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

[Vicente Gonzalez]

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,