In Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha's precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o'clock in the morning....
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K kalpa -
an aeon, world cycle.
kamma -
A volitional action.
kammatthana -
the act of meditation or contemplation, subjects of meditation exercises.
kandha -
aggregate, category
Pancakkhandha, The five Aggregates, The five causally conditioned elements of existence forming a being or entity, corporeality, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness
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kappa -
refer to: kalpa.
karma -
universal law of cause and effect..
karuna -
compassion.
khanti -
patience, forebearance, tolerance, endurance.
kilesa -
defilement, impurities.
Koan -
"Public case", a pure presentation of the nature of ultimate reality..
Kshitigarbha Bodhisattva -
savoir from the torments of hell..
kusala -
wholesome, meritorious, good action, virtue.
kuti -
an abode of a Buddhist monk or novice.
The glossary of zen and buddhism terms are gathered from the following authorized sources:
1. The Venerable Ajahn Sanong Katapunyo of Wat Sanghathan and the translation/editing of the Thai by Fuengsin Trafford and Simon Romer.
2. Steven Newton - Portland Zen Community (source "Glossary of Japanese Zen Terms" - Stan Rosenthal)
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