[しこう(P);せぎょう;せこう;しぎょう, shikou (P); segyou ; sekou ; shigyou] (n, vs) (1) (しこう, せこう, しぎょう only) execution; enforcing; carrying out; (2) (せぎょう only) giving alms; giving food to the poor or monks; (P) #1677
[げあんご, geango] (n) { Buddh } summer retreat where monks stay in the same place to study
[なつなか, natsunaka] (n) { Buddh } (See 夏安居) period during which monks may go into a summer retreat
[ぐぶ, gubu] (n, vs) (1) accompanying; being in attendance on; (n) (2) (abbr) (See 内供奉) inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall)
[ぐそう, gusou] (n) (1) silly monk; foolish monk; (pn) (2) (hum) (used by monks) I; me
[ごさいえ;みさいえ, gosaie ; misaie] (n) (See 金光明最勝王経) imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)
[こうやひじり, kouyahijiri] (n) (1) Mt. Koya missionary (usu. low-ranking monks); (2) (uk) (See 田鼈) Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug)
[さいじき, saijiki] (n) (1) { Buddh } morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.); (2) food offering at a Buddhist ceremony
[ししゅ;ししゅう, shishu ; shishuu] (n) (1) four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees); (2) four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices); (3) (in Tendai) the four assemblies
[しぶしゅ, shibushu] (n) (obsc) (See 四衆) four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)