Religion
- bonze
- (from 凡僧 bonsō), a Buddhist monk
- koan
- 公案 kōan, a paradoxial story or statement used during meditation in Zen Buddhism. Inspired the hacker koan tradition amongst computing circles.
- satori
- 悟り, enlightenment in Zen Buddhism
- shinto
- 神道 shintō, the native religion of Japan
- torii
- 鳥居, traditional Japanese gates commonly found at the gateway to Shinto shrines
- zen
- 禅, from Chinese 禪 (Mandarin Chán), originally from ध्यान Sanskrit Dhyāna / Pali झन Jhāna, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“The only human beings I have thoroughly admired and respected in the world have been those who carried the load of the world with a smile, and who, in the face of anxieties that would have knocked me clean out, never showed a tremor. Such men and women end by owning us, soul and body, and our allegiance can never be shaken. We are only too glad to be owned. Religion is nothing but this.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“In the latter part of the seventeenth century, according to the historian of Dunstable, “Towns were directed to erect ‘a cage’ near the meeting-house, and in this all offenders against the sanctity of the Sabbath were confined.” Society has relaxed a little from its strictness, one would say, but I presume that there is not less religion than formerly. If the ligature is found to be loosened in one part, it is only drawn the tighter in another.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)