The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1268 page)

 
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Kencho-ji
(monastery)
:

see
KAMAKURA
.

 
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(Jap., ‘way of the sword’). The Zen way of attaining mastery over emotions, by swordplay and fencing.

 
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(Heb., ‘the community of Israel’). The totality of the Jewish community. In
aggadic
literature, ‘Keneset Yisrael’ is used as the personification of the Jewish people in the dialogue with God. The Keneset subsequently became the name for the Israeli parliament. Solomon
Schechter
proposed the use of the term, translated as ‘Catholic Israel’, to pick out those elements on which the consensus of the Jewish people is agreed.

 
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Kengy
(exoteric Buddhist teaching)
:

see
MIKKY
.

 
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Kenite
.

A nomadic Middle Eastern tribe. Some scholars have maintained that the theology of
Moses
was influenced by the Kenites through his father-in-law Jethro, and that this is the origin of the innovation of the god
Yahweh
; this is the Kenite hypothesis.

 
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