Encyclopedia of Religion

the Maha ̄ya ̄na bodhisattva precepts found in the Brahma ̄’s Net Su ̄tra and Lotus Su ̄tra be substituted for it. Neither sourc ...

and monastic practitioners. Pure Land practices were later spread by a variety of men with Tendai affiliations, including Ko ̄ya ...

DEITIES NAMED TENGRI. At the same time that Tengri the sky god emerges (second half of the first millennium CE), Old Turkic insc ...

It appears that in ancient times the Tengri cult thrived for only short periods; nevertheless, it developed rapidly. Sac- rifice ...

ences of Shinto ̄ and state nationalism. This movement marked a step toward a redefinition of Tenrikyo ̄ as distinct from Sect S ...

gious reformer, and author of religious classics. Teresa was born at Ávila in the Castilian region of Spain on March 28, 1515, t ...

both translated and edited by E. Allison Peers from the criti- cal Spanish edition of Silverio of Saint Teresa. Saint Teresa of ...

198 and 203—Tertullian exhibited similar tendencies to dis- tinguish Christian from pagan life. Those being baptized should come ...

mark was, since both Montanism and Tertullian adhered rather closely to primitive Christian views. Most significant was his acce ...

Güterbock, Hans G. “The Song of UlliKummi.” Journal of Cunei- form Studies 5 (1951): 135–161 and 6 (1952): 8–42. Laroche, Emmanu ...

ner) adds up to 613, the number of mitzvoth, or obligations, in the Torah. Binding. Present-day Hindu practice continues to use ...

of Quechua noble women devoted to the cult of the Sun God. Among their duties was the weaving of clothing for the ruler or Inka, ...

Some floor coverings promote ideas of spatial orienta- tion. Within many of the powerful agrarian empires across the world, the ...

viving fabrics dating from the late Medieval period. The larg- est number of textiles used within religious ceremony have neithe ...

One of the best references for the East Asian region in English is J. J. M. de Groot’s The Religious System of China: Its Ancien ...

Olivier, Guilhem. Moqueries et metamorphoses du’an dieu aztèque: Tezcatlipoca, le “Seigneur au miroir fumant” (Mockeries and Met ...

at the time of the next Buddha, S ́r ̄ı Ariya Maitreya (Thai, Phra S ̄ı A ̄n)—were detailed graphically in such sermons as the p ...

sons and the head of the Dhammayuttika fraternity, were given effective authority over the whole of the sangha in Chu- lalongkor ...

dhist nationalism. Millennial uprisings in northeastern Thai- land in 1901–1902 and resistance in the 1920s and 1930s by Khru ̄b ...

Nineteenth-Century Culture Change,” Journal of Asian Studies 35 (February 1976): 203–220, and A. Thomas Kirsch’s “Modernizing Im ...