Encyclopedia of Religion

Thiasoi may be closely related to such phenomena as women’s and men’s initiation clubs as found in the form of secret societies ...

of Imitation of Christ has far transcended the author’s time and place. A devotionalist rather than a theologian, Thomas has had ...

ing, notably in his commentary on the Sentences; On Being and Essence, on the meaning of certain metaphysical terms; and in a sh ...

The extensive second part of the Summa theologiae was entirely written at Paris during the intense years 1269 to This part, lat ...

study of the whole human person composed of matter (body) and form (soul). This study also shows that the human soul has functio ...

terminology, however, is always traditional, largely philo- sophical, and often Aristotelian. For this reason it is impor- tant ...

anthologies are Basic Writings, 2 vols., edited by Anton C. Pegis (New York, 1945); Philosophical Texts, edited and translated b ...

Óðinn); his domain is Þrúðvangar (“fields of force”), and his home, Bilskirnir (presumably “shining in flashes,” a reference to ...

lad style of the text and the jocular presentation of the argu- ment clearly indicate that the Þrymskviða is one of the more rec ...

the ibis and the baboon. He is regularly depicted as a human with the head of an ibis. Baboons often appear in temple re- liefs ...

Poghirc have established a clear distinction between two lin- guistic areas: the Thracian area, in which toponyms ending in -par ...

Thracian king Lykurgos (lit., “wolf’s anger”) pursues Diony- sos, who, in his turn, brings down madness upon the king. The king ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY The written sources on the religion of the Thracians are contained in Fontes historiae Dacoromanae, 2 vols., edited ...

Dimitrova, Nora. “Inscriptions and Iconography in the Monu- ments of the Thracian Rider.” Hesperia 71 (2002): 209–229. Walter, C ...

refers to something akin to “fate,” as in the expression mingyun de tian (“Heaven-determined destiny”). As with the anthropomorp ...

academic and doctrinal systems of Chinese Maha ̄ya ̄na Bud- dhism. ORIGINS. Zhiyi’s major meditation text, the Mohe zhiguan (The ...

Su ̄tra) and the Jinguangming jing (a Prajña ̄pa ̄ramita ̄ text); both of these lectures served as the basis for later written w ...

Zhiyi divided the contents of the Lotus Sutra into three parts, two parts, and a combination of the two. He divided the whole of ...

THE FIVE PERIODS AND THE EIGHT TEACHINGS. One of the most distinctive features of Tiantai thought was its classifica- tion of th ...

Maha ̄ya ̄na bodhisattvas, this teaching is coupled with a pre- sentation of the three insights, emptiness (gu), provisional ex- ...