popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  adverb  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  grammar  Buddhism 

• the past, bygone days
• one's past (that one would prefer remained secret)
• past (tense), preterit, preterite
• previous life

popular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  adverb  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  noun (suffix)  grammar  Buddhism  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  intransitive verb 

• the present, present time, now
• as of
• present tense
• this world, this life
• to actually exist, to exist right now, to exist right in front of one

popular  JLPT N4  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  Buddhism 

• the world, society, the universe
• sphere, circle, world
• world-renowned, world-famous
• realm governed by one Buddha, space

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  Buddhism  Christianity  abbreviation 

• love, affection, care
• attachment, craving, desire
• agape
• Ireland

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  Buddhism 

• consciousness
• becoming aware (of), awareness, sense
• mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  adverb  Buddhism 

• reality, actuality, truth, fact, actual conditions
• practice (as opposed to theory)
• truly, really, indeed, actually
• bhutakoti (limit of reality)

popular  noun  noun (generic)  Buddhism 

• reason, principle, logic
• general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon)
• the underlying principles of the cosmos (in neo-Confucianism)

popular  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  Buddhism  noun (prefix) 

• morality, righteousness, justice, honour (honor)
• meaning
• teachings, doctrine
• nonconsanguineous relationship (i.e. of in-laws)
• prosthesis

popular  noun  noun (generic)  Christianity  Buddhism  abbreviation  obsolete term 

• sky
• heaven
• God
• svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth)
• deva (divine being of Buddhism)
• top (of a book)
• sole (of a Japanese sandal)
• beginning, start
• tempura
• India

popular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  Buddhism 

• flag
• pataka (banner)
• banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)