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Sudden awakening to Enlightenment
Sudden awakening or Sudden enlightenment (Chinese: 頓悟; pinyin: Dùnwù; Japanese pronunciation: tongo), also known as subitism, is a Buddhist idea which
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Meditation-based school of Mahāyāna Buddhism
an emphasis on Buddha-nature thought, intrinsic enlightenment and sudden awakening, Zen teaching draws from numerous Buddhist sources, including Sarvāstivāda
Zen
Chinese Huayan and Chan Buddhist monk and scholar
Mahayana Awakening of Faith. Zongmi's work is concerned with harmonizing the various Chan teachings (especially the doctrines of sudden awakening and original
Guifeng_Zongmi
Vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep
urinal. The dreamer may then urinate and suddenly wake up to find they have wet themselves. The Type 2 false awakening seems to be considerably less common
False_awakening
Concept in Buddhism
sudden awakening. However, in the system of Guifeng Zongmi, in which sudden awakening is to be followed up by "gradual cultivation," sudden awakening
Bodhicitta
Key concept in Taoism and East Asian Buddhism
Like the Hongzhou school, Zongmi advocated for sudden awakening. However, he argued that sudden awakening must still be followed up by a "gradual cultivation"
Ziran
Second Patriarch of Chan Buddhism (487–593 CE)
important characteristics of the early Chán of Bodhidharma and Huike was the sudden approach to enlightenment rather than the Indian yogic meditation which
Dazu_Huike
Nonconceptual awareness and interconnectedness
neo-advaita, for which nonduality is a central tenet, emphasizing sudden awakening or insight. The term may also refer to monism and nonplurality, the
Nondualism
Tradition in East Asian Buddhism
that Buddhahood is reached through "sudden awakening followed by gradual cultivation" and he also held that "sudden and gradual are not only not contradictory
Huayan
Seeing one's "true nature" as inherently empty of a personal self
and accomplish Buddhahood (見性成佛). Kenshō is an initial insight or sudden awakening, not full Buddhahood. It is to be followed by further training which
Kenshō
Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism
an emphasis on Buddha-nature thought, original enlightenment, and sudden awakening, Chan teaching draws from numerous sources, including Sarvāstivāda
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Type of clock
morning blood pressure surge for subjects compared to natural awakening. This sudden awakening can activate the sympathetic nervous system, inducing a "fight-or-flight
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Time of night associated with supernatural events
reduced, and breathing patterns and blood pressure are irregular. Sudden awakening from REM sleep could cause agitation, fear, and disorientation in an
Witching_hour
Buddhist monk
kind of laissez-faire spontaneity, and was more similar to Zongmi's "sudden awakening-gradual cultivation" model of practice than he was willing to credit
Baotang_Wuzhu
1903 work by Chen Tianhua
A Sudden Look Back or Suddenly Turn Around (simplified Chinese: 猛回头; traditional Chinese: 猛回頭), also translated as Sudden Awakening, Sudden Enlightenment
A_Sudden_Look_Back
Summaries of the Buddhist path to liberation
The Buddhist path (marga) to liberation, also referred to as awakening, is described in a wide variety of ways. The Noble Eightfold Path is prominent
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charge of the monastery. At that time, he is said to have attained sudden awakening, and in the next decade became famous for his distinctive development
Miyun_Yuanwu
2017 film by Franck Khalfoun
Amityville: The Awakening is a 2017 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Franck Khalfoun and starring Bella Thorne, Jennifer Jason
Amityville:_The_Awakening
2025 documentary series
short-term memory loss. The series follows Pillay's journey after suddenly awakening in 2022 with no memory of her daughter Zenaid or, husband JJ Jakope
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Story of the origin of Zen Buddhism
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Five elements in Japanese philosophy
ISBN 978-1-59477-667-0. Moore, Meido (2020-10-13). Hidden Zen: Practices for Sudden Awakening and Embodied Realization. Shambhala Publications. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-8348-4313-4
Godai_(Japanese_philosophy)
German Jesuit priest
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Compilation of Zen Buddhist koans
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Zen Buddhism concept of the beginner's mind
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Shoshin
Mahāyāna Sūtra
Enlightenment and the Śrīmālādevī as scriptures which expound the teaching of sudden awakening, which Zongmi saw as being equivalent to the highest form of Chan (Zen)
Ghanavyūha_Sūtra
Episodic sleep disorder and parasomnia
deprivation, use of hypnotics or tranquilisers before bedtime, and sudden awakening from sleep (e.g., telephone ringing, alarm clock). In the ICSD-2, alcohol
Confusional_arousal
East Asian honorific
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Sensei
Japanese Buddhist term for awakening
Satori (Japanese: 悟り) is a Japanese Buddhist term for "awakening", "comprehension; understanding". The word derives from the Japanese verb satoru. In
Satori
ISBN 978-1-716-23850-5 (Lulu). Meido Moore. Hidden Zen: Practices for Sudden Awakening and Embodied Realization, pp. 207-208. Shambhala Publications, 2020
A_in_Buddhism
State of mind in East Asian culture
44–45. Yanagida Seizan. The Li-tai fa-pao chi and the Chan Doctrine of Sudden Awakening, in Early Ch'an in China and Tibet, edited by Lewis Lancaster and Whalen
No-mind
American Zen teacher and author (1917–2011)
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was a form of sudden enlightenment. This teaching is also related to the concept of tathātā "Suchness" which is derived from the Awakening of Faith in the
Zuochan_Yi
Indian Zen master and Jesuit priest (born 1936)
Christians and Therapists. ISBN 978-8186778555. Samy, Ama (2005). Zen: Awakening to Your Original Face. ISBN 978-8185602868. Samy, Ama (2002). Zen Heart
Ama_Samy
Shout used in Buddhism
(古溪宗陳, 1515–1597) Eureka (word) – interjection used in the West to express sudden insight into a problem Lievens 1981. Schloegel 1979. Dublin University Shotokan
Katsu_(Zen)
spread to Tibet by Buton Rinchen Drub, written c. 1356 The Debate on Sudden Awakening in the Great Vehicle (頓悟大乘正理決 Ch. Dunwu dasheng zhengli jue) by Wangxi
Samye_Debate
Buddhist philosophical tradition
objects of knowledge. Sakya Pandita was also critical of theories of sudden awakening, which were held by some teachers of the "Chinese Great Perfection"
Buddhist_philosophy
1934 book by D. T. Suzuki
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An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
An_Introduction_to_Zen_Buddhism
Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist (1926–2022)
He used "no mud no lotus" to illustrate the interrelationship between awakening and afflictions, well-being and ill-being. "A cloud never dies", on the
Thích_Nhất_Hạnh
1891 play by Frank Wedekind
Spring Awakening (German: Frühlings Erwachen) (also translated as Spring's Awakening and The Awakening of Spring) is the German dramatist Frank Wedekind's
Spring_Awakening_(play)
Chinese poem of Chan Buddhism (6th century)
(upaya) in China by adapting Daoist terminology to the Buddhist context of awakening. It also draws on the Wisdom sutras as well as the Avatamsaka Sutra and
Xinxin_Ming
Meditative discipline in Zen Buddhism
exceptionally unfree." Similarly, according to the famous East Asian śāstra, the Awakening of Faith, one does not concentrate on the breath: "Should there be a person
Zazen
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List of koans by Yunmen Wenyan
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Semi-legendary founder of Zen Buddhism
extends back to the Gautama Buddha himself. Bodhidharma means 'dharma of awakening (bodhi)" in Sanskrit and was often shortened to simply Dharma in Chinese
Bodhidharma
Japanese Buddhist monk who popularized Zen in the US
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Shunryū_Suzuki
East Asian Buddhist philosophical concept
of the path, which shifted from gradual progression toward "sudden awakening", a sudden realization that Buddhahood was already here and now, interfused
Perfect_Interpenetration
Buddhist monastery founded in France 1982
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Plum_Village_Monastery
Japanese Zen master (1907–1989)
Eastern Buddhist, New Series 23 (1), 152-154 Batchelor, Stephen (1994). The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture. Parallax Press
Yamada_Koun
Chan/Zen Buddhist text
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Blue_Cliff_Record
Vietnamese version of Chan Buddhism
enlightenment Buddha-nature Turning the light around Kenshō Satori Sudden awakening The way Ten Ox-Herding Pictures Five ranks of Dongshan Hakuin's Four
Thiền
School of Japanese Zen Buddhism
stresses the importance of post-kensho spiritual training that actualizes awakening for the benefit of all beings. The student's relationship with a Zen teacher
Rinzai_school
American Buddhist teacher
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Bernie_Glassman
Literary work
in Zen Buddhism, it specifically refers to the realization of Buddha's awakening that is not contained in the written words of the sutras. In general Buddhist
Shōbōgenzō
Literature as part of zen teaching
Arokiasamy warns against this ... misleading notion about Awakening which holds that Zen and Awakening are non-intellectual [...] This arises not only from
Zen_scriptures
Title in Zen Buddhism
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Rōshi
Sōtō priest, origami master, and abbot
enlightenment Buddha-nature Turning the light around Kenshō Satori Sudden awakening The way Ten Ox-Herding Pictures Five ranks of Dongshan Hakuin's Four
Kōshō_Uchiyama
American Buddhist monk (1938–2002)
enlightenment Buddha-nature Turning the light around Kenshō Satori Sudden awakening The way Ten Ox-Herding Pictures Five ranks of Dongshan Hakuin's Four
Kōbun_Chino_Otogawa
Korean school of Mahayana Buddhism
received special focus from Jinul, was the relationship between "gradual" and "sudden" methods in practice and enlightenment.[citation needed] Drawing upon various
Korean_Seon
Jin-dynasty book of koans
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List of The Dead Files episodes
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Institutional and doctrinal divisions of Buddhism
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Schools_of_Buddhism
Fourth season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime
Brando's son. Jotaro then warns Koichi to stay away from Giorno, as his sudden awakening of a Stand might mean there are other dangerous Stand users in Naples
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
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enlightenment Buddha-nature Turning the light around Kenshō Satori Sudden awakening The way Ten Ox-Herding Pictures Five ranks of Dongshan Hakuin's Four
Lengqie_shizi_ji
American Zen Buddhist (1892–1967)
small pamphlets, including Zen: A Religion, Zen: A Method for Religious Awakening, Rinzai Zen Study for Foreigners in Japan, The First Zen Institute of
Ruth_Fuller_Sasaki
American judge
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School of Zen in Japanese Buddhism
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Sōtō
Chan and Zen Buddhist biographies
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The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp
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successor to Shenhui, also softened the edge between sudden and gradual. In his analysis, sudden awakening points to seeing into one's true nature, but is
Doctrinal_background_of_Zen
Concept in Zen Buddhism
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Original_face
Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation
it cannot rightly be applied, logically or chronologically, to that sudden awakening as of a startled giant, that wonderful effort of rejuvenation and reorganization
Counter-Reformation
Japanese Zen Buddhist master (1686–1769)
shrine in the temple for seven days, and eventually reached an intense awakening upon hearing the ringing of the temple bell. However, his master refused
Hakuin_Ekaku
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Jakugo
American Zen Buddhist monk (1929–2021)
enlightenment Buddha-nature Turning the light around Kenshō Satori Sudden awakening The way Ten Ox-Herding Pictures Five ranks of Dongshan Hakuin's Four
Mel_Weitsman
Chinese Buddhist Chan master (709–788)
sermons indicate that awakening and ignorance form a false dichotomy since "originally there is no ignorance," and hence "awakening also need not be established
Mazu_Daoyi
Buddhist text
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Two Entrances and Four Practices
Two_Entrances_and_Four_Practices
Popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism
what an awakening, all-hail! Tanahashi and Halifax (2007) - Arriving, arriving, arriving all the way, arriving all the way together: awakening Joy! In
Heart_Sutra
Chinese school of Chan Buddhism in the Tang period
the realization of the twofold emptiness of person and things." Awakening is the sudden letting go of all deluded thoughts,[citation needed] it is a mind
Hongzhou_school
Chan Buddhist monk from Quanzhou
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Patriarch_Ching_Chwee
American Buddhist educator
and Emptiness (October 24, 2023), a conversation on meditation, ethics, awakening, and development; the official episode page is accessible, while the full
Diane_Musho_Hamilton
Japanese translation of a Chinese term for zazen
and his disciples. It is of particular importance for its account of an awakening experience by one of Rujing's Japanese disciples, Dōgen, who would later
Shikantaza
Chinese Chan poet and hermit
Shiwu left but on his way down the mountain he saw a pavilion and had a sudden insight. He turned back and told Chi-an, "Where buddhas dwell, don't stop
Shiwu
System of organizing Chan/Zen Buddhist temples in China and Japan
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Five_Mountain_System
School of Buddhism
things. Each person has the potential to become a Buddha, and the path to awakening involves recognizing the impermanent, interconnected nature of all phenomena
Plum_Village_Tradition
Japanese samurai (1579–1655)
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Suzuki_Shōsan
Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan
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Daitoku-ji
Semi-legendary Tang dynasty Chinese Chan Buddhist master (trad. 638-713)
According to tradition Huineng was an uneducated layman who suddenly attained awakening (見性; jianxing) upon hearing the Diamond Sutra. Despite his lack
Huineng
Buddhist stages of enlightenment
’bras bu; Chinese: shengdaoguo 聖道果) are four stages on the path to full awakening (bodhi). These four fruits or states are Sotāpanna (stream-enterer), Sakadāgāmi
Fruits_of_the_noble_path
German psychologist and philosopher (1896–1988)
of Being and for his metamorphosis into a witness of this experience awakening within. For illumination does not make an enlightened one! The more I
Karlfried_Graf_Dürckheim
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Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall
Anthology_of_the_Patriarchal_Hall
Korean Zen master
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Jeongang
Popular Sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism
enlightenment teachings, and the so-called Southern School with its alleged sudden enlightenment teachings. In effect, the text incorporates the "rhetorical
Platform_Sutra
1237 Japanese essay on Soto Zen practice
activities, such as working with everyday ingredients, are no different from awakening when approached directly and with a clear mind. Another kōan quoted in
Tenzo_Kyōkun
the role and degree of awakening of Zen teachers. The term rōshi has been applied to implicate a certified state of awakening, implying impeccable moral
Zen_ranks_and_hierarchy
Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion
strike is a cover-up. In reality, the catastrophe was caused by the sudden awakening of an Angel in Antarctica. It is believed that the Angels' ultimate
A_Human_Work
Japanese buddhist monk (1141–1215)
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Eisai
Chinese Chan Buddhist monk and author
but later studied with Changlu Yingfu. Years later, he experienced a sudden awakening which he recorded in a poem, after which he was declared a Cijue Dashi
Changlu_Zongze
Buddhist philosophical concept
Buddhist thought, on the nature of human consciousness and the means of awakening. Gregory sees this doctrine as implying that enlightenment is the natural
Buddha-nature
Chinese Chan Buddhist master (904–976)
the non-duality of essence-function. For Yanshou, while Chan seeks sudden awakening to the true nature of all things, it does not reject the conventional
Yongming_Yanshou
Influential kōan story in the Zen tradition
historically grounded and practical doctrine, although he recognizes the suddenness which he has introduced his ideas, apologizing to the assembly for “speak[ing]
Wild_fox_koan
Japanese Soto Zen Master
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Tetsugyu_Soin_Ban
Patriarch of Chán Buddhism
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