The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1391 page)

see
AMIDA
.

 
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(Skt.; P
li,
lokuttara
). The transcendental and supramundane in Jainism and Buddhism. In early Buddhism, it refers to all that leads beyond clinging (
ta
h
) and attachment to
nirv
na
. In Mah
y
na, it applies especially to the Buddha conceived of as a transcendental being of limitless wisdom and power. The Lokottarav
da was a school maintaining that every utterance of the Buddha, even those which are apparently mundane, are in fact concerned with transcendental matters.

 
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(etym. uncertain, poss. from Lat. ‘tares’,
sc.
growing amidst the good wheat, or ‘one who mumbles’). Name (originally one of abuse) given to the followers of
Wycliffe
, who took issue with the Church on a number of grounds, but especially the power of the papacy,
transubstantiation
, and the privileges of the priesthood. Later the term was applied to those more generally dissatisfied with the Church. They co-operated in the distribution of
Tyndale's
New Testament, and were broadly in sympathy with the changes associated with the Henrician reformation. Their distinctive protest did not survive, but merged into the wider spectrum of Protestant views.

 
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