The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (734 page)

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Enryaku-ji
(centre of Tendai)
:

see
SAICH

;
TENDAI SH

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Ens

or ichi-ens

(Jap., ‘circle’). The symbol especially in Zen Buddhism, of the absolute and uncontained reality, enlightenment. It occurs frequently in Zen painting, executed in a single, flowing stroke of the brush.

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En Sof
(the God beyond description in Judaism)
:

see
EIN-SOF
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Enstasy

(Gk.,
en-stasis
, ‘standing into’). The experiences, or abolition of experience, arising as a consequence of those meditational, etc., techniques which withdraw the practitioner from the world, and even from awareness of the self. The word was coined in contrast to
ecstasy
. Examples are
dhy