いしんでんしん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of いしんでんしん – see the following entry.
以心伝心
[noun] (Zen Buddhism) the teaching of intangible or abstract concepts in 仏法 (buppō, dharma) without using words
[noun] non-verbal communication, or the ability to immediately understand each other without words
(This term, いしんでんしん (ishindenshin), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)