The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (357 page)

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BCP
:
Bdud-joms Rin-po-che
or Dudjom Rinpoche
(1904–87).
Head of the
Nyingma
order of Tibetan Buddhism. When 3 years old, he was recognized as the reappearance of the ‘treasure-finder’, Bdud-joms gling-pa (1835–1903). As a refugee in 1959, he settled first in Darjeeling and in Nepal, but then increasingly in the USA, and Europe, where he established Nyingma centres. He was thus a major figure in securing the Tibetan
diaspora
.
Beard
:
see
HAIR
.
Beas
(river providing name of religious movement)
:
Beatification
.
In the
Roman Catholic Church
, the penultimate stage in the process which leads to the
canonization
of a
saint
. A person who has been beatified receives the title of ‘Blessed’.

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