The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1078 page)

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Iktis
b
(acquisition of acts)
:
see
QADAR
.
I-kuan Tao
(Way of Pervading Unity)
.
A Chinese Buddhist-
Taoist
society, an offshoot of the
White Lotus
Sect, founded by Wang Chüeh-i in the early 20th cent. Its main doctrine is
eschatological
-
messianic
:
Bodhisattva
Maitreya
, at the command of Mother of Nobirth (Wu-sheng Lao-mu), the creator-deity, will appear to the world imminently, at the end of the third and last
kalpa
to save its members and all other human beings.
I-k’ung
(Jap., Giku
;
9th cent.
). Chinese Ch'an/Zen master of the
Rinzai
school, who was invited by the empress, Tachibana Kachiko, to bring Ch'an to Japan. Danran-ji in
Ky
to
was built for him, but he found no apt pupils, and he therefore returned to China. No further attempts were made at this translation until the 12th/13th cents.
Il
.
One of three Hindu goddesses (
g Veda
1. 13. 9) who bring delight. She was born from the horse-sacrifice (
a
vamedha
) of Manu.

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