The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1266 page)

 
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Keizan Osh
Denk
-Roko
(The Account by the Monk Keizan of the Transmission of the Light)
.

A Zen Buddhist collection of stories concerning the transmission of the buddha-
dharma
in the
S
t
school. The episodes have the enigmatic challenge of a
k
an
.

 
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(Jap., for Skt.,
padm
sana
). The lotus position in meditation. The legs are crossed, with right foot on left thigh, and left foot on right thigh, and hands, palms upward, on the heels of both feet.

 
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(Heb., ‘surround, include’). A summary in rabbinic Judaism of the essential meaning of
Torah
, or of a series of halakoth in the
Mishnah
. One of the ideals in teaching is to follow
derek qezarah
, the short(est) way. Rabbis, therefore, used to search for a statement, preferably a verse from Torah, which would summarize the purpose and meaning of the covenant. Thus
Aqiba
called Leviticus 19. 18 ‘the great kelal in Torah’; Simeon b. Azzai identified Genesis 5. 1. Perhaps the best known examples are those of
Hillel
(‘Whatever you would not have people do to you, do not do to them’) and of Jesus (combining Deuteronomy 6. 4 f. and Leviticus 19. 18, in Mark 12. 28 ff.; cf.
Matthew
7. 12, Luke 6. 31 for the Golden Rule in positive form).

 
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