The Religious Experience

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Across
  1. 3. A Sikh congregation.
  2. 5. Taking a flexible, nondogmatic approach.
  3. 6. A Chinese and Japanese school emphasizing that all things have Buddha-nature, which can only be grasped when one escapes from the intellectual mind.
  4. 8. The constitutional principle of not giving favored status to any religion.
  5. 11. Belief that there is no deity.
  6. 13. Visual contact with the divine.
  7. 14. An incarnation of a deity.
  8. 15. Full awareness of invisible reality.
Down
  1. 1. Nectar made with sugar and water, symbolizing the sweetness of compassion.
  2. 2. Actions; the law of cause and effect.
  3. 4. A Sihk temple.
  4. 6. Sitting meditation, in Zen schools.
  5. 7. Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.
  6. 9. Liberation from mental afflictions, suffering, and rebirth.
  7. 10. Small sword worn by Khalsa initiates.
  8. 12. Spiritual teacher.