The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1972 page)

d,
li
, and ‘
s
(Jesus). They are regarded as being free from sin.

 
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Ratana Church
.

The largest independent movement and the third largest religious group among the Maoris of New Zealand, with headquarters at Ratana Pa (‘village’) near Marton. It was founded by Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana (1873–1939), a
Methodist
farmer who in 1918 received a visionary call to destroy Maori religion and return to
Jehovah
. In the 1918 world epidemic of influenza, he discovered his healing powers, and by 1919 crowds sought healing at Ratana Pa which developed into a model village. Ratana members have held up to all four Maori seats in New Zealand's parliament and have exercised considerable political power. A secession, less political and with a strict ethic, formed in North Island in 1941 as the Absolute Established Maori Church of Aotearoa, and has remained very small.

 
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Ratn
kara
nti
.

A Buddhist philosopher of the 11th–12th cents. CE. He was a member of the
Pram
a
school of
Dign
ga
and
Dharmak
rti
, and a pupil of Ratnak
rti. Ratn
kara
nti is also known as
nti. His important works include commentaries on the 8,000- and 25,000-line
Prajñ
par
mit
S
tras
(
Perfection
of Wisdom), the
Hevajratantra
, and the work of
ntarak
ita