祖

homeland

grandfather

grandmother

ancestor

ancestor

originator

grandparents

grandfather

grandmother

ancestor

founder of a religious sect

(sect) founder

founder

progenitor

common ancestor

Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory

ancestral

ancestor

ancestor

Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)

eponym (person after whom something is named)

Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)

deceased grandfather

common ancestor

the eight doctrinal patriarchs who expounded the teachings (Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Yi Xing, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)

the Eight Lineage Patriarchs who received the transmission of the teachings, leading back to the Vairocana Buddha (Vairocana Buddha, Vajrasattva, Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)

great-grandfather

inherited

hereditary

founder of dynasty or sect

business started by an ancestor

founder of medical science

the first generation of a family

(in fiction) person changed into a vampire by magic

maternal grandfather

reversion

exposition (propagation) of one's master's teachings or doctrines

maternal grandmother

the ancestral Sun Goddess

sect founder

restorer of a dynasty

great-great-grandfather

great-great-grandmother

the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China

founder

ancestor worshipped as a deity

traveler's guardian deity (traveller)

ancestor structure

deceased grandfather of the emperor

patriotism

returning to one's fatherland

protolanguage

Proto-Indo-European (language)

plesiomorphy

hereditary

what has been (orally) handed down from generation to generation

most recent common ancestor

prototype

founder of a sect

the founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren)

grandfather-in-law

grandmother-in-law

Proto-Indo-European (language)

grandma

ancestors

Founder of Buddhism

deceased grandfather

symplesiomorphy

(divine, historical or legendary) founder of an empire

Archaeopteryx

monkey-ancestry theory

Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

ancestral spirits

ancestors

remote ancestor

old people

ancestors of the Imperial Family

okoso-zukin

ancestral tablet

imperial ancestor

great-grandparents

to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

oogonium

Zen Buddhism based on the teachings of Bodhidharma

ancestor worship

ancestral spirit

shrine for worshiping the spirits of ancestors

founder

deceased grandmother of the emperor

great-grandfather

great-grandmother

ancestor of a feudal lord

mausoleum containing the remains of one's ancestors

deceased grandmother

Mazu (Chinese goddess of the sea)

Mazu temple