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  • Jayasena was a twelfth century Digambara Jain Acharya who wrote Tattparyavritti (or the Purport), a commentary on Acharya Kundakunda's Pravachanasara....
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  • The United Church in Solomon Islands is a Reformed congregational Christian denomination in Solomon Islands. The first Australian missionaries were sent...
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  • Vattakera was a first century CE Digambara Jain Acharya who wrote Mulachara around 150 CE. Jaini 1991, p. 47. Jaini, Padmanabh S. (1991), Gender and Salvation:...
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    Gupteswar Cave is a cave shrine dedicated to Shiva. It is a pilgrim site situated about 55 km (34 mi) away Jeypore, Koraput District in the state of Odisha...
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  • Within the system of Thelema, the Night of Pan, or N.O.X., is a mystical state that represents the stage of ego-death in the process of spiritual attainment...
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  • The intelligent design movement has conducted an organized campaign largely in the United States that promotes a pseudoscientific, neo-creationist religious...
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    In England and Wales, a local ecumenical partnership (or project) is a partnership between churches of different denominations. First piloted in 1964,...
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    Dr. Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta (October 31, 1729 – May 26, 1800) was archbishop of Mexico from September 12, 1772, to May 26, 1800, and viceroy of...
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  • St. Mary's School, located in O'Neill, Nebraska is a Catholic parochial school within the Archdiocese of Omaha school system in Nebraska, United States...
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  • Jinaratna (Jina·ratna; Hindi: जिनरत्न) was a Jain scholar monk who composed Līlāvatīsāra. He completed his poem in the year 1285 CE in Jabaliputra, western...
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  • Thomas Taylor (26 February 1858 – 5 July 1938) was an English priest, historian and scholar of Celtic culture. Taylor was born in Thurvaston, Derbyshire...
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    Antonio Grassi (13 November 1592 – 13 December 1671), born Vincenzo Grassi, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Oratorians...
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  • Safdar Ali }, Urdu: صفدر علی; 1830–1899) was a convert from Islam to Christianity. He was born in the native state of Dholpur, and was the son of an orthodox...
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  • The fly genus Dipsa is a junior synonym of Lonchoptera. Dipsa is a tiny, mucus-like, extremely venomous snake from Medieval bestiaries. They were so venomous...
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  • Salihat is an Islamic term for just deeds, one of the overarching themes in the early Meccan Suras of the Qur'an. Wael B Hallaq. The Impossible State:...
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  • Thomas Bagley was a 15th-century English priest. In 1431 he was Vicar of "Monenden" (Manuden in Essex) and was described as "a valiant disciple and adherent...
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  • James Malett B.D. (d. 1543) was a Canon of Windsor from 1514 to 1543. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge where he graduated BA in 1497, MA in...
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  • The Chromandi in Medieval bestiaries were a race of hairy savages with dog teeth. "Chromandae". Theoi Greek Mythology. Retrieved 2008-12-28. v t e...
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