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禪子

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: Chan student

Senses:

  • Chan/Seon/Zen trainee; Chan practitioner. [Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD,Yokoi]
  • Female lay practitioner. In nineteenth-century Japan, Zenshi became a suffix for devoted female lay followers that practiced Zen under a Zen master with the purpose of attaining kenshō 見性. see: 女居士　(Sawada, Janine Anderson. Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2004. p. 153). [Erez Joskovich]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 648

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 692d

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 338a/375

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 846

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 856a

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    Entry created: 2007-07-29

    Updated: 2011-07-07