Vocabulary

literary magazine

Pyrrosia tricuspis (species of felt fern)

health promotion

coal ash; fly ash

false dragonhead (Physostegia virginiana); obedient plant

tip of a stem (of a plant)

literary magazine

Confucius

arranging in order

demonstrative

to be in order; to be organized; to be systematized

to put in order; to organize; to systematize

clouds appearing before the wind starts to blow

Suramgama Sutra

frivolity; unpredictability; erraticism

wanderer; vagabond; capricious person; hobo

not knowing one's bearings; being disorientated

making Buddhist images, implements, etc.

out of one's reach; beyond one's grasp

sound barrier

Tokyo and Nagoya

visiting temples, shrines or tourist spots to collect commemorative seal stamps

sexual dimorphism

surely; certainly

uncertain; transient; changeable

changeable weather

miraculous deed; unmeasurable resourcefulness

like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)

heat barrier

sabbatical; sabbatical leave

stone sauna; facility where one rests on towels laid on a slab of heated natural rock

the Seven Wise Men (of Greece); the Seven Sages of Greece

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians

that way; over there

focus of one's attention; what one is looking for; viewpoint; point one is trying to make

to fit the mold; to fit the mould; to be standard; to be customary; to be unoriginal; to be stale

omniscience (of a buddha)

book-cover design; picture on the cover of a book

capstan; windlass

wooden dowel; draw pin; key; cotter