The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (697 page)

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kim's acts no matter what they be; and absolute submission and resignation to his divine will.
Dry shit stick
(person, acc. to Zen, attached to this world)
:
Du‘

(Arab.,
da‘
, ‘call’ or ‘summon’, whence
da‘wa
). In Islam, supplication or personal invocation, ‘calling upon’
All
h
; private request or prayer, as contrasted with
al
t, the ritual worship.
Dualism
(Lat.,
dualis
). The conjunction of two (usually opposing) entities or principles. The term was used by T. Hyde in 1700 (
The Ancient Persian Religions
) to describe the conflict between good and
evil
(Ormazd and Ahriman) in
Zoroastrianism
; but it is used of many religious and philosophical dualities, e.g. mind and matter (as in Cartesian dualism), material and spiritual (as in
Manichaeism
),
yin and yang
.

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