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普請

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Basic Meaning: communal

Senses:

  • Literally 'all invited.' Mandatory attendance for all monks in a community, regardless of monastic office. Examples include communal cleaning 普請掃除, communal labor 普請作務, and communal attendance at funerals 普請送亡. The Rules of Purity for Zen Monasteries 禪苑淸規, compiled in China in 1103, also prescribes mandatory attendance for the auctioning off of deceased monks' possessions, feasts sponsored by lay patrons, the appointment of new officers, and the greeting of important guests. 〔百丈淸規 T 2025.48.1112b9〕 [Griffith Foulk]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 915

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1076c

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 691

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 67

    Koga 405

    Zenrin shōkisen (Mujaku Dōchū) 370/350

    Record of Linji: Rinzairoku (Yanagida) 244-1

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 135

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 10-P201, 11-P26

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1180d →ふしん , 1180d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5000

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4413a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1523-3, 1525-3

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    Entry created: 2009-09-21