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Translators of fine literature, whose works strike me as faithful to the original, I praise with the term “nyorai.”
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I like solitude, but it is not un-lonely; at least I have drink to comfort me, namu nihonshu nyorai.
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I look forward to an ongoing stream of hundreds of arhats riding purple clouds to the heavens, becoming nyorai, and returning to our world; the rains that end this great drought will be something to behold.
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Amida “Pure Landlord” Buddha, and the Five Dhyani Buddhas 五智如来 are just a few of the nyorai in the popular Japanese pantheon.
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It may not be long before the literary world adds two or three new nyorai to its ranks.
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"Nikko Bosatsu" represents sunlight and good health; "Yakushi-nyorai" is the deity of healing.
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When you enter the pagoda, you can find Dainichi-nyorai (the cosmic buddha) and the four buddhas assisting him For the record, during all our visits in Koya-san, and in Japan in general, we were very surprised to notice how traditional houses and temples are badly thermally isolated.
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Seiryo-Ji Temple with a statue of Buddha Shaka-nyorai (national treasure)
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The Meiji literary world is fortunate in already having three nyorai: the English Literature Nyorai, Morita Shiken; the German Literature Nyorai, Mori Ōgai; and the Russian Literature Nyorai, Hasegawa Futabatei Shimei.
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But it was Tsubouchi Shōyō who took the logical next step and applied it to secular bringers of wisdom and joy, in a mini-essay collected in his 1896 Bungaku sono oriori 『文学その折々』 (”Literary Occasions”), under the title Gaikoku bi-bungaku nyorai 『外国美文学如来』 (”Foreign-literature nyorai”).
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