Kalyāṇa-mittatā (Pali; Skt.: -mitratā; CHN: 善知識) is a Buddhist concept of "admirable friendship" within Buddhist community life, applicable to both monastic
three sub-schools, Sōtō (曹洞), Rinzai (臨済), and Ōbaku (黃檗). Zenchishiki (善知識, lit. "Good Friend(ship)") – The Japanese Shinto-Buddhist name for the Buddhist
the Objectivity or Knowledge: A New Foundation for Epistemology’ [知識の客観性について——新たなる知識論の基盤] (Shisō [思想], No. 248 and No. 249, January-February 1943). ‘On