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Nantes, Edict of
:

see
HUGUENOTS
.

 
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(Jap., ‘the southern capital’). The Japanese city and its environment of Nara, associated with
Nara
Buddhism. Nanto Rokushu are thus the Six Sects (for list, see
NARA BUDDHISM
), and Nanto no shichidaiji are the seven great temples of Nara.

 
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see
K
AN
.

 
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see
NANTO
.

 
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Nan-yang Hui-chung
(Jap., Nan’y
Ech
;

8th cent. CE)
. Prominent Ch’an/Zen master, one of the ‘five great masters’ of the school of
Huineng
, whose pupil he was. After training, he retired to Mount Pai-ya in Nan-yang (hence his name) for about forty years. When about 85, he responded to the emperor's invitation to become his instructor (as also of Tai-tsung, his successor). As a result, he was called ‘National Teacher of Two Emperors’, the beginning of the tradition of the honorific titles
kuo-shih
(Jap.,
kokushi
: see
KOKUTAI
). Thus Nan-yang is also known as Chung-kuo-shih
(Jap., Ch
Kokushi). Several
k
ans
of his survive, but he is more usually associated with ‘the seamless pagoda’. The emperor asked Nan-yang how he could honour him on his 100th birthday. Nan-yang replied, ‘Build the old monk a seamless pagoda’. When the emperor asked for advice about the construction, Nan-yang told him that his pupil, Tan-yüan, would lead him out of his ignorance. Tan-yüan supplied the ‘explanation’.