The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2137 page)

ita's major works are
Madhyamak
la
k
ra
(Ornament of the Middle Way) with his own commentary, and
Tattvasa
graha
(Compendium of Reality), an assessment of the Indian schools.

 
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HAGIA SOFIA
.

 
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(Cuban, ‘the way of the saints’). A complex of religious cults in the Afro-Cuban population, combining Yoruba African and Spanish Catholic traditions, especially concerning the
saints
(
santos
) who are identified with the spirits (
orisha
) of the Yoruba pantheon. Worship features prayers and songs in Yoruba, drumming which may speak for the spirits, and sacred stones of power, associated with the spirits, kept under the altar, and ‘baptized’ and fed annually with herbs and blood.

 
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(Skt., ‘tranquillity’). Interior peace, personified in Hinduism as a daughter of
raddha (faith); also a ritual for averting curses, adverse stellar or planetary influences, and bad
karma
.

 
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