The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1604 page)

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Mumonkan
(Zen text):
see
K
AN
.
Mumuk
utva
(Skt., ‘serious for liberation’). One of the four prerequisites in Hindus for those who aspire to
mok
a
(liberation).
a
kara
describes the others as the power to discriminate between what is real and unreal (
viveka
), natural capacity and willingness to grow away from worldly things (
vair
gya
), and the six great virtues (
atkasa
patti
).

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