那

Indochina

moment

China

Chinese person

Central China

sinology

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

master (of a house, shop, etc.)

Omobranchus elegans (species of combtooth blenny)

Chinese food

Chinese characters

Chinese (language)

Chinese soba

China and Korea

bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt

an extremely great number (often said to be 100 million)

Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis)

(one's) father-in-law

ex-husband

hubby

Chinese dress

manas (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self)

where

Chinese sour cherry (Prunus pseudocerasus)

to become a mistress

cinchona

manas-vijnana (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self)

young master

gents

husband

dilettantism

(a) moment

one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of general affairs)

Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima)

atlas moth (Attacus atlas)

principle of living only for the moment

ephemeral

Chinese person

Izanami-no-Mikoto

Izanami

Chinese golden bells (Forsythia viridissima)

probationary nun (undergoing a two-year probationary period before receiving ordainment)

Izanagi-no-Mikoto

Chinese white dolphin (Sousa chinensis chinensis)

tincture of cinchona

Vairocana-Buddha

incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from Malacca)

Meretrix petechialis (species of hard clam)

Izanagi

Naha (city in Okinawa)

Naha Harbour and Airport Construction Office

kimnara (celestial musicians and protectors of Buddhism)

belladonna (Atropa belladonna)

one's family temple

Mahavairocana Sutra

Mahavairocana (Bodhisattva)

dhyana (profound meditation)

Mahavairocana Sutra

Vairocana-Buddha

Alexandrian senna (Senna alexandrina)

Anopheles sinensis (species of mosquito)

Vairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world)

Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world)