The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2719 page)

 
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Yamun
or Jumna
.

One of the seven Hindu
sacred rivers
.

 
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(‘path, course’, ‘journey’, ‘vehicle, carriage’). A ‘way’ of progress, especially in Buddhism. The term is best known in
Mah
y
na
Buddhism, but it occurs in early Buddhism as well. Texts in the
P
li canon
refer to the eightfold path as y
na (
Ther
g
th
389). The
locus classicus
for the later use of the term is ch. 3 of the
Lotus
S
tra
(
Saddharmapu
ar
ka S
tra
), which relates the parable of the burning house. In order to entice his sons (all beings) out of an old and decaying house (
sa
s
ra