The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1425 page)

BOOK: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
4.25Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
Hindu
festival
of nine days, celebrating the Goddess, usually as
Durg
.
Mahant
(Hind
, Pañj
b
, ‘head of certain religious establishments’). Hereditary ‘priests’ who often appropriated the property of
gurdw
r
s
under their control.
Mah
parinibb
na-sutta
(The Discourse on the Great Decease)
.
The sixteenth discourse in the Long Collection of Discourses (
D
gha Nik
ya
) of the Buddhist
P
li canon
. The text describes the events leading up to the Buddha's death and his travels during the last few months of his life, and records his final utterance: ‘Decay is inherent in all composite things: work with diligence.’

Other books

Sold to the Sheikh by Chloe Cox
March Battalion by Sven Hassel
Cianuro espumoso by Agatha Christie
Times Change by Nora Roberts
Until Series: Box set by Aurora Rose Reynolds
Joe Gould's Secret by Mitchell, Joseph;
Black Wind by Clive Cussler
Smoke and Rain by V. Holmes