Vocabulary

correct practices (esp. in Jodo, the path to rebirth in paradise)

auxiliary actions (in Jodo: recitation, observation, worship, praise and offering)

right livelihood

right mindfulness

right concentration

truth of suffering

truth of the cessation of suffering

truth of the way to the cessation of suffering

anuttara samyak sambodhi (supreme perfect enlightenment)

road through the middle; middle road

the eight precepts (the five precepts with the addition of prohibitions against lying in a luxurious bed, self-decoration, song and dance, and eating after noon)

admonition; commandment

great idiot; fool; (saying) something silly or stupid

least-squares (method)

greatness; enormity; superiority; maha

kanji reading and meaning

electronic information; electronic data; electronics and information

midsummer greetings; to inquiry after someone's health in the hot season

one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N

first year of high school; first-year high school student

transportation and delivery

second year of high school; second-year high-school student

third year of high school; third-year high-school student

fourth

to be done (to someone or something)

to come uninvited; to crash (a party); to butt in

subspace (in science fiction); space free from the laws of physics

near light speed; sublight speed

Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus)

energy-saving power strip (power board)

poke (Hawaiian raw-fish salad)

monotheism

the whole village

different dimension

storage shed

withered silver grass

fear makes the wolf bigger than he is; things are not as scary as they seem; the ghost, when examined closely, is withered silver grass

extraordinariness

hall with an enshrined statue of Kobo Daishi (at a Shingon temple)

Shikoku pilgrimage (to the 88 temples); Shikoku pilgrim