[Buddha-l] japanese zen terms: honbun and shusho

[curt]

Thank you!!! That's a direct hit! It's very interesting to see the
translation "original share". I had tried Muller's dictionary but it
asked me for a password, and I hadn't yet figured out the "system" - but
now I have and I was able to get the link. Thanks so much!

- Curt

Vicente Gonzalez wrote:
> curt wrote:
>
> c> I thought the same thing. So I looked through my copy of the Awakening
> c> of Faith (Hakeda's) and could find no reference to either "honbun" or
> c> "shusho". Hakeda simply uses the terms "suchness" "absolute" and 
> c> "tathtata" - in fact I couldn't find any Japanese (or Sino-Japanese,
> c> which is what I assume both of these words are) terms that seemed 
> c> relevant. Neither term appears in the glossary or the index. Damian
> c> Keown's "Dictionary of Buddhism" also doesn't list either term.
>
> yes... maybe that master used another words to explain same thing.
> In Muller's dictionary there is a reference to honbun ホンブン
> with close meaning to essence in Buddha-nature:
>
>  [py] ben3fen4 [wg] pen-fen [ko] ponbun [ja] ホンブン honbun |||
>  'Original  Share' (in Buddhahood). The aspect of the human being as
>  being  originally endowed with the Buddha-nature.
>
> http://www.buddhism-dict.net/cgi-bin/xpr-ddb.pl?67.xml+id('b672c-5206')
>  
> about shusho, I cannot find it.
>
>
> best regards,
>
>
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