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  • 101A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada — Infobox ReligiousBio background = #FFA07A name = A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada sanskrit = sa. अभयचरणारविन्द भक्तिवेदान्त स्वामीप्रभुपाद A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada religion = Gaudiya Vaishnavism alias = Abhay Charanaravinda, Abhay… …

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  • 102Apostasy — (IPA: /əˈpɒstəsi/) is the formal religious disaffiliation or abandonment or renunciation of one s religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociologists without the pejorative connotations… …

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  • 103Atisha — This distinctive portrait of Atisha originated from a Kadampa monastery in Ti …

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  • 104David H. Turner — David Howe Turner is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow at Trinity College and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He has worked with Indigenous Australians (Australian Aborigines) since 1969 and has… …

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  • 105Osho — ] Laxmi told Frances FitzGerald, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who wrote a study of Osho s years in America for The New Yorker magazine, that she blamed herself for the move to America; she had been unable to find a suitable property in… …

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  • 106abstinence — noun 1) AA endorses a path of abstinence Syn: teetotalism, temperance, sobriety, abstemiousness, abstention; rare nephalism 2) of course abstinence is the most effective form of birth control, but is it the most realistic? Syn: celibacy, chastity …

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  • 107aesthetics — /es thet iks/ or, esp. Brit., /ees /, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the… …

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  • 108Union of Christendom — • Includes the Catholic Church together with the many other religious communions which have either directly or indirectly, separated from it Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Union of Christendom     Union of Christend …

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  • 109forgo — forgo, forbear, abnegate, eschew, sacrifice are comparable when they denote to deny oneself something for the sake of an end. One forgoes for the sake of policy, expediency, or the welfare of others something already enjoyed or indulged in, or… …

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