{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T11:48:46Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a09571-d679-7e80-8481-8dc1fa90ee20\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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the intended registry referent remains to be confirmed.", "in_scope": [ "The meaning and use of oshō within a named Buddhist tradition and historical period", "Evidence connecting the title to a particular holder", "Tradition-specific qualifications and recognition procedures", "Relationships between the title, dharma transmission and temple appointments", "Activities authorised by independently documented qualifications or appointments" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The biography and personal identity of an individual title holder", "Osho as the name of the spiritual teacher also known as Rajneesh", "The organisation and property of a temple or Buddhist school", "Buddhist doctrine and ritual procedures considered independently", "Generic clergy employment, job advertisements and compensation", "The complete hierarchy of Buddhist titles and ranks" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The occurrence denotes a clerical title or form of address, rather than merely matching the spelling of a personal name.", "Its meaning is interpreted through a named tradition and period; an unqualified English translation does not establish equivalent standing across schools.", "Evidence of being called oshō is distinguished from evidence of holding a resident-priest or abbot appointment.", "Ordination, dharma transmission and institutional registration are recorded separately rather than collapsed into one qualification.", "Use of oshō alone does not establish authority to train priests, transmit the dharma or exercise civil officiating powers." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attested title form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Original written form, romanisation and contextual translation; record whether 和尚 is attested", "why_it_matters": "Separates an evidenced title occurrence from an ambiguous name or translation." }, { "name": "Tradition and institutional context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named Buddhist school, lineage and recognising institution, where known", "why_it_matters": "Supplies the context needed to interpret the title's requirements and significance." }, { "name": "Usage function", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Formal standing; honorific address; historical attribution; translated designation; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents courtesy usage from being treated automatically as a credential." }, { "name": "Title holder", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to a separately identified person", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the role distinct from the person who bears it." }, { "name": "Recognition evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Reported; documented; disputed; unresolved, with dated supporting records", "why_it_matters": "Lets an agent assess whether a title attribution can support a decision." }, { "name": "Qualification basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Separate evidence for ordination, transmission, ceremonies, registration or other locally required milestones", "why_it_matters": "Avoids inventing a universal route to oshō recognition." }, { "name": "Temple appointment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named office, appointing body and appointment period; none evidenced; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes clerical standing from responsibility for a particular temple." }, { "name": "Activity-specific authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Activity, authorising institution, supporting qualification, applicable place and period", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about teaching, ritual leadership or training without relying on the title alone." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate an occurrence of oshō from a personal name or a neighbouring clerical title.", "Compare a title claim with the recognising tradition's documented requirements.", "Identify missing evidence for ordination, transmission, registration or appointment.", "Select a locally appropriate form of address or translation.", "Determine whether a proposed religious activity has supporting authority beyond the title.", "Refer disputed standing to the relevant institution while preserving the competing accounts." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain the title osho and its use in Zen and other Japanese Buddhist schools, citing sources.", "Note how its meaning varies by school." ], "must_not": [ "Confuse the traditional title with the name of a modern guru movement.", "Grant or claim the title for someone without the school's recognition.", "Mock Buddhist clergy or practice.", "Misstate the rank a title implies." ], "requires_human": [ "Addressing or describing a named teacher in public material." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Titles carry religious authority that communities confer.", "Confusion with a modern movement misleads readers." ], "affected_parties": [ "Buddhist clergy", "Practitioners" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the title; Buddhist schools confer it.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "Osho is encountered in Japanese Buddhist communities as a respectful title for a priest or religious teacher, particularly in Zen.", "It appears in forms of address, temple communications and descriptions of religious teaching or practice.", "Its precise significance must be understood through the relevant Buddhist school and local institution." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The International Labour Organization's International Standard Classification of Occupations, ISCO-08, includes religious professionals in unit group 2636 and can classify the occupation of a priest addressed as osho." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Treating the title as proof of a particular appointment or qualification can misrepresent a person's authority.", "Assuming that the title grants unrestricted permission to teach or officiate can conflict with institutional requirements.", "Misidentifying a title holder can cause religious offense or reputational harm." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "The title cannot be established from robes, hairstyle or other visible features because these do not uniquely identify its holders." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1856321: oshō", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1856321", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Oshō", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osh%C5%8D", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "title-meaning-and-boundaries", "name": "Title meaning and boundaries", "description": "Establish what oshō denotes in the occurrence being modelled.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, and the spelling can be confused with a personal name or an overly broad translation.", "layers": [ { "id": "written-form-and-referent", "name": "Written form and referent", "description": "Resolve the expression before interpreting religious standing.", "findings": [ { "id": "clerical-title-identification", "name": "Clerical title identification", "description": "Treat the Japanese Buddhist title as the working referent, retaining uncertainty until the registry's originating evidence confirms it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the originating registry record identify oshō as 和尚 or otherwise establish a Japanese Buddhist clerical title?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "clerical-title-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates this occurrence from Osho as a personal name?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "clerical-title-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-meaning-and-translation", "name": "Local meaning and translation", "description": "Interpret the title within its own linguistic and institutional setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-title-equivalence", "name": "Contextual title equivalence", "description": "Record whether a source uses oshō as an honorific, recognised standing or translated designation; do not equate it automatically with rōshi, abbot or Zen master.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the named community define oshō in the relevant period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "contextual-title-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "Which neighbouring titles does that community explicitly distinguish from oshō?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contextual-title-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-qualification", "name": "Recognition and qualification", "description": "Identify the local basis for recognising someone as oshō.", "rationale": "Clerical milestones and title conventions require institution-specific evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognising-authority", "name": "Recognising authority", "description": "Locate the institution or community whose recognition is being claimed.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-context", "name": "Recognition context", "description": "Distinguish institutional recognition from a teacher's usage, community address or self-description.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who recognises this holder as oshō, and in what capacity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-context-q01" }, { "text": "Does the recognition apply within one temple, a lineage or a wider denominational body?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognition-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "clerical-milestones", "name": "Clerical milestones", "description": "Keep the steps supporting title recognition individually assessable.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-qualification-route", "name": "Documented qualification route", "description": "A Sōtō institutional account groups ten-e and zuise under Osho; this supports investigating a specific qualification route without generalising it to every school. [Soto Zen Buddhism North America](https://sotozen.us/aboutus/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ordination, transmission, ceremony or registration requirements does the relevant institution specify for oshō standing?", "kind": "definition", "id": "documented-qualification-route-q01" }, { "text": "Which records demonstrate this holder's completion of each applicable requirement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-qualification-route-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "holder-lineage-and-office", "name": "Holder, lineage and office", "description": "Connect the title to a person without conflating spiritual relationships and organisational appointments.", "rationale": "A title, a transmission relationship and a temple office answer different questions about a cleric.", "layers": [ { "id": "holder-and-transmission", "name": "Holder and transmission", "description": "Identify the title bearer and separately document any transmission relationship.", "findings": [ { "id": "separate-title-and-lineage-evidence", "name": "Separate title and lineage evidence", "description": "Record a claimed transmission teacher and event through their own evidence; do not reconstruct a lineage from the title alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identified person bears the title in the source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "separate-title-and-lineage-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What independent record establishes any claimed dharma transmission relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "separate-title-and-lineage-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "temple-office", "name": "Temple office", "description": "Represent resident-priest, abbot or other appointments separately from oshō usage.", "findings": [ { "id": "appointment-specific-responsibility", "name": "Appointment-specific responsibility", "description": "Determine temple responsibilities from an appointment and its terms rather than treating oshō as the name of an office.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the holder have a separately evidenced temple appointment, and who made it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "appointment-specific-responsibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which responsibilities arise from that appointment rather than from oshō standing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "appointment-specific-responsibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "religious-activities-and-permissions", "name": "Religious activities and permissions", "description": "Assess what a title holder is qualified and authorised to do in a particular setting.", "rationale": "The title is insufficient by itself to decide who may lead practice, conduct rites or train other clerics.", "layers": [ { "id": "teaching-and-ritual-service", "name": "Teaching and ritual service", "description": "Relate proposed community activities to documented competence and permission.", "findings": [ { "id": "activity-specific-service-basis", "name": "Activity-specific service basis", "description": "Assess meditation instruction, teaching and ritual leadership separately wherever the institution distinguishes them.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence qualifies and authorises this holder to conduct the requested teaching or ritual?", "kind": "action", "id": "activity-specific-service-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Does the activity require a temple invitation, local appointment or additional qualification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "activity-specific-service-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "clerical-training-and-transmission", "name": "Clerical training and transmission", "description": "Evaluate authority over the formation and recognition of other practitioners.", "findings": [ { "id": "training-authority-not-inferred", "name": "Training authority not inferred", "description": "Require specific evidence before attributing permission to ordain, supervise formal priest training or confer dharma transmission.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority and qualification permit the holder to perform the proposed ordination, training or transmission role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "training-authority-not-inferred-q01" }, { "text": "What additional verification is needed before assigning this holder responsibility for a trainee?", "kind": "action", "id": "training-authority-not-inferred-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "title-use-over-time", "name": "Title use over time", "description": "Track dated evidence and changes in recognition without treating every title occurrence as a current credential.", "rationale": "Historical address, continuing title usage and current permission to act can diverge.", "layers": [ { "id": "dated-attribution", "name": "Dated attribution", "description": "Place title evidence in its temporal and documentary context.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-validity", "name": "Attribution validity", "description": "Separate the date a source was published from the period for which it attests title usage or recognition.", "questions": [ { "text": "For which period does the evidence attest the holder's use or recognition of oshō?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attribution-validity-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a contemporary institutional record, retrospective account or ceremonial reference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-validity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contested-or-changed-standing", "name": "Contested or changed standing", "description": "Handle conflicting claims and changes under the relevant institution's rules.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-and-office-change", "name": "Recognition and office change", "description": "Record changes to title recognition, temple office and activity permissions separately; do not assume that one change automatically alters the others.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does a reported resignation, restriction or institutional departure affect title recognition, an appointment or only specified activities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognition-and-office-change-q01" }, { "text": "Which institution can resolve conflicting evidence about the holder's current standing?", "kind": "action", "id": "recognition-and-office-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The absent recorded sense leaves ambiguity; the macron and role context support interpreting this entry as the Japanese Buddhist title.", "A researcher should verify school-specific qualifications, rank, pronunciation and teaching authority before assigning them to the title." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of oshō this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Respectfully addressing or referring to a Buddhist priest or teacher.", "Recognizing a cleric's standing within a particular Buddhist community." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of oshō this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating the title as a uniform qualification or rank across Buddhist schools.", "Assuming the title alone establishes a person's teaching authorization or institutional responsibilities.", "Confusing the Japanese title with Osho, the name adopted by the Indian spiritual teacher formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of oshō this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Japanese Buddhist schools differ in the pronunciation and institutional use of the written title 和尚.", "Related titles occur in other East Asian Buddhist traditions, but their local meanings and usage should not be assumed identical." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of oshō this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Buddhist priest", "difference": "Buddhist priest describes a religious role; oshō is a title used for certain holders of religious roles." }, { "name": "rōshi", "difference": "Rōshi is a distinct Japanese title associated especially with respected or senior Zen teachers; its use does not make it interchangeable with oshō." }, { "name": "abbot", "difference": "Abbot denotes leadership of a monastery; the title oshō alone does not establish that its bearer holds that office." }, { "name": "Osho", "difference": "Osho can designate the individual spiritual teacher Rajneesh, whereas oshō here denotes a Japanese Buddhist title." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of oshō this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the originating record for vr.tr.osh confirm the Japanese Buddhist title 和尚, and does an existing Vercy world model already cover that concept?", "Which traditions and historical periods fall within this registry entry, and how do their meanings and recognition requirements differ?", "When is oshō a formal institutional designation rather than customary respectful address in each included tradition?", "Which activities require qualifications or appointments additional to oshō recognition in each included institution?", "How do the included institutions treat continued title usage after retirement, departure, disciplinary restriction or death?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 15, "questions": 25 } }