A (Phoneme) 239ff
Accounts of Rebirth 291
Alaya consciousness 193; 228; 236; 288; 327
Amitabha as Self-Nature 182; 183; 187; 327
Amitabha Sutra 7; 45; 60; 65; 99; 114; 173; 351
-- see also "Meditation Sutra"
-- Longer 9; 70; 100; 224
Attachment 85ff; 94; 260; 275; 285; 307; 312; 314; 316; 328
-- see also "Love-attachment"
Avatamsaka Sutra 31; 43; 59; 99; 114; 300; 328
Awakening of the Faith (treatise)184; 214; 218; 329
Awakening (to the Way)9; 52; 329
Beings of the Highest Virtue304; 325
Bodhi Mind 29ff; 54ff: 307; 308; 330
Bodhidharma 258
Brahma Net Sutra 156; 300; 330
Buddha Recitation189;331
-- see also "Practice," "Pure Land"
-- according to the Buddhas' intent 11
-- easy practice 233ff
-- essence & practice 181ff
-- goal 78; 189; 315
-- methods 109ff; 116ff
-- Perfect Method 111
-- Samadhi 78; 188
-- & Zen, Tantrism 72
Concentration see "A"
Criticism 151
Dedication of merits see "Transference of merits"
Degenerate Age see "Dharma-Ending Age"
Dharma-Ending Age10; 52; 223; 271; 333
Diamond Sutra 82; 84; 93; 114; 185; 186; 196; 334
Discouragement 164ff
Drowsiness 133ff
Dualistic attachments 89ff; 94; 302
Energy blockage 63
Expedients 83; 305; 307; 311; 337
Externalists 63-65; 202; 213; 337
Faith 58ff; 306; 313
-- equals Mind 62
-- guidelines 162ff
Fault-finding 154ff
Feeling the body 288; 296; 324
Fixed karma 244
Four Narrow Passes 276
Four Realizations 111ff
Four Types of Practice 114ff
Good spiritual advisors281; 300ff; 305; 319; 325; 339
Holding the Name see "Oral recitation"
Jodo 4
Karma of killing 260; 289; 324; 325
Ksitigarbha Sutra 184; 284; 291; 322ff
Lankavatara Sutra88; 94; 202; 340
Last Rites 272ff
Laziness 225ff
Love-attachment259; 281; 284ff; 306; 318; 321ff
Maligning monks 301ff
Meditation Sutra73; 77; 115; 117; 277; 341; 351
Milinda (King) 278
Mind 62; 71; 139; 167; 250, 255ff; 264ff, 274; 317; 320, 342
-- see also "One-pointedness of Mind"
-- at time of death 285ff; 321ff
Mind-power 107ff
Mind scattering 133
No-Mind (No-Thought) 77ff; 189; 311
Noumenon168; 179; 186; 305; 343
Novice practitioner 163; 184; 300; 301
One-pointedness of Mind78; 174; 189ff; 230; 344
Oral recitation119ff
Other-power see "Self-power/Other-power"
Paramita 345
Perfect Sudden Method 111
Platform Sutra 85; 87; 92; 139; 157; 311
Practice 109ff
-- see also "Buddha Recitation"
Prajna Paramita Sutra84; 85; 169; 345
Principle see "Noumenon"
Procrastination 224ff
Provisions for rebirth 97; 272; 291
Pure Land
-- see also "Buddha Recitation"
-- existence 183; 189; 309
-- expedient 83ff; 113; 311
-- novice 163; 183; 300;
-- school 3ff; 27; 111; 346
Repentance169
Residual karma 9
Retreats 173ff
Sadness 164
Samadhi 128ff
Scattered Mind 236
Self-Nature Amitabha 4; 184; 186ff
Self-power/Other-power69; 71; 74; 76; 278
Settled Mind Buddha Recitation 236
Seven (number) 173
Singlemindedness see "One-pointedness of Mind"
Shinran Shonin 8
Sixth Patriarch 85; 87; 94; 301; 312; 347
Slander 152
Su Tung P'o 136
Supportive recitation 284ff
Surangama Sutra 9; 121; 216; 348
Ten Great Vows 349
Ten Grounds (Stages) 349
Ten Recitation Method 232
Three Points of Doubt 276
Three Pure Land Sutras 351
Torpor 133ff
Touching the body 288; 296; 324
Transference of merits 250; 291ff; 303; 324; 352
Truth 184ff
Tushita Heaven 240ff
Vilifying monks 301ff
Vimalakirti Sutra 90; 240; 353
Wisdom practices 108
Zen 52; 64; 71ff; 79; 186; 234; 258; 268; 306; 355
-- conditions for success 200; 217; 234
-- & Pure Land novice 163: 234