first Sanskrit alphabet letter; Africa; Awa (old province of Japan); (arch.) prefixed to names to show intimacy
agonizing cries; pandemonium; two of Buddhism's hells
Asura; demigod; anti-god; titan; demigods that fight the Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology
Awa (former province located in present-day Tokushima Prefecture)
Namu Amida Butsu; Hail Amitabha Buddha; Homage to Amida Buddha
the harmonizing, mentally and physically, of two parties engaged in an activity; singing from the same hymn-sheet; dancing to the same beat
alaya-vijnana (store consciousness, consciousness forming the base of all human existence)
Amitabha (Buddha); Amida; ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; wearing a hat pushed back on one's head
high monk (esp. one of correct conduct who acts as a role model for his pupils); high priest; initiate (esp. as a formal rank in Tendai and Shingon); monk who conducts religious services
ending up right back where one started
greedy; ruthless; cruel; exploitative
albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)
Om; Aun; syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma; inspiration and expiration; respiration; alpha and omega
Amitabha Tathagata; Amithaba
Awa Odori Festival (Tokushima)
Avici (lowest level of hell)
Buddhist nun; Catholic nun; sister; bitch; Amagasaki (city in Hyogo Prefecture); Amazon (online retailer)
stupid face; foolish look on one's face
temple hall containing an enshrined image of Amitabha
Akasha (ether in traditional Hindu cosmology)
Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells)
ending up right back where one started
open-mouthed form (statue with open mouth, symbolizing the "a" half of "aum")
excessive flattery; adulation
a number so great it can never be counted to; 10^56 (or 10^64)
anuttara samyak sambodhi (supreme perfect enlightenment)
mock Buddhist sutra; type of fast-paced humorous singing mimicking the chanting of a Buddhist sutra, usually with lyrics satirizing current events; ahodarakyō
prostitution of learning; twisting the truth and truckling to the times
ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner
Amitabha triad; image of Amitabha Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta
you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; we're all fools, so let's dance
elder brother; my dear brother
first Sanskrit alphabet letter (in esoteric Buddhism symbolizes the source of all things)
Akshobhya (one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas)
Amamikyu (Ryukyuan religion creation goddess)
amah (foreign maid or nursemaid working in east Asia)
Ajase complex (feelings of guilt towards one's mother)
ace of batons (high-scoring card in mekuri karuta)
Akshobhya (the immovable buddha)
umbrella tree (Pandanus odorifer); fragrant screw pine; kewda
fool; oaf; airhead; mock Buddhist sutra; type of fast-paced humorous singing mimicking the chanting of a Buddhist sutra, usually with lyrics satirizing current events
coquette; flirt; vamp; minx; tease
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
donkey hide gelatin; ejiao; high quality gelatin made in China from donkey hides
the "a" column of the Japanese syllabary table (a, i, u, e, o)
isolated place; hermitage
to no longer be the same old person; to have made remarkable progress; to have improved significantly (through study)
stupid chatter; foolish talk
abhidharma; texts that contain detailed reworkings of the Buddhist sutras
Thai basil (Ocimum basilicum); common basil; tree whose branches are said to split into seven pieces upon falling
Akshobhya (the immovable buddha)
ridiculous; stupid; foolish; absurd; laughable
to wear (one's hat) on the back of one's head
(arch.) father-in-law (of a woman); grandfather
gambir; gambier; catechu; cutch
arbor; arbour; bower; summer house; square gazebo
asafetida (Ferula assafoetida)
light snow; light snowfall; thin layer of snow; jellied dessert made of beaten egg white, agar and sugar
ridiculous; stupid; laughable
Maitreya (bodhisattva); Ajita (one of the sixteen arhats)
large warship of the Muromachi and early Edo periods
Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii); Akoya pearl oyster
a-bi-ra-un-ken so-wa-ka (mantra directed to Vairocana)
one who knows little often repeats it; (lit.) a fool's one bit of knowledge
Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae); red rockfish; red scorpionfish
Union of South Africa (1910-1961)
an idiot will swallow anything; an idiot will believe anything they hear; fools act without thinking
fools use people to pick up things lying at their own feet; stupidity of using people for small things
person who has made no progress; someone who remains as ignorant as before
there's no medicine for stupidity
Anan National College of Technology; ACT
Abhidharma Storehouse Treatise
only a fool with no manners asks for another helping more than once; only fools are gluttons
abukumalite; britholite-(Y)
stripping a samurai of clothes and swords and exiling him naked (Edo-period punishment)
wearing a hat pushed back on one's head
flattery; adulation; sycophancy
chopped pickled vegetables with sweet vinegar and chili pepper
(United States of) America; United States; US; America (land mass); the Americas
to be bewitching; to look coquettish; to behave in an alluring manner; to behave in a seductive manner
mottled spinefoot (Siganus fuscescens); dusky rabbitfish; sandy spinefoot
red-throated loon (Gavia stellata)
seductive; sensual; coquettish
a-bi-ra-un-ken (mantra directed to Vairocana)
Chinese cork oak (Quercus variabilis)
African bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus)
Samoan mullet goby (Mugilogobius abei)
Ophidion asiro (species of cusk eel)
Amitostigma kinoshitae (species of orchid)
kratom (Mitragyna speciosa)
common loon (Gavia immer); great northern diver; great northern loon
Awazumi City (a fictional city in the Remember11 visual novel)