The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2427 page)

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T’an-luan
(
c.
488–554).
Chinese Buddhist monk generally considered to be the founder of the
Pure Land School
in China. He was the author of the first known Chinese systematic work on Pure Land Buddhism, known as
Lun chu
, an abbreviation from
Wu-liang-shou ching yu-p’o-t’i-shê yüan sheng chi chu
. He taught the ‘Easy Path’ to enlightenment, by reliance on the power of Amit
bha Buddha rather than the ‘Difficult Path’ or ‘Holy Path’ of the traditional practices.
Tanm
tra
(five elements):
see
AHA
K
RA
.
Tanna
.
A Jewish
sage
of the 1st and 2nd cents. CE. The tannaim (pl.) were teachers who handed down the
oral law
and
midrashim
and were distinguished in the
Talmud
from the later scholars, the
amoraim
.
Tan-t’ien
(Chin., ‘cinnabar fields’). In religious
Taoism
, three regions of the body through which
ch’i
flows and is to be directed: see
TAN
.

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