The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1765 page)

Pa-kua
.

Eight trigrams, the eight signs which form the basis of
I Ching
, and from which the sixty-four hexagrams are constructed.

 
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see
GREGORY PALAMAS, ST
.

 
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Palestinian Talmud
:

see
TALMUD
.

 
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(b. 1907)
. Leader of a development and religious movement on Manus (Admiralty Islands), Papua New Guinea. Stimulated by his experiences in the war with Japan, he returned to his native village in 1946, believing he was sponsored by Jesus to set up a New Way that would unite the area, with co-operatives and new villages, a fund for development, and a Western lifestyle. His version of Christianity was expressed in the Baluan Native Christian Church, modelled on the Roman Catholic mission. The expectations he aroused led to two
cargo-cult
outbreaks, the first called ‘The Noise’ in 1946–7, which he repudiated at the time, and the second in 1953–4; in effect these opened the way for Paliau's changes.

 
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P
li Canon
.

The earliest collections of Buddhist authoritative texts, more usually known as Tipi
aka (
Tripi
aka
), ‘Three Baskets’, because the palm-leaf manuscripts were traditionally kept in three different baskets: Vinaya, (Monastic) Discipline; Sutta, Discourses; Abhidhamma, Further Teachings. The Sutta-pitaka consists of five
Nik
yas
(Collections):
D
gha
(thirty-four ‘long’ discourses/dialogues);
Majjhima
(150 ‘middle length’ discourses);
Sa
yutta
(7,762 ‘connected’ discourses, grouped according to subject-matter);
A
guttara
(9,550 ‘single item’ discourses);
Khuddaka
(fifteen ‘little texts’, listed under
Khuddaka
). Much has been tr. by the Pali Text Society.
See also
BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES
; and for further detail,
TRIPI
AKA
.