The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (516 page)

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Chancellor
.
An administrative officer in a Christian diocese.
Chandogya Upani
ad
.
One of the earlier
Upani
ads
, attached to the S
maveda. It includes the dialogue between Udd
laka
runi and his son
vetaketu, in which the teaching on the way in which
Brahman
, the Absolute, permeates the universe, culminates in the focal (
mah
vakya
) sentence,
tat tvam asi
, That thou art.
Ch’ang
(Chin., ‘enduring’). The permanent and eternal in Taoism, as opposed to the transient and mutable, and as such, one of the symbols of Taoism.

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