhi Sutra and; one type of all-at-once and; Shun’oku Myōha and; structure of sudden awakening and gradual practice in; Tangut Chan text The Mirror and; Xixia and; Yanshou’s Mind Mirror and; Zekkai Chūshin and; Zongmi’s commentaries on; Zongmi’s first encounter with
ping (critique)
ping (standard)
Platform Talks
Poems in Three Styles
Pŏpchip pyŏrhaeng nok chŏryo kwamok pyŏngip sagi
Pŏpchip pyŏrhaeng nok chŏryo pyŏngip sagi. See Excerpts from the Separately Circulated Record of the Dharma Collection with Inserted Personal Notes
Posthumous Collection of Guifeng
poxiang zong (eradicating-characteristics axiom)
Pozao Duo
praxis programs of Chan houses
Preceptor Old Mother An (Lao’an)
Preceptor Tang. See Chuji of Zizhou
principles, dharma and
Prolegomenon to the Collection of Expressions of the Chan Source
Propagate Zen and Protect the Country
Puji
Puping of Jingzhu
Puril Pojo
Pyŏrhaeng nok sagi hwajok
qin bi xieben (personally copied out a manuscript)
Qingliang Chengguan. See also Huayan Commentary Master
Qingliang guoshi shi miaojue ta ji
qing yu tingxue (belittle learning)
qishu renxin (discard art and give free rein to mind)
qixin (production of mind)
Qixinlun shu
Qixuan
qi yuan ba jian (seventh grabs on to eight’s seeing part)
Quan fa putixin wen
Ratnagotra
recompense (karmic)
Record of Linji; Rinzai Zen and
Record of the Axiom Mirror
Record of the Dharma Treasure Through the Generations
Record of the Hongzhou Axiom with Commentary and Clarification (Tangut Chan text)
Record of the Lanka Masters and Disciples
Record of the Mind Mirror
rentian yinguo jiao (karmic cause-and-effect teaching)
renxin (give free rein to mind)
renyun bu ju (give free rein to luck and don’t get caught up)
renyun zizai (give free rein to luck and exist in freedom)
Righteousness Learning Academy
rig pa (Tibetan “Knowing”)
Rinzai Zenn; Record of Linji and
rongtong fei li wenzi jietuo (= inexpressibility is not awakening)
rongyi xin (easy-going attitude)
Rudao fangbian ji
Ruizong (emperor)
ruseng (Confucian monk)
Ruyi of Yizhou
Sajip
san ban (three kinds)
san ju yongxin wei jie ding hui (exertion in the three topics is precepts, concentration, and wisdom)
san liang (three sources of knowledge)
sanshiqi daopin (thirty-seven parts of the path)
Santai shi. See Poems in Three Styles
san xian (three worthies)
san yi (three principles)
sanzang fashi (Tripitaka Dharma Master)
san zhong jiao (three types of teachings)
san zong (three axioms of Chan)
Sayings Record of Dahui
Seishō-ji
Sengcan, the third
Sengrui
sentient-being mind
Separate Record. See Bieji
sheng huang (reeds in a sheng wind instrument)
shengmie (arising-disappearing)
shengmo (inked marking string)
Shengshou Monastery
shengtai (noble embryo)
Shenhui, the seventh
Shenxiun
Shenzhao
she xiang gui xing (absorb characteristics back into the nature)
shi (shit)
shi bujing guzhi (old toilet paper that wipes away filth)
shi di (ten stages)
shi’er men
shijue (initial awakening)
shili wuai men (gate of non-obstruction of phenomena and principle)
shimen shixiang yiqie bu xing (practices none of the phenomenal characteristics of Buddhism)
Shinpuku-ji
Shi of Yizhou. See also Jingzhong Shenhui
Shi Shanren
shi shen (ten bodies)
shishi tixi (constantly lift to attention)
shishuo (what the Chan masters say)
Shitou (lineage/house)
Shitou Xiqian
shi xuan (ten profundities)
Shiye
shi zhi (ten knowledges)
Shōjō
shoryū kenge (views of various streams of Zen)
Shoulengyan jing. See Heroic Progress Samadhi Sutra
Shūmitsu (Zongmi)
Shun’oku Myōha
shuo geteng (speak kudzu)
shuxie shixing yi (copied and disseminated)
siddhānta
si deng (four immeasurable minds)
Sifenlü shu
si jie (four items)
Simha
similes (sometimes metaphors): activation of Indra’s jewel net in a Zongmi saying; adding a cudgel to a demon of Yamamoto Genpō; collar and garment in Chan Prolegomenon; drinking water in Chan Prolegomenon; gold and rings, utensils, etc., in Chan Prolegomenon; great official who dreams he is in prison in Chan Letter; headrope and net in Chan Prolegomenon; inked marking string in Chan Prolegomenon; opening right eye and closing left in Tangut Chan text; siddham letter in Chan Prolegomenon; for sudden/gradual in Lanka Descent Sutra; tripod in Tangut Chan text; various states of water in Chan Prolegomenon; water stirred by wind in Chan Letter; wishing jewel and reflected colors in Chan Letter; wishing jewel and reflected colors in Perfect Awakening Sutra
Siming zunzhe jiaoxinglu
si she (four articles of attraction)
si [wuai] bian (four unobstructed understandings)
si wuliang (four immeasurable minds)
slogans, for seven Chan houses
Solonin, K.J.
Song Canon
Song Dynasty: Chan Letter in; Chan Prolegomenon in; Heroic Progress Samadhi Sutra in; iconoclastic image of Hongzhou in; “moderate” and “rhetorical” Chan in; neo-Confucian criticism of Buddhism in; old-baihua Chan literature in; Perfect Awakening Sutra in; Posthumous Collection of Guifeng in; printing of Chan books in; Record of Linji and Extensive Record of Yunmen in; slogan “separate practice outside the teachings” in; Yanshou’s Mind Mirror in; zong-jiao terminology in
Songyue Monastery
Sŏno husu (first awakening and afterwards practice)
Sŏnwŏn jejŏnjip tosŏ kwamok pyŏngip sagi
Sŏnwŏnjip tosŏ ch’akpyŏng
Sōtō Zen
Southern lineage
South Mountain Buddha-Recitation Gate Chan Lineage
Śrīmālā Sutra
Stele Inscription for Chan Master Guifeng
step-by-step practice. See all-at-once awakening and step-by-step practice
stereopsis
stopping-viewing
storehouse consciousness
Straw Hut Temple
“Stupa of the Blue Lotus”
Sugyōroku
suiwen fanzhi (succession of questions affirmed and repudiated)
suiyuan (following conditions)
suiyuan yingyong (responsive functioning)
Suizhou
sumō
sunyata (voidness)
suojian/jianjie (view)
suojie/jie (understanding)
suowu li (principle awakened to)
suoxiu zhi dao (path practiced)
suoyuan (objective supports)
suozhi zhang (objects-of-knowledge hindrance)
Susim kyŏl
suyu (popular language/slang)
Sweet Dew Incident
Taguchi Akiyoshi
taiken (personal experience)
Taiyi Yanchang Monastery on Mt. Wudang in Jinzhou
Tanaka Ryōshō
Tang Chang’an guoshi gongnei chuanfa yao (Tangut text)
Tang Mianzhou cishi (Mianzhou Prefect of the Tang)
Tangut (Tibeto-Burman language and people)
Tanyu. See Platform Talks
Teaching Devices for Entering the Path
Teachings and Practice Record of the Honorable One of Siming
Teachings and Rituals of the Hongzhou Lineage Masters (Tangut Chan text)
Teng Teng
Thirty Verses on Consciousness Only
Thunderbolt-Cutter Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
ti (substance)
Tiantai
Tibetan Buddhism: bifurcation of Mahayana into view and praxis in; four siddhāntas in; possible Shenhui influence on Rdzogschen in
ti ci yi nian (lifting up of this one moment)
Tong of Xiangzhou
tongyi zhenxing (identical true nature)
tongyi zong (same single axiom)
tongzu (same ancestor)
tono (sudden awakening)
Treatise on the Ten Stages
triple karma
Two Entrances and Four Practices
Ui Hakuju
ŭi Mil sa yŏshil ŏnkyo (rely on Master Mi’s oral teachings concerning things as they really are)
Unraveling the Deep Secret Sutra
Vajrasamadhi Sutra. See Jingang sanmei jing
vāsanā (fumigating habit energy from past lives)
Vasubandhu
Verses on Teaching Devices for Entering the Path
vijñāna (consciousness)
Vimalakīrti Sutra
vinaya (rules of discipline)
voidness axiom
wall viewing
wanfa lin jing (ten-thousand dharmas in a mirror)
wang (net)
Wang Fanzhi
wangnian (thought of the unreal/false thought)
wangqing (forget feelings)
Wang Zhihuan
Wanli 4 (1576) Korean edition (of the Chan Prolegomenon)
Wanlinglu. See Wanling Record
Wanling Record
wei du xinglu (have seen no activities record)
Weijing
Weikuan ([Wei]kuan of Xingshan)
wei ping (as a standard)
Wei Preceptor of Guozhou
weixin (miind only)
Weizhong
wei zhun (as a norm)
Welter, Albert
wenda zhang (Questions-and-Answers Section of Mind Mirror)
Wen Shangshu
wenyan (classical literary language)
wenzi chan (canonical written-word Chan)
wenzi juji (written words and lines of verse)
Wenzong (emperor)
wishing jewel. See similes
Wolun
Wu (empress)
wu fangbian (five teaching devices)
wu jianci (no gradual steps)
wuming (ignorance)
Wuming of Fucha
wunian (no mindfulness)
wushi (having nothing to do)
wuxiang (no thought)
wuxing (no self nature)
wuyi (no remembering)
wuzhangai fajie (unobstructed dharm sphere)
wu zixing (no self nature)
wuzong zhi zong (axiom that is a non-axiom)
Xiang Layman
xiangwai chiqiu (rush around seeking on the outside)
xiangzong (characteristics axiom)
xianliang (direct perception, one of the three sources of knowledge)
xianshi zhenxin jixing jiao (teaching that openly shows that the true mind is dharma nature)
xiepi (heterodox)
ximie wangnian (extinguish thought of the unreal)
xin chang jijing (mind’s constant calmness)
xing (dharmatā/dharma nature) Xingfu Monastery
Xingfu tayuan
Xingjue of Guochang Monastery
xingmen (practice gate)
xingqi (nature origination)
xingru (entrance by practice)
Xingshan Monastery
Xingtao
xing xiang ji ziti (nature, characteristics, and self substance)
xingzong. See nature axiom
xinjing (mind calmness)
xinjing (mind mirror)
xin jing ju kong (mind and sense objects both void)
xin jing ju you (mind and sense objects both existent)
Xinjinglu
xinshu (mentals)
xinxing (mind nature)
xin xiongjin (confidence in one’s subjective feeling)
xishen yangdao (stop spirit and nourish the path)
xiu xin bu qi (have mind take a rest so that it does not arise)
xiuxing/xing/xiu (practice or cultivation)
xiuxi zhi men (gate of practice)
xiwang xiuxin (stopping thought of the unreal and cultivating mind only)
xiwang xiuxin zong (axiom of stopping thought of the unreal and cultivating mind only)
Xixia: fascinating orthography of; Khara-khoto stupa cache of Tangut books; Pei Xiu and; Perfect Awakening Sutra in; self-designation of Tanguts; Shenhui’s “Knowing” in; special relationship between Tangut Chan and Guifeng Chan; Tangut translations of Zongmi’s Chan works in; threefold division of Chan in the Tangut language Hongzhou Axiom; three teachings of Chan in the Tangut-language Mirror
xiye yangshen (stop karma and nourish the spirit)
Xuanshi
xuantong bi zai wangyan (dark understanding necessarily entails forgetting words)
Xuanya of Jianyuan
Xuefeng Yizun
Xuemailun
xu ju er yan (must possess two eyes)
xunxi (fumigating habit energy)
Xunzi
Yamamoto Genpō
yangshen (nourish spirit)
yanjiao (oral teachings)
Yan Kai
Yan Ming
Yan of Jingzhou
Yanshoun
Yanyi chao
Ya of Donglin Monastery
Yaśas
Yellow Court Classic
yi (idea)
yi chuanxiang wei zishi zhi xin (take transmission of the incense as faith between disciple and master)
yi dai shanqiao (one substitute skillful teaching device)
[Yi]fang of Yuezhou
yi fen (one part)
yi lingxin (one spiritual mind)
yinben jianzun (printed edition extant)
yingjing yuanming (perfect brightness of jade-like purity)
Yingluo
yinxin yu (sealed mind from)
yinzheng zhang (Quotations-to-Authenticate Section of Mind Mirror)
Yinzong Dharma Master
yin zong shengjiao (noble teachings that seal the Chan axioms)
yiping you ju (a standard to be relied upon)
yiqie faxiang pin (“Chapter on All Dharma Characteristics”)
yiqie jie zhen (everything is the real)
yiqie ren ta (in everything give free rein to other)
yiqie shi zhen (everything is the real)
Yisheng Nun of Xiangru county
yishuo (discussion of principles)
yiti qi xing xiu er wu xiu (a substance-based cultivation that is a non-cultivation)
yiwu jianxiu (gradual practice grounded in awakening)
yixiang mu (unidirectional eye)
yixin (one mind)
yi xin chuan xin bu li wenzi (mind-to-mind transmission with no involvement with the written word)
yi xin chuan xin li wenzi gu (mind-to-mind transmission separated from the written word)
yixing sanmei (one-practice samadhi)
yixing xiuchan (rely on the nature to practice dhyana)
Yixueyuan (Righteousness Learning Academy)
Yizhou Nanyin
Yizhou Shi
Yoga
Yogācāra
Yŏndam Yuil
yong (functioning)
yŏngji pulmae (spiritual Knowing that never darkens)
Yongming Yanshou
you suoping (something taken as a standard)
yuan (condition or objective support)
yuanjiao (perfect teaching)
Yuanjuejing. See Perfect Awakening Sutra
Yuanjuejing dashu
Yuanjuejing dashu chao. See Extracts from the Great Commentary on the Perfect Awakening Sutra
Yuanjuejing lueshu chao
Yuanjuejing zhijie
Yuanjue Zongyan
yuanlü (pondering of objective supports)
yuantong (perfect penetration)
yuanyi san dian (three small circles of the letter i)
Yummen guanglu. See Extensive Record of Yunmen
Yunyu of Langzhou
yuqi (fish key)
Yuquan Monasteryn
zangshi (ālaya-vijñāna/storehouse consciousness)
zangshi jianfen (storehouse consciousness’s seeing part)
Zeami Motokiyo
Zekkai Chūshin
zen furi kyō kyō furi zen (Zen not separate from the teachings; teachings not separate from Zen)
Zengaku daijiten. See Great Dictionary of Zen Studies
Zengen shosenshū tojo
Zenshū kōmoku
Zhangjing Huaihui
Zhangjing Monastery
Zhao Gong
Zhao of that Jingzhong Monastery
zhao wanfa ru jing (illuminate the ten thousand dharmas as if in a mirror)
zheng (central/orthodox line)
zhengwu (realization awakening)
zhengzong (correct axiom)
zhenru (tathata/thusness)
zhenxin (bhūta-citta/true mind)
zhenxing (tattva/true nature)
zhequan (negativistic explanation)
zhi (Knowing)
zhiduoye (citta/mind)
Zhi Gong
Zhiguang
zhi ju yi yan (possess just one eye)
Zhi lun. See Da zhidu lun
Zhiru of Cizhou
Zhishen
Zhiwei
zhixian xinxing zong (axiom of directly revealing the mind nature)
zhixin (straight mind)
Zhiyan, the second
Zhiyi
Zhizang
zhi zhi yi zi zhongmiao zhi men (one word “Knowing” is the gate of all excellence)
Zhonghua chuanxindi chanmen shizi chengxi tu. See Chart of the Master-Disciple Succession of the Chan Gate That Transmits the Mind Ground in China
Zhonghua xindichuan chanmen shizi chengxi tu yijuan (Tangut text)
Zhonglun
zhongyuan (causes and conditions)
Zhongzong (emperor)
Zhou Rites
Zhuangzi
zhuanji (Transmission Record or “transmission records”)
zhuhua (red script)
zhujia zashu (miscellaneous writings of the Chan houses)
zhuji dun (all-at-once of responding to beings of the highest disposition)
Zhushuo chanyuanji duxu (Tangut text)
Zhushuo chanyuanji duxu faju ji (Tangut text)
Zhushuo chanyuanji duxu gangwen (Tangut text)
Zhushuo chanyuanji duxu luewen (Tangut text)
Zhushuo chanyuanji duxu zeju ji (Tangut text)
Zhushuo chanyuanji duxu zhi jie (Tangut text)
zhuti (jewel substance)
Zhuxian Fanxian (Jikusen Bonsen)
zhuzhi (main purport)
zhuzong suoshuo (what the Chan lineages say)
zhuzuyu yibai ershi ben (one hundred twenty books of the sayings of the Chan patriarchs)
zicheng bifa (own unique style of calligraphy)
zi chunshu (spontaneously become more practiced)
ziran zhi (spontaneous Knowing)
ziti (self substance)
zixin (own mind)
zixing benyong (intrinsic, original functioning)
Zizai
zizhi (spontaneous Knowing)
zong (siddhānta/axiom realizations)
Zongjianlu
zong-jiao (Chan axiom realization and teachings
Zongjinglu. See Mind Mirror
zongren xinxing (indulge the mind nature)
zong-shuo (Chan axiom realization and theory/teachings)
zongtong ji shuotong (axiom penetration and theory penetration)
zongzhi (axiom purport)
zu nan dunchu (difficult to eliminate all-at-once)
Zutangji. See Patriarchal Hall Collection [zu]yi (intentions of the Chan patriarchs)
Zuzong zhuanji (Patriarch Lineage Transmission Record)