Buddhist Terminology
A – G
- Attaining Buddhahood in One’s Present Form (sokushin jobutsu)
- Attainment of Buddhahood of Insentient Beings (somoku jobutsu)
- Bodhisattva
- Bodhisattva Jogyo (jogyo boshatsu)
- Bodhisattvas of the Earth (jiyu no bosatsu)
- Buddha
- Buddha Nature
- Buddhism of the Harvest (datchaku buppo)
- Buddhism of the Sowing (geshu buppo)
- Changing Poison Into Medicine (hendoku iyaku)
- Dai-Gohonzon
- Daimoku
- Devil of the Sixth Heaven
- Eight Winds
- Esho Funi (Oneness of Life and it’s Environment)
- Essential Teaching
- Faith, Practice, and Study (shin gyo gaku)
- Five Components
- Five Five-Hundred-Year Periods
- Five Guides for Propagation
- Five Impurities (gojoku)
- Five Periods and Eight Teachings (goji hakkyo)
- Fivefold Comparison (goju sotai)
- Fourteen Slanders (jushi hibo)
- Fundamental Darkness
- Fusion of Objective Reality & Subjective Wisdom (kyochi myogo)
- Gohonzon
- Gohyaku Jintengo (Five Hundred Dust-particle Kalpas)
- Gojukai
- Gongyo
- Gokuyo (Making Offerings)
- Good Influences and Evil Influences (zenchishiki, akuchishiki)
- Gosho
- Guardian Deities (shoten zenjin)
H – O
- Hendoku Iyaku (Changing Poison Into Medicine)
- Heritage of the Law (kechimyaku)
- High Sanctuary of the Essential Teaching
- Hinayana Buddhism
- Ho
- Hoben Chapter
- Ichinen Sanzen (Three Thousand Realms in a Single Life Moment)
- Immutable Karma & Mutable Karma (jogo, fujogo)
- Inconspicuous Benefit
- Itai Doshin (Many in Body, One in Mind)
- Jigyo Keta (Practice for Oneself and Others)
- Juryo Chapter
- Kaimoku-sho (Opening of the Eyes)
- Karma (go)
- Kosen-rufu
- Kuon Ganjo (Origin of the True Buddha’s Enlightenment in the Infinite Past)
- Kyochi Myogo (Fusion of Objective Reality and Subjective Wisdom)
- Latter Day of the Law (mappo)
- Lessening One’s Karmic Retribution (tenju kyoju)
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Making Offerings (gokuyo)
- Mappo (Latter Day of the Law)
- Master and Disciple Relationships (shitei sotai)
- Mutual Possession of the Ten Worlds (jikai gogu)
- Myo
- Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
- Nichiren Shoshu
- Nine Consciousnesses
- Oneness of Life and it’s Environment (esho funi)
- Oneness of the Person and the Law (ninho ikka)
- Opening of the Eyes (kaimoku-sho)
P – Z
- Parable of the Gem in the Robe
- Parable of the Three Carts and the Burning House
- Parable of the Prodigal Son (YES, the story originally appeared in the Lotus Sutra)
- Passing Down the Faith to One’s Progeny (Hotto Sozoku)
- Poison Drum Relationship (dokku no en)
- Practice for Oneself and Others (jigyo keta)
- Provisional Teachings
- Purification of the Six Sense Organs (rokkon shojo)
- Renge
- Repaying Debts of Gratitude (Ho’on-sho)
- Rissho Ankoku-ron
- Sansho Shima (Three Obstacles and Four Devils)
- Seed of Buddhahood
- Sessen Doji
- Shoju and Shakubuku
- Six Stages of Practice (roku soku)
- Substituting Faith for Wisdom (ishin daie)
- Teaching, Practice, and Proof (kyo gyo sho)
- Ten Factors (jyu nyoze)
- Ten Worlds
- Three Categories of Illusion
- Three Great Secret Laws (sandai hiho)
- Three Obstacles and Four Devils (sansho shima)
- Three Periods of Propagation (saji no gukyo)
- Three Proofs (sansho)
- Three Realms of Existence (san seken)
- Three Thousand Realms in a Single Life Moment (ichinen sanzen)
- Votary of the Lotus Sutra (hokekyo no gyoja)