Shao-lin: Chinese monastery where Bodhidharma reportedly first
went to meditate.
Shen-hsiu (606-706): traditionally said to have been rival of Hui- neng at monastery of Fifth Patriarch and later much favored by Chinese ruling circles.
shibui: important tenn for later Zen aesthetics which means understated, simple good taste. shin: type of ink-painting technique.
shincha: type of tea.
shinden: Heian architectural stvle borrowed from China.
Shingon: esoteric sect of Buddhism introduced into Japan by
Kukai in 808.
Shino: style of Japanese Zen-inspired ceramics.
Shinran (1173-1262): founder of the Jodo Shin sect in Japan (1224).