medicine Ruyicao 如意草 "as-desired plant" is the greater burdock, Arctium lappa Ruyi Wanju 如意玩具 "as-desired toys" names "Toys "R" Us" Besides Prince Liu Ruyi (above), Ruyi is used in other personal names. Murong Ruyi 慕容如意 was a son of General Murong Baiyao 慕容白曜, both of whom were executed by Emperor Xianwen of Northern Wei in 470 AD Pang Ruyi 逄如意 is Gong Li's character in the movie Temptress Moon Ruyi can also be a place name. Ruyiguan 如意館 "as-desired palace" was a Qing Dynasty library in the Forbidden City Ruyihu 如意湖 "as-desired lake", a lake located near Chengde in Hebei Ruyimen 如意門 "as-desired gate" is a historical Siheyuan in Beijing Ruyizhen 如意镇 "as-desired town" in Shaoshan city Ruyifang 如意坊 "as-desired lane", a station on the Guangzhou Metro Other usages in Japanese In modern Japanese usage, the loanword nyoi 如意 "as desired; as [one] wishes" means "ease; comfort; freedom" or "(Buddhist) priest's staff". A few Buddhist temples in Japan are named with Nyoi. Nyoi-ji 如意寺, a Tendai temple in Kobe, and a Shingon temple in Kyōtango, Kyoto Nyoirin-ji 如意輪寺, a Pure Land Buddhism temple in Yoshino, Nara, famous for a Nyoi-rin image by En no Gyōja Besides temples, some other proper names include Nyoigatake 如意ケ嶽 "as-desired peak" is located near Kyoto, and the site of a 1509 AD battle, the Nyoi-gatake no Tatakai 如意ケ嶽の戦い Nyoi-jizai 如意自在 "as-desired carefree, completely free and unconstrained" is the name of a yōkai spirit in Toriyama Sekien's 1781 AD Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro Nyoi no Watashi 如意の渡し "as-desired crossing" is a ferry on the Oyabe River in Toyama Prefecture Gallery See also Khakkhara Ruyi Jingu Bang Backscratcher References Beal, Samuel, tr. 1884. Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, by Hiuen Tsiang. London. Davidson, J. LeRoy. 1950. "The Origin and Early Use of the Ju-i", Artibus Asiae 13.4:239–249. Diener, Michael S., Franz-Karl Erhard, and Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber. 1991. The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen. Michael H. Kohn, tr. Shambhala. Edkins, Joseph (1904), "The Ju-i, or Scepter of Good Fortune", East of Asia Magazine, 238–240. Giles, Herbert A. (1912), Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art, Bernard Quaritch. Kieschnick, John. 2003. The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture. Princeton University Press. Laufer, Berthold, 1912. Jade, a Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion. Field Museum of Natural History. Takakusu Junjiro, tr. 1896. A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago.