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Takhats
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Literally 'throne', but in Sikhism
five prominent Gurdwaras from which guidance is sought on
matters affecting the Sikh panth. |
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tallit/tallis |
A woollen or silk shawl, or cloak worn by Jewish
males during morning prayer carrying tassels on the four corners
commanded in the Torah. |
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Talmud |
An encyclopedic corpus of Jewish books made
up of Mishnah (oral law) and Gemara (rabbinic discussion of
the law). |
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Tantra |
Each of a class of Hindu and Buddhist mystical
writings dealing with the evocation of deities, the acquisition
of magical power and the attainment of enlightenment by means
of meditation. |
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Tawhid |
Islamic belief in the unity of Allah. |
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Tear Fund |
An international relief and development agency
funded by evangelical Christians and churches in the UK and
Ireland. |
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Tenakh,the |
The Jewish Bible, the word is an acronym ‚Torah
(the Law, Pentateuch or five books of Moses), Neviim (the
Prophets) and Ketuvim (Holy Writings such as the books of
Psalms, Proverbs, Esther and Ruth). |
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Ten Commandments,
the |
In the Jewish and Christian Bibles, A series
of 'God given rules' by which people should live. 10 of the
613 mitzvoh given in the Torah. [For Christians, all the law
and everything taught by the prophets was summarised by Jesus
in two great commandments, to love God, and to love your neighbour
as yourself.] |
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Theravada |
From a Sanskrit word meaning 'doctrine of the
elders', applies to the branch of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and
South-East Asia. |
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Three Signs of
Being (or 3 marks of conditioned existence) |
In Buddhist teaching, the three principal characteristics
of everything in the universe, i.e. anicca (non-permanence),
anatta (no individual permanent soul) and dukkha (suffering). |
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Three Jewels (or
Refuges, sometimes known as the 'triple gem') |
In Buddhist tradition 1) the Buddha 2) the
Dhamma (the teaching) and 3) the Sangha (the community). In
most Buddhist rituals the formulaic declaration affirms the
centrality of these elements. |
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Torah |
'Instruction', a word which usually refers
to the first five books of the bible, but sometimes to the
whole Jewish bible and sometimes to the whole of Rabinnic
literature. |
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Transfiguration,
the |
A change in appearance by Jesus, witnessed
by three of his disciples, and considered by Christians as
one of the manifestations by which God sought to reveal Jesus
as his Son. |
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(Holy) Trinity,
the |
Christian understanding of God as being essentially
one but at the same time three distinct, although inseparable,
divine persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. |
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Tripitaka |
(Three Baskets) The Buddhist scriptural canon,
consisting of the basic documents collected, collated and
edited by Buddha's disciples. |
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