木もく食じき上しょう人にん

noun

holy men who abstain from meat and cooked food

Historical Buddhist term for ascetics who practiced a strict diet of raw, uncooked foods, often associated with mountain hermits.

• 木もく食じき上しょう人にんは、肉にくや火ひを通とおした食たべ物ものを避さけて修しゅ行ぎょうした僧そうを指さす。

  Mokujiki shōnin refers to monks who practiced asceticism by avoiding meat and cooked food.