haiku
(Language: Japanese)
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a 17 syllable Japanese style of poetry
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Hakuin
(Language: Japanese)
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(1685 - 1768 C.E.), renowned Japanese master of Rinzai Zen
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Hanamatsuri
(Language: Japanese)
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The festival of flowers in Japan, commemorating the birth of the Buddha.
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hijiri
(Language: Japanese)
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In Buddhism, term for a wise and holy person, a wandering monk.
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Hinayana
(Language: Sanskrit)
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Sanskrit term used by the Mahayanists to criticize early Buddhists for their limited or narrow perspective on the meaning of Buddha’s teaching.
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hiso-hizoku
(Language: Japanese)
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Neither a monk nor a layperson, and that his [Shinran] faith transcended these institutional and social definitions.
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hoben
(Language: Japanese)
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Japanese for Upāya.
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Honen
(Language: Japanese)
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Honen (1133-1212) was the founder of the independent school of Pure Land (Jodo) Buddhism in Japan
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hongan
(Language: Japanese)
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Primal or Original Vow, particularly the Eighteenth Vow of Amida Buddha.
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honzon
(Language: Japanese)
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The object of worship in a Buddhist altar. Also gohonzon, with honorific prefix.
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Hozo
(Language: Japanese)
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Japanese reading for the name "Dharmakara."
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Hua-yen Sutra
(Language: Japanese)
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A major Mahayana Sutra which expresses the philosophy of “the one is all and the all is one.”
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©2003 Dictionary of Spiritual Terms
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