The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1290 page)

(1804–60).
Russian lay theologian. He was at the centre of the Slavophil movement and was very influential, though his writings are mainly occasional. He saw the Orthodox Church as preserving the truest form of Christianity, finding its unity in
sobornost
', a togetherness brought about in the Church by the
Holy
Spirit, deeper than the authoritarian unity of the
Papacy
or the individualist fragmentation of the
Protestants
.

 
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Khrafstras
(evil agents)
:

see
ANGRA MAINYU
.

 
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Khsathra
(one of the Holy Immortals)
:

see
AMESA SPENTAS
.

 
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(P
li, ‘short collection’). The fifth part of the Sutta-, or S
tra-pi
aka, in the Buddhist P
li
canon
, containing fifteen ‘short’ sections:

(i) 
Khuddaka-p
tha
, rules for ceremonies, etc.;
(ii) 
Dhammapada
, 426 verses on basic teaching;
(iii) 
Ud
na
, 80 sayings of the
Buddha
;
(iv) 
Itivuttaka
, on moral questions;
(v) 
Sutta-nip
ta
;
(vi) 
Vim
navatthu
, 83 legends of devas to show how to attain reappearance as a
deva
;
(vii) 
Petavatthu
, on reappearance as a hungry ghost;
(viii) 
Thera-g
th
, 107 songs (
g
th
) ascribed to the monks of old;
(ix) 
Ther
g
th
, 73 ascribed to nuns of old;
(x) 
J
taka
;
(xi) 
Niddesa
, commentary on (v);
(xii) 
Patisambhid
magga
, analysis of philosophical issues;
(xiii) 
Apad
na