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endless; boundless; everlasting

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silkworm (Bombyx mori)

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in history

1

speculation

2

pantheism

1

finite; limited

1

poisoned arrow (dart)

3

injured person; wounded person; casualty

1

Tathagata; perfected one (suffix of high-ranking Buddhist deities)

1

critical power; critical ability

1

very fast; in a twinkle; before one's eyes

2

first step

1

Heraclitus

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all things are in a state of flux; everything is constantly changing

1

canter (horse gait)

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selflessness; self-effacement; self-renunciation; anatta; anatman; doctrine that states that humans do not possess souls

4

shore; bank (of a body of water)

1

sal (tree) (Shorea robusta); saul; Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)

1

gloss; explanatory notes; annotation

1

to fall into someone's hands; to pass into another's possession

2

store; shop; stoa (classical Greek colonnade or portico); store; Stoic

1

to burn completely; to consume (by fire); to burn to nothing; to burn to the ground; to reduce to ashes

1

phoenix

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ash; ashes

3

to jump up; to start up; to leap to one's feet; to fly away; to take off

2

mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

3

the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness); the five aggregates

2

five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)

1

interdependence

1

intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy

1

human-like; quite human

1

fertile; productive; fruitful

1

all worldly phenomena; meritorious acts leading to enlightenment; (Jodo school) all practices other than recitation of the nembutsu prayer

1

conqueror

2

(cow's) milk

3

wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line

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common fig (Ficus carica); fig; fig tree

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execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears; crucifixion

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elephant (Elephantidae spp.)

5

snake; serpent; large snake

1

secrecy; confidentiality; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal); inner realization; personal enlightenment

1

Sougi; Sougi (1421-1502)

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renga (early Japanese poetry form); linked verse; poetic dialogue

1

Rikyuu; Sen no Rikyuu (1522-1591)

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kan (obs. unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); kan (obs. unit of currency, equiv. to 1000 mon in the Edo period; col. 10 mon in the Meiji period); counter for pieces of sushi; 10 points; 12 points

7

elegance; grace; refinement; good taste

1

currency

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someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour

3

to fall into another's hands

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light (e.g. colour, color)

1