and verses accompanying oblations to departed spirits

  • 1Khuddaka Nikaya — (Pali: Short Collection ) Collection of Buddhist texts. It constitutes the fifth and last section of the Pali language Sutta Pitaka, one of the sacred texts of Theravada Buddhism. Written between 500 BC and the 1st century AD, its contents… …

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  • 2Prayers for the Dead — • Catholic teaching regarding prayers for the dead is bound up inseparably with the doctrine of purgatory and the more general doctrine of the communion of the saints, which is an article of the Apostle s Creed Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight …

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