The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2410 page)

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T'ai shih
.
1
Taoist breathing exercises at a preliminary level, distributing saliva to other parts of the body.
2
The ‘great beginning’, the form of the world before it received form—i.e. formless, but with potential within it.
Taish
Issaiky
.
Jap. edn. of the Chinese
tripi
aka
, ed. Takakusu in 100 vols. (1924–34).
Taittir
ya Upani
ad
.
Upani
ad
belonging to the Black
Yajur Veda
. It contains an ethical discourse, sometimes known as the ‘Convocation Address’, an exposition of the five sheaths of the Self, and the scale, or ladder, of perfections, leading up to the bliss of
Brahman
.
T'ai-yüeh ta-ti
(Chinese mountain God):

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