This type describes rituals or actions performed by adherents of a particular religion. Examples: prayer, meditation, ritual purification, confession.
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| x Langar |
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Sikhism |
Langar (Punjabi: ਲੰਗਰ, Hindi: लंगर) is the term used in the Sikh religion or in Punjab in general for common kitchen/canteen where food is served in a Gurdwara to all the visitors (without distinction of background) for free. At the langar, only...
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| x Alms |
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Eastern Orthodox Church |
Alms ( /ɑːmz/) or almsgiving is a religious rite which, in general, involves giving materially to another as an act of religious virtue. It exists in a number of religions and regions. The word, in the modern English language, comes from the Old...
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| x Monotheism | Abrahamic religion |
Monotheism (from Greek μόνος, monos, "single", and θεός, theos, "god") is the belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of God.. Monotheism is characteristic of Abrahamic religions (Judaism, most denominations of Christianity, Islam,...
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| x Brahmacharya | Jainism |
Brahmacharya ( /ˌbrɑːməˈtʃɑrjə/; Devanagari: ब्रह्मचर्य behavior that leads to Brahman) is one of the four stages of life in an age-based social system as laid out in the Manu Smrti and later Classical Sanskrit texts in Hinduism. It refers to an...
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| x Puja |
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Hinduism |
Pūjā or alternative transliteration Pooja, (Devanagari: पूजा) (Sanskrit: reverence, honour, adoration, or worship) is a religious ritual performed by Hindus as an offering to various deities, distinguished persons, or special guests. It is done on a...
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| x Samadhi |
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Buddhism |
Samadhi (Sanskrit: समाधि) in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools is a higher level of concentrated meditation, or dhyāna. In the yoga tradition, it is the eighth and final limb identified in the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali.
It has...
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| x Ritual purification |
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Shinto |
Ritual purification is a feature of many religions. The aim of these rituals is to remove specifically defined uncleanliness prior to a particular type of activity, and especially prior to the worship of a deity. This ritual uncleanliness is not...
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| x Ahimsa |
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Jainism |
Ahimsa (Sanskrit: अहिंसा; IAST: ahiṃsā, Pāli: avihiṃsā) is a term meaning to do no harm (literally: the avoidance of violence – himsa). The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hims – to strike; himsa is injury or harm, a-himsa is the opposite of...
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| x Three pillars of Sikhism |
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Sikhism |
The Three Pillars of Sikhism were formalised by Guru Nanak as:
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| x Five Ks |
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Sikhism |
The Five Ks (Punjabi: ਪੰਜ ਕਕਾਰ Pañj Kakār) are five Articles of Faith that Khalsa Sikhs wear at all times at the command of the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh who so ordered at the Vaisakhi Amrit Sanskar in 1699. The Five Ks are not just symbols...
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| x Dasvand | Sikhism |
Dasvand (Punjabi: ਦਸਵੰਦ) literally means a tenth part and refers the act of donating ten percent of ones harvest, both financial and in the form of time and service such as seva to the Gurdwara and anywhere else. It falls into Guru Nanak Dev's...
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| x Feng shui |
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Taoism |
Feng shui (/ˌfʌŋ ˈʃweɪ/ ( listen) fung-SHWAY, formerly /ˈfʌŋ ˌʃuːi/ FUNG-shoo-ee; Chinese: 風水, pronounced [fɤ́ŋ ʂwèi]) (or Fung shui) is a Chinese system of geomancy believed to use the laws of both Heaven (Chinese astronomy) and Earth to help one...
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| x Ritual |
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Confucianism |
A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including by a religious community. The term usually refers to actions which are stylized, excluding actions which are...
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| x Vaṇḍ chakkō | Sikhism |
Vaṇḍ Chhakō (Punjabi: ਵੰਡ ਛਕੋ) is one of the three main pillars of the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the Sikh faith. The other two pillars are Naam Japo and Kirat Karni. It is a technique and method which means share what you have and...
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| x Shikantaza |
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Zen |
Shikantaza (只管打坐) is a Japanese term for zazen introduced by Rujing. It is associated most with the Soto school of Zen Buddhism.
The term is believed to have been first used by Dōgen's teacher Tiantong Rujing, and it literally means, "nothing but ...
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| x Prajñā | Buddhism |
Prajñā (Sanskrit: प्रज्ञा) or paññā (Pāli) is wisdom, understanding, discernment or cognitive acuity. It is one of three divisions of the Noble Eightfold Path. Such wisdom is understood to exist in the universal flux of being and can be intuitively...
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| x Loyalty |
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Confucianism |
Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause. (Philosophers disagree as to what things one can be loyal to. Some, as explained in more detail below, argue that one can be loyal to a broad range of things, whilst others...
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| x Adab | Islam |
Adab, in the context of behavior, refers to prescribed Islamic etiquette: "refinement, good manners, morals, decorum, decency, humaneness". While interpretation of the scope and particulars of Adab may vary among different cultures, common among...
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| x Shahadah |
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Islam |
The Shahada (Arabic: الشهادة aš-šahādah audio (help·info)) (from the verb شهد šahida, "he witnessed"), means "to know and believe without suspicion, as if witnessed, testification;" it is the name of the Islamic creed. The shahada is the Muslim...
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| x Marriage in the Eastern Orthodox Church |
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Eastern Orthodox Church |
The Sacrament or, more properly, Sacred Mystery of Marriage does not unite a man and a woman. Rather, it is the Church's recognition of a union that God has already begun to work in their lives. As long as the union remains within the reality of...
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| x Amrit Sanskar |
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Sikhism |
Amrit Sanchar or the Amrit ceremony is the Sikh ceremony of initiation or baptism. This practice has been in existence since the times of Guru Nanak Dev (1469–1539). During that period, the ceremony was known as Charan Amrit or Charan Pahul or the...
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| x Salah |
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| x Bhakti |
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Hinduism |
In Hinduism Bhakti (Sanskrit: भक्ति) is religious devotion in the form of active involvement of a devotee in worship of the divine. Within monotheistic Hinduism, it is the love felt by the worshipper towards the personal God, a concept expressed in...
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| x Eucharist |
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Anglicanism |
The Eucharist ( /ˈjuːkərɪst/), also called Holy Communion, the Sacrament of the Altar, the Blessed Sacrament, the Lord's Supper, and other names, is a Christian sacrament or ordinance. It is reenacted in accordance with Jesus' instruction at the...
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| x Kirat karō | Sikhism |
Kirat Karō is one of the Three pillars of Sikhism, the others being Naam Japo and Vaṇḍ chakkō. The term means to earn an honest, pure and dedicated living by exercising one's God-given skills, abilities, talents and hard labour for the benefit and...
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| x Qigong |
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Taoism |
Qigong, chi kung, or chi gung (气功 or 氣功) (pronounced "chee-gung", literally "life energy cultivation") is a practice of aligning breath, movement, and awareness for exercise, healing, and meditation. With roots in Chinese medicine, martial arts, and...
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| x Hajj |
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Islam |
The Hajj (Arabic: حج Ḥaǧǧ "pilgrimage", also spelled haj and hadj) is the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest pilgrimages in the world, and is the fifth pillar of Islam, a religious duty that must be carried out at least...
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| x Noble Eightfold Path | Buddhism |
The Noble Eightfold Path (Pāli: ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, Sanskrit: āryāṣṭāṅgamārga, Sinhala: ආර්ය අශ්ටාංගික මාර්ග), is one of the principal teachings of the Buddha, who described it as the way leading to the cessation of suffering (dukkha) and the...
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| x Sila | Buddhism |
Śīla (Sanskrit) or sīla (Pāli) in Buddhism and its non-sectarian offshoots, is one of three sections of the Noble Eightfold Path, and is a code of conduct that embraces a commitment to harmony and self-restraint with the principle motivation being...
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| x Ardās |
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Sikhism |
The Ardās (Punjabi: ਅਰਦਾਸ) is a Sikh prayer that is done before performing or after undertaking any significant task; after reciting the daily Banis (prayers); or completion of a service like the Paath (scripture reading/recitation), kirtan (hymn...
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| x Prayer |
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Protestantism |
Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with a deity or object of worship through deliberate communication. Prayer can be a form of religious practice, may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in...
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| x Confirmation |
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Roman Catholicism |
Confirmation is one of the seven sacraments through which Catholics pass in the process of their religious upbringing. According to Catholic doctrine, in this sacrament they receive the Holy Spirit and become adult members of the Catholic Church....
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| x Catholic marriage |
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Roman Catholicism |
Catholic marriage, also called matrimony, is a "covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of...
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| x Simran | Sikhism |
Simran (Punjabi: ਸਿਮਰਨ, Hindi: सिमरन ) is a Punjabi word derived from the Sanskrit word स्मरण (smaraṇa, "the act of remembering or calling to mind, remembrance, reminiscence, recollection of"), thus 'realization of that which is of the highest...
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| x Katsu | Zen |
Katsu (Japanese: 喝; Cantonese: hot3 (help·info), Pinyin: hè, Wade-Giles: ho) is a type of shout that is used in Chán and Zen Buddhism to give expression to one's own enlightened state (Japanese: satori) and/or to induce another person to move...
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| x Vegetarianism |
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Hinduism |
Vegetarianism encompasses the practice of following plant-based diets (fruits, vegetables, etc.), with or without the inclusion of dairy products or eggs, and with the exclusion of meat (red meat, poultry, and seafood). Abstention from by-products...
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| x Zakat | Islam |
Zakāt (Arabic: زكاة [zæˈkæː], "that which purifies" or "alms"), one of the Five Pillars of Islam, is the giving of a fixed portion of one's wealth to charity, generally to the poor and needy.
Zakat, a practice initiated by Muhammed himself, has...
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| x Sawm |
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Islam |
Sawm (Arabic: صوم) is an Arabic word for fasting regulated by Islamic jurisprudence. In the terminology of Islamic law, sawm means to abstain from eating, drinking (including water), having sex and anything against Islamic law (Ithm). The...
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| x Anointing of the Sick |
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Anglicanism |
Anointing of the Sick, known also by other names, is distinguished from other forms of religious anointing or "unction" (an older term with the same meaning) in that it is intended, as its name indicates, for the benefit of a sick person. Other...
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| x Caṛdī kalā | Sikhism |
Charhdi Kala is an important expression and a central idea in Sikhism for a mind frame that a Sikh has to accept, acquire and practise. Historically, in Punjabi, it is synonymous to "resilience" and is an expression encouraging strength in the face...
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| x Astrology |
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Buddhism |
Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world. In the West, astrology most often consists of a system of horoscopes that claim to predict aspects...
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| x Asteya | Jainism |
Asteya is a Sanskrit word meaning "avoidance of stealing" or "non-stealing". In Jainism, it is one of the five vows that all Śrāvakas and Śrāvikās as well as monastics must take.
The concept of "Asteya" is also a principal part of Hinduism, forming...
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| x Filial piety |
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Confucianism |
In Confucian ideals, filial piety (Chinese: 孝, xiào) is a virtue of respect for one's parents and ancestors. The Confucian classic Xiao Jing or Classic of Xiào, thought to be written around 470 BCE, has historically been the authoritative source on...
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| x Zazen |
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Zen |
In Zen Buddhism, zazen (literally "seated meditation"; Japanese: 坐禅; simplified Chinese: 坐禅; traditional Chinese: 坐禪; pinyin: zuò chán; Wade–Giles: tso-ch'an) is a meditative discipline practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind, and be...
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| x Koan | Zen |
A kōan ( /ˈkoʊ.ɑːn/; Chinese: 公案; pinyin: gōng'àn; Korean: 공안 (kong'an); Vietnamese: công án) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement, which is used in Zen-practice to provoke the "great doubt", and test a student's progress in Zen practice....
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| x Jihad |
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Islam |
Jihad (English pronunciation: /dʒɪˈhɑːd/; Arabic: جهاد ǧihād [dʒiˈhæːd]), an Islamic term, is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word jihād translates as a noun meaning "struggle". Jihad appears 41 times in the Quran and frequently in the...
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| x Yoga |
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Hinduism |
Yoga (Sanskrit, Pāli: योग, yoga) is the Hindu practice of physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and...
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| x Nām Japō | Sikhism |
Nām Japō (Gurmukhi ਨਾਮ ਜਪੋ), or Naam Japna, refers to the meditation, vocal singing of hymns from the Sri Guru Granth Sahib or of the various Names of God, especially the chanting of the word Waheguru, which means "Wonderful Lord". Singing of hymns...
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| x Samayika |
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Jainism |
Samayika (a Prakrit word derived from samay (time)) is the practice of meditation in Jainism. Its aim is to transcend daily experiences as "constantly changing" human beings, Jiva, and allow identification with the "changeless" reality, the Atman,...
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| x Baptism |
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Protestantism |
Baptism (from the Greek noun Βάπτισμα baptisma; itself derived from baptismos, washing) is a Christian rite of admission (or adoption), almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also a particular church...
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| x Alchemy |
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Western mystery tradition |
Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing...
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| x Sacrament of Penance |
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Roman Catholicism |
Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation (commonly called (The Sacrament of) Confession, Reconciliation or Penance) – one of seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and sacred mysteries of the Orthodoxy, in which its faithful obtain Divine mercy for...
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| x Buddhist meditation |
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Buddhism |
Buddhist meditation refers to the meditative practices associated with the religion and philosophy of Buddhism.
Core meditation techniques have been preserved in ancient Buddhist texts and have proliferated and diversified through teacher-student...
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| x Fasting |
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Eastern Orthodox Church |
Fasting is primarily the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. An absolute fast is normally defined as abstinence from all food and liquid for a defined period, usually a single day (24 hours), or...
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| x Confirmation |
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Christianity |
Confirmation is a rite of initiation in Christian churches, normally carried out through anointing and/or the laying on of hands and prayer for the purpose of bestowing the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
There is an analogous ceremony also called...
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| x Kinhin |
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Zen |
In Zen Buddhism, kinhin (traditional Chinese: 經行 jīngxíng; Japanese: 経行 kinhin; Vietnamese: kinh-hàhn), or kyōgyō (教行), is the walking meditation that is practiced between long periods of the sitting meditation known as zazen.
Practitioners walk...
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| x Satya | Jainism |
Satya or Sathya is a Sanskrit word that loosely translates into English as "truth" or "correct". It is a term of power due to its purity and meaning and has become the emblem of many peaceful social movements, particularly those centered on social...
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| x Ayurveda |
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Hinduism |
Ayurveda (Sanskrit: आयुर्वेद; Āyurveda, "the knowledge for long life"; /ˌaɪ.ərˈveɪdə/) or ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. The earliest literature on Indian medical...
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| x Holy Orders |
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Roman Catholicism |
Holy Orders in the Catholic Church includes three orders: bishop, priest, and deacon. The Church regards ordination as a Sacrament. In the phrase "Holy Orders", the word "holy" simply means "set apart for some purpose." The word order (ordo, in...
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| x Repentance |
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Eastern Orthodox Church |
Repentance is the activity of reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs. It generally involves a commitment to personal change and resolving to live a more responsible and humane life. In religious contexts it usually...
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