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1. Obaku, n. View full entry 1833
...One of the three principal branches of Japanese Zen Buddhism. Cf. Rinzai, Soto...
2. pipa, n.2 View full entry 1839
...A Chinese stringed instrument resembling a lute....
3. p'o, n.3 View full entry 1850
...In early Chinese thought: the more ‘earthly’ of the two incorporeal souls of a human being, associated with the body and with the principle of yin....
4. qi, n. View full entry 1850
...The circulating physical life-force whose existence and properties are the basis of much Chinese philosophy and medicine; the material principle postulated by certain Chinese philosophers....
5. qin, n.2 View full entry 1839
...A Chinese seven-stringed zither, played by plucking....
6. Rinzai, n. View full entry 1833
...One of the three principal branches of Zen Buddhism, characterized by the active pursuit of enlightenment, esp. through the extensive use of koans. Freq. attrib. Cf. Soto, ...
7. san hsien, n. View full entry 1839
...A Chinese three-stringed plucked instrument with a long neck and oval-shaped body. Cf. samisen...
8. Tanka, n.1 View full entry 1839
...The boat-population of Canton, who live entirely on the boats by which they earn their living: they are descendants of some aboriginal tribe of which Tan was apparently the name....
9. wat, n.4 View full entry 1844
...A Thai Buddhist temple....
10. yüeh ch'in, n. View full entry 1839
...A Chinese lute with four strings and a flat, circular body....
