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Hello friends,

I am the guilty party for not adding sources when I made a correction in the original. I've now added them. The reference from the dictionaries are as follows for those interested (I removed the macrons above the a's because they don't come out):

広辞苑：おしょう【和尚】ヲシヤウ (梵語upadhyayaの俗語形の音写。師の意) ＃〔仏〕(特に禅宗でいう。天台宗ではカショウ、律宗・真言宗・真宗等ではワジョウともよむ) [株式会社岩波書店広辞苑第五版]

漢字源：梵語ボンゴｕｐaｄｈｙaｙａ（親しく教える師匠の意）を西域の［ウテン］でｋｈｏｓｈａと呼び、これを音訳したのが「和尚」であるという。 [改訂新版　漢字源　株式会社学習研究社]

To Julia below, you're close. It is also an old word for a high-class prostitute. Close, but not exactly maidens! See: 上席の遊女の称。そぞろ物語「此の女郎衆の外に、―様と名付け、容色無双の美人達おはしますが」 [株式会社岩波書店広辞苑第五版]

Cheers --Gunnermanz (talk) 16:37, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Osho perfection[edit]

I don't know about it only being a zen term - I saw a reminiscence, an old samurai reflecting on the astounding Osho, or maidens of perfect beauty implying it was a medieval (?) term for young women so beautiful they didn't wear makeup or adorn their hair. I don't know what the reference is, so if anyone knows... please? Julia Rossi 07:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably a homonym. Doceirias (talk) 03:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]