Buddhism

Words JMdict files under Buddhism.

1230 words.

うい perpetual change caused by karma
地獄 (じごく) hell realm
鎮 (ちん) a weight
住職 (じゅうしょく) chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)
僧侶 (そうりょ) priest
出家 (しゅっけ) entering the priesthood
法名 (ほうみょう) Buddhist name
真言宗 (しんごんしゅう) Shingon sect
阿弥陀如来 (あみだにょらい) Amitabha Tathagata
教化 (きょうけ) guidance
天王 (てんのう) heavenly king
懺悔 (さんげ) repentance
醍醐 (だいご) ghee (held to be the greatest of all flavours)
成仏 (じょうぶつ) attaining enlightenment
居士 (こじ) grhapati (layman; sometimes used as a posthumous suffix)
口 (く) mouth
法華経 (ほけきょう) Lotus Sutra
業 (ごう) karma
来世 (らいせ) afterlife
一切皆苦 (いっさいかいく) all things are causes of sufferings
果 (か) phala (attained state, result)
尼 (に) bhikkhuni (fully ordained nun)
密教 (みっきょう) esoteric Buddhism
大師 (だいし) great teacher (i.e. a buddha, bodhisattva or high monk, esp. Kobo Daishi)
山門 (さんもん) main temple gate
四天王 (してんのう) the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana)
伽藍 (がらん) temple (esp. large one)
現世 (げんせ) this world
上人 (しょうにん) high priest
十王 (じゅうおう) ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life)
神仏分離 (しんぶつぶんり) separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)
受 (じゅ) vedana (sensation)
禅 (ぜん) dhyana (profound meditation)
菩提 (ぼだい) bodhi
塔頭 (たっちゅう) small Zen temple built to commemorate the death of a high priest
三昧 (さんまい) samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)
修羅 (しゅら) Asura
衆生 (しゅじょう) all living things
有 (う) bhava (becoming, existence)
和尚 (おしょう) priestly teacher
戒 (かい) admonition
還俗 (げんぞく) return to secular life (of a monk)
不動明王 (ふどうみょうおう) Acala (Wisdom King)
大日如来 (だいにちにょらい) Vairocana
菩薩 (ぼさつ) bodhisattva
念仏 (ねんぶつ) nembutsu
得度 (とくど) becoming a monk
悲 (ひ) karuna (compassion)
如 (にょ) tathata (the ultimate nature of all things)
輪廻 (りんね) samsara (cycle of death and rebirth)

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