The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2123 page)

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Sandhya
(time of Hindu daily devotion):
see
SA
DHY
.
Sangai
.
Jap., for
triloka
(
loka
), the realm of desire
(Skt.,
k
madhatu
, Jap.,
yokkai
), of form (
r
padh
tu
,
shikkai
), of non-form (
r
pyadh
tu
,
mushikikai
).
Sangai(-yui)-isshin
(Jap., ‘three worlds, (only) one mind’). Zen belief that the three worlds of desire, form, and no-form arise from unenlightened awareness (
kokoro
, heart-mind), and have no objective reality: all is projection.

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