The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1398 page)

Lumbin
.

One of four places especially sacred in Buddhism (with
Bodhgay
,
Ku
inagara
,
S
rn
th
), because it is believed to be the birthplace of the
Buddha
. Lumbin
is in the W. Terai of Nepal, just over 400 km. SW of Kathmandu; now known as Rumindei.

 
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Lumpa Church
.

The most widely known independent church in Zambia. It was founded by a Bemba, Alice Mulenga Mubusha (1924–78), a
catechumen
in the Church of Scotland mission, who experienced a mystic death and resurrection in 1953, and was commissioned to deliver Africans from witchcraft and sickness. A mass response led to the foundation of her Lumpa (‘best of all’) Church about 1954, which gathered some 60,000 members by 1960 under herself as Alice Lenshina (i.e. ‘Regina’ or Queen), with a new Sione (‘Zion’) as headquarters and a strict ethic forbidding magic, divorce, polygamy, inheritance of widows, and beer-drinking.

 
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(Chin., ‘dragon’). In Taoism, the dragon represents the
yang
principle, and is thus often portrayed accompanied by representations of
yin
—e.g. clouds or water. Dragons have important active roles in ruling and guarding the world. See also
DRAGONS, CHINESE
.

 
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see
LO CH’ING
.

 
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