Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
Shinran (founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism, 1173-1262)
bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace
The evil persons are the right object of Amida's salvation; The evil persons have the unique opportunity to go to heaven
to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate
Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School
completely; absolutely; (not) at all; (not) a bit; earnestly; intently
good person; virtuous person
faith; belief; piety; devotion; godliness
existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no
banknote; bill; note; paper money
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing
Nichiren sect; Tendai sect; Lotus Sutra
Nichiren; Nichiren (Buddhist priest, 1222-82, founder of the Nichiren sect)
book title; heading; topic; subject; Nichiren Buddhist chant
Glory to the Sutra; Hail Lotus Sutra
national crisis; national disaster
Nichiren school of Buddhism
Nichiren sect of Buddhism (sometimes specifically referring to the Hokke school of Nichiren); Tendai sect of Buddhism
Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism
orchid; Netherlands; Holland
Wuxue Zuyuan; Wu-hsueh Tsu-yuan (1226-1286)
Kenchō era (1249.3.18-1256.10.5)
absorption; suction; attraction
intently; single-mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart
to penetrate; to sink in; to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively; to do throughout (e.g. the night)
Soto school (of Zen Buddhism)
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
dhyana (profound meditation); Zen (Buddhism)
Echizen (former province located in parts of present-day Fukui and Gifu prefectures)
(sect) founder; apostle; originator; inventor
almost every day; almost daily
prohibition against hunting and fishing
to break the Buddhist commandments
breaking a commandment (usually religious); offense against the Buddhist commandments (offence)
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
Kusunoki Masashige (1294-1336.7.4)
1,000,000; one million; million; many
personal combat; one-to-one fight
to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast