The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1327 page)

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Kubo Tsuginari
(founder):
K
alasa
gamad
va
(Lord of the Meeting Rivers):
see
BASAVA
.
Kuei
(Chin., ‘spirit’). Component of human being in Taoism and Chinese thought, associated with
p'o
and thus with
yin
, or the dark and physical side. In later systematization, kuei are the spirits of those who have been killed out of time (e.g. in war, murder, accident), or who have been wrongly executed or improperly buried, or for whom the proper remembrances (
tzu
) have not been observed. The
li-kuei
return in vengeance, and must therefore be placated. For further details, see
SHEN
.

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