The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2544 page)

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‘Tukutendereza’
(revivialist chorus: ‘We praise thee, Jesus’):
Tulas
d
s
:
see
TULS
D
S
.
Tulku
(Tib.,
sprul.sku.
, ‘Transformation Body’). A title applied in Tibetan Buddhism to a reincarnate
lama
, i.e. to one who is understood to have already attained lamahood in a previous life. Thus the present fourteenth
Dalai Lama
, for example, is considered to be the same ‘person’ as the first Dalai Lama, successively reincarnating within the same office.
Tulsi
(leader of Jain sect, the Terapanth):
see
BHIK
U
,
C
RYA.

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