The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (528 page)

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Chen-yen
(Chinese Esoteric Buddhism)
:
Cherub
(from Heb.,
keruv
). A winged heavenly creature.
Cherubic hymn
or Cherubikon
.
The hymn, probably of the 6th cent., sung at the
Great Entrance
in the Orthodox liturgy.
Chhant
(Pañj
b
, ‘poem, song’). In the
di
Granth, the chhants are
hymns
between a
chaupad
and an
a
apad
in length, i.e. usually four stanzas of six lines. Within each
r
g
the chhants follow the a
apad
s and precede the
v
rs
.

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