The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1517 page)

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Maybaum, I.
:
Mayoi
(Jap., ‘error’). Zen understanding of delusion, whenever the phenomenal world wrongly understood appears to be real and substantial.
M
y
n
.
S. Indian name of the Hindu god
K
a
/Vi
u. The name derives from a Tamil adjective meaning ‘a person of black complexion’; synonyms are: M
yan, M
yavan, M
l, M
lavan, and Tirum
l. Some sporadic references in the Tamil
ca
kam
literature (1st cent. BCE to 3rd cent. CE?) indicate a knowledge and veneration of the N. Indian god K
a also in the extreme South. During the next centuries, more extensive sources allow us to catch glimpses of a developed temple culture which envisages M

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