The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2484 page)

see
BUDDHISM IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
.

 
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see
DYOYA-D
I
.

 
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Third Orders
.

Associations of (mainly) lay Christians, who are known as tertiaries, who live under an approved rule in association with a First (male) or Second (female) religious Order. They began to emerge in about the 12th cent., but the best-known was that of
St Francis
, who wrote his own Rule for a Third Order (subsequently lost), which was approved in 1221.

 
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see
SECOND ROME
.

 
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Thirteen principles of the faith
.

Principles of the Jewish faith drawn together by
Maimonides
. They include the existence of God, the unity of God, the incorporality of God, the eternity of God, that God is the only hearer of prayer, that the
prophets
were inspired by God, that
Moses
is the supreme prophet, that the
Pentateuch
was given in its entirety to Moses, that the
Torah
is immutable, that God is omniscient, the reality of divine reward and punishment, that the
messiah
will come and that the dead will be raised (see
RESURRECTION
). These principles are printed in most editions of the Jewish
Prayer
Book.

 
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