The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2519 page)

(
c.
1636–74).
Anglican
clergyman, and
Metaphysical poet
. His main work remained unpublished until the beginning of the 20th cent., when his
Poems
and
Centuries of Meditation
appeared. Trusting the divine intuitions of childhood, he expresses a strong sense of the mystical embrace.

 
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see
LOKA
(BUDDHISM).

 
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Transcendental anthropology
:

see
RAHNER, KARL
.

 
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Transcendentalists, New England
:

see
EMERSON, R. W.

 
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Transcendental meditation
.

Taught by
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
and comprising ‘a specific and systematic mental technique which can be easily learnt and enjoyed by anyone, whatever his opinions or beliefs’. The Indian-based philosophy holds that this (
mantra
) technique leads practitioners to ‘the field of pure consciousness’. This alone ‘is the self-sufficient reality of life’. Transcendental meditation is widely used, especially in America where it enters into the worlds of education, business, and welfare. This is in accord with Maharishi's aim of transforming society, especially through the World Government of the Age of Enlightenment.

 
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see
RAHNER, KARL
;
NEO-THOMISM
.

 
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Transfiguration of Christ
.

The story recorded in the first three gospels (Mark 9. 2–13, etc.) according to which Jesus took on a glorious appearance alongside Moses and Elijah. The Feast of the Transfiguration on 6 Aug. has been observed in the East since before 1000 CE, and in the West since 1456.