The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (877 page)

Gozan Zen
(form of Zen Buddhism in Japan)
:

see
RINZAI-SH
.

 
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Gozu
(school of Ch’an Buddhism)
:

see FAJUNG.

 
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Grace
.

1
In Christian theology, the expression of God's love in his free unmerited favour or assistance.
‘Grace’ then becomes a category for describing free and uncoerced actions in other religions, especially of K
a in the
Bhagavad-g
t
: see e.g. PRAS
DA; R
M
NUJA (for
anugraha
); PRAPATTI. As a concept, grace is of great importance for Sikhs, in Gur
N
nak's
hymns and in all subsequent Sikh theology. Analogous to the benedictory glance of a human guru, this sense of God's loving favour is conveyed by the words
pra
ad
,
kirp
,
nadar
,
bakh