The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (478 page)

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Butterfly dreaming
:
Bwiti
.
A range of
syncretist
movements among the Fang and other tribes in Gabon and neighbouring territories. It began in the late 19th cent. as a creative synthesis of elements from traditional and Christian sources.
Byakuren-sha
.
Jap., for
Pai-lien-tsung
, the White Lotus School.
Byams pa
(earthly buddha)
:
By
d
(Jap., ‘sameness’). The undifferentiated nature of all manifest appearance, in
Zen Buddhism
, since it arises from
nyat
and is the same buddha-nature (
buddhat
). By
d
kan is the experience of all things in this way.

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