The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1604 page)

BOOK: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
4.51Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
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
).

Other books

Alone by Richard E. Byrd
Who Buries the Dead by C. S. Harris
The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin Jr.
Borrowing Trouble by Stacy Finz
Between Friends by Debbie Macomber
The Newgate Jig by Ann Featherstone