じょうざ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of じょうざ – see the following entry.
【上座】
[noun] seat of honor; a seat at the head of the table
[noun] (religion) an experienced priest who leads a religious organization
[noun] (Buddhism) chief priest, senior priest; one of the sankō, the three priests who administer certain Buddhist temples
[noun] (Zen Buddhism) one of the ranks for monks in the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism
(This term, じょうざ (jōza), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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