The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (588 page)

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Daiji
(Jap., ‘great compassion’). The great compassion which is the goal and practice of
bodhisattvas
. It is often used as the title of particular bodhisattvas, e.g. daiji daihi no satta, ‘of great compassion and mercy’, is Jiz
; daiji daihi no honji is Kannon.
Daiji
(Jap., ‘important matter’). The one thing necessary in Japanese Buddhism for the attainment of enlightenment, namely, the desire and intention to seek it.
Daij
.
Jap. term for
Mah
y
na
.
Daij
-kai
(Jap.). ‘Rules of the great vehicle’, i.e. rules for monks and laypeople in
Mah
y
na
Buddhism, as e.g. in
jujukai
.

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