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left side; left-hand side

2

nice to meet you; I'm glad to make your acquaintance; how do you do?

1

Gautama Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha

7

first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

1

rapid development; rapid unfolding

1

to accompany; to follow; to keep up with

2

the dead; ghost; person who is obsessed (with money, power, etc.); person with a blind lust (for)

1

attaining enlightenment; becoming a Buddha; entering Nirvana; going to heaven; resting in peace; dying (peacefully)

4

the point just before ...; the point of (doing); the verge (of); (just before the) edge

1

sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care

1

reincarnation; rebirth; transmigration; metempsychosis

5

Tohto University

1

faculty of letters; college of letters; school of humanities

1

humanities; arts

1

department (of a university or hospital); course (of study); branch of study; family

1

professor; teaching; instruction

1

graduate school

1

thought; idea; ideology

1

learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics

1

postgraduate course; graduate course; graduate program; graduate school (of)

1

philosophy

1

centre; center; center fielder

1

long

1

strength; toughness; bravery; boldness

2

fat; fatty; grand; magnificent; excellent

2

nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband

2

June; sixth month of the lunar calendar

1

India

2

venomous snake; poisonous snake

1

nickname

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Gautama

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Siddhartha

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child; children

3

association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion

1

this person; he; she

3

actual existence; real existence; existing in real life

1

(distant) future; future existence; world beyond the grave; future (tense)

3

to not understand; to not (quite) know; to be unsure; to be unable to tell

1

before; prior to; ago; the past; before; previously

1

to die; to pass away

1

(United States of) America; United States; US; America (land mass); the Americas

1

Michigan

1

state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. of Canada); continent; province (of Japan); province (of ancient China); prefecture

1

one's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)

1

fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy

1

Japan

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university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

1

person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff

1

(verbal) message; word (from someone)

1

regret; flesh, blood vessels and fat from around chicken heart (usu. served as yakitori)

1