agyo (or ago) "comment" Literally, "to give a word"; used in Zen literature especially for a comment on a koan case. anraku "ease and joy" Skt. sukha, "bliss". A term widely used in Buddhist writing both in the common sense of "comfortable", "pleasant", and in the more theological sense of a higher state of enlightenment, salvation, or nirvana. Often associated with meditation, from Kumârajîva's translation of the "Sukhavihâra" chapter of the Lotus Sûtra, in which it is said that the bodhisattva's life of "ease and joy" consists in always enjoying zazen (pratisamlayana), retiring from the world to practice control of his mind (T.9:37b10). anri "observance" A common Zen term for religious practices, especially the concrete actions and observances (sahô) of the monk, as, e.g., in the expression nôsô anri, "observances of the disheveled [i.e., Zen] monk", much discussed by Hongzhi (e.g., at Hongshi chanshi guang lu, T.48,36b21). Not to be confused with the homophonous anri (sometimes read kôri), used in reference to the parcel of an itinerate monk.