The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (818 page)

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Fury
monji
(transmission outside the scriptures)
:
Fusatsu
.
Jap., for
uposatha
.
Fushimi Inari
(Jap.,
Fushimi
, a place-name, +
inari
, ‘the rice deity’). The most famous of the shrines to the Japanese rice god,
Inari
, located in the SE suburbs of
Ky
to
.
Fushizen-fushiaku
(Jap.). Not thinking good, not thinking evil. The transcendence in Zen Buddhism of discrimination and differentiation in evaluation. The phenomenological value may inhere in appearance: it is the attitude which is transcendent.
Fush
(Jap., ‘unborn’). Zen Buddhist term for the true nature of reality, in which there is no beginning or end, birth or becoming, passing away or death. There is only what there ‘is’, which is manifestation, arising from, and bearing the nature of,
nyat
. It is usually translated as ‘Unborn’.

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