Glossary 3 用語集三 M～R

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M

magpie　鳥鵲　かささぎ

major earthquake　大地震

mandarin orange　橘　

Man of integrity　烈士

many in body, one in mind　異体同心

Matter of causes and conditions　事の因縁

Meaning Hidden in the Depth　文底秘沈抄

Meaning hidden in the depth of the Life Span chapter　寿量品の文底

"The meaning of the perfect teaching lies solely in the fact that those who oppose can be saved as well as those who follow." 　「唯円教の心は逆即是順なり」

"In the other three teachings, the fate of these two types of people is fixed." (Myouraku)　　自余の三教は逆順定まるが故に」（妙楽）

meat and wine　酒肉

menstruation　月水

The merits gained by arousing even a single moment of faith in and understanding of the Lotus Sutra surpass those of practicing the five paramitas.　一念信解(しんげ)の功徳は五波羅蜜(はらみつ)の行に超へ

And the merit enjoyed by the fiftieth person who rejoices on rearing the Lotus Sutra is greater than that acquired by giving alms for eighty years.　五十展転(てんでん)の随喜は八十年の布施に勝れたり

Method of repentance through the Lotus Sutra　法華懺法　ほっけせんぽう

Miao-lo, or Myoraku　妙楽

Mind Aspiring for Enlightenment　菩提心論

minor omens　小瑞

missive　御状

mutual possession of the ten World　十界互具

The more one praises the merits of the Lotus Sutra, the more one's own merits will increase.　法華経の功徳はほむれば弥(いよいよ)功徳まさる。

morning star　明星

most difficult to believe and the most difficult to understand　難信難解

Mount Hua　華山

Mount Sumeru　須弥山

moxibustion treatment　灸治

mugwort growing in a hemp field　麻の中の蓬　

My unremitting efforts never slacken, even here on this mountain.　此の山にしても・をこた(怠)らず候なり。

Myo in India is rendered as sa, and in China, as miao.　妙とは天竺には薩(さ)と云ひ、漢土には妙と云ふ。

Myo means to be fully endowed, which in turn has the meaning of "perfect and full."　妙とは具(ぐ)の義なり。具とは円満の義なり。

Myo means to revive, that is, to return to life.　妙とは蘇生の義なり。蘇生と申すはよみがえる義なり。　

Myo represents death [potentiality], and Ho, life [manifestation].　妙は死、法は生なり。

There two laws of life and death are the entities of the Ten Worlds, it is called the entities of Myoho-renge-kyo.　此の生死の二法が十界の当体なり、又此を当体蓮華とも云ふなり。

N

Name, entity, quality, function, and teaching　名体宗用教

Nagarjuna, or Ryuju　竜樹

Names have the value of being able to summon the things to which they refer, and things as a matter of function respond to the name that refers to them.　名は物をめ(召)す徳あり。物は名に応ずる用(ゆう)あり。

In similar fashion, the name, or daimoku, of the Lotus Sutra has the power to summon the Buddha nature to which it refers. 　法華題名の功徳も亦以て此くの如し。

Neither non-Buddhists nor the enemies of Buddhism can destroy the correct teaching of the Tathagata,　外道悪人は如来の正法を破りがたし。

but the Buddha's disciples definitely do.　仏弟子等必ず仏法を破るべし。

Nembutsu Chosen above All　撰択集

Nembutsu leads to the hell of incessant suffering　念仏無間

Nine thoughts to one word　九思一言

"The nine worlds represent the provisional, the world of Buddhahood represents the true"　「九界を権と為し仏界を実と為す」

Ninth is the world of bodhisattvas, those who remain among the ordinary mortals of the six paths of existence, thinking little of their own lives but much of the lives of others, aiming always to take evil upon themselves and to to dole out good to other beings.　第九に菩薩界とは、六道の凡夫の中に於て、自身を軽んじ他人を重んじ、悪を以て己に向け善を以て他に与へんと念(おも)ふ者あり。

Nirvana Sutra says, "Must be the master of mind and not let mind become master."　涅槃経に云はく「願ひて心の師とは成るとも、心を師とせざれ」云云。

The Nirvana Sutra says, "The varied sufferings that all living beings undergo - all these are Tathagata's sufferings."　涅槃経に云はく「一切衆生の異の苦を受くるは悉く是如来一人の苦なり」

And Nichiren declares that the common sufferings that all living beings undergo, all these are Nichiren's own sufferings!　日蓮が云はく、一切衆生の同一の苦は悉く是日蓮一人の苦なり。

No one can escape death once born as a human being, so why do you not practice in preparation for the next life?　抑(そもそも)人界に生をうくるもの誰か無常を免(まぬか)れん。さあらんに取っては何ぞ後世のつとめ(勤)をいたさゞらんや。

No one parent has ever suggested to his child that a child should throw away this world to become Buddha.　をや(親)とういうをやの世をすてゝ仏になれと申すをやは一人もなきなり。

no poverty　無貧

None of you should lament for me. 　各各なげかせ給うべからず

"Not accepting a single verse of the other sutras."　「余経の一偈をも受けざれ 」

Now, however, we have entered the Latter Day of the Law, and the daimoku that I, Nichiren, chant is different from the earlier ages and this Nam-myoho-renge-kyo encompasses both practices for oneself and the saving of others.　末法に入って今日蓮が唱ふる所の題目は前代に異なり、自行化他に亘りて南無妙法蓮華経なり。

Its five characters are the five major principles of name, body, source, function, and teaching.　名体宗用教の五重玄の五字なり。

Now, in this age of the Latter Day of the Law, neither the Lotus Sutra nor the other sutras have the power to save the people.　今、末法に入りぬれば余経も法華経もせん(詮)なし。

Only Nam-myoho-renge-kyo can lead all people to Buddhahood.　但南無妙法蓮華経なるべし。

"Now this threefold world is all my possession."　「今此の三界は皆(これ)是我が有(う)なり」

"And the living beings in it are all my children."　「其の中の衆生は悉(ことごと)く是我が子なり」

"Now this place is beset by many pains and trials. I am the only person who can rescue and protect others."　「而も今此の処は諸の患難(げんなん)多し。唯我一人のみ能く救護(くご)を為す」

O

Observation of Shingon　真言見聞

Observation of the mind　観心

Objective reality that is inscrutable　不可思議境

occasional practice　時々（よりより）の行

offerings for deceased ancestors　盂蘭盆

official letter　牒状

On a Disciples Attitude in Court　問注得意抄

On Discerning Causes and Effect in the Ten World　十法界明因果抄

On First Hearing the One Vehicle of the Buddha　始聞仏乗義

On Great Evil and Great Good　大悪大善御書

On Immutable and Mutable Karma　可延定業書

On Persecution Befalling the Sage　聖人御難事

On Practicing according to the Buddha’s Teachings　如説修行抄

On Practicing the Buddha’s Teachings　　同

On Prolong One’s Life Span　可延定業書

On Properties of Rice　米穀御書

On Rajagrha　王舎城事

On Refuting Ryoukan and Others　破良観等御書

On Revealing the Slander　顕謗法抄

On the Buddha’s Behavior　種々御振舞御書

On the Buddha’s Prophecy　顕仏未来記

On the Four Stages of Faith and Five Stages of Practice　四信五品抄

On the Meaning of the True Entity of Myoho-Renge-Kyo　当体義抄

On the Proper Way to Preach the Doctrine　法門申さるべき様の事

On the Ten Chapters of Great Concentration and Insight　十章抄

one example represents all others　挙一例諸　こいちれしょ

one example that stands for all the rest　挙一例諸

One Hundred and Six Articles　百六箇抄

one horse-load of supplies including salt　塩一駄

"One" is the mother of an asamkhya.　阿僧祇の母は唯一なるべし。

one particle of dust　一微塵

one sack of rice　八木（米）一俵

One should not be intimidated by the fact that so many hold such beliefs.　人の多くおもふにはおそるべからず、

Nor does the truth of a belief depend on whether it has been held for a long or short time.　亦時節の久近にも依るべからず。

The point is simply whether or not it conforms with the text of the scriptures and with reason.　専ら経文と道理とに依るべし。

One should ponder it deeply　深く之を案ずべし

"One who destroys or brings confusion to the Buddha's teachings is betraying them." 　「仏法を壊乱(えらん)するは仏法の中の怨なり」

"If one pretends to be something he is not and is intimate with another person, but lacks the mercy to correct him, one is in fact his enemy."　「慈無くして詐(いつわ)り親しむは即ち是彼が怨なり」

"One who rids the offender of evil is actually his parent."　(Shoan)「彼が為に悪を除くは即ち是彼が親なり」(章安)

"One who excludes his evil for the sake him is in fact his parent." (Shoan)　「彼が為に悪を除くは即ち是彼が親なり」(章安)

Oneness of the four kinds of lands　四土不二

Only chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the meaning of polishing.　只南無妙法蓮華経と唱へたてまつるを是をみがくとは云うなり

Only my disciples are now the ones who openly accept the Lotus Sutra, and the people of Japan are the ones who oppose it and thereby form a reverse relationship with it.　日蓮が門弟は順縁、日本国は逆縁なり。

Open the near and revealing the distant　開近顕遠

Open the near and revealing the distant in concise form　略開近顕遠

opening, showing, awakening, and causing to enter　開示悟入

Opening the Eyes of Wooden and Painted Images　木絵二像開眼の事

Operating freely and without obstruction　自在無碍　じざいむげ

Oral Tradition regarding the Enlightenment of Plants　草木成仏口決

orchid　蘭

Order of heritage of the Law from Nichiren to Nikko　血脈の次第　日蓮日興

ordinary people　凡夫

ordination platform　戒壇

Ordination platform of the fundamental teaching　本門の戒壇

Original Buddha whose true identity is an uncreated and unadorned being endowed with the true enlightened properties　本地無作の三身

original inherent Myoho-renge-kyo　本有の妙法蓮華経

Original state endowed with the Ten Worlds　十界本有　じゅっかいほんぬ

originally not being yet of virtue　本未有善

The outer scripture says,'A saint is one who knows the omen.'　外典に云はく、未萠をしるを聖人という

The inner scripture says, 'A sage is one who knows the three existences of life - past, present, and future.'　内典に云はく、三世を知るを聖人という

P　

pail of miso　味噌桶

parched ground　乾ける土

The passage of the Six Paramitas Sutra says to become the teacher of your mind rather than let your mind master you.　心の師とはなるとも心を師とせざれとは六波羅蜜経の文ぞかし。

patience　忍辱　にんにく

Patience is the Land of Eternally Tranquil Light.　忍辱は寂光土なり　

Peace and security in one's present existence　現世安穏

"The people who lived when the Buddha was in the world had the innate capacity to gain enlightenment, and therefore the Buddha took their capacities carefully into account when he preached to them."　「仏世は当機の故に簡(えら)ぶ」　

"But in the case of persons of the latter age, one preaches the truth to them directly so that they can form a relationship with it."　「末代は結縁(けちえん)の故に聞かしむ」

Perfect and quick enlightenment　円頓

Perfect and wonderful enlightenment　等妙

perfect endowment　具足

Permanent, joyful, endowed with self, and pure　常楽我浄

persistently　退転なく

A person at the stage of being a beginner in theory is actually a Buddha of original enlightenment instantly.　理即本覚

person of overbearing arrogance　僭聖増上慢

Persons living the household life, though they may have no particular wisdom or carry out any particular religious practices, can, though the merits gained by combating and suppressing those who slander the Law, remove themselves from the sufferings of birth and death.　在家の諸人別の智行無しと雖も、謗法の者を退治する功徳に依って生死を離るべきなり

"Persons of the two vehicles have annihilated consciousness, and therefore cannot arouse the mind that aspires to enlightenment."　「二乗は智を滅す、心生ずべからず」

"And yet the Lotus Sutra can cure them, which is why it is called myo, or wonderful" (Myoraku) 　「法華能く治す、復(また)称して妙と為す」(妙楽)

A person who presumes to expound even one word or phrase of the Lotus Sutra must have a very clear understanding of the relative profundity of the various sacred teachings of the Buddha's lifetime and of their proper sequence.　此の法華経を一字も一句も説く人は、必ず一代聖教の浅深と次第とを能く能く弁(わきま)へたらむ人の説くべき事に候。

petitioner　願主

pheasant　きじ　雉

phoenix　鸞鳳　らんほう

pine tree　松

Points to be Careful of in the Court　問注得意抄

poison drum relationship　毒鼓の縁

Politic Practices in the Latter Days of the Law　末法相応抄

postscript　奥書

practical　事

Practicing for one’s own sake and converting others　自行化他

practitioner of the Lotus Sutra　法華経の行者

Practitioners of the Lotus Sutra should keep in mind such passages as: "But in these more than forty years, I have not yet revealed the truth,""Among the sutras I have preached, now preach, and will preach, this Lotus Sutra is the most difficult to believe," "All that you have expounded is the truth!" and "Rely on the Law and not upon persons," but must not speak of them at the outset.　法華経の行者は心中に、四十余年・已今当・皆是真実・依法不依人等の文を存して而も外に語に之を出ださず

pratyekabuddha　辟支仏　縁覚

Prayers for transference of merit for the deceased　廻向　えこう

preaching to them forcefully, though it angered them　而強毒之　にごうどくし

preaching without being asked　無問自説　

Precepts　戒律宗

"The precepts may be likened to the great earth, meditation to a dwelling, and wisdom to a torch."　「戒をば謂ひて平地と為し、定をば謂ひて室宅と為す、智慧は為(こ)れ燈明なり」

precepts, meditation, wisdom　戒定慧

Precepts School is a false creed that is traitorous to the nation　律宗は国賊の妄説

Precepts school is traitorous of the nation　律国賊

the precious jewels that redeem life　贖命重宝　ぞくみょうじゅうほう

Preparation, revelation, and transmission　序・正・流通

Principle in which good and bad are not two different thing, in which correct and incorrect are one and the same　善悪不二 邪正一如

Principle of eternal and unchanging truth 不変真如の理

Principle of eternal and unchanging truth as embodied in the theoretical teaching　迹門不変真如の理

Principle of the hundred factors concerns only sentient beings, but the principle of three thousand realms in a single moment of mind applies to both sentient and insentient beings. 　百界千如は友情界に限り、一念三千は情非情に亘る

prior the Lotus Sutra　爾前

priesthood and laity　在家　出家

Priestly Robes　法衣書

Profound meaning of substance　体玄義

The profound principle of the true aspect　実相の深理

The original inherent Myoho-renge-kyo　本有の妙法蓮華経

propagation efforts　化儀

proper　ちゃんとした　正しい　妥当　正当　本来

pure land　浄土

Pure Land of Spirit Eagle Mountain　霊山浄土

Purification of the six organs　六根清浄

purpose of one’s advents　出世の本懐

Q

quarters　持仏堂　宿舎　居

Questions and Answers on Embracing the Lotus Sutra　持妙法華問答抄

quilted robe　小袖

R

Rajagrha　王舎城

rare ground　稀有 (けう) の地

Rather than be the administrator of the Tendai school, it is better to be a leper who chants Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.　彼の天台の座主よりも南無妙法蓮華経唱ふる癩人(らいにん)とはなるべし

rational 　由来

Reality of three thousand realms in a single moment of mind　事の一念三千

realm of hell, hungry spirits, and animals　地獄 餓鬼 畜生

reason　道理

Recommending This Teachings to Lord and Avoiding the Offence of Complicity of Slandering the Law　主君耳入此門免与同罪事

Recorded Lectures　御講聞書

Refutation of the provisional doctrines　破権門理

regardless of whether wise or ignorant　有智無智をきらはず

region of the unfathomable　不可思議境

reincarnation　再誕の人

rejecting evil and upholding good　捨悪持善

relationship of poison drum　毒鼓 (どっく) の縁

relics of Buddha　舎利

"Rely on the Law and not upon persons"　「法に依って人に依らざれ」

"Rely on the meaning of the teaching and not on the words"　「義に依って語に依らざれ」

"Rely on wisdom and not on discriminative thinking"　「知に依って識に依らざれ」

"Rely on the sutras that are complete and final and not on those that are not complete and final"　「了義経によって不了義経に依らざれ」

Replacement of the three vehicles with the one vehicle　開三顕一

Reply to a Communication from Gonin　強仁状御返事

Respectfully yours　恐恐謹言

Retired Emperor Oki　隠岐法皇

Revealing the original enlightenment of the Buddha and the extremely great length of his life span　顕本遠寿

revive　蘇生する

rooster　鶏　にわとり

roots and leaves　根と葉

The ruler who occupies the position of king and the ministers who implement his government are first of all charged with the task of using the Buddhist Law to bring order to the country.　王位に居る君、国を治むる臣は仏法を以て先と為して国を治むべきなり

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