Define ぜんあく zen'aku Meaning ゼンアク

ぜんあく【善悪】

(Common Noun)

1. Good and evil

ぜん【禅・禪】

(Common Noun)

1. Dhyana (profound meditation)

2. Zen (Buddhism)
   — Abbreviation

くふう【工夫・功夫】

(Common Noun)

1. Scheme; Device; Scheming; Devising; Figuring out; Coming up with; Solving ingeniously

2. Dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)

ざぜん【座禅・坐禅】

(Common Noun)

1. Zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)

ぜんそう【禅僧】

(Noun)

1. Zen priest

ふとん【布団・蒲団・薄団】

(Common Noun)

1. Futon (quilted Japanese-style mattress laid out on the floor)

2. Round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

おしょう【和尚・和上】

(Noun)

1. Preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism)
   — Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

2. Preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism)
   — Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

3. Preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism)
   — Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

4. Second highest priestly rank in Buddhism

5. Monk (esp. the head monk of a temple)

6. Master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

あいさつ【挨拶】

(Common Expression)

1. A fine thing to say (used as part of a sarcastic response to a rude remark)

ぜんしゅう【禅宗】

(Noun)

1. Zen (Buddhism)

ぜんもんどう【禅問答】

(Noun)

1. Zen dialogue; Zen questions and answers

あいさつ【挨拶】

(Common Noun)

1. Greeting; Greetings; Salutation; Salute; Polite set phrase used when meeting or parting from somebody

2. Polite set phrase used to express apology, sympathy, congratulations, etc.

3. Speech (congratulatory or appreciative); Address

4. Reply; Response

5. Revenge; Retaliation
   — Slang

6. Dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment)

ろうし【老師】

(Noun)

1. Old priest; Sage; (Zen) teacher

たくはつ【托鉢】

(Noun)

1. Monk's "begging"; Religious mendicancy; Asking for alms

2. Going with one's bowl to the meditation hall at mealtime (in a Zen temple)

ぜんでら【禅寺】

(Common Noun)

1. Zen temple

から【掛絡・掛落・掛羅】

(Noun)

1. Zen monk's waistcoat (short, informal kasaya)
   — Archaism

2. Ring (usu. made of ivory) attached to this waistcoat

3. Netsuke; Item attached to a netsuke

かつ【喝】

(Interjection)

1. Exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen)

(Noun)

2. Scolding or threatening with a shout

しか【知客】

(Noun)

1. Head monk in charge of the administrative section of a zendo (Zen)

ざふ【座蒲・坐蒲】

(Noun)

1. Round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

さむ【作務】

(Noun)

1. Work in a Zen temple (e.g. cleaning, working in the fields)

いな・いの【維那】

(Noun)

1. One of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of general affairs)

やぶ【野巫】

(Noun)

1. Rural female shaman

2. Unlearned Zen practitioner

はい【牌】

(Noun)

1. Medal; Shield; Badge

2. Card on which dharani (etc.) are written

3. Notice board (in a Zen temple)

4. Tile (mahjong, dominos, etc.)

やざ【夜座・夜坐】

(Noun)

1. Nocturnal seated Zen meditation (esp. around 8 pm)

2. Sitting at night

しけ【師家】

(Noun)

1. Zen master

いはつ・えはつ・えはち【衣鉢】

(Noun)

1. Mysteries of one's master's art

2. Robes and a bowl (monk's key possessions auctioned off at his funeral); Transmission of the dharma from master to disciple (in Zen)

ぜひぜんあく【是非善悪】

(Noun)

1. Rights and wrongs; The relative merits (of a case); Propriety
   — Yojijukugo

ぜんあくふに【善悪不二】

(Expression)

1. Good and evil are but two faces of the same coin
   — Yojijukugo

せいじゃぜんあく【正邪善悪】

(Noun)

1. Right and (or) wrong
   — Yojijukugo

ぜんあくのくべつ【善悪の区別】

(Noun)

1. Discrimination between right and wrong; Distinction between good and bad

ぜんあくにげんろん【善悪二元論】

(Noun)

1. Good and evil dualism; Manicheanism

にほんげんほうぜんあくりょういき【日本現報善悪霊異記】

(Noun)

1. Set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki

にほんこくげんほうぜんあくりょういき【日本国現報善悪霊異記】

(Noun)

1. Set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki