Glossary 4 用語集 四 S～Z

S

San-wu-wei, or Zenmui　善無畏

A school may be defined as something that encompasses all of the three types of learning, namely, precepts, meditation and wisdom.　宗と申すは戒定慧の三学を備へたる物なり。

soybeans　大豆

a single moment of mind　一念

"A single moment of mind comprising the three thousand realms is itself the completely free Buddha and this completely free Buddha has got out of its noble form."　「一念三千即自受用身(じじゅゆうしん)、自受用身とは出尊形の仏なり」

a single particle of dust　一塵　いちじん

The safety and and danger to the nation depend upon the honesty and dishonesty of politics,　国土の安危は政道の直否に在り、

and the correct and wicked of Buddha's Law is decided by reflecting the bright mirror of the texts of the sutra.　仏法の邪正は経文の明鏡に依る

Sage Knows the Three Existences of Life　聖人知三世事

Same bodies and different minds　体同異心

Same mind, even if bodies are different　異体同心

Sanctuary of the essential teaching　本門の戒壇

sandalwood tree　栴檀

sash　帯

"Secret inner storehouse is opened. This is may be termed myo, or wonderful."　「秘密の奥蔵を発 (ひら) く、之を称して妙と為す」

Secret and veiled sentence to the fundamental doctrine　本門の密序

secular law　王法　世俗法

Seeds of their opposites　相対種

Seeds of similar species　種類種

sense of sham　有羞　うしゅう

sentient beings　友情　うじょう

Separate transmission outside the sutras　教外別伝

Seven disasters will instantly vanish and the seven blessings will instantly appear　七難即滅　七福即生

Seven disasters will disappear while seven blessings will appear　七難即滅　七福即生　

Seven kinds of treasure　七宝

1) hearing, or listening　聞

2) believing　信

3) keeping the precepts, or observing the precepts　戒

4) engaging meditation, or concentration　定

5) practicing assiduously　信

6) renouncing one’s attachments, or self devotion　捨

7) reflecting on oneself, or self-reflection　慚

severe persecution　大難

sexual acts　淫事

"Shakyamuni, addressing persons of his time who in previous existences cultivated good roots, preached the doctrines of the lesser vehicle and assisted and protected them."　「本(もと)已に善有り、釈迦は小を以て之を将護し」

But Bodhisattva Fukyo, addressing persons who in past existences did not cultivate good roots, expounded the doctrines of the great vehicle, forcing them to hear it, though it angered them."　「本未だ善有らず、不軽は大を以て之を強毒す」

Shakyamuni Buddha’s original enlightenment in the distant past　久遠実成　くおんじつじょう

Shakyamuni's, however, is the Buddhism of the harvest, and this is the sowing seeds.　但し彼は脱、此は種なり

The core of his teaching is one chapter and two halves, and the core of mine is the five characters of the title [Myoho--renge-kyo] alone.　　

彼は一品二半、此は但題目の五字なり

Shakyamuni's practices and the virtues he consequently attained are all contained within the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo.

釈尊の因行果徳の二法は妙法蓮華経の五字に具足す

If we believe in these five characters, we will naturally be granted the same merits as he was.

我等此の五字を受持すれば自然に彼の因果の功徳を譲り与へたまふ

"Shakyamuni taught the shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult."　「浅きは易く深きは難しとは釈迦の所判なり」

"To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage."　「浅きを去って深きに就くは丈夫の心なり」

Significance of Attaining Enlightenment one’s Present Form through Receiving the True Entity of the Precept　戒体即身成仏義

simultaneity of cause and effect　因果倶時　いんがぐじ

"Since hatred and jealousy toward this sutra around even when the Tathagata is in the world."　「而も此の経は如来の現在すら猶怨嫉(なお・おんしつ)多し」

"How much more will this be so after his passing?"　「況(いわん)や滅度の後をや」

Six kinds of flavors　七味

1) subtle　淡(あわき)

2) salty　鹹(しおからき)

3) pungent　辛(からき)

4) sour　酸(すき)

5) sweet　甘(あまき)

6) bitter　苦(にがき)

Since that time, the springs and autumns have succeeded each other, and the year have piled upon years　爾しより来 (このか) た春秋相移り星霜相積れり

Six difficult and nine easy acts　六難九易

Six heavens of the world of desire　六欲

Six path or lower realms of unenlightened beings　六凡

Six stages of practice　六即

1) the Buddha in theory　理即

2) the first time heard the title　名字即

3) the stage of perception and action 　観行即

4) the stage of resemblance to enlightenment　相似即

5) the stage of progressive awakening　分真即

6) the stage of ultimate enlightenment　究境即

small boat　小船

"Some are out of their minds, while others are not"　「或失本心 或不失者」

southwest　ひつじさる（未申）

Sovereign, teacher, and parent　主師親

Sowing, maturing, and harvesting　種熟脱

spells　陀羅尼　呪縛　おまじない　呪い

Statement from Yorimoto　頼基陳状

Straight path to Buddhahood　成仏の直道　じきどう

Strategy of the Lotus Sutra　法華経兵法事

strong arguments and meaningful pronouncements of Shakyamuni　強文有疑

strong language　strong words　強言　ごうげん

strengthen　つより給へ

Strengthen your faith day by day, month after month.　月々日々につよ(強)り給へ。

If your mind slackens even a bit, the devil gets closer!　すこしもたゆ(弛)む心あらば魔たよりをうべし。

strong winds that blow out of season　非時の台風

Sudatta　須達長者

Sun Goddess　天照大神

The sun rises in the east. This is an auspicious sign of how the Buddhism of Japan is destined to return to the Land of the Moon.　日は東より出づ、日本の仏法の月氏へかへるべき瑞相(ずいそう)なり。

Supplement to the Words and Phrases　輔正記　ふしょうき

supplementary practice　助行

Suffering, emptiness, impermanence, and and non-self　苦 空 無常 無我

Sufferings of birth, aging, sickness, and death　生老病死

Sufferings of birth and death are nirvana just as they are　生死即涅槃

Sutra of Infinite Meanings　無量義経

Sutra of the Benevolent King　仁王経

"The sutras I have preached number immeasurable thousands, ten thousands, millions. Among the sutras I have preached, now preach, and will preach..."「我が所説の経典、無量千万憶にして、已説き今説き当に説かん」

"This Lotus Sutra is the most difficult to believe and the most difficult to understand."　「而も其の中に於いて此の法華経は最も為(こ)れ難信難解なり」

The sutras preached in the forty and more years before the Lotus Sutra contain no mention of the mutual possession of the Ten Worlds.　法華経より外の四十余年の諸経には十界互具なし

And if the principle of the mutual possession of the Ten World is not enunciated, then we have no way of understanding the Buddhahood that is within our mind.　十界互具を説かざれば内心の仏界を知らず

And if we do not understand the Buddhahood within our own minds, then the other Buddhas who are outside ourselves will not manifest themselves.　内心の仏界を知らざれば外の諸仏も顕はれず

Superior Doctrines Described in the Outstanding Principles of the Lotus Sutra　秀句十勝抄

swords and sticks　刀杖　とうじょう

T

Tathagata　如来

teacher to the entire nation　国師

teaching that pertains to the Buddha’s enlightenment　自行の法

teachings that pertain to extinction of transmission　還滅門 げんめつもん

teachings that pertain to transmigration　流転門

teaching, practice, and proof　教行証

Tell them to be prepared for the worst, and not to expect good matters, but take the worse matters for granted.　よからんは不思議、わるからんは一定(いちじょう)とをも(思)へ。

Ten demon daughters　十羅刹女

Ten factors　十如是

1) appearance　相

2) nature　性

3) body　体

4) power　力

5) influence　作

6) internal cause　因

7) relation　縁

8) latent effect　果

9) manifest effect　報

10) their consistency from beginning to end　本末究竟等

Ten Worlds　十界

1) rage is the world of hell　瞋(いか)るは地獄

2) greed is that of hungry spirit　貪(むさぼ)るは餓鬼

3) foolishness is that of animals　癡(おろ)かは畜生

4) arrogance is that asura　諂曲(てんごく)なるは修羅

5) joy is that of heaven　喜ぶは天

6)calmness is that human beings　平らかなるは人

7) voice-hearer　声聞

8) pratyekabuddha　縁覚

9) Bodhisattva　菩薩

10) Buddha　仏

Volume six of the Lotus Sutra says;　法華経第六に云はく

1) voices of hell dwellers　地獄声

2) voices of beasts　餓鬼声

3) voices of hungry spirits　畜生声

4) asura voices　阿修羅声

5) monks' voices, nuns' voices world of human beings　比丘比丘尼声　人道

6) voices of heavenly beings world of heavenly beings　天声　天道

7) voices of voice-hearers　声聞声

8)voices of pratyekabuddhas　辟支仏声

9) voices of bodhisattvas　菩薩声

10) voices of Buddhas　仏声

Above are the name of the Ten Worlds　以上十法界の名目なり

Tenth is the world of Buddha. Those who are in the stage of bodhisattva and who undertake to carry out the four universal vows as their precepts.　第十に仏界とは、菩薩の位に於て四弘誓願(しぐせいがん)を発すを以て戒と為す

That ordinary people born in the latter age can believe in the Lotus Sutra is due to the fact that the world of Buddhahood is present in the human world.　末代の凡夫出生して法華経を信ずるは人界に仏界を具足する故なり

That the Nembutsu leads to the hell of incessant suffering is a fact that has been established by the Buddhas of the three existences of past, present and future.　念仏無間は三世諸仏の配立(はいりゅう)なり。

"That which accords with the sutras is to be written down and use it. But put no faith in anything that in word or meaning fails to do so."　「修多羅と合ふ者は録して之を用ひ、文無く義無きは信受すべからず」

theoretical　理　理論上の　机上の　理論的な

theoretical proof　道理

theory and fact　義と事

"There are not two Buddhas in the world, there are not two rulers in the nation."　「世に二仏無く、国に二主無し」

"In the realm of one Buddha, there are not two Venerable Ones."　「一仏の境界に二の尊号無し」

There is no treasure that surpass a child　子にすぎたる宝なし

Therefore, I expect a confrontation head to head with you in a debate! 　併(しかしなが)ら対決の時を期(ご)す。

Writings do not fully express a word, and a word does not fully stand for the mind.　書は言(ことば)を尽くさず。言は心を尽くさず。

Therefore, rather than offering a myriad of prayers and rituals, first and foremost it is vital to eliminate the single evil cause of all adversities　如かず、彼の万祈を修せんよりは此の一凶を禁ぜんには

There is the beautiful pine tree in the depth of the valley, but if the skilled gardener is unaware of this existence, the error is in his.　澗底(かんてい)の長松(ちょうしょう)を未だ知らざるは良匠(りょうしょう)の誤り、

Dressing in beautiful clothes in the dark, but if people fail to recognize him, this is due to their stupidity.

暗中の錦衣(きんい)を見ざるは愚人の失(とが)なり

They bowed in obeisance and departed　作礼而去　さらいにこ

"They may be subjected to various other sufferings and retributions. However it is due to the merits obtained by protecting the Law that they can diminish in this lifetime their suffering and retribution."　「及び余の種々の人間の苦報現世に軽く受くるは、斯(これ)護法の功徳力に由る故なり」

this appearance is this　是相如

thus appearance 如是相

appearance is thus　　 相如是

"This cluster of unsurpassed jewels has come to us unsought and automatically."　「無上宝珠 不求自得」

This is most vexing　悩ましい　じれったい　もどかしい　悔しい

This Gohonzon is the robe to protect you in the world after death.　此の御本尊こそ冥途のいしゃう(衣装)なれ。

This is nothing other than what is taught in the Lotus Sutra.　法華経とは別の事無し

The cause and effect of the ten Worlds were clarified in the sutras preached prior to the Lotus.　十界の因果は爾前の経に明かす

But now with the Lotus Sutra the fact that the cause and effect of the Ten Worlds are mutually possessed is set forth.　今は十界の因果互具をおきたてたる計りなり

This is the law of birth and death　是生滅法

This is what I heard　如是我聞

This must be kept secret!　秘す可し

"This, my land, remains safe and tranquil."　「我此土安穏」　

"This person, as he passes through the world, can wipe out the darkness of living beings."　「斯人行世間 能滅衆生闇 」

"This [Lotus] sutra has the constantly abiding Buddha nature as its throat,"　「然も此の経は常住仏性を以て咽喉(のんど)と為し」

"the wonderful practice of the single vehicle as its eyes,"　「一乗の妙行を以て眼目と為し」

"the renewal of life in the decayed seeds as its heart,"　「再生敗種(さいせいはいしゅ)を以て心腑(しんぷ)と為し」

"and the revelation of the Buddha's original enlightenment and his immeasurable life span as its life."　「顕本遠寿(けんぽんおんじゅ)を以て其の命と為す」

"This sutra provides good medicine for the ills of the people of the whole world."　「此の経は則ち為(こ)れ閻浮提の人の病の良薬なり」

thirty slabs of steamed rice cake　十字（むしもち）三十枚

thirty steamed rice cakes　　同

Think all this over very carefully　能く能く之を思うべし

thoughts, words, and actions　身口意

"Those person dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers."　「在在諸仏土 常与師倶生」

"Those with impure hearts" means those who refuse to embrace the Lotus Sutra, as is stated in the fifth volume of the sutra.　心けがれたると申すは法華経を持たざる人の事なり。此の経の五の巻に見えたり。

"Those who hear the Law, speak slanderously of it, and fall into hell as a result, are still superior to those who offer alms to Buddhas as numerous as the sands of the Ganges."　「法を聞きて謗を生じ、地獄に堕するは恒沙(ごうしゃ)の仏を供養する者に勝る」

"Those who praise him will receive blessings that will pile up as high as Mount Sumeru, while those who slander him will open a gate that will condemn them to the hell of incessant suffering." 　「讚むる者は福を安明に積み、謗る者は罪を無間に開く」

Though the trees may desire to still, the wind will not cease to blow,　木はしづかならんと思へえども風やまず、

though we may wish for spring to linger, it must give way to summer. 　春を留(とど)めんと思へども夏となる。

Three bodies in a single body　三身即一身

Three bodies of the Buddha　三身

1) the Dharma body　法身

2) the reward body　報身

3) the manifested body　応身

　

Three Buddha natures of the living beings　衆生の三仏性

1) innate Buddha nature　正因仏性

2) the wisdom to perceive it　了因仏性

3) good deeds to develop this wisdom　縁因仏性

Three calamities　三災

1) the first high grain prices　穀貴

2) the second is warfare　兵革

3) the third is epidemics　疫病

Three categories of action　三業

1) actions of body　身 　

2) actions of mouth　口

3) actions of mind　意

Three existences of of Confucianism　 儒教の三玄

1) dimly lit state of being　有の玄

2) dimly lit sate of nought　無の玄

3) dimly state of both being nought　亦有亦無の玄

three fold　三重の　三倍の　三つ折りの

three fold contemplation　三観

Threefold contemplation and observation of the three truths unified in a single mind　三観

threefold truth　三諦即是

Three Great Secret Law of the Fundamental Teachings　三大秘法

1) Gohonzon of the Fundamental Teachings　本門の本尊

2) Ordination Platform of the Fundamental Teachings　本門の戒壇

3) Daimoku of the Fundamental Teachings　本門の題目

Three inherent potentials of the Buddha nature　三因仏性

Three kinds of predestined enemy　三類の強敵

three obstacles and four devils　三障四魔

Three poisons of greed, anger, and foolishness　貪瞋痴の三毒

Three realms of existence　三世間

1) realm of the five recognition　五陰世間

2) realm of living beings　衆生世間

3) realm of the environment　国土世間

Three rules of preaching, robe, seat, and room. 　衣座室の三軌

Three standards of comparison　三種の教相

Three tentative teachings almost opened　略開三

Three things are required - a good teacher, a good believer, and a good teaching - before prayers can be effective and disasters banished from the land.　よき師とよき檀那とよき法と、此の三つ寄り合ひて祈りを成就し、国土の大難をも払ふべき者なり。

Three thousand realms in a single moment of mind　一念三千

Three truths　三諦

1) the truth of non-substantiality　 空

2) the truth of temporary existence　仮

3) the Middle Way　中

Three types of powerful enemies　三類の強敵

1) arrogance and presumption of lay people　俗衆増上慢

2) arrogance and presumption of members of the Buddhist clergy　道門増上慢

3) arrogance and presumption of those who pretend to be sages　僭聖増上慢

Three virtues of the Dharma body, wisdom, and emancipation　法身・般若・解脱の三徳

Three virtues of the sovereign, the teacher, the parent　主師親の三徳

Throughout the four continents of the world, there are not two suns.　四天下(てんげ)の中に全く二の日無し、

Within the four seas, how can there be two rulers?　四海の内・豈(あに)両主有らんや。

Thwarting or rejecting evil and uphold good　捨悪持善

To be furnished with the Ten Worlds in our minds means that all ten, without a single exception, exist in one world.　十界互具とは十界一界もか(欠)けず一界にあるなり。

Because of this it is called a mandala.　之に依って曼荼羅とは申すなり。

To be praised by foolish - that is the greatest shame!　愚人にほめられたるは第一のはぢなり

To mix other things with this Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is a grave error.　此の南無妙法蓮華経に余事をまじ(交)へば、ゆゝしきひが(僻)事なり。

To reveal the depths of the secret storehouse - this is called myo, or wonderful.　「秘密の奥蔵を発く。之を称して妙と為す」

To take up bows and arrows or sticks and staves to protect the Lotus Sutra is a means provided for in Buddhism.　仏法守護の為の弓箭兵杖は仏法の定むる法なり。

It would be as if one were to collect swords and staves in order to protect the king of the land.　例せば国王守護の為に刀杖を集むるが如し。

townsman　まちうど　町人

transcendental power　神通之力

transmit separately from teachings　教外別伝

Transmission of the heritage of the Law in the Hokke Honmon Sect　本因妙抄（法華本門血脈相承事）

Transmitting in the realm of birth and death　流転門

Treatise of Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace and Safety of the Nation　立正安国論

Treatise on the Mind Aspiring toward Enlightenment　菩提心論

Treat this as a secret　秘すべし

Treatment Illness　治病大小権実違目

trifoliate orange　カラタチオレンジ

Tripitaka Master San Wu Wei, or Zenmui　善無畏三蔵

True aspect of all phenomena　諸法実相

"The true aspect invariably manifests in all phenomena"　「実相は必ず諸法」　

"All phenomena invariably manifest in the ten factors"　「諸法は必ず十如」

"The ten factors invariably manifest in the Ten Worlds"　「十如は必ず十界」

"The Ten Worlds invariably manifest in life and environment"　「十界は必ず身土」

true cause　本因

True Object of Worship　観心本尊抄

true reality　真如

True Words is an evil doctrine that will ruin the nation　真言は亡国の悪法

truthful words　実語

tub of miso　みそをけ　味噌桶

twelve-linked chain of causation　十二因縁

Two but not two, constantly the same yet different - past and present, such is the Dharma　而二不二常同常別古今法爾（ほうに）

two categories general and specific　総別の二義

two conditions of delusion and enlightenment　迷悟

two factors of cause and effect　因果の二法

two opposing views of a self that ends with death and a self that is eternally unchanging　断常の二見

two-thirds　三分が二

U

Ultimate Law of Life and Death　生死一大事血脈抄

Unanimous Declaration by the Buddhas of the Three Existences regarding the Classification of the Teachings and Which Are to be Abandoned and Which Upheld　三世諸仏総勘文教相廃立（総勘文抄）

Unchanging in the three existences of past, present, and future　三世常恒

Understanding a doctrine from a sentence　依文判義

Universal Salty Taste　同一鹹味御書

untimely death　非業の死

"Unrestrained and self-indulgent" is another name of slander of the Law.　放逸とは謗法の名なり

V

Varied sufferings that all living beings undergo - all these are Nichiren's own sufferings. 　一切衆生の異の苦を受くるは悉く是日蓮一人の苦なるべし

Vasubandhu　世親

vehemence　激しさ　激烈

verse portion of the Life Span chapter　自我偈

Viewed in terms of the meditation conductive　証道観心

"The voice carries out the work of the Buddha, and this is called kyo, or sutra." 　「声仏事を為す、之を称して経と為す」

W　

walking, standing, sitting, or lying down　行住坐臥

Warning against Begrudging Fief　不可惜所領事

We are taught that, if one admonishes one's sovereign three times and still one's advice is not heeded, then one should retire to the mountain forest.　主君を三度諌むるに用いずば山林に交はれとこそ教へたれ

Weak arguments and meaningless assertions　弱文無義　

well and brook　井江　せいこう

What is most important is only that, by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo constantly, you attain Buddhahood.　南無妙法蓮華経とばかり唱へて仏になるべき事尤(もっと)も大切なり。

The outcome depends on whether your piety is thick or thin.　信心の厚薄によるべきなり。

To believe is the basis of Buddhism.　仏法の根本は信を以て源とす。

What it Means to Hear the Buddha Vehicle for the First Time　始聞仏乗義

What it Means to Slander the law　顕謗法抄

"When a spider appears, it means that some happy event is near, and if a magpie chatters, it foretells the coming of a guest."　「蜘蛛(ちちゅう)掛かりて喜び事来たり、かん鵲(じゃく)鳴きて行人(たびびと)来たる」

When a vassal will warn the king, that nation will take its correct course,　諫臣国に在れば則ち其の国正しく

and when a son will have advice, the family will continue to be right. 　争子(そうし)家に在れば則ち其の家直し

When the doctrine of the mutual possession of the Ten Worlds is expounded, this is called the "wonderful law."　今の妙法とは此等の十界を互ひに具すと説く時、妙法と申す

When the hindrances being called the three obstacles and four devils will appear, a wise man rejoices, and a foolish man retreats.　三障四魔と申す障(さわ)りいできたれば、賢者はよろこび、愚者は退くこれなり。

"When the lives of these persons come to an end, they will be received into the hands of a thousand Buddhas, who will free them from all fear and keep them from falling into the evil paths of existence."　「是人命終為千仏授手、令不恐怖 不堕悪趣」

When two sons of Emperor Montoku were rivals for the throne, the Tendai priest Eryo prayed with all his might for the success of the younger brother, and he in fact ascended the throne.　慧亮(えりょう)脳を破するの時、次弟(じてい)位に即き、

And through the prayers for protection by the Tendai priest So'o, the evil spirit of the Shingon priest Shinzei, which had taken possession of the consort of Emperor Uda, was overpowered and driven out. 　相応・加持するの時、真済(しんぜい)の悪霊伏せらるゝ等是なり。

When with our mouths we chant the Mystic Law, our Buddha nature, being summoned, will invariably emerge.　口に妙法をよび奉れば我が身の仏性もよばれて必ず顕はれ給ふ。

The Buddha nature of Brahma and Teishaku, being called, will protect us, and the Buddha nature of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, being summoned, will rejoice.　梵王・帝釈の仏性はよばれて我等を守り給ふ。仏菩薩の仏性はよばれて悦び給ふ。

When you will erect any stupas in the future, please describe the title of the Lotus Sutra.　此れより後々の御そとば(卒塔婆)にも法華経の題目を顕はし給へ。

Whether they are correct or incorrect in their views is to be judged solely on the basis of the doctrines they expound.　法門をもて邪正をたゞすべし

It is not to be decided on the basis of whether or not they are intelligent or can display supernatural powers.　利根と通力とにはよるべからず

white leprosy　白癩　びゃくらい

widely propagating the teachings　広宣流布

wicked view　邪見

wisdom of the truth that functions in accordance with changing circumstances, as embodied in the essential teaching　本門隨縁真如の智　

wisdom to perceive it　了（正了縁）

wisdom to perceive the innate Buddha nature　了（正了縁）

wisteria　藤

without disliking the wise or ignorant　有智無智をきらはず

Without the seed of Buddhahood, that is, the three thousand realms in a single moment of mind, sentient beings cannot become Buddhas, and any statue or painting would be an object of devotion in name only.　一念三千の仏種に非ざれは、友情(うじょう)の成仏・木画(もくえ)二像の本尊は有名無実なり

Woman obey others and thereby cause others to obey them.　女人となる事は物に随って物を随へる身なり。

wooden tablet　卒塔婆

The word "ku" also refers to breaking evil, while the element toku or doku refers to bringing about good　悪を滅するを功と云ひ、善を生ずるを徳と云ふなり

The word "purity" refers to the mind that has faith in the Lotus Sutra, while the words "impurity" or "lack of purity" refer to slanderers of the Law.　浄とは法華経の信心なり、不浄とは謗法なり

When the skies are clear, the ground is illuminated.　天晴れぬれば地明らかなり

Similarly, when one knows the Lotus Sutra, one understands the meaning of the world.　法華を識る者は世法を得(う)べきか

"Whether or not the teachings are grasped correctly depends upon the persons who transmit them. "　「並びに進退は人に在り」

"How could it possibly have anything to do with holy teaching?"　「何ぞ聖旨に関はらん」

world of patience　堪忍世界　娑婆　

wrath of the authorities　御勘気

Writings which Understand a Sentence from a Meaning　依義判文抄

Y

Yin Yang fortune teller　陰陽師

You can hardly claim that the Shingon sutras cannot be classified among the teachings set forth by Shakyamunu in the five periods of his preaching life.　一代五時を離れて外に仏法有りと云ふべからず。

You will grow younger, and your good fortune will be piled up.　年はわか(若)うなり、福はかさ(重)なり候べし。

That would imply that two Buddhas had appeared simultaneously in a single world, which is absurd.　若し有らば二仏並出(びょうしゅつ)の失(とが)あらん。

Nor is it conceivable that some outside Buddha would come to Shakyamuni's realm and presume to expound his teachings there. 　又其の法を釈迦統領の国にき(来)たして弘むべからず。

You must first of all set aside the doctrines for the moment and consider the reason of the matter.　汝先(ま)づ法門を置いて道理を案ぜよ。

Can anyone, without inquiring into the essential meaning of the Buddha's lifetime teachings or investigating the basic principles of the ten schools, presume to admonish the nation and teach others?　抑(そもそも)一代の大途を伺はず十宗の淵底を究めずして、国を諫(いさ)め人を敎ふべきか。

You must not doubt me about the future for the reason that my words had been no mistake in this world.　現世に云ひをく言(ことば)の違(たが)はざらんをも(以)て後生(ごしょう)の疑ひをなすべからず。

You should base your mind on the ninth consciousness, and carry out your practice in the sixth consciousness.　心地を九識にもち、修行をば六識にせよ。

Z

The zen schools is an evil doctrine that will ruin the nation　禅宗は天魔の所為

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