The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1681 page)

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Nemin
tha
or Ari
tanemi
.
The 22nd of the Jain
t
rtha
karas
, who ruled over Dvaraka, the place where
K
a
ended his days on earth. Consequently, popular stories are told about the contests between the two which presumably reflect contests between the two communities.
Nenbutsu
(Jap., ‘thought’ + ‘Buddha’). The deliberate recollection of the
Buddha
, and meditation on the Buddha. It is more often transliterated
nembutsu
.
Nenge mish
(Jap.). The wordless transmission of the truth from
Buddha
kyamuni to
Mah
k
yapa
. From this paradigmatic interaction,
Zen
developed the key notions of transmission from heart to heart or mind to mind (
ishin-denshin
) and the special transmission outside the scriptures (
kyoge-betsuden
; (see
FUKASETSU
).

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