The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (883 page)

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Great Entrance
.
In the Orthodox liturgy of the
eucharist
, the procession at which the bread and wine to be consecrated are carried in from the
prothesis
table to the
altar
.
Great Learning
.
The
Ta Hsüeh
, one of the group of
Four Books
in the
Confucian Classics
. A small work extracted from the collection called
Records of Rituals
(
Li Chi
). It was singled out for special attention by
neo-Confucian
philosophers of the Sung dynasty (960–1279), who found it a perfect expression of their own programme of self-cultivation to attain saintliness and save the world.
Great Perfection
.
Name given to the Tibetan tradition ‘Great Perfection’, i.e.
dzogchen
.
Great Radiant S
tra
(Tantric Buddhist s
tra)
:
Great sayings
(of the Upani
ads)
:

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