The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (587 page)

(Jap., ‘great resolve’). One of the three pillars of
zazen
, the determination to counterbalance, through development of the
bodhi
-mind,
dai-gidan
, ‘great doubt’.
Dai-gidan
is not mild scepticism, but rather the necessary concomitant of enlightenment certainty: the more one knows by experience the truth of Zen, the more insistent the continuing presence of pain, strife, and suffering in the world must be as a question. The question is not to be evaded, but wrestled with from the perspective of dai-funshi. The third pillar is
dai-shinkon
, ‘great faith’.

 
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(Jap., ‘great liberation’). In Zen Buddhism, the attainment of enlightenment, and thus of the realized buddha-nature. Hence, it is a synonym for
nirv
na
.

 
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Dai-gidan
:

see
DAI-FUNSHI
.

 
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(Jap., ‘great incarnation’). The appearing in, or as, the human form of a deity.

 
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Daigo-tettei
(profound enlightenment)
:

see
DAISHI
.

 
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Daigu Ryokan
(Zen poet and monk)
:

see
RY
KAN DAIGU
.

 
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