The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1562 page)

 
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(P
li, Maudgaly
yana). Second (after
S
riputta
) of the
Buddha's
two leading disciples. Despite this, he died a violent death as a consequence of
karma
from a previous life. He is represented iconographically as standing at the left hand of the Buddha.

 
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(3rd cent. BCE)
. Leading Buddhist monk and scholar. He is said to have presided over the 3rd
Council
in the reign of
A
oka
, when the final part of the Buddhist
canon
, the
Abhidhamma
, was closed. At the end of the Council, Moggalliputta composed the
Kathavatthu
(The Book of Controversies). The work is of importance in reviewing the Vibhajjav
din/Therav
din objections to other schools of early Buddhism.

 
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(1596–1646).
Russian Orthodox theologian and
metropolitan
of Kiev. He became metropolitan (in 1633) at a time when many Ukrainians were attracted by Roman Catholicism. In some respects he seemed to concede ground to Roman Catholicism. But overall he defended Orthodoxy against both Catholicism and Protestantism. He wrote the
Orthodox Confession of the Catholic and Apostolic Eastern Church
, which was amended before it was endorsed in 1643 and at the Synod of Jerusalem in 1672. His own teaching he maintained in the
Little Catechism
.